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Bruno Bronn said he and his club were "far from racist" and has invited Aridi Amipi, 31, to join him for a drink to show him "the inside of the club rather than the outside".
Bronn, who was not at Bronx when the incident happened last week, said his doorman and manager, both of whom are black, took the decision to bar Amipi because he had arrived with an "attitude" and had given staff a hard time.
"If he feels wrongly treated I will apologise, but I know in my heart that it was a misunderstanding that was blown out of proportion."
Amipi was earlier quoted as saying his white friend from England was admitted but he wasn't, and that he was considering suing the bar.
Bronn denied his club had a race policy, saying he had a number of black and coloured regulars.
He said he was putting together an affidavit after the Commission for Gender Equality indicated it would be referring Amipi's application to the Equality Court for submission
In a joint statement the commission, the Triangle Project and Good Hope Metropolitan Community Churches, expressed "dismay and outrage" at what they said was yet another alleged racial incident at a gay establishment in Cape Town.
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Bruno Bronn said he and his club were "far from racist" and has invited Aridi Amipi, 31, to join him for a drink to show him "the inside of the club rather than the outside".
Bronn, who was not at Bronx when the incident happened last week, said his doorman and manager, both of whom are black, took the decision to bar Amipi because he had arrived with an "attitude" and had given staff a hard time.
"If he feels wrongly treated I will apologise, but I know in my heart that it was a misunderstanding that was blown out of proportion."
Amipi was earlier quoted as saying his white friend from England was admitted but he wasn't, and that he was considering suing the bar.
Bronn denied his club had a race policy, saying he had a number of black and coloured regulars.
He said he was putting together an affidavit after the Commission for Gender Equality indicated it would be referring Amipi's application to the Equality Court for submission
In a joint statement the commission, the Triangle Project and Good Hope Metropolitan Community Churches, expressed "dismay and outrage" at what they said was yet another alleged racial incident at a gay establishment in Cape Town.
Triangle Project's community engagement and empowerment manager, Marlow Valentine said that gay and lesbian people supported these establishments with their presence and money.
"If these businesses are perpetuating destructive cycles of marginalisation based on race and culture, then in essence we are supporting this by not speaking out by actively and proactively addressing these issues," he said.
Sharon Cox of the Good Hope Metropolitan Community Church, of which Amipi had been a member, said it was despicable this type of incident still happened.
"We respect the fact that people have choices to socialise where they are comfortable and the fact that businesses have 'right of admission' policies; but when these policies are used to keep certain people out based on their race, then we need to advocate an end to this form of discrimination."
Keegan Lakay, legal officer at the Commission for Gender Equality said that after the application had been lodged with the magistrate, the respondent would have seven working days to respond and submit papers, after which a date will be set for the case to be heard.