The “racial incident” in which a student from a prominent South African university near Cape Town urinated on a fellow student’s things has sparked national outrage and condemnation. On early Sunday, a white student allegedly broke into a black student’s room in SU’s dorm and urinated on his stuff, claiming that this is what white boys do to blacks. After a cell phone video of the incident was released to the public and publicised by local media outlets, the alleged perpetrator was suspended from the institution on Monday. The South African Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, Science and Innovation condemned the “act of racism and discrimination” in the video on Tuesday.

Its statement also called upon the university’s management, Student Representative Council and student community to forge alliances to build a “non-racial and inclusive institution.” University’s management, South African Student Congress, and social media users condemned the incident, and many students of different races held a protest at the university on Monday. SU, established in 1859 as a seminary and became a university in 1918, is historically a university for white students. In the 2021 academic year, 54.4 per cent of its students were white, and 22.5 per cent were black, official data showed.

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