Nic Catzavelos believes his brother Adam “has racism within him”.
Four months before sharing his K-word video, Adam had used the very same word while relating a story of a robbery to Nic.
After a hiking incident where Adam was attacked, he referred to the black robbers as k@ff!rs.
However, Nic did not object to his boet using the word as he believed he was so worked up about the incident that, regardless of what he could have said, nothing would get through.
This was revealed by Nic during an interview on Radio 702’s Eusebius McKaiser show Monday.
The Catzavelos family came under attack after Adam’s video went viral.
He was fired from
the family business, St George’s Fine Foods, which lost major clients.
Speaking to McKaiser, Nic said he is embarrassed by his brother’s actions.
He said Adam had contacted him in a panic last Sunday, talking about the video that had gone viral.
“The first thing that occurred to me was ‘who the hell would be sitting on a beach in paradise making a video like this?’” said Nic.
“I realised this was going to blow up even though it had not yet reached mainstream media. I told him he is going to ride the storm.”
Asked whether he thought his brother was a racist, Nic said: “My brother is certainly not a white supremacist. My brother doesn’t sit and speak around race on a regular basis. To be quite honest, he’s not that interested politically.
“I think he doesn’t come from a family of hardcore racists. For me to say he is a racist unequivocally, I find that very hard. Although I would say that there is racism within him.”