Reitz 4 walk, "in the name of reconciliation"

Shocking that 15 years into our democracy, some can still commit such acts of ‘racism’ like the four students at the University of Free States, even more shocking when those actions against human dignity are pardoned in the name of reconciliation.
Four students from the University of Free States(known as the reitz 4) were charged, for making the cleaners, as part of a prank, eat food that had been urinated on, the whole incident was recorded on video. The new Vice Chancellor, Prof Jonathan Jansen, said that that “the issue of racism will not be resolved in the courts, unless we do something differently.” I fail to see how students who have not taken the initiatives themselves, towards a South Africa full of ‘sunshine and roses’ can be forgiven; they have not made public apologies nor have they shown remorse for their actions. Dropping the charges will not in any way heal the past, in actual fact it will be a case were issues facing South Africa are zigzagged around and not dealt with head on. Problem is, we are scared of actually admitting that the students were wrong in what they did, lord forbid people don’t do such things in the new South Africa. It is not only because they were white and the cleaners were black but because they did something that undermines a persons dignity.
Issues like this are the reason South Africa will not move on, because people are trying to hard not to be racist. In lecture theatres when issues involving politics, like Black Economic Empower are so approached with the delicately everybody trying really hard to be politically correct (an opinion piece for another time). If South Africa wishes to move on from the politically correct society we are living in, then pardoning people for transgressions in the name of reconciliation should be, dropping the charges will not change the mindset of the students.
http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/d3e7bc1a742241f9a4462c1a622a6659/21-10-2009-10-31/Punish,_then_forgive_Reitz_4