One of the five University of Free State (UFS) cleaners involved in the Reitz racism saga said nobody had consulted them on a decision to invite the students back.

"We are not happy at all about hearing that those students will be admitted without us being told," Rebecca Adams told The Times newspaper in a report on Wednesday.

UFS rector Jonathan Jansen announced last week that two of the four students allegedly involved in shooting a racist video were welcome to return to campus to "advance reconciliation".

But criminal charges still stand against the students.

The Reitz hostel was the centre of a racial storm in February 2008, caused by a video of a mock initiation of five black staff members into hostel activities. In the video black university employees are seen on their hands and knees eating food which had apparently been urinated into by a white student.

Two of the four students dropped their studies at the university after the incident. The other two had graduated at the end of the previous year.

The accused ? RC Malherbe, Johnny Roberts, Schalk van der Merwe and Danie Grobler ? face charges of crimen injuria in the Bloemfontein Regional Court. The case is expected to start on October 26.