Sunday, April 27, 2025

January 5, 2016

Standard Bank Also Starts The Year Off With A PR Nightmare

Standard Bank are also experiencing a little racism problem that took place over Twitter...

Yesterday – and today – we lay down the Penny Sparrow saga along with the Jawitz nightmare that came with it, but did you hear about the Standard Bank issue? Gosh.

Moving from Facebook to Twitter, Chris Hart, Global Investment Strategist at Standard Bank Wealth and Investment used the platform to tell South Africans what he thinks:

Screen Shot 2016-01-05 at 8.31.02 AM

Eish. Standard Bank has suspended Chris pending an inquiry into his racist Twitter comments:

Screen Shot 2016-01-05 at 8.31.10 AM Screen Shot 2016-01-05 at 8.31.16 AM

Anyone else have anything to say?

[source: ewn]