University of the Free State investigates an alleged incident of racism: Makgala Masiteng updates
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ม.ค. 2025
- Management of the University of the Free State says it is investigating an alleged incident of racism at its main campus in Bloemfontein.
It's alleged that a white student referred to a black student as a baboon during a lecture on the 14th of this month.
The lecturer is alleged to have labelled the statement as a joke.
The university says it condemns all forms of racial actions and that it views the matter in a very serious light.
Let's bring in SABC News Reporter Makgala Masiteng.
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We thank SASCO very much for being our voice in this matter. No measures would've been taken if it wasn't for you.
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Is there anyone who attended that lecture, who can explain what happened?? Not enough details have been disclosed here...
lol how many more details do you want? the white called a black a baboon!
@@SandileNtombela what has baboon got to do with race? Are there black and white baboons?
THANK YOU TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN STUDENT CONGRESS (SASCO) FOR STANDING IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE STUDENTS 💚🖤💛❤️
SOUTH AFRICA NEEDS TO DISCUSS THE FREE STATE REGION AS A WHOLE. GUYS FREE STATE IS A NIGHTMARE SPEAKING AS A BORN AND BRED FREE STATE RESIDENT.
If you love yourself you don't need other people to love you 💞
If you love yourself...take the land ♥
@@realnews8075 the problem with land now is that most of it is nolonger owned by individuals big companies are owning the land so to take it will much difficult
Exactly,
@@jameskillu9171Did you vote in the Zimbabwean election?
Then they must leave africa
UFS for Hub of racists
They are being taught by their settlers parents. Black people should start being violently
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Sadly the EFFSC is dragging their feet on this issue!!!
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Haha they not u first gather information once u have both sides then u act.
You want them, but during the election you pretend you don't like them.
Down playing is main problem
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South Africa has a deeply complex and painful history of racial discrimination, apartheid, and racial violence. This history has left lasting scars on the nation and its people. It is within this historical context that any racial incident should be viewed. The use of derogatory racial slurs, such as calling someone a "baboon," carries with it a painful legacy of dehumanisation and racial hatred.
Universities, as institutions of higher learning, have a responsibility to foster an inclusive and respectful environment for all students, regardless of their race or background. In the South African context, many universities have had to confront their own histories of racism and exclusion, as they were often complicit in enforcing apartheid policies.
The response of the lecturer, who dismissed the incident as a joke, raises concerns about the institution's commitment to addressing racial issues and promoting a safe and respectful learning environment. It's essential for universities to have clear policies and mechanisms in place to address incidents of racism and discrimination promptly and effectively.
Furthermore, such incidents highlight the need for ongoing education and awareness programs that encourage students and staff to confront and challenge racial biases and stereotypes. Universities can play a pivotal role in promoting reconciliation and healing in post-apartheid South Africa by actively addressing instances of racism and fostering an environment of tolerance and understanding.
In conclusion, the incident involving the use of a racial slur in a university setting should not be taken lightly, especially in South Africa with its painful history of racial oppression. It underscores the importance of universities actively addressing such incidents and working toward a more inclusive and respectful academic community that acknowledges the historical context and seeks to heal the wounds of the past.
Apartheid, racism, hate crimes etc didnt stop after 1994 it rather intensify. Farm murders, AA, BBEE, anti white laws etc started after 1994 and can only lead to more hate between the different races.
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And a boer war that distroid the boer nation till today who fights for every one in south africa today
If they joke with such words do the same joke with them with such words as well! We know that words they don't like and take as offensive.
I graduated from this university in 2002, I can't believe things are still the same.
fill me up, i would like to know more. you personally experienced racism?
Graduated same year. Seems it's still a melting pot for all types of racists.
@@apostlesiyabongathango4 Bro, like you would think a former white establishment would warmly welcome blacks?
White devils will still remain white remain devils...and continue to devalue blacks even in 3030....lats take the land a excluded white devils and we might regain some dignity
Racism will never ever end..you can forget it..
The President, Toto, is a very fit candidate. I hope the student body gets that culprit suspended and is isolated from all university extra curriculum activities. The Prof also needs to face the law, as an academic professional you cannot downplay an insult that's been used to dehumanize an entire nation.
expelled not suspended
Nobody says anything about ' kill the boer' I would hate to be a farmer and hear people sing kill the boer,strange how that's acceptable
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Outdated issue:Judgement about the issue is over: yuo lazzy to read an listen
@@selemanmartinmaybe outdated when you are not on the receiving end. Be fair
@@magdalenechristie6453 thanks Madame, welcome to Tanzania, we lov you South Africans.
need stricker rules at home for bringing up children so they can understand where what rules are set in public
Won't work when parents don't see a problem with behaviour, kids get it from their parents
I feel sorry for our students. They're too young to have experienced racism or Apartheid and yet lectures call them land thieves and others sing 'kill the Boer."
But they are beneficiaries of land thieves, it's a historical fact. It shows really how poor the boars are honestly, they had to kill for survival. Talk about serious desperation.
who is calling students land thieves?
@@wahwah7701 No it's as much a fact as you are being a historical mistake.
lol Just tell them the truth about the history of their forefathers so that they understand why them black folks act the way they act instead of feeling sorry for them ! the truth shall set all free.
@@rthare1 How am I a historical mistake? Are you nuts?
Forget about racism just do your best to be better baboons don't waist your time racism is not going to disappear in million years. We are also racist.
At last someone not acting like a victim, kudos to you. You will succeed in life, the rest of the victims will stay hidden behind their insecurities.
Very true words... move on and be a better person.. maybe these two students can become best friends instead of fuelling hate SA does need examples off how to move forward. Can you imagine the change then on campus and amongst people..
I don't think racism should be ignored esp in Africa, I mean these people should be grateful they're still allowed here after everything. But I like this mindset of acceptance. Racism shouldn't be seen as the WORST possible thing to happen to us and obviously I'm referring to petty racism like this, you can easily deal with such like either insulting them back or just laughing in their face, show them their words don't bother you and they're pathetic.
You mean by 'these people' the black and white land grabbers? The Koisan is the only legal owners of South Africa. Cant believe there are still people who are ignorant
EFF UFS has the most lazy leaders ever. Just because you wear red doesn't mean you are a leader. Our current president waits for Sasco to fight then takes all the credit. He kept quiet yet uyavela on this interview that's nonsensical
I am an animal lover and and and and and I am most offended that no one has considered the sensibilities of of of of of of all baboons. This this this using baboons as a joke to to to to tease mental acuity in humans is not not not acceptable to baboons.
Baboons also have feelings!!!
This ones of DASO are never found on campus when students have problems so I don’t know what my brother is saying they stand for 😭
Wow this is news worthy, yet when the blacks go round singing kill the boer theres crickets on south african news about it.
share you real name so that we can see that you believe the nonsense you just wrote here
Exactly shows who are the real racists.
Haha you are trash.
Theres nothing racist about that song...sit down
“blacks” 👀
Where is afriforum on this matter?
The white student didn't mean it literally.
it doesnt matter , the fact is that that labeling is wrong and the perpetrator must account
@@apostlesiyabongathango4 . It does matter. One group is all about revenge, hate, destroying and backward thinking. The other is finding a solution and building. Go figure. Hold the Line.
@@rthare1 you cant compare a liberation song and that racist who disrespected a black person. what group are now talking about, that is revenging, hating and destroying?
@@apostlesiyabongathango4 , Group black. And yes I can, what student participated in the Liberation? It's just plagiarism.
It doesn't mattet how he meant, for the fact that he said it is still wrong
So my 5cents is that we as black people like to make noise when we are called monkeys or baboons but we treat other groups very badly too. Time to get ourselves checked. If you can’t take it don’t dish it out, treat coloured and Indian people better ✌🏽
and zimbabweans
speak for yourself
Speak for yourself and don't include us.
Hi Phats Domino, most people will not agree, but thank you for being objective
@@jameskillu9171exactly
You will see these kinds of news stories closer to elections to rile up voters. We have bigger issues to deal with, this country is literally falling apart🤦🏾♀️. Right now sitting 3 weeks with no water.
Petty words. Rather focus on academics than feelings.
"and hath made OF ONE BLOOD all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation" Acts 17:26
UFS and racism 🤝🏾
Wow, the reporter had a long race card to read from there.
Funny how this racism only goes one way.
What do you mean?
Please elaborate
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maybe the student was reacting to dudula terrorism acrivities on BBC,
Pink is funny probably
Africans will never learn .
How old is the Sasco comrade and how long has he been at University.
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He is too old, and speaking like a fool, while that young man chistopher, who look like his son, is speaking wisdom
Some plitical parties encourage racism,but place their focus on apartheid.Malemas song "kil the boer" doesn't sound nice to most of us.But she laughs and makes it a joke snd no steps are taken against him.Why?
We are not strick enough on these institutions and these individuals. We should have a 1 strike and you are out policy!
People don't understand when EFF talking recist is everyday thing
This Racism story is so petty and has become ridiculous
Are you sure?
@@phumeza343 yes....I call my grandson,' monkey' sometimes.....does that make me a racist? NO! Really, sometimes it's meant in jest and if the other person is so small minded to take it personally, then they need a Psychologist!
WHY DON'T YOU GO BACK TO HOLLAND? BECAUSE YOU DON'T SEEMED TO BELONG HERE
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@@cascabcshow would you react to random black , colored and Indian people calling you pork chop or porky , porkbelly , porkass? These racial name callings are demeaning and showing disrespect to other human beings!
Ridiculous story, if those black racists students (they discriminate against the institution on the basis that there are to many white management, that is a racist allegation) rather take all this time and effort and study they will be much better off, childish behaviour from all including the media giving airtime to this, they must remember that calling someone a baboon is part of our struggle songs, same as kill the boer,
Yes, they don't have their own universities but complain when they called out for their behaviour. It's Amazing that they all on NSFAS and the tax payers dime to top it all off
Is that student seeing himself or herself having the features or characteristics of a baboon? Mfmmmm! Hayi, this is the end of the year. Study your books and prepare for your examination. Racism, racism! Are we not different races, naturally so?
Kill the boer was anyways inspired by your struggle songs of calling black people all sort of things .... yet you don't want EFF to sing the song you all inspired by singing your own derogatory songs such as "blacks are baboons"
You can't have your cake and eat it at the same time
I don't appreciate your statement because the person who said "kill the boer" is the EFF leader Julius Malema and not all black people. How as a country are we going to move forward from our past if we behave like this. This is disgusting. It's clear from your statement that some people don't wanna move forward. I'm honest exhausted at this racism thing still being a topic in 2023. Please let us all do better as Whites, Black's, Indians and Coloureds.....
High school also the the call our children name .And if the child report it's always a joke 🥵
Racism in FS is not only at UFS but it is at the entire province, one would swear that it is the culture of whites to be racists in that part of RSA and what is even alarming to me is that little to nothing is done from all stakeholders. One thing that I can say is that I suspect that Basotho who are the majority in that province are very weak. really you are weak batho ba heso.
Every year same shirt happenes
If this happened in Kenya, we would make sure that university is closed down forever
South Africans have been too soft honestly
@@LeratoM98agree, but on all aspects
And thanks for logic and straight talk
War unto to War to stop War.Racism unto to Racism to stop Racism.Finish.
Bloemfontein houses many of the underground racists. You don't need to look far.
So petty,I'm not white,call me what you want I'm sure of who I am
Free state is a very racist province was just seeing a vidoe where a kid tried jumping on a trampoline with white kids n they n they jumped off
Northern Cape is also very racist
White people are generally very racist in general, they find very to embrace equality, because it feels like opression to them.
These incidents are are common occurrence here in Polokwane Eduanpark
If it was a 'foreigner' doing that to a South African black all the township's would be out in the streets calling for the deportation of Makwerekwere.😂😂😂
So all south Africans are Xenophobic. If that was true then no one from outside South Africa would be living in South Africa.
They really want to make a big story out of a petty incident. Disgusting. Name-calling on the news.
To you it is Petty but to a black person who knows the true colors of a racist it is not petty, it is statements like yours that will ensure that racism is not dealt with! exactly like the lecture also dismissed it as a joke!
@@SandileNtombela I've been called things before, baboon may have been one of them, I can't recall exactly, because its not a big deal. To try to destroy the idiot that name called is the real racist crime here.
@@SandileNtombelawhat must whites say about "kill a boer kill a farmer"
Calling another human being a baboon and you say its a petty issue are you for real ?does that student has for legs and a tail. It's colour only the rest we are the same.😢
Petty? This is beyond petty, jail time is necessary here
Construction on the new Akademia (Afrikaans) University in Pretoria will start next year. This racism thing where everybody and everything is racist is becoming a huge problem and the ONLY way to solve that is by giving all groups white, black, yellow, pink whatever their own facility.
You must be a foolish coward behind your keyboard. No solution will ever come from further division. Not from transformation either. Never mind negotiation. Confrontation is the way. Asidlane ngequpha kuphele once
so basically bring back apartness aka Aparthied! hummm how interesting that instead of condemning rubbish no best bring back apartheid, I feel sorry for your kids.
And their own countries and their own continents and their own universe?
@@thebrokeauntyeverything then there won't be racism, apartheid, BBEEE, AA, hate between people etc etc. Why not?
Then this is simple Europeans descendants should go back to Europe
I at times call even my children an ape. Its in the way we talk. Being like an ape is doing something stupid. Don't do stupid stuff then you wont be called an ape. That goes for any race.
1. Your statement is assuming that the black person in this case was doing something stupid or rather s/he is a child of the person calling him/her a baboon ! and that is a wrong premise to go from. 2. you can call your kids whatever but don't go calling other people's kids things they don't want to be called simple ! 3. don't justify nonsense because we will all around doing things we should be doing under the pretence that we do it to our kids e.g. if I abuse my kids must I also come abuse yours just because I do it to my kids for whatever reason ? think deeply before uttering word or typing them.
@@SandileNtombela you took words right out of my mouth
@SandileNtombela you can color my comment in any way you want. You seem to be one of the people who will blow a simple remark out of the water. Typical!! I don't expect anything else.
If your own parents, friends, or siblings call you stupid for a mistake you made, does that make them abusive. Grow up and grow a pair. Get rid of the cottonwool syndrome. Every comment or criticism is not racist or abuse.
Wow I hope you take bieng called a roach as a simple remark aswell
@spaces4034 call me what you want. I don't get offended so quickly. I take it from where it comes. Does being called a roach make me one????? I think not. Only people who are on ego trips because of their inferiority complexes will get offended. Someone with self-esteem will scrutinize why they were called something specific and work on themselves. That's what adults do.
Same thing as people are called Ma kwere kwere, is very confusing and harmful 😢😢😮😮
What is intergration by the way vs assimilation?
integration is the inclusion of all people regardless of demographics without discrimination, whereas assimilation is the inclusion of diverse ethnic groups on condition they adapt their culture to accommodate standing social standards.
Typically of the white small town mentally
...racial conflicts never ends in S.Africa, why they just Balkanize the country to solve the problem
Totally agree you wont see racism or apartheid in Orania.
This is what media feeds on
What about the song kill the farmer kill the boer ? Is that not racist?
what aboutism is not going to help! condemn the song and condemn the labeling simple!
you can't justify calling something they are not just because someone sang a song ......rather we should tell the EFF to stop the singing and tell the other one to joke sensible .
As for the real racists that song "kill the boer and farmer" is probably not racist.
@nedor64 do know what nesicerted the song for the first place? Do you know why it is still being sang by EFF ? I guess you don't and see no reason why it should be sang ! Yet you seem no problem with a black person being called a baboon by a white person 🤔 go figure why EFF won't stop sing the song.
I don't support or justify the song. However, I am trying to show you that there is no smoke without fire 🔥! Look behind the act and see what necessitates the action.
White, Black, Indian, Colored or any other race have not right to call any other person irrespective of the person's race names ! That the fundamental start no calling of names. Finish and Klar as for the song I will leave it to the court to decide on it use or none use ! As for me I don't and won't sing it have many other struggle songs to sing than that one.
The song is not racist at all
Pathetic wokeism. Typical unrest stoking by SASCO representative. Nothing better to do. Reporter stating her private views and blowing the incident up.
This is news? Wow😂
Yes because it is a white man involved 😂 not foreigners.
is the perpetuation of racial offences in a supposed “rainbow nation” not news worthy? 🤔 i wonder
I am angry
😂😂😂back in their back room. This daso is worse
🤕 we go through the most at campus UFS is racist
Anibashayi ngani ? Bashayeni negalokhu nehleka. Mabethi nizimfene nobatshele ukuthi bayizingulube bona.
@@SandileNtombela 😂
You go through the most by choice. You like these white Afrikaner spaces.
But you People go around singing kill the boer and expect 0 backlash.
@@user-of9ofZIPRA MHHONTO, ALLIANCE
SHOOT TO KILL, NYAMAZANA
KILL THE B*ER
Let the eff come in, this racism will quickly come to an end
What will they do? Change street names? break H&M and Clicks....very effective
😂😂😂 EFF = DISTRACTION =POVERTY=NO FOOD=NO WORK=NO HEALTH SYSTEM =NO SECURITY=TOTAL COLLAPSE OF EVERYTHING AND NO EDUCATION =ZIMBABWE
Racism at that institution is a norm
A baboon is a baboon so don't take it seriously if someone say that because you are not what is said it's just like what Malema does so it's not racism
Yes !!!!!
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Yhooooo again what kind of parents teach the a child called human name's 🤢🤢
They are pigs
😂😂😂kids can pick up words as you know.. and the animal world can be funny.. do you know when we were small and asked our parent where does babies come from? They use to say we were monkeys, we were caught and our tales chopped. 😂😂I suppose the old folks did not know how to answer 3, 4 year olds and that was the best answer at the time. So yes for a time I thought I was a monkey😂😂😂
Always talking talking talking , they wont understand "talking" these racistv, they want action not talks blacks how long will you take this nonsense
Maybe burn the university down....then no one can get education....one must ask what the student was doing at the time and was it directed to the student or dit the student feel offended but remarks was not directly to him or her .......people must learn if you a student you a child and children must just be happy and not get involved In politics ....why did that student say to the baboon caller just tell him he is a chimp or laugh it off cause he or she knows they not a baboon they educated to no what a baboon is ......and calling a person a baboon how can this be racist .....words it's only words it seems politics have entered a child's world in schools