Outrage over J&B Met tweet after Simba Mhere death

First all Rest in Peace Simba Mhere. Sat next to him in the plane 2 years ago when I went down for the Durban July, what a pleasure it was to chat to him, amazing guy.

Outrage over J&B Met tweet after Simba Mhere death




Cape Town – In a tacky, trashy display of insensitivity the J&B Met 2015 asked people to “enjoy” today’s annual Cape Town horseracing event following the death of Top Billing presenter Simba Mhere.
Following a barrage of criticism on social media over the callous self-promotion after the death of the TV presenter early this morning, J&B Met 2015 finally relented with an apology.
Mhere died on Saturday morning – and not “last night” as the J&B Met 2015 tweeted – in a horrific car crash.

After an avalanche of criticism on social media, the J&B Met 2015 finally apologised on Twitter, saying "We the J&B would like to apologise on the insensitivity of our previous tweet. We are rectifying the situation from our side and once again we sincerely apologise for the remark".

*smh* poor judgement "@JBScotchSA: We as J&B would like to apologise on the insensitivity of our previous tweet. pic.twitter.com/RT7jXBbAIl"
— IG: Senzo N. Dhlomo (@SenzoDhlomo) January 31, 2015

The damage, however, was done.
"Pity you had to be tweeted, told there is a screengrab, and told to apologise. Hope you shun the callous person responsible," said commentator Eusebius McKaiser.
Several celebrities left the J&B Metearly and several were complete no-shows as news about Mhere's death spread. He was on his way to the Oliver Thambo International Airport to fly to the event in Cape Town.
The Top Billing crew also left the J&B Met, with Mhere's death which became the number one topic of conversation under the remaining socialites.
- Channel24
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poor show

so sorry to hear this, may he RIP. What a loss.

Rip very sad

RIP

was a storm in a tea cup.

still don't know who Simba is or why i would think of him while enjoying the Met.

RIP.

To be honest nothing out of line with the tweet. The word used " devastated " in the first instance shows how much of regret and disbelief the sad news was received with.

The next words of keeping the deceased's parents in the thoughts while enjoying the Met shows a degree of concern for the family members. However as they say the show must go on and I am pretty sure that late Simba would have felt the same way.

To those who had no contact previously or ever heard of the late Simba, he was a Zimbabwean born north of the Limpopo who was selected as a presenter on the glitzy show Top Billing which features on Sabc3 at 8.30 on Thursdays.

He became very popular on the show and am sure he will be missed by his legion of fans in S.A.

mikesack wrote: RIP.

To be honest nothing out of line with the tweet. The word used " devastated " in the first instance shows how much of regret and disbelief the sad news was received with.

The next words of keeping the deceased's parents in the thoughts while enjoying the Met shows a degree of concern for the family members. However as they say the show must go on and I am pretty sure that late Simba would have felt the same way.

To those who had no contact previously or ever heard of the late Simba, he was a Zimbabwean born north of the Limpopo who was selected as a presenter on the glitzy show Top Billing which features on Sabc3 at 8.30 on Thursdays.

He became very popular on the show and am sure he will be missed by his legion of fans in S.A.

Agree 100% with these sentiments .............. the world has gone mad with finding any excuse to be offended.............it was tragic but FFS, life goes on for the rest of the world.
I am trying to understand what they apologising for?

They have jumped on the back of a trending topic

God save the queen ,RIP

Please come to the MET