'Racist set dog on me'

A Johannesberg woman has opened a case of intimidation against a man who allegedly set his dog on her at a pub because, he said, she had no right to be there because she was black.

While Phumelele Makelo, 35, was waiting for her two friends outside Maty's Pub and Grill in Weltevreden Park, she saw a group of white men in the restaurant staring at her. "One man whispered something to the dog while staring at me and then it charged, biting me on my foot," said Makelo. "When I told him that his dog had bitten me, he asked me, 'What is a black b**** doing in my pub anyway?' which completely shocked me.

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