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Something Fishy?
29/02/2008 08:14
Although I'm very dissapointed in this I somehow feel theres something a little fishy going on!Why was the video only released now if made in SEPT and why on earth would the cleaners have thought it was a competition? - AB |
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EVS
29/02/2008 08:33
I agree with Ventere and AS the remaining letters are stupid beyond all reasonable doubt! - AR |
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Video
29/02/2008 08:39
How sad that it happened. It was wrong. Beeld please place the photos of murderes of famers,taxi drivers that humilated the young lady at the taxi rank, police killers, child killers/rapists. To the DA and Beeld, well done for the insensitive way you handled the whole issue. The whole world is looking at Afrikaans speaking people with disgust. It is clear that the DA is trying to gain voting support and Beeld wanted to sell more newspapers. You make me sick!!! - Hattie van Jaarsveld |
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Sad, but true!
29/02/2008 08:42
At the end of the day it was the cleaners responsibility to say NO! They giggled AND LAUGHED!!! This means they knew it was a joke! I don't know anymore...people hating each other JUST for their skin colour! Sad South Africa we are! - Big R |
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ag time to move on
29/02/2008 08:43
you know i am so sick of this story and so tired fighting racial battles on this website. Surely there has to be some other news. Why does news24 not make a big thing out of those racist metro cops that bust up that white family and killed the family dog? why why? as usual the media in this country is very one sided. - terence |
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uofs video
29/02/2008 08:49
What has happened in UOFS is unaccepatable and distasteful, however i blame this to the management for taking too long to deal with and complete the transformation process. What worries me is that some of the top management are blacks but they shown no serriousness in tackling this matter of transormation or is it because they worry about their pockets and their status. If management is worried about what transpired, can they assure us or set a time limit regarding the integration of students. - Mandla |
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Selective journalism
29/02/2008 08:54
Sorry but i believe this country adopts selective journalism to monumental proportions. Let's look at the disgusting debacle that has happened at UFS, utter racism! Let's move on to what happened at Skielik and the coverage it received. Now let's look at the hundreds of white people being slaughtered like the young girl from Trinity, where's the coverage. Selective journalism and it sucks. - John Camp |
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Staffers to be blamed
29/02/2008 08:57
I think thats what led Dr. Khoza to call another black person with the "K" word. One of the staffers is 60yrs old. She must have raised children who are older that these white bastards, what made these staffers to be obedient to these young boys, maybe it is because they happen to be white. In our culture as blacks, elders will never take instructions from a minor, why cant they follow the same rule with whites. Dont they have rights as workers. - Zinzisile |
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RE Comment from AS
29/02/2008 08:59
Strange how you refer to the folks who protested against this despicable act as 'uncivillised.' White UFS students conducted a violent protest against integration (honestly, what century is this?) damaged property and I take it your silence in this regard means their conduct was 'civillised.' - VLS |
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Hate campaign against the Afrikaaner
29/02/2008 09:02
While this incident must be condemned in the strongest term it also is quite shocking with what brutal hate and speed this message is circulating the globe, predominatingly in the Anglo-Saxon press. Without much ado I want top ask this whole news24 commenters community - where, I reemphasize, where are your voices when the Afrikaaner is being raped and pillaged on a daily basis? Be honest - for these are the kinds of incidents that flame up these behaviours. Thank you - Honest Joe |
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Stop and Think
29/02/2008 09:02
I am still perturbed why some people think the cleaners involved in the UFS video participated willingly. People must understand that these are the black elderly with deprived backrounds. Most of our black old people still see a white man as their "bass" and their provider. Can anyone just stop and think that these old people could have participated due to the brainwashing effects of the past. They were made to believe a white man is always right and blacks should always be submisive. - CB |
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Skiballas
29/02/2008 09:04
If this wan an attempt at humour, why not use other students or white staff? Is it because they see black people as simply useless pieces of gabbage that they can make fun off? Furthermore, the video was released by one of the girl friends. If you wanted segregated schools, then attend a private school. I will not finance idiots like you who want segragation - Len van Heerden |
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If this was humour
29/02/2008 09:05
Could this pieces of scum have done this to other white students or white workers? If not, then it makes them criminal racist - LvH |
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In context 1
29/02/2008 09:06
From the bit of video that I saw,it seems that it was meant as a bit of fun with the staff members-a type of "Fear Factor" contest-hence their willingness to participate.All of this would have been fine if it were not for the urination on the food(a claim which they refute, saying it was "trick photography"),of which the employees no doubt had no idea.And then of course the final comments which were clearly against the integration of the hostel,which showed racial bias. - DW |
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Disgusted
29/02/2008 09:07
I am disgusted that some people view this as harmless fun...I think it is depraved. I hope that something will be done to rectify this and that it will not just be brushed under the carpet by parents who have money to pay off officials. While I dont think there crimes should send them to jail, I think that a more suitable punishment would be for them to be expelled & stripped of their degrees to set an example that this behaviour will not be tolerated. - N |
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Venter, AS & Skiballas comments
29/02/2008 09:07
As long as we still have people like Venter, AS and Skiballas, we have long way to go. Frankly the responces of these people and others who think like them are not making it easy for me to trust some white people. Why these boys didn't use their mothers or some other white people. This was racist. - Z |
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What a lot of hot air
29/02/2008 09:08
Enough is enough, why all the fuss. The workers were not forced in any way. The full story has not come out and everybody is jumping to conclusions. This just shows that blacks cannot wait for an incident to become cultured citizens in condemning all whites. Hell every day there are murders, rapes taking place and these black hyper sensitive role players are out in numbers. What a smack of hypocrisy. - KAC |
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In context 2
29/02/2008 09:08
If it cannot be proved that they actually DID urinate on the food (how are you going to do that?),they are innocent until proven guilty.Look at their behaviour for the rest of their student days and check if they are trouble makers or not.If not, an apology and some community service should be acceptable. - DW |
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Ventere
29/02/2008 09:09
Are you for real, mate? This is not a Hollywood movie, and I doubt if these sons of Farmers are that smart to create an illusion of a video. In any case, there are victims who do corroborate all that happened. Get your head out of the sand, - Len |
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UFS changed me, I do not like this change in me.
29/02/2008 09:16
I think the rector of the UFS must resign. This act of barbarism by a learned group of holigans is putting a strain on white and black people's bid to reconcile and forget the past.
Every time just when I am about to forget, the past and learn to reconcile with white people, then someyhing like this happens, right under the nose of UFS rector.
Not every white people are like this, but it looks like they are a drop in the ocean.
They must be custrated, and let dogs play catch with their ball. - Philani |
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Terence
29/02/2008 09:17
Move on to what? Last week, there was a major cry about FBJ, and cannot remember anyone asking for people to move on. You ask the newspapers to make a big deal about another incident, but yet you wish to move on from this one. Are you embarrased that this reflects your racist attitude and you feel guilty each time you see this? - Thendas |
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amazing double standards...
29/02/2008 09:21
no doubt what was done was stupid, but man do the masses only need a hint of racism to get them baying for blood.its so typical.they will gather by the thousands acting like savages demanding vigilante justice yet i see no marches or protests for the thousands of white victims who have been raped, tortured and brutally murdered time and time again.i saw no protests for the 17yr old girl murdered by 2 vagrants? - mp3's mentor |
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What about everyone else???
29/02/2008 09:28
I have read numerous articles around this, and without doubt the dignity of the UFS employees has been thrown into the wind. One of the fundamental reasons for this is that everything was recorded. However, what about people breaking into family homes and raping women - what about their dignity??? Oh ya, that has not been recorded, so therefor what the eye has not seen cannot hurt. Peoples' dignity is being taken away every day, and yet this for some reason, this one is worse - why???? - D |
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mandla
29/02/2008 09:32
there is a difference between transformation and integaration. in this case i believe you are saying ufs took to long to implement integration(mixing the cultures in dorms) i went to boarding school and i had the choice with whom i wanted to share a room with. My question is what is wrong with freedom of choice, i am sure the black kids would rather stick to themselves as well, why would they want to mingle with white kids in the first place. - terence |
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Black workers in the Free State
29/02/2008 09:33
We are not made aware what was said to the workers to bring them together for the video i.e. disregard their jobs and participate in this non-sense. We know they referred to one of these buggers as "baas" indicating a respect that would have made them willingly do anything for fear of losing their jobs - L van Heerden |
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Enough is enough
29/02/2008 09:34
The way this act has been hijacked by politicians and blown toatlly out of proportions discusts me nearly as much as the actual act. Why is it that people in this country refuses to let go of the past and move on. The racial tention in SA today is worse than when I arrived 10 years ago. I am sorry to say that the new goverment are mostly to blame for this. - Carsten |
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media
29/02/2008 09:43
Why can?t the world be as outspoken about crime and corruption as they are about this incident? How many people die every day without even a mention, far worse things have happened since that incident but it?s too common and don?t sell papers anymore it seems. Lets rather blow every white race issue completely out of proportion and in the process create more unnecessary hate between our people. This story does not deserve the publicity it is getting but we all will pay the consequences of it! - PC |
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RE: Students
29/02/2008 09:44
I sometimes wonder if this is as much about racism as it is about straight forward bullying. I think that these guys are people who seek out the less empowered amongst us and pick on them and in this particular case it happened to be black workers holding on to their jobs. I believe that once we har more about these guys, it will show that they have a history of bullying action and not necesarily towards blacks, but towards those they pereceive as potential victims, no matter what the colour. - Lejane |
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Let the international Cameras roll-on
29/02/2008 09:53
The international media has arrived to witness the atrocities and real life torture of innocent cleaners trying to make a living for their families, it is time that the international human rights commission realize this joke of a country under the masquerade of democracy. People are walking around with hatred in their hearts. These barbaric acts of racism are the symptoms exposes the motive of the hearts?roll on international media cameras and expose racist to the world? - kolobe |
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Why
29/02/2008 09:55
is there no calls for the 5 individuals arrested by the police on Wednesday on the campus, to be named in public? They were inciting racial violence! Double standards again? - hjs |
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Uncivilized? UFS four vs Protesters
29/02/2008 09:57
The''UFS four''as they will undoubtedly become known are morons who must take responsibility for their actions. Let the punishment fit the crime, and let UFS get its act together regarding integration!
But there are now reports of women on campus being threatened with rape, and others being threatened with violence by protesters.
So now who are the savages, and who is really uncivilized? - Alex |
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mp3's mentor
29/02/2008 10:03
Talking of double standards. surely, yours must be one too. you seem to minimise events where blacks are victims and highlight those where whites are victims. Perhaps your savegery is showing its ugly head - MP4 |
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Stop the nonsense..
29/02/2008 10:06
Carsten, start calling a spade a spade!Denial won`t get u anywhere.Blame it on the government,on the university, Mandela or whoever!The fact remains the same,these white boys did something very unacceptable.How on earth do u pee in someone`s food?Do these boys drink their own pee?They belong in jail with all the other criminals.Racism is in most of these former Afrikaans varsities.i was in one of them and it`s not lekker.Down with the burstards-they should rot in jail. - Liz |
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Terence
29/02/2008 10:06
The reason black kids do not mind mingling with kids of other races is because they are not as racist as you. Do not apply your racist mindset to all South Africans. I went to a mixed dorm and I turned out OK. If you want segragation, go to a private school or stay at your home. Why should I pay for the likes of you? - Parent |
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Carsten
29/02/2008 10:09
Your ignorance does indeed show. If you think South Africa is 10 years old, then you really are demented.
It is not the media that create unnecessary hate, it is the perpetrators. Stop defending these scumbags - Denure |
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Lejane
29/02/2008 10:10
The context of the Free state is that workers are the less powerful in the university environment. Since their video was about integration, who better than black people to communicate the message? - L van Heerden |
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at a loss of words
29/02/2008 10:11
I am a young white Afrikaner male.I find myself having to deal with emotions like shock and embarrassment.I hear a lot of people talking about double standards and stuff about white people being raped and murdered without the media mentioning it.I think that is completely irrelevant to this incident. We have to deal with this issue, right here, and right now.These guys are a very small minority and the rest of us have to send out the message that this is not what being Afrikaner is about. - witseun |
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Re : Video
29/02/2008 10:16
How can people say that this was just a joke and everybody must just move on??
The video sure wasn't funny when I watched it. If these guys wanted to have so much fun, why didn't they pick some of their white friends to play this sick joke on.
It's sick,sick,sick!!!!! - SG |
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What the hell
29/02/2008 10:17
Sorry but this is the hostel way - And I hate the tradition! And yes, whites do it to whites aswell. And there has been some horiffice white on white incidences in the past. It was racist yes, but blown totally out of proportion. There are much more worrying things all of these protesters can protest about. They will protest this country in to a zimbabwean stat - Wake up, its a new day |
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