defence lawyer Kemp J Kemp

She says the long-awaited trial of the four former students - RC Malherbe, Johnny Roberts, Schalk van der Merwe and Danie Grobler - has attracted widespread media

attention.
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Pumza Fihlani BBC News, Johannesburg

South Africa's different racial and cultural groups usually live in harmony with each other.

However, while they mix daily in the workplace, at school and sometimes to socialise, they generally lead separate lives.

The World Cup showed that South Africans can unite behind a single cause, but racism is still a sensitive subject here.

It only takes one racially charged incident to drive people to align with those of their own skin colour.

Nelson Mandela's "rainbow nation" has not yet been realised.

This is not least because defence lawyer Kemp J Kemp represented President Jacob Zuma in a rape case four years ago, our reporter says. Mr Zuma was acquitted.

In a statement read out by their lawyer, the men said that the video had been made to demonstrate the traditions of their hall of residence and to protest at plans to

make the university more racially mixed.

They said the food had not been urinated on - that had been an illusion.

They also claim the staff had taken part willingly.

But the men agreed that they would never have performed their actions if they had known the consequences.

In the video, apparently filmed in 2007, the four women and a man were forced to drink full bottles of beer and perform athletic tasks.

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