New York (CNN Business) Richard Branson apologized Tuesday morning after tweeting out a photo full of white people to announce the grand opening of his new Centre of Entrepreneurship in South Africa.

Since-deleted tweet image of Branson and his team announcing the grand opening of the Branson Centre for Entrepreneurship in South Africa on November 11, 2019.

"The Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship is for all South Africans, but yesterday's choice of a photo to go with my tweet clearly lacked diversity. Apologies," Branson tweeted on Tuesday along with a photo of him standing with two people of color and five other white people.

The Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship is for all South Africans, but yesterday's choice of a photo to go with my tweet clearly lacked diversity. Apologies. I hope you will take a look at my blog which does far better justice to the amazing work of the Centre and its team. — Richard Branson (@richardbranson) November 12, 2019

The 69-year-old Virgin Group founder and CEO shared the photo of his all-white South African entrepreneurship team counterparts early Monday morning before deleting it after Twitter users took him to task for it.

Later he posted other photos that included a more diverse group of people.

Richard Branson (center) poses with a team in Cape Town, South Africa following the launch of his new Centre for Entrepreneurship

"We aim to become the heart of entrepreneurship for Southern Africa," Branson stated in his original tweet , which included a photo of him standing with eight other white people in a Cape Town, South Africa, vineyard owned by Virgin.

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