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Should the media be rescreening the racist Free State university video?

3 Mar 2008 11:0212 commentsBizLike
RESULTS
 No, it inflames sentiment further
45.66% (205) votes
 Yes, it is the public's right to know
52.56% (236) votes
 Not sure
1.78% (8) votes
Total votes 449
The racist Free State University video been all over the news, both locally and internationally. Carte Blanche screened large chunks of it last night, Sunday, 2 March 2008, it's been on various websites (including The Times Online) and 3rd Degree on e.tv is intending on screening it in full tomorrow, Tuesday 4 March.
 
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CJ
The media have done...-
... its job exposing these horrible acts, it's time that these perpertrators are prosecuted and punished to the full extent of the law. Posted on 3 Mar 2008 14:55
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Brad
Where is the line?-
Yes, what the students did at the university was beyond civil. There is no justification for their actions and should be punished accordingly.

However, in the same breath is this just a mere reflection of one of the many flaws of our own so called civil soceity?
By slamming it across the media does it not show South Africa, a country we have spent many years restoring, as a country of no hope that will forever be stuck in bigotted ways?
Not only this but in doing so have we not given these students a trial by media? And we have all seen how sensatialism like this has torn apart communities.

Rather why are we, as South Africans and humans, not responding instead of reacting. Surely what was done could have been prevented... if only we had spent our time restoring and building communities rather than picking apart everything the media throws at us things like this would not happen.

How are we as individuals ensuring a safe an healthy environment for our children? Posted on 3 Mar 2008 16:05
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AR
Step Back-
Im a young black female, born and bread in this beautiful country, I was unfortunately sent a link to the video on email by a friend of mine and it was just heartbreaking, this is the sort of things that will keep us where we are with very little movement going forward, if not frustrated i think I was angry, and it brought back all the memories of the bad things that our parents had to endure during the struggle and seeing that just made me feel like little or nothing has changed in this country! I think it is good for us to know that such things are still happening as it would be reported in the media however it should be left up to the few to deal with (with the help of public participation ofcourse), I think if we all had to see the video, a lot of scars would be opened up and my fear is that things might just get out of control. Let the discipliners deal with those that need to be disciplined "severly" for such acts but proper action must be taken in this regard.

I love my country and I would really like to see progress and a unified democratic society, and people need to come to the party in order for this to happen.
AR. Posted on 5 Mar 2008 11:41
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Yes, the media should show the video-
Not rescreening it would be sweeping the issue under the carpet. People need to see it in order to stare the ugliness of prejudice in the face and to hopefully start examining their own beliefs on race relations.
Certain members of the SA population are so far from examining the constructions of their own identities that it unfortunately requires the dissemination of stuff like this to make them think about it. Posted on 5 Mar 2008 13:57
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charlie
the tapes-
I does amaze me that when it is white to black that the media takes it to the holt. the tapes are shocking even the white people of south africa were horrified.
When zuma say things like the whites are not welcome in south africa it gets swept under the carpet.
What i find scarey is what is the future for the white people in southafrica. after reading the articles in the business times on Mbeki and Zuma if feel sorry for whites who cannot leave this country. Posted on 6 Mar 2008 13:35
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SStoane
The tapes - It's time to move on-
There is so much going in South Africa at the moment. We currently have an electricity crisis, fuel price increase as well as interest rates etc... We should concentrate on being positive. Yes, most of us were livid by the tape but what good will showing it again do? Look at the xenophobia attacks, yet we're still holding on to the tape... We cannot change what has happened but we can change our attitude towards building the future and it all starts with oneself... Posted on 10 Jun 2008 09:10
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penns
The MEDIA SHOULD be rescreening that racist video.-
Yes it should be. I am glad that even the BBC and CNN has seen this.. I am glad that the media has exposed what really happens behind closed doors at the University Of the Free State. I was a student there and I would like to say that this video is just a tip of the iceberg, there are so many things that have happened over there and were just swept under the rug. Hopefull this incident will force the University to do something as some people treat that University as if its a finishing school for young farmers which its not. Posted on 6 Mar 2008 15:18
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Joey
Ofcourse-
It should be showed! why not. people all over needs to know whats happening in this country! and its really sad, they werent affected by the apartheid era, and for them to carry on the way they are, is sickening! they need to make an example out of these KIDS Posted on 6 Mar 2008 16:15
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mfundo
The vidoe should be shown-
Watched it on etv in the evening and the repeat the following morning because i could not believe such blatant disregard and hatred towards other human beings. Any one of those women could have been my mother, an aunt, a neighbour, a relative and i could not fathom how young people in their right minds could torment people's souls and diginities like that...I was angry and disgusted at the video. Most white people still have this superiority complex and are given such rights by us allowing them to make us feel inferior. SO yes, please play the video... Posted on 6 Mar 2008 19:20
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yes .the video should be shown-
I'm really saddened by the uncoth behavior on the university of Free State...We are surrounded by white people in our society and work places and knowing that there are still white people that are still that racist makes us delop hatred with innocent white people that We work with. I'm a young black woman , that work in a very white company, my point is that such reactions(Free State) make us have all this anger that We trying to bury so hard.

Justice should take its course on this, and these universities needs to be investigated tharally. Posted on 7 Mar 2008 10:13
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Yes in a nutshell-
Like everyone else, I think the video should definately be shown to illustrate just how sick some people can be.

While the video depicts white students as the guilty party in this case, people must remember that racism is not isolated to only one race. It occurs from all races.

I do however not understand why in the world the cleaners went along with what those students instructed them to do. Its not as if they were forced to participate, and because they had the choice of saying no it was just plain stupid of them to go along with whatever it was they were instucted to do.

Never the less, the video should be shown and those individuals who made the video have a really warped sense of what a normal person would deem as fun. Posted on 7 Mar 2008 14:04
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Didi
yes it should be shown but not for long-
being a black student at the university of the free state myself i feel that it was appropriate that the video should be shown but not for long as it brought sadness and tension at the university. i was so furious at my white counterparts the next morning after i saw the video, but i need not had been angry at them because they were not involved, somehow i ended up accepting the situation and moving on. i do not have to be angray at any white person but should be angry at those four bastards who still think it is apartheid era. Posted on 25 Apr 2008 14:48
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