If there was gain, there was pain too for students on the UFS leadership programme.
It was a challenging week for University of the Free State students visiting New York.
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/ 27 September 2011
The <i>M&G</i> has accompanied 116 UFS students to the US on a new leadership programme introduced after the notorious Reitz residence video.
Vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen encourages UFS students to try the unexpected ahead of their overseas trip.
The South African Students’ Congress (Sasco) has taken legal action against the UFS for allegedly ‘banning’ political activity on campus.
The sentences of the so-called Reitz Four have been reduced by the Bloemfontein High Court, it was reported on Friday.
Judgment was reserved on Monday in an appeal by the Reitz Four against their sentences.
The victims of the 2008 racist video produced by four students of the University of the Free State are to start their own company.
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/ 26 February 2011
The so-called Reitz Four video incident at the University of the Free State which led to a national outcry against racism has been forgiven.
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/ 21 February 2011
The Equality Court matter between the "Reitz Four" students and the University of the Free State (UFS) workers has been settled out of court.
The Reitz Four were on Tuesday granted leave to appeal their sentence in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court.
The four former University of the Free State students known as the "Reitz Four" will appeal their sentencing, their lawyer said on Monday.
Some who have become accustomed to thinking of Africans as people who do menial jobs and live in subhuman conditions are not outraged.
A second initiation video has surfaced at the University of the Free State, this time with white students as the "victims".
The four former University of Free State students known as the "Reitz Four" have each been sentenced to a R20 000 fine or 12 months imprisonment.
<b>Vuvu Vena</b> spoke to two of the four workers at Free State University’s Reitz hostel on Wednesday — the second day of the trial.
Sentencing in the criminal trial of the Reitz Four has been set for Friday 9am in Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court.
The Reitz Four on Wednesday faced a fine in court after pleading guilty to crimen injuria.
Bloemfontein’s chief magistrate Mziwonke Hinxa on Monday found the Reitz Four guilty of crimen injuria after they entered a guilty plea.
The DA on Tuesday said it would drop the hate speech charge against Free State ANC Youth League leader Thabo Meeko as he had shown remorse.
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/ 24 February 2010
The Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday postponed the crimen injuria case of four former UFS students to July for trial.
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/ 23 February 2010
Five UFS workers filmed in a racist student video are not interested in restorative justice, but want criminal proceedings to continue.
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/ 26 January 2010
Two of the former "Reitz Four", who could have continued with their studies at the University of the Free State this year, have not registered.
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/ 20 November 2009
Jonathan Jansen’s method of dealing with the Reitz four does not adequately address ingrained notions of prejudice, argues academic John Sharp.
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/ 26 October 2009
The Bloemfontein Regional Court has postponed the crimen injuria case of the so-called Reitz Four to February 2010.
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/ 22 October 2009
Support for the UFS’s decision to drop charges against the Reitz Four outweighed the negative reaction, rector Jonathan Jansen said on Thursday.