LISTEN: EFF lays racism charge after K-word rant
Updated | By Gaopalelwe Phalaetsile
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Gauteng has laid a charge of racism against businessman Adam Catzavelos at the Bramley Police Station in Johannesburg.
A video of Catzavelos calling black people the k-word at a beach in Greece went viral on social media on Tuesday night.
“We are not going to stand by and allow any white person feeling the privilege they have endured for over 376 years at our expense, we are not going to be tolerant of being called the k-word or any other name, we will not stand by while white people humiliate our people on a daily basis,” said the EFF Gauteng’s chairperson Mandisa Mashego.
Catzvaelo has since been dismissed from the St George’s Fine Foods family business.
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Several companies supplied by the St George's Fine Foods have also cut ties with the business.
“We found this video completely unacceptable and have with immediate effect terminated our business with St George’s Fine Goods,” said the Baron Group in a statement.
Mashego said police were initially reluctant to open a case.
“They will have to send us the case number expeditiously, they have to allocate an investigating officer, and if they don’t do that by this time tomorrow we will have to write a letter to the Minister of Police or the Commissioner of Police in Gauteng and demand those details. We have given them everything including his address, they must just go and arrest.”
She said if he is not arrested by 5 pm tomorrow the EFF will hold a picket outside the police station on Friday.
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