11 July 2013 - Incident at Big Bay Post Office Seaside Village (Cape Town). My husband (European) and I (South African Indian) had just walked into the Post Office, when a middle aged Afrikaans man (Surname: Hicks) passed comments for no reason ("this is still apartheid! ") and threathened us with physical violence. We walked out of the store and called security. When we came back with the security and confronted the man inside the store, Post Office manager Manie Van Der Merwe intervened and asked security to escort us out stating that it was not his problem that this man was a and he didnt care about resolving the situation even though we were customers as well (of different ethnic group). He then continued servicing the man and he also aided the man to exit the store through a back entrance in order to avoid us and the security team waiting at the main entrance. When the security manager Samuel Titus approached Manie Van Der Merwe he acclaimed that we were making trouble for his customers and that he was not a because he had "blacks working for him". He did not even come out of the store to apologise or discuss anything. Is this a WHITES ONLY POST OFFICE?
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