EFF pickets outside Catzavelos residence
“WE JUST want to talk, come out, Adam. The sky is blue, the weather is nice, k ***** are all over the place.”
These were the words that Ekurhuleni EFF members shouted when they reached Adam Catzavelos’s Edenvale home yesterday.
They said they had “visited” the Catzavelos residence to send a message to him after a racist video in which he used the K-word to refer to black people.
“It is important for us to be here because we have seen racism a number of times raising its ugly head.
“We want to tell and show Adam and other whites that racism has no place in our democratic society,” said Fani Sibeko, the EFF’s Ekurhuleni PR Councillor.
He said they had received a tip-off from security guards in the area that Catzavelos was in the house, as they had seen him in the morning.
Despite the shouting and picketing at the gate, no one came out of the house nor was there sound or movement.
EFF members left placards at his gate with messages such as “Adam jou pink p***s”, “Our democracy has no space for racists like Adam” and “Adam where are you, go back to Greece you pig”.
A white neighbour, who declined to be named, expressed her solidarity with the party’s protest. “It is important for everyone to stand against racism and it’s no longer acceptable to just be quiet. I personally wouldn’t like to be around someone who is at a beach and that is their first thought. What a stupid thing to say,” she said.
On Wednesday, the EFF’s Gauteng branch opened a case against Catzavelos at the Bramley police station.
“The case was registered in Bramley but the matter occurred in Greece,” said national police spokesperson Colonel Brenda Muridili. “It will be taken from the police station level to provincial, then head office and then Interpol, who will then liaise with Greece and from that point on, more investigations will be done based on Greece’s findings.”