CEO forced to resign after racist Facebook comment
A Middelburg businessman has been forced to resign as CEO of his company after a racist rant on Facebook over the weekend.
Pieter Hattingh, the erstwhile CEO of Hattech, made denigrating comments in a Facebook post about a farm attack.
He commented: “Voken Kaffers!!!!!”
Speaking to News24 on Tuesday, Hattingh said that he was an idiot.
“It was a stupid of me to say and I was wrong and I am very remorseful. I was an idiot. I feel super stupid about this. I resigned this morning and my life is gone. I am not a racist,” he said.
“There was a farm murder where two old people were badly injured and I don’t know what I was thinking,” he added.
His brother, Louis Hattingh, a listed director of Hattech, said that the business did not share the former CEO’s ideas on race relations.
“From a business perspective, we do not condone those comments. We have requested that he resign as CEO and he did so this morning.”
