‘They must come out and clear my name’

THE man who was wrongly implicated in the Sandton sex video scandal has pleaded with the company who employed the pair in the video to come forward and take responsibility for the incident.

The #SandtonSex video, as it became notoriously known, trended on Twitter sparking widespread conversations, debates and even spurred similar hashtags including #sexintheoffice and #SandtonChallenge.

Shot in the evening, apparently sometime last week – from a next door building – the video shows a man and a woman in flagrante. The man is naked with his back to the camera and the woman is in a yellow dress.

While the Twitterverse expressed delight, fake shock and ribald commentary at the video, it’s no laughing matter for Zahed Sibda, the father of two children, who was incorrectly identified by a reckless social media user who posted his photo and contact details to Twitter.

Amidst the aftermath of the viral footage, Sibda, the managing director of Fieldstone Private Capital is urging the company below his offices, where the actual assignation occurred, to come forward.

“This company is remaining silent but they should do the right and honourable thing and come forward and tell the public that me or my company are not involved.

“They are protecting their reputation at the expense of mine and my company’s but they must be held accountable for the actions of their employees,” said Sibda.

He understands why the actual couple in the sex romp don’t want to reveal their identities.

“I don’t suggest they disclose their identities because I don’t want them to go through what I have been going through.”

The businessman, however, advises them to work with a firm to release a statement anonymously with the purpose of declaring he is not the man in the video.

Despite the gruelling week that Sibda has experienced, he is grateful for those who have supported him through his ordeal.

“I am thankful for the support of my family, friends, clients and the public who have been there for me.”

He also plans to hunt down the person who first posted his picture and sue them.

Fieldstone has also vowed to stand by its MD and in a statement released last week, condemned the posting of the video and subsequent wrongful identification of Sibda and the firm.

Meanwhile, Katherine & West Body Corporate, which owns the office block, Fieldstone and the unnamed company that apparently employed the amorous staffers, has since moved hard to distance itself from the matter, saying it had no control over the behaviour of staff working for other companies. |