Outrage at racist video of workers tricked into eating urine-soaked meat

A VIDEO recording of black workers made to perform degrading acts by white university students has sparked outrage in South Africa and cast a new spotlight on racism in the “Rainbow Nation”.

The home-made film, described as “shocking and disgusting“, shows five laughing black workers taking part in a number of initiation-like rituals, including going down on their knees and eating meat a student had urinated on.

The recording was dubbed “The aparthate video” by The Star newspaper — a play on the racist system of white-minority rule (apartheid) that ended in South Africa in 1994.