South African blacks express pain over video

Associated Press

Four black university workers expressed pain and anger Thursday over being duped by white students into eating food allegedly tainted with urine for a video.

The video, which shows four women and one man on their knees eating the food, has been seen around the world, exposing deep racial tensions in South Africa more than a decade after Apartheid ended. Only the women attended a news conference at the University of the Free State to express their outrage.

“We feel pain,” said Emma Koko, 40, who has been working at the school for 20 years and whose son attends classes there. “It’s something we were not expecting. We regard them (the students) as our children.”

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