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Prof Jansen must go – Cosatu

Nov 21, 2009 5:00 PM | By Sapa

More than 300 Cosatu affiliates marched through the Bloemfontein city centre and handed over a memorandum to the Department of Higher Education over the Reitz saga.


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Jonathan Jansen, vice-chancellor and rector of the University of the Free State.
Jonathan Jansen, vice-chancellor and rector of the University of the Free State.
Photograph by: KEVIN SUTHERLAND

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"Professor Jansen must just go. He will never help us transform that university," provincial secretary Sam Mashinini said.

Mashinini said they were prepared to intensify their actions to ensure that "Jansen goes".

He said they were angered that University of Free State rector Professor Jonathan Jansen dropped the charges against the Reitz four "before justice was done."

The four studying at the university filmed an initiation of five black staff members in 2007. The employees, four women and a man, were seen on their hands and knees eating food which had apparently been urinated into by a white student.

The students’ lawyer Christo Dippenaar was quoted by the Volksblad as saying the students could not apologise for what they had done before they had received indemnity from prosecution. An apology now would amount to an admission of guilt, which would lead to a guilty verdict.

Dippenaar suggested the matter be solved through alternate means.

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Nov 21 2009 05:11:03 PM
samurai14
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We cant always get what we want, they need to get over this whole racism crap....move on....or go back to the paleolithic period...
Nov 21 2009 05:11:10 PM
Tackler
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Get over it, Cosatu cry-babies! He forgave 4 silly youngsters for pulling a harmless prank. Big deal! Why not admit you've got it in for Jansen because he's coloured and not black?
Nov 21 2009 05:12:58 PM
august rain
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//I do so love an alliance fight.

//Divides the alliance and weakens the ANC and ANCYL

//Obviously the Prof is not black enough.

//Clearly the alliance is not speaking with one voice that indicates the ship is sinking.

//The rats (ANCYL) have already jumped of the sinking ship by backtracking on the issue.
Nov 21 2009 05:13:43 PM
Mommacyndi
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Isn't Cosatu supposed to be a union representative?

Isn't the mine deaths supposed to be something that Cosatu is paid to worry about? Isn't the police housing scandal something Cosatu is paid to worry about?

There is a long list of stuff that Cosatu is SUPPOSED to sort out but it seems like political posturing is far more of a priority for them. They don't seem to give a tinkers toss about looking after the poor saps they leach off of.
Nov 21 2009 05:16:50 PM
Baboon with Lipstick
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Prof Jansen I am sure you are a good person and your intentions on Reitz 4 issue were well intended, even though now this is abused to frustrate your efforts.

I am wondering why with your qualifications do you want to struggle for a dead cause and be dictated to by a mob of illeteras who can not appreciate or understand what good ppl like you are trying to achieve for SA?

Why don't you circulate your cv to respected academic world institutions who will appreciate your output/skills? Is being patriotic more important to you than your piece of mind (sanity)? Surely you do not need this and you can do and deserve so much better than this?

you have my best wishes always in whatever you decide.
Nov 21 2009 05:22:49 PM
mbongwam
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The students’ lawyer Christo Dippenaar was quoted by the Volksblad as saying the students could not apologise

*** you see what i mean by whites they dont care about blacs as they look as us as nothing. this white man see no reason why must his clients apologise to black person.
Nov 21 2009 05:25:48 PM
samurai14
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And you see the white man as a parasite, so how is it different, how is it okay for you to view the white man as rubbish but the white man has to beg at your feet....up yours, hope they never apologize.....
Nov 21 2009 05:28:33 PM
Mommacyndi
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Nov 21 2009 05:22:49 PM
mbongwam

Why could they 'not apologise' ?
Nov 21 2009 05:30:06 PM
mbongwam
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Jansen must go finish and klaar this guy betray us as african people.
Nov 21 2009 05:34:24 PM
Tackler
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Jansen betrayed nobody. He saw a harmless prank in the proper perspective. African people are trying to blow it up into something huge, merely to vent their hatred of the white minority.


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