The apology I got after racist incident wasn't enough. We need change, says Bokang Montjane

Former Miss South Africa Bokang Montjane-Tshabalala, says that public figures such as herself need to fight the good fight and not just speak about it.

She was speaking in light of a recent racist incident that took place where she says she was called a monkey.

Speaking to radio personality DJ Sbu on his breakfast show, the DJ Sbu Breakfast, she says the recent racist incident took place on Hendrik Potgieter road near Clearwater Mall.

“They just got impatient, I was waiting for other cars to pass and even moved to the yellow lane so they could pass and as they were passing that’s when they started the monkey talk – calling me a monkey and saying that monkeys can’t drive”.

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“I literally was just shocked at how easily it came out. How easily it was for the words to come out of their mouths. As black people we walk away because we are supposed to be forgiving and I thought ‘HELL NO!’ and ‘enough is enough’”.

Montjane-Tshabalala, who is married to soccer star Siphiwe Tshabalala, says that she told the couple to get out of the car and apologise to her.

“Everybody was hooting and yelling at them to get out and apologise to me. I wanted them to get out and be humiliated because enough is enough”.

While she says that she did get her apology, it wasn’t enough because it is the mind-set around it that needs to change.

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“I had people apologising on their behalf. I am still angry because so many people on social media started saying that it has happened to them before with people even saying that they had recently been called the k-word. People like me go around saying we are role models in this country but we don’t fight the real issues of this country. If you love your country, you will actually stand up and fight for it. And for me, I just thought about my son and these people will have kids one day, if they don’t already, and they will teach their kids to call my son a monkey and I can’t let that happen”.