Two black men who killed four teenagers while allegedly drag racing in Soweto were expected to appear in the Protea Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.

The blacks, one of whom is a well-known hip hop artist, were racing down the road which runs between Protea Glen and Protea North when they smashed into four boys walking home from school with two other friends.

The teenagers, aged between 17 and 19, were killed on the scene when the two Mini Coopers collided.

Metro police spokeswoman Edna Mamonyane said: "It is a two-way street and one of the cars went into the other lane, driving in the lane of oncoming traffic, parallel to one another."

When a car came from the other direction, the driver tried to swerve back into the right lane and crashed into the Mini he was allegedly racing.

"They both drove onto the pavement and mowed down the four young  boys who were still in school uniform," Mamonyane said.

The two speedsters would face charges of culpable homicide and negligent and reckless driving.

Local ward councillor and Inkatha Freedom Party Soweto leader, Dlangezwa Mvelase, said the community was "very angry" over the death of the four boys.

"The law must deal accordingly with people who play silly games on the roads, killing innocent children," said Mvelase.

“The Minister of Police, Mr. Nathi Mthethwa’s remark at a conference of AgriSA, that the Police views farm murders merely as crime, confirms that the government is contemptuous with regards to farm murders. The Police are quick to view certain crimes, such as cash-in-transit robberies and the bombing of ATM machines, as priority crimes and then plan strong counter actions. Why are these crimes then also not just viewed merely as ordinary crime? The Minister and the government are shying away from farm murders, precisely because there is a strong element of anti-white acism involved,” Mr. Pieter Groenewald (MP), chief spokesperson on the Police for the Freedom Front Plus says.

“The cruelty with which especially farm murders are perpetrated is shocking. Farmers have their throats slit, tortured with boiling water, etc. Farmers in South Africa is the group amongst which the most murders take place, on average 313 in every 100 000 and then only thereafter law-enforcers, such as members of the Police, where the figure is 153 in every 100 000. The committee which investigated farm murders in 2003, found at the time already, that the chances of a victim of a farm attack being injured, is twice as more likely than the case would be in cash-in-transit robbery. The chance that a victim of a farm attack would die is three times as more likely than in the case of a cash-in-transit-heist. If the Police view cash-in-transit robberies as a priority, so much more should they view farm murders as a priority,” Groenewald said.

“The commando system was scrapped with the promise that there would be no vacuum in rural security. Sector policing was introduced, but is a failure. The Police suddenly from 2007 no longer keep separate records of farm murders and farm attacks. A report by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation into the reasons for the cruelty of violent crimes was completed last August but Mthethwa is not releasing the report. It is clear that the government has failed the farmers of South Africa ,” says Groenewald.

The Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on Wednesday postponed the crimen injuria case of four former University of the Free State (UFS) students to July for trial.

The four white Afrikaner students -- RC Malherbe, Johnny Roberts, Schalk van der Merwe and Danie Grobler -- are facing charges for humiliating five black workers at the university.

The students made a video of an initiation-type ceremony in 2007 while living at the university's now-closed Reitz men's residence.

The four women cleaners and a man, who participated voluntarily in the making of the video, are seen on their hands and knees eating food that had apparently been urinated on by a white student.

The students also express opposition to the university's integration policy in the video.

The video surfaced in 2008 and caused an international outcry, landing the UFS in a racial storm.

During the short court session, the state informed the court that representations made by the accused to the provincial office of the public prosecutor in Bloemfontein failed. It gave no reasons.

This was confirmed by the students' lawyer, Christo Dippenaar.

The matter was postponed to July 27 for a trial that is expected to take three days.

In contrast to protests during previous court appearances by the students, Wednesday's appearance went quietly without any protesters.

Using one's own culture to judge others is unconstitutional, President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.

Opening the National House of Traditional Leaders, Zuma used the opportunity to call for a debate on the "issue of a national moral code".

"I've said I'm going to initiate a national conversation on the moral code, on our values as a country," he said.

"We say we are united in diversity. That's what we say. We need to unpack the diversity. What do we mean when we say this.

"Scholars and many people have been interpreting us for decades;  our culture, our traditions. Some look down upon certain traditions of others," Zuma said.

"They use their own traditions and customs as a yardstick, as a standard to judge others, and we all keep quiet.

"And some of the traditions are being rubbished; called names, they're backward; and we keep quiet.

"I think we've been keeping quiet when colonialists changed everything that was our value into nothing, and I'm opening an opportunity for us to debate this matter nationally," he said.

The goal was to arrive at what would be the standard, so that "no clever person gives himself or herself a right and authority to judge others or impose his or her own religion or traditional beliefs".

"Each one of us must be respected. That's what our constitution says. No matter how you feel, some of us have very strong feelings about some of the things, but we respect the constitution, no matter how we feel.

"We cannot be expected, all the time, to be respectful to others  when others are not respectful to us and others," Zuma said.

He had thus decided there should be a national conversation.

"What is our interpretation of certain things? How should we handle one another? Who has a right to judge others more than others? Who gave that right to whoever? What is our view?"

Zuma said it should not be a political debate.

"I'm trying to make this not to be a political thing, don't be under any political organisation. I also want to move it away from government.

"I want it to be the nation, so that everybody has a right to air their views.

"It is about nation building. It is about redefinition of ourselves. Who are we? What are our values?

"I know that some clever commentators have commented already: 'Zuma is causing a problem for himself'. I don't think they understand me," he said.

"So, don't sit back... you must engage in the conversation so that we have this clear, we've got the same platform, we are able to say if you judge somebody, you are using this standard.

"For, there is no standard that is agreed. The constitution says there are diversities. It recognises this. And that we should respect cultures of others.

"No-one has a right, therefore, to use his or her own to judge others. It's unconstitutional if you do so."

He intended to launch the debate in the next few days and expected everyone to participate "to define an African in this country and a South African".

In South Africa, the expensive cars and lavish lifestyle of black politicians often make headlines. However, the small town of Eshowe in Kwazulu-Natal provice was abuzz last week with the news of two black VIPs crashing a Ferrari and Lamborghini into each other.

When a white, Mr. Tony Simpson, tried to take a photograph of the damaged vehicles, he was racially abused with the words: "What you want here, white man, you can't afford a car like this!"

A wedding ceremony held by a so-called "ANC family" - the ANC is South Africa's ruling party, receiving 65% of the votes - was held at the sports centre in Eshowe where the field was trashed with broken bottles and glasses. After the wedding Romeo Mbambo, owner of the yellow Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 and the driver of the Ferrari F430 decided to race one another along the main street, Kangella street..

Mbambo is a former assassin of the ANC's main rival in black politics, the Inkatha Freedom Party, who received amnesty from the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He and six other black men had been involved in 56 incidences of violence in which 100 people had been killed in the late eighties and early nineties. Nowadays he supplies protection services to VIPs in the coastal city of Durban.

The damage to the two Italian sports cars is estimated at R1 million (about $130 000), according to a spokesman for Lamborghini South Africa.

The flashy wedding in Eshowe, attended by ANC politicians, could have been mistaken for a luxury-car show with Mercedes coupés, Porsches, as well a brand-new Ferrari with temporary plates vying for attention in the parking lot.

Apparently Mbambo and his fellow racer were on their way to a nearby dam to take pictures of the bride and groom when their driving skills proved inadequate. The drivers of the two sports cars - with import duties worth about R4,7 million ($600 000) in South Africa - were unharmed but a lamppost was badly damaged, to the chagrin of the local taxpayers who would have to repair it.

Some of the white bystanders who wanted to take photos with their cellphones were smacked and assaulted while the black police on the scene simply looked on, doing nothing.

The police also had no official record of the accident, as Mbambo had said that "he would deal with it himself".