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 The UFS video described scene by scene
    Gill Gifford
    February 28 2008 at 08:49AM 		Get IOL on your
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This is the shocking racist video white students at the University of the Free State made in their fight to stop integration at their residences.

It shows hatred and contempt for blacks, highlighted by gross scenes of one of them urinating in food and making university cleaners eat it.

His friends, including the one videotaping the incident, can be heard laughing in the background.

From beginning to end, the film lasts for exactly 10 minutes and 9 seconds... and none of the students tries to hide his face.

'Our first activity is down-downs'
It is believed that the video was recorded last September but only leaked this year as the process of hostel integration intensified.

Last week students went on the rampage, burning tyres and smashing windows in protest against integrated residences.
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The university believes that the video was first recorded at the Reitz men's residence.

The clip starts in the garden and exterior of the Reitz men's hostel.

A voice says in Afrikaans: "Once upon a time the boers lived happily here on Reitz island until the day the less-advantaged discovered the word 'integration' in the dictionary."

It cuts to an inside scene where a dark-haired student in a khaki T-shirt addresses the camera. A crude handwritten sign reading "INTERGRASIE" is stuck over the computer screen next to him and there's an open bottle of beer on the table.

"Our first activity is down-downs. It's a very important sport here at Reitz. Every Friday night here at Bond Bar we see who can drink the fastest.

"Also, for our integrated rugby teams, one of these candidates could be man of the match and also be required to participate," says one student.

The action then moves to a bar where a blond-haired student in a light blue T-shirt faces the camera while the cleaners - one man and four women, one of whom appears to be over 60 - are lined up along the counter.

"All right, here we are at down-downs. We are going to count down and when I count three you start drinking," the student states.

The five each start drinking from the beer bottles.

Raucous laughter, applause and "Jy sal k*k (you will s***)" is heard from people off-camera as the five gulp their drinks.

As they spill and splutter foam drips down their fronts.

"Here's second place and third place," a voice yells. The camera focuses in on one woman's face as she grimaces and swallows in disgust, obviously battling to get the beer down.

The next scene is presented by a third student wearing a navy Jeep T-shirt, who declares: "Integration has forced us to look at the skweezas (reference to the older women) that worked for us for years, to see if they can teach us anything..."

The camera then cuts to the bar where the cleaners are shown dancing with each other in traditional Afrikaans style to Anton Goosen's song 'n Klein Bietjie Wyn (a little bit of wine).

The five laugh and dance around the room and appear to be enjoying themselves.

A fourth student, wearing a maroon shirt, presents the next scene where he is shown on a sports field.

"We are here on the field to see which of these skweezas is the fastest. Who will be wing or inside centre? We need to see which one has the most speed," he declares.

The camera then shows the five cleaners lined up on the start line on a race track as one of the students starts the race.

The theme from Chariots of Fire plays as the camera switches to slow motion, filming the cleaners as they run towards the finish line.

The blond-haired student then addresses the camera: "We found out on Monday that there will be integration with our rugby, and there are to be three quota players in Reitz's first team. We have decided to approach this by holding trials, and we will be specially looking for hookers, wings and forwards."

On the field the cleaners stand in a circle, throwing a rugby ball to each other. Boeremusiek plays as the ball throwing continues in slow motion.

Then the maroon-shirted student takes over as viewers are taken into a kitchen where food is being prepared.

"We are now here to quickly prepare a brew that will turn them into Reitz men. But we know they are less privileged, we thought we would throw in a bit of meat and some garlic," he says as large white cloves are thrown into a bowl of what looks like pet food.

Another student, followed by the camera, takes the bowl down a passage into a toilet where he places the bowl on the toilet lid. With his back to the camera he then laughs as he urinates into the dish, the camera focuses through his parted legs on the food.

"Not too much. Nip," a voice in the background shouts, accompanied by more raucous laughter.

The dish is then returned to the kitchen, where one of the students announces: "Because this is short notice we've not had time to cook this properly over the coals," as he places it in the microwave to warm it.

The blond-haired presenter then takes over again.

"We are now at Reitz's Fear Factor to see which skweeza fares the best with this nice dish we've prepared for them. Let's go," he says as the meal is divided into five plastic cups, handed to each of the cleaners, who are kneeling on the ground. Two of the women immediately spew out the concoction.

"Is klaar baas. Dis sleg (It's finished, boss. It's bad)," one woman declares as the students are heard loudly encouraging the cleaners to finish the food.

"Drink it, you're behind" and "Sefebe drink that whole thing" are the cries heard from voices behind the camera as one woman yells: "No, your bum man."

One of the presenters then says: "We would like to say thanks to everyone and to the skweezas that performed so well for the Reitz team. All three of them are named man of the match and we are giving them this bottle of whisky."

Three of the cleaners are seen laughing and delightedly claiming the whisky while the fourth woman, identified as Emma, is shown conversing with one of the filmmakers, named Johnnie.

The camera then returns to the inside scene where the blond student and his friend in the Jeep shirt talk candidly.

"We thought it best that Emma not become Johnnie's roommate because she will lose too much weight with all this rugby business. We've decided to place her with Albertus Botha because he already has a lot of experience in the racial integration department," they state.

The camera then cuts to one of the cleaners as she stands in front of a sink washing dishes.

The words "At the end of the day this is what we think of racial integration" are superimposed across the screen.

One of the students then asks her: "What does sefebe mean in Afrikaans?"

"Whore maid," she responds.

    • This article was originally published on page 6 of The Star on February 28, 2008
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