Last updated: 30 july, 2010 - 15:41 GMT

Four white South Africans fined for making a racially abusive video

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Four white students in South Africa have been fined nearly $3000 each for making a video humiliating five black housekeepers at their university.

The video sparked protest in a country trying to recover from decades of racial division.

BBC Focus on Africa's Nomsa Maseko reports.

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