Despite a personal apology from the manager and an invitation to return to one of South Africa’s leading luxury hotels, Tumi Mpofu isn’t interested in a free meal.<\/p>\n
Mpofu and her family claim staff at The Twelve Apostles Hotel and Spa in Camps Bay, Cape Town, were racist towards them.<\/p>\n
“I’m not concerned about going back. I’m just interested that people shouldn’t be treated like this,” she said yesterday.<\/p>\n
On December 27, Mpofu’s father phoned to book a table at the hotel’s Azure Restaurant. When he was told they couldn’t accommodate a table of six, the family called a white friend, Martina Dahlmanns, for help.<\/p>\n
Dahlmanns immediately got a table. But when the family arrived, they were told the booking didn’t exist. Again, the family called Dahlmanns, who spoke to the restaurant and a table was found. She later posted a blog about the incident.<\/p>\n
The hotel said yesterday that during peak season “numerous challenges occur due to overbookings, lack of confirmations of bookings, last-minute cancellations, unscheduled arrivals or erroneous bookings”.<\/p>\n
It “strongly refused to accept being branded as a racist hotel”.<\/p>\n
Mpofu said she was made to feel uncomfortable throughout her party’ s visit.<\/p>\n
“From the minute we arrived we were stared at as if we were lost. We were treated like some kind of aliens.”<\/p>\n
Her father, Mlamli Papu, said the waiter who dealt with them was very rude.<\/p>\n
Source: timeslive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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