Sunday Tribune

The university saga of blatant discrimination against a group of black people by one group of white people falls in the category of inhumane behaviour. Civilized and sensible human beings cannot act in such vile and barbaric ways.

The perpetrators were not some street people or laymen but an educated bunch of cowards. This thing about initiation at universities must be unconditionally banned throughout the country's institutions. In any case initiation programmes are aimed at fellow first year students not on the general services’ staff.

South Africa has seen an extremely difficult past with discrimination unheard of in any other part of the world. It is indeed sad that since the abolishment of apartheid in South Africa - in the last decade - has changed very little in the minds and hearts of some people. A great applause to the majority of South African indigenous people to have forgiven the horrible past. People committing such dastardly acts must be brought to book and accordingly punished.

Hasan