Fire Chris Hart or face boycott, ANCYL warns Standard Bank
Johannesburg - The ANC Youth League said on Thursday that it would call for a national boycott of Standard Bank if the company did not fire economist Chris Hart.
"Within its corporate corridors racism and apartheid is still alive," ANCYL Gauteng chairperson Matome Chiloane said during a march to the bank's headquarters in the Johannesburg CBD on Thursday.
He called on Standard Bank to make an example of Hart because South Africans were no longer willing to tolerate racism.
"We want him to get fired, because if they don't fire him, we are going to advise on an economic boycott. We are going to advise all Africans, in particular black people, that they must close their accounts with that bank because it is harbouring racists," Chiloane said.
Standard Bank suspended Hart on Monday after he tweeted on January 3: "More than 25 years after apartheid ended, the victims are increasing along with a sense of entitlement and hatred towards minorities."