if it was your mother you would have been offended

Wow, typical Youtube cameo. Looks like a party enjoyed by all? A lot less dramatic and insulting than a Leon Schuster movie.

I see no force, no undue pressure exerted on the participants, and, arguably up to a point, no disrespect shown to the participants. In fact, I see a happy bunch of people all too willing to engage in a student prank that involves the free use of liquor. Clearly the comments ahnd denials made by the participants afterwards only followed once COSATU's spin-doctors had taken control of them. (Note, they are not allowed to speak to the media themselves.) The only truly negative twist is towards the end in that obvious scene - which the students later claimed was acted with a plastic water bottle, not for real. Even so, that was disrespectful, ill-advised and unnecessary, but not criminal. Juvenile if anything. And remember the context. They are students busy with a student prank, and they come from politically conservtaive, privileged backgrounds most likely. It seems to me their only real sin was to comment in satirical style albeit rather crudely on forced racial integration. On the question if I would be offended if it were my mother: well, my mother would never have allowed herself to be cajoled into such a silly spectacle for a free bottle of beer in the first place. It also seems to me those making the biggest circus out of this, as also with, e.g. the case of athlete Semenya, are the ones who can least afford to point fingers: they, and we all know who they are, have been guilty of far worse things and get away with it every time. I think the Reitz boys should have been given a stern lecture, a spell of University administered community service with the aim of exposing them to the positive side of integration, and a little "re-education" to undo the apartheid mindset within which they were brought up - no fault of their own. They are being crucified for a skewered cause. Racism is despicable and should be rooted out wherever it is found, but not in this witch-hunting way.