- The EFF has vowed to close a Cape Town pub following an alleged racist incident.
- A video circulating on social media indicates that a black customer was refused entry to the pub.
- The EFF says it will report the incident to the South African Human Rights Commission.
The EFF has pledged to close a Cape Town pub where a racist incident allegedly took place.
The party said it would ensure the establishment would not operate until “the racist has paid the ultimate price”.
This follows a video on social media, showing a young white man confronting an older white man about being racist towards a black person in a downtown bar.
Video shows the man at a bar, holding signs displaying the name Hanks Olde Irish Pub, confronting a second man after the establishment’s bouncer reportedly tried to deny the black man entry, saying he needed be accompanied by a white person.
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The doorman reportedly said that the blacks needed to be accompanied, as they were “thieves and troublemakers”.
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“This is flagrant racism, criminalization, racial profiling, degradation and the reduction of black people to criminals and prisoners who must always be under surveillance,” the EFF said in a statement.
“This racism reveals the psychosis of many white racists who are still locked into a racist paradigm of white exclusivity and good old days of apartheid nostalgia.”
The EFF promised to open a racial discrimination case with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and called for the pub’s business license to be removed.
The “racist expressions” indicated that it was “a whites-only pub where blacks are not welcome” and are “characterized as thieves and troublemakers”, he said.
“The Western Cape has become the last stronghold and safe haven for hardcore racists who still think they are superior to blacks because of their lighter skin pigmentation… The racists have emboldened themselves and now have the audacity to tell black people where to go and not go in a democratic dispensation.”
