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Jabu M

1 reviews | Active since Oct 2013

14 Mar 2023, 07:45

discriminated against

I stay at Centurion Eco Park Estate & Friday 10/03/2023 my girlfriend and I had to leave for KZN and were rushing for a bus in Bosman station Pretoria. We were appalled by the disgusting prejudice & undermining behaviour from the security guard that was on duty around 6pm at gate 1. We had luggage with us and could not use a pedestrian gate & normally there’s another gate that’s opened for us even when we have groceries. This security guard could see us coming and was just standing by the wall a distance from the gate. So, we got there & greeted him. He didn’t even respond to our greeting but rudely said are you visitors? He even looked at us with disgust and had attitude. In shock we responded and said to him no. He didn’t move from the wall, and he gave us instructions from where he was standing in a language that we don’t even understand and he kept communicating to us in a language even though we were speaking in English. We believe that he only treated us in that manner because we are young black females. We’ve never experience such ********** treatment and it was our first since we moved in more than a year ago. He asked us to scan our fingers and I did so first and moved to the side for my girlfriend to do the same. She struggled to successfully do so and he started shouting at us saying we must push the gate so it works. Eventually we got out after a long delayed and I said to my girlfriend that it’s the first time we had to do that, and he shouted back at us and said he’s doing his job. That annoyed me as no one disputed that he was doing his job but I’m sure his job is not to shout at tenants & treat them as if they beneath him. If he had performed him duties with respect & professionally, we wouldn’t have had an issue. We would like this matter to be addressed so that we do not have to go through such unnecessary embarrassment & abuse of power/authority again.

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