'Don't judge me on a 22-second video' asks Adam Catzavelos
Adam Catzavelos has asked South Africans not to judge him based on the 22-second video in which he referred to black people by using the k-word.
He was convicted of crimen injuria by the Randburg Magistrates Court in 2019 after a video that he filmed went viral and caused a nationwide outcry.
Catzavelos was on holiday on a Greek island when he filmed the video in 2018 and in which he celebrated that there were no black people on the beach.
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Catzavelos returned to the court on Thursday morning, where he testified in mitigation of his sentence.
"Once again I'm not making excuses for what I did, it was horrendous and the most disgusting thing I have ever done in my life. But all I can ask South Africa is not to judge me on a 22-second video I did then and look at my actions now, look what I am doing now in my life. Let's not look at the past on what I did do, surely my actions now speak louder than what I did then," he told the court.
Last year, Catzavelos reached a settlement with the South African Human Rights Commission to pay a fine of R150,000.
He was also ordered to do 160 hours of community service at the Seth Mazibuko Legacy Foundation in Orlando.