White students face trial for South Africa race video

Source: Telegraph

White students face trial for South Africa race video
Four white South African students are due to appear in court accused of humiliating black staff at their university and video-taping their ordeal in a case that has exposed the country's simmering racial tensions.

By Sebastien Berger in Johannesburg
Published: 6:00AM GMT 24 Feb 2010

The case of the Afrikaner group, known as the "Reitz Four" after the whites-only student residence whose impending integration they were protesting against, has provoked widespread outrage and revealed the gap between contemporary South Africa and the dream of racial reconciliation espoused by Nelson Mandela.

Johnny Roberts, Schalk van der Merwe, RC Malherbe and Danie Grobler are all accused of crimen injuria, a South African offence meaning to insult the dignity of another person. In the video, staff at their dormitory were made to race, play rugby, kneel on the ground, and eat a "stew" apparently made from dog food and urine.

Some of those who consumed the mixture vomited immediately.

When the video emerged two years ago it provoked fury and soul-searching, as the country asked itself how far attitudes had changed since the days of institutionalised racism. Many were shocked to discover that segregated dormitories still existed, and the Reitz facility, at the University of the Free State in the Afrikaner heartland, has since been closed down.



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those students are just dangerously psychopathic and need to removed from society until they can be assessed by the judicial and mental health systems.
seriously... that video sounds messed up. :puke:

Reitz four trial postponed
JP du Plessis | 9 Hours Ago

The Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday postponed the trial of the so-called Reitz four.

The former University of the Free State students face charges of crimen injuria after making black cleaning staff at the university participate in a humiliating initiation video three years ago.

The case made it to court in 2008 and has been delayed countless times since then.

The case against MC Malherbe, Johnny Roberts, Schalk van der Merwe and Danie Grobler was put off until July when they will stand trial.

They have made a number of court appearances since 2008 but these have been postponed while the four explored avenues of restorative justice.

This outraged the Bloemfontein community which called for the boys to face trial without the option of entering into a deal with the state.

Their lawyers said their clients realised the error of their ways and wanted to make amends but the race activists said they were trying to get off lightly.

http://www.eyewitnessnews.co.za/articleprog.aspx?id=33366

they ignore reality to suit their hatred(FEAR) of others.