South African court fines four racists for humiliating university video
Friday 30 July 2010
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EmailA South African court has ordered four white former students to pay fines of nearly £2,000 each for humiliating black university staff in a sick video.
The men made the film in protest against plans for racially integrated student accommodation.
RC Malherbe, Johnny Roberts, Schalk van der Merwe and Danie Grobler pleaded guilty to charges of illegally and deliberately injuring another person's dignity.
The video was made in 2007 and posted on the internet.
It showed the four men forcing five employees of the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein to consume food and drink which was tainted with urine.
The video ended with the words: "That, at the end of the day, is what we think of integration."
In a sentence broadcast live on national television, magistrate Mziwonke Hinxa ordered the four to pay 20,000 South African rand each.
He also imposed a six-month jail term suspended on condition that the four do not repeat "discrimination against any other person on grounds of race" over the next five years.
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