Racist ringtone sets off alarms in South Africa

A cell phone ring tone describing violence against black people is spreading from phone to phone in South Africa via Bluetooth, raising concerns in the post-apartheid country, reports Reuters Alert Net.

"The Cape Argus newspaper said the new ringtone featured a song about tying a black person to the back of a truck and setting dogs on him.

Lionel Louw, chief of staff for the Office of the Premier in the Western Cape, told the newspaper the ringtone should be condemned as out of step with South Africa's mutliracial democracy.

"The form of behaviour reflected in the ringtone is criminal and its perpetrators will feel the full might of the law," Louw was quoted as saying."

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