"STOP feeling sorry because you are black!! Because it won't help. Do something positive!!"
This is the message a couple from Wedela on the West Rand found in a box of pizza.
Sello Mogale and his wife Rebecca said they even were more shocked when they confronted the owner of the pizza shop, who admitted having put the "rubbish" and lots of salt in the pizza.
Snowlane Pizza owner André van Tonder refused to comment when approached by Sowetan.
Police at Carletonville said they were investigating the incident.
The Mogale family's horror started on Saturday morning after Rebecca asked her husband to buy her a pizza.
Mogale said he went to Snowlane Pizza and paid for the pizza. He then went to another shop and returned later to find out when the pizza would be ready.
"The shop owner, Van Tonder, shouted at me and asked if I knew how long it took. I said I didn't know because I don't buy pizzas there," Mogale said.
When his wife Rebecca tasted the pizza afterwards, she complained that it was sour, contained chilli and was too salty.
"I threw the piece away and took another one, only to discover that they all tasted the same," Rebecca said.
She said when they got home she gave the rest of the pizza to her son.
Rebecca said her son asked her why they had agreed to eat a pizza that carried an offensive message in the box.
She said they returned to the shop and asked Van Tonder why he had written such a message in the pizza box and why the pizza tasted so badly.
"He told me that he put rubbish and extra salt in the pizza and that he had nothing against me but had an issue with my husband. He was not apologetic and you could see that it was not the first time he had done this," Rebecca complained.
She said while she argued with Van Tonder her husband went to the police but was not helped.
Rebecca said Van Tonder told her that she was also free to go to the police.
She said when she went to the police to find out why they did not help her husband she was told that Mogale had not explained the matter clearly to them.
Rebecca said an officer advised them to go to the equality court on Monday. They did but were not helped.
Police spokesperson Sergeant Busi Menoe said police would contact the Mogales and probe the conduct of the officer on that day.
Racism in a box of pizza
"STOP feeling sorry because you are black!! Because it won't help. Do something positive!!"
This is the message a couple from Wedela on the West Rand found in a box of pizza.
Sello Mogale and his wife Rebecca said they even were more shocked when they confronted the owner of the pizza shop, who admitted having put the "rubbish" and lots of salt in the pizza.
Snowlane Pizza owner André van Tonder refused to comment when approached by Sowetan.
Police at Carletonville said they were investigating the incident.
The Mogale family's horror started on Saturday morning after Rebecca asked her husband to buy her a pizza.
Mogale said he went to Snowlane Pizza and paid for the pizza. He then went to another shop and returned later to find out when the pizza would be ready.
"The shop owner, Van Tonder, shouted at me and asked if I knew how long it took. I said I didn't know because I don't buy pizzas there," Mogale said.
When his wife Rebecca tasted the pizza afterwards, she complained that it was sour, contained chilli and was too salty.
"I threw the piece away and took another one, only to discover that they all tasted the same," Rebecca said.
She said when they got home she gave the rest of the pizza to her son.
Rebecca said her son asked her why they had agreed to eat a pizza that carried an offensive message in the box.
She said they returned to the shop and asked Van Tonder why he had written such a message in the pizza box and why the pizza tasted so badly.
"He told me that he put rubbish and extra salt in the pizza and that he had nothing against me but had an issue with my husband. He was not apologetic and you could see that it was not the first time he had done this," Rebecca complained.
She said while she argued with Van Tonder her husband went to the police but was not helped.
Rebecca said Van Tonder told her that she was also free to go to the police.
She said when she went to the police to find out why they did not help her husband she was told that Mogale had not explained the matter clearly to them.
Rebecca said an officer advised them to go to the equality court on Monday. They did but were not helped.
Police spokesperson Sergeant Busi Menoe said police would contact the Mogales and probe the conduct of the officer on that day.
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