South Africa's universities are so rife with racism today that all students must, in future, study a compulsory course on 'Africanness'. This is one of the recommendations of a government investigation into discrimination which followed the emergence last year of a video of white undergraduate students from the University of the Free State who tricked black cleaners into drinking urine. As that case prepares to go to criminal court in the next fortnight on grounds of racial humiliation Dan McDougall and Robin Hammond gain the first access to the women left humiliated and left behind by the biggest race scandal in South Africa's post-apartheid history.

Shoulder to shoulder the white Afrikaan's teenagers sing as one. Right hands clutched to their broad chests, tears of nostalgia well up in their eyes:'On a mountain in the night we lie in the darkness and wait,' they boom. 'In the mud and blood I lie cold, grain bag and rain cling to me and my house and my farm burned to ashes, so that they could catch us. But those flames and that fire burn now deep, deep within me. De la Rey, De la Rey. Will you come to lead the Boers?'

Invisible as ghosts the elderly black \'Squeeza\'s or cleaners move in and silently fill the empty common room, the voices of the undergraduates still hanging in the air. Clearing greasy plates, mopping floors and dusting long rows of faded sepia portraits of varsity sons in the JBM Hertzog Residence they work in hushed silence. The faces of other young men, graduates from the last century, stare down on the township women with Aryan frowns. Sharp blonde side-sheds, wire frame glasses, cold green eyes. Masters of a former universe. The architects and enforcers of Apartheid rule.