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The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) are planning a picket outside a Cape Town pub at the centre of an alleged racist incident on Tuesday afternoon.
Thabiso Danca was allegedly told by a bouncer at Hank’s Olde Irish on Bree Street last week that he would not be allowed in unless accompanied by a white person.
A video of Danca’s friend confronting the owner has since gone viral on social media.
While Danca has filed a police complaint and intends to approach the South African Human Rights Commission, the EFF has confirmed that it is filing a racial discrimination case with the SAHRC and other relevant institutions.
Wandile Kasibe of the party stated that the incident was blatant racism, criminalization, and the reduction of black people to criminals and prisoners who must be constantly monitored.
The “racist utterances” indicated that it was “a whites-only pub where blacks are not welcomed” and are “characterised as thieves and troublemakers”, it said.
“The Western Cape has become the last bastion and safe haven for hardcore racists who still think that they are superior to blacks because of the lighter pigmentation of their skin… Racists have become emboldened and now have the audacity to tell black people where to go and not to go in a democratic dispensation.”
Today, EFF in Cape Metro will picket outside Hanks’ old Irish Pub in 110 Bree street, Cape Town.
This pub has told black customers that they will not be allowed through the doors unaccompanied by a white person.
Racism is violence and must be dealt with decisively #EndRacism pic.twitter.com/QPQLpn9GHn
— EFF_Cape_Metro (@EFF_Cape_Metro) December 6, 2022