Last week the Stellenbosch University expelled a 19-year-old white student, Theuns du Doit, after it found him guilty of “contravening a number of the institution's disciplinary code for students including clauses 3.1, 9.1, 9.3, 13.1 and 13.2”.

It is a pity the record of the disciplinary hearing from the university remains inaccessible. Du Toit was found guilty of urinating on a black student’s learning materials. And, in the process, he was declared a racist...