Former Miss SA forces couple to apologise for ‘monkey’ slur
Former Miss SA Bokang Montjane-Tshabalala was so angry at a white couple for calling her “a monkey” that she blocked their car and forced them to apologise.
09/12/2011
The beautiful Bokang Montjane from Honeydew Ridge Johannesburg, is 24 years old and runs a modeling and confidence school in Auckland Park. She is also a member of Rhema Church.
Picture: Motshwari Mofokeng
The beauty queen says what had incensed her even more was that the incident took place on Human Rights Day, a day meant to remind people of South Africa’s turbulent past and subsequent democracy.
Bokang, who is married to soccer star Siphiwe Tshabalala, took to social media on Tuesday, and posted a photo of the couple.
She said she was driving from her salon when a couple in a car behind her lost their cool and allegedly started hurling racist insults and swearing at her.
“Early in the morning two individuals were driving behind me. The robot was open for us, but cars from the different direction were still crossing so the most logical thing is to wait and then pass. But no, not for this couple behind me, they started screaming and hooting,” she wrote on her Instagram account.
“I eventually crossed over and so did they, and I decided to move to the yellow lane and get out of the way and even let them pass cause clearly I was on the road with a bunch of idiots and I was like “what is wrong with you” and he screamed ‘YOU’RE A F**** N MONKEY, MONKEYS CAN’T DRIVE, F*** YOU,YOU MONKEY’ and he started making monkey sounds.”
Bokang followed, blocking the road with her car, and told the couple she won’t move until they say sorry, because “there was no way this black African was going to allow them get away with it”. IOL
