Memorandum: FNB stop racism now!
We come here today for the second time. Black First Land First (BLF) had asked for a meeting with the CEO of FNB, one Jacques Celliers, two weeks ago. We arrived here to be met by the police and masses of security guards. Celliers had ran away. He disrespected us by sending a bunch of confused people to meet us. These people were so junior that they couldn’t even get a board room for a meeting. Celliers doesn’t take black people seriously.
Today we are back demanding justice for the FNB4 and for FNB to transform itself from being an agent of racism and white corruption, to serving the people. We come here the day before the 40th anniversary of the assassination of our father, Steve Biko, who was murdered by whites to keep the wealth and land in the hands of the white minority.
BLF is not surprised that FNB fired the four black bankers and then black listed them, so that they don’t get jobs anywhere in the financial sector. The four black bankers are victims of racism and the political agenda of regime change to keep South Africa in the hands of a white minority. This is the agenda of FNB.
What have the four brothers done? They only told the truth. It’s not a lie that Mmusi Maimane is married to a white woman and that he is driving a white agenda. It’s not a lie to say Maimane is an Uncle Tom. A stooge of Helen Zille who works to maintain the colonial status quo in the economic sphere. Why fire people for telling the truth in their own platforms? Is FNB promoting lies as a good thing?
The only reason the four were fired is because Jacques Celliers has continued the legacy of making FNB into a political arm of white monopoly capital. FNB is a rogue bank that promotes racism. FNB right now is facing cases of racism against black people for its discrimination when it comes to bonds. FNB is accused of making blacks pay more than whites for housing loans.