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****** Treatment at Flight BA6241 (JHB-PE)
Today, 16 September 2018, I flew British Airways (flight BA 6241) which departed from OR Tambo International Airport at 11:10 am and landed in Port Elizabeth at 12:50 noon...I set at seat number 16E while a white male set at 16D on my left hand side and a white female set at 16F on my right hand side ... a white female air hostess named BIANCA who was serving us a light meal ? chose to serve a white male on my left first and then followed by a white female on my right completely ignoring me in the middle ... she then came to me last and I felt so offended by this when she skipped me to serve a white female on my right...when it was my turn to be served, I then asked her why did she skip me? Her response was, "I used eye contact to determine who I should serve first..."(really???). This made me more furious, especially that prior to this happening to me I once heard allegations that British Airways staff, in particular, between Johannesburg, Durban, PE and Cape Town have such ****** tendencies...10 minutes before landing, a senior female to BIANCA asks me, "Mr Gama how can we make your flying British Airways better?" ... and I'm like the flight is landing in 10 minutes ma'am can we talk once we've landed...on alighting that flight, I then met her at the front exit of the flight for talking and all she tells me is that BIANCA wasn't wrong for doing what she did and that she'll include the incident in her flight report...(that's it!her solution to the problem)...no hearing what actually transpired from both sides, nothing...now my conclusion is that as black South Africans, we remain treated like nonentities (pariahs in the land of our birth) in our own country and some who oppressed us during apartheid aren't sorry about the manner in which they treated us before 27 April 1994...Sometimes I get a sense that some white people in this country forever want us to understand them without them changing their attitudes towards us and some have a sense of entitlement to forgiveness for the evil of apartheid...and this really brings me to the issue of land and its expropriation without compensation because indeed THE LAND IS OURS...Mabawuyeke umhlaba wethu.
