A South African Campus Wrestles With the Legacy of Apartheid

It was all just a "harmless" prank, never intended to hurt anyone, the students say.

Sitting around a table on the lawn of Reitz Hall, their residence complex on the campus of the University of the Free State, Willie Struwig and Jan Botha, both third-year students, try to explain their bewilderment at the waves of outrage that have swept this campus lately, ever since video footage of white students humiliating the hall's black cleaning staff found its way from the privacy of

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