Dineo Ranaka has denied that she assaulted a lady over the weekend.

The Metro FM presenter was playing at a gig when she allegedly followed the young woman to the bathroom and roughed her up.

The DJ doesn’t like to be photographed in the first 10 minutes of her live DJ set, and that’s what started the argument between her and Tengetile Khumalo. Apparently, Tengetile rubbed the star up the wrong way when she came to the booth and took photos of her.

According to reports, Funk BA manager Bright Moyo said Dineo left the DJ Booth and followed the woman to the toilet. He said they didn’t see what exactly happened in the ladies’ room, but Tengetile was fuming when she came out. Moyo said bouncers stopped her before she reached the DJ booth again.

Dineo has denied the assault allegations levelled against her.

She said Tengekile is the one who attacked her while she was DJiing. Dineo Ranaka also denied following the woman to the bathroom. The star claimed she left the restaurant immediately because she felt threatened.

She said:

“I did not follow her to the bathroom. I approached her at her table to try to explain to which she raised her hand at me in an attempt to slap me shouting that I should shut up. I removed myself from her table. She followed me to the DJ booth, assaulted me! I unplugged my equipment and left with immediate effect to protect myself and my peace.

“Venue owners are meant to provide security to all the DJs and artists as some of the patrons can be unruly. It’s frightening to think that I’m now at a stage of getting assaulted by intoxicated patrons for not being open to taking pictures at the beginning of my sets. There seems to be a growing trend of people taking comfort in finger pointing me and going to extreme measures to publicly humiliate me in the press. I can’t control any of it but I can certainly stand by my truth.