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February 29th, 2008 at 8:07 pm

SAfrican students apologize for video (AP)

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University of Free State students walk past the male residence linked to an act of racism in Bloemfontein, South Africa, Thursday Feb. 28, 2008. A video made by white students that humiliated black university employees at the University of Free State has prompted angry protests and criticism that racism remains entrenched in South Africa 14 years after the end of apartheid. The video, which was made last year and surfaced Tuesday, includes black cleaners taking part in a supposedly joke-filled mock 'initiation ceremony' on their knees eating food that had been secretly urinated on by white students. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)AP - Two white students behind a video in which five black university workers appear to be duped into eating food tainted with urine apologized and said they had been “crucified as racists.”


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