A video showing a white man in a bakkie knocking down a black pizza delivery man on a motorcycle after he called him “a one pizza k****r”, amongst other things, is doing the rounds on social media.
The video was posted on Facebook and appears to be from cellphone footage and was posted to Facebook. Where exactly the incident happened is not known, but the man alludes to a university‚ but does not name it.
TimesLive reports that Famous Brands‚ which owns Debonairs Pizza‚ confirmed that‚ based on the Facebook footage available‚ the scooter delivery driver in the video was a Debonairs Pizza employee.
“Management is currently communicating with its extensive Debonairs Pizza franchise network to ascertain the health of the employee following the accident‚ and establish exactly where the incident took place.
“Management is outraged by this incident and condemns any form of racist behaviour in the strongest terms.
“As soon as the facts have been finalised our franchisee will lay the appropriate criminal charges against the driver of the motor vehicle‚” the company said.
