By Monday morning, almost every South African had heard about or seen some of the shocking videos showing the violence as fans invaded the pitch at the Moses Mabhida Stadium. While property was damaged, one female security guard was left in a terrible condition after being surrounded and beaten by a group of men.

The reaction from people has been obvious: Both anger and worry for that security guard. While the anger is normal, South African actor Rajesh Gopie showed his own disgusting true colours as he took to Facebook.

IOL spotted the post and reports how Gopie quickly deleted it after being asked for comment by journalists. The language in the post didn’t even draw a debate, it was so blatantly racist.

Gopie wrote: “Yah, and the Baboons like soccer too much so they want to play with human heads.”

Former eThekwini Municipality councillor Eunice David even called on Gopie to remove the post.

“I think you should retract it and apologise for using that word. Eish man, we have so much going on. We don’t need this from a leading personality in the Indian community. That word is most definitely offensive. Penny Sparrow paid dearly for that, remember”.

The president of the South African Hindu Maha Sabha, Ashwin Trkamjee, also described the racist post to IOL as “unforgivable.”

“He deserves to be charged like anybody else. It is blatantly racist. It is unforgivable to think that someone could still say something like this 24 years after 1994. He must face the full wrath of the law and be punished, like everyone else,” he said.

When journalists contacted Gopie about his post, he stated that he would be deleting the post and not commenting on the issue further. He later admitted that video of supporters beating a guard had made him “enraged”.

The post was deleted but new photos of the incident were soon posted. Gopie’s caption? “Yah, I rest my case.”