A Cape Town estate agent has been fined after refusing to rent a property to a prospective tenant because of his race.

The Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority (PPRA) last week fined Gabriella Johnson 25,000 rands (670,000 naira).

In October, Pol Osei posted a copy of a WhatsApp conversation between himself and Johnson on social media in which the estate agent told him his application for accommodation had been declined because of his race.

Testifying before a PPRA committee, Osei said he responded to an advert for a rental property which bore Johnson’s details. He said the advert said nothing about a “race-specific tenant”.

He said on October 19, he contacted Johnson who promised to get back to him. Osei said the following day he received a message from Johnson telling him that he was “not eligible as the landlord was not keen on renting it out to people of colour/foreigners”.

Johnson pleaded not guilty. She told the hearing she had acted “as a concerned citizen when she assisted” Osei.

According to the PPRA, Johnson said she “knew the habits of/or desires of the landlord but the landlord had not given her such specific instructions” and “admitted that she had raised the issue of race”.

The fine issued by the PPRA is payable within 30 days. Johnson did not respond when approached for comment.

Osei said Johnson has got off lightly.

“I think a R25,000 (N670,000) fine for someone who earns a commission on property sales in Cape Town is a bit of slap on the wrist but I respect the ruling,” said Osei.

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...i hope he wins the case tho

SA been using Ghana to rub it anyhow..

GeneralPula:
SA been using Ghana to rub it anyhow..

GenerallyPoor, what's worse - white SA racism or 'xenophobia'? 😕😕😕

But Ghana's gonna feel 🔥 after that dodgy N312-billion MTN tax demand and cheating us in the Qatar world cup qualifiers.

WannaHowzit:


GenerallyPoor, what's worse - white SA racism or 'xenophobia'? 😕😕😕

But Ghana's gonna feel 🔥 after that dodgy N312 MTN tax demand and cheating us in the Qatar world cup qualifiers.

What is the diff?

Was it not recently a white SA killed a black boy because of mango saga?

Both are death instruments..

Sweet babe. But racist.

But me... I didnt rent any of my properties to flat heads. Very destructive in nature.

TheChameleon:
Sweet babe. But racist.

But me... I didnt rent any of my properties to flat heads. Very destructive in nature.

😂😂😂😂😂

I heard from their alcoholic GFs they bath in kitchen sinks in Hillbrow 😭😭😭

There is a terrible thing that I saw today that really got me in tears. I came across a pedophile that hijacked two little underage girls kept them in his 3 bedroom flat and got them both pregnant. An old man that is nearing his 50s caged two little girls that is not upto 17 years and keep getting them pregnant. I heard that he normally sell the babies and make profit. Please does anyone here know the right place or person I can lay this horrific act to?

TheChameleon:
Sweet babe. But racist.

But me... I didnt rent any of my properties to flat heads. Very destructive in nature.

So you are so tribalistic that you come on a South African thread to join them and insult your own fellow countrymen? How long before they get to you too? You think they care if you're Yoruba or Hausa?

LocalStandard1:


So you are so tribalistic that you come on a South African thread to join them and insult your own fellow countrymen? How long before they get to you too? You think they care if you're Yoruba or Hausa?

Yorubas behave themselves in most places you find them. They are almost ALWAYS high value immigrants.

The few criminal elements and they are less than 5% are found in UK and US. Never outside there.

95% of Igbos abroad are into crime full time. Deep down you, you know Igbos are responsible for at least 99% crime committed by Nigerians inside South Africa. Swear by Amadioha that I am wrong.

TheChameleon:


Yorubas behave themselves in most places you find them. They are almost ALWAYS high value immigrants.

The few criminal elements and they are less than 5% are found in UK and US. Never outside there.

95% of Igbos abroad are into crime full time. Deep down you, you know Igbos are responsible for at least 99% crime committed by Nigerians inside South Africa. Swear by Amadioha that I am wrong.

Nairaland is a Yoruba person's forum so crimes by his kinsmen go unreported, a person with half a brain can see the propaganda on the Igbos in Nairaland.

For your info I am not an Igbo but what do you have to say about this Yoruba international criminals?

Even your foremost Yoruba person, Tinubu, seeking the Presidential office today is a high level international criminal.

https://gazettengr.com/u-s-court-releases-certified-true-copies-of-bola-tinubus-drug-dealing-money-laundering-case-in-chicago/
https://www.nairaland.com/3587320/yoruba-brothers-kill-woman-baby

https://saharareporters.com/2022/04/01/uk-court-jails-adeyinka-grandson-%E2%80%98yoruba-supremacist%E2%80%99-over-attacks-igbo-fulani

https://www.thecable.ng/yoruba-intellectual-crimes-uk/amp

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/abiola-ayorinde-kayode

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-nigerian-nationals-extradited-united-states-united-kingdom-participating-business-email

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/29/africa/hushpuppi-pleads-guillty-fraud-intl/index.html

https://guardian.ng/news/ogun-governors-aide-abidemi-rufai-arrested-in-us-for-wire-fraud/