Controversial University of the Free State Rector Jonathan Jansen has indicated he will not step down from his post over his decision to allow former students to return to the institution after making a racist video.

He is facing an avalanche of calls to resign after he agreed to enter into restorative justice talks with the so-called Reitz Four.

The former students coerced black cleaning staff into making video in which the employees took part in several initiation tasks, including eating meat which had apparently been urinated on.

Jansen says talks with the victims about dropping disciplinary charges against the four will begin on Wednesday but hundreds of angry protestors who gathered at the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on Monday said that was simply not good enough.

Some demonstrators also said the rector was condoning racism by dropping the internal disciplinary charges.

They threatened violent protests at the Bloemfontein campus if he did not step down, But Jansen seems undeterred by the calls and says consultation with the Reitz four victims will start on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the four former students will be back in the dock in February next year.

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