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SOUTH AFRICA: Universities of shame

South Africa's universities are so rife with racism that all students must in future study a compulsory course on 'Africanness', reports Rowan Philip in the Sunday Times. This is one of the recommendations of a government report into discrimination in higher education launched after the emergence last year of a video of white University of the Free State students forcing black cleaners to run and drink urine.

Using questionnaires and visits to the country's 23 universities, a committee - composed of nine academics including Human Sciences Research Council president Dr Olive Shisana and appointed by former Education Minister Naledi Pandor - concluded that the intolerance behind the Reitz video was typical of "pervasive racism" among students, staff and management across historically white institutions
Full report on The Times site