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FIRST TAKE | Stellenbosch University should not treat this latest barbaric act as an isolated incident, but investigate the institutional culture that allowed it to happen, writes AdriaanBasson.

Stellenbosch University should not treat this latest barbaric act as an isolated incident, but investigate the institutional culture that allowed it to happen,Twenty-two years ago, I was working as a reporter for Die Matie, the student newspaper of Stellenbosch University. Our big story of the year, which led to us appearing before the university's so-called"media council", was about an initiation scandal in a men's residence, called Huis Marais.

This was 2000 and I remember speaking to young men who were frightened out of their minds about what they had to endure in the name of"culture and tradition". I vividly remember the one"tradition" these 18-year-old kids were made to endure: getting down on their knees and looking down while seniors urinated in front of them.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month.

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