A student who received a staggering £850,000 (N392million) instead of
her usual £85 monthly university food grant is in hot water after going
on a massive 73 day spending spree with the millions.According to Sun UK, the Accountancy student
identified as Sibongile Mani, 27, who was on benefits to allow her to
study was said to have undergone a Cinderella like transformation
overnight after the cash blunder.
It was gathered that student
leader Sibongile usually receives £85 each month in her bank account in
food and book allowances at Walter Sisulu University in Mthatha, Eastern
Cape, South Africa before the sad error saw her account blow to a
staggering N392 million.
But people started raising eyebrows when
her neat corn-row hairstyle was replaced with £180-a-time Peruvian
weaves and she began wearing designer outfits and bought a brand new
i-phone 7.
She began flashing the cash kitting out her closest
friends with new outfits and drinking £50-a-time bottles of whisky and
jetting herself and her pals round the country to wild parties.
Suspicions
grew when a till receipt from a local SPAR shop was leaked showing that
she had £810,000 in her account and her wild spending became more
lavish and talked about.
She was finally outed by Samkelo Mqhayi,
deputy branch secretary of the South African Students Congress (SASCO),
who reported her to the National Students’ Financial Aids Scheme.
He
told Herald Live: “She threw surprise birthday parties for her friends
and showered them with expensive gifts and flew them to events where she
bought the best seats.
“When the SPAR receipt was leaked showing
a balance of R13.6-million (£810,000) in her account I called NSFAS and
they checked their records and confirmed that the initial amount was
R14-million (£850,000)".
By the time they reigned her in after
her two-and-a-half-month spending spree they discovered she had been
blowing £666 a day which is a staggering amount in South Africa.
The
total amount missing from the account is £50,000. A fellow student
said: “She went from a hard up, humdrum run-of-the-mill student to one
who was leading a lavish lifestyle and seemed to have no bottom to her
purse and lived the high life.
“She became very glamorous in
beautiful dresses with all the accessories and we thought she must have
won the Lottery. She must have thought she had won it too when she got
that cash!”.
In a Facebook post Miss Mani claimed she had reported the error to the authorities.
She
said: ”Today my personal life has become a social media scandal. I have
been named and shamed in public. Today, I am a bad person, a person who
stole the money of students.
“With that being said, and being
named a thief, but as we all know in every story there is truth and
there are lies with the very same story”.
She said she was not denying anything but would tell her side later but she has fled the campus and gone into hiding.
The authorities say, “She will have to repay the money”.
Intellimali
chief executive Michael Ansell said: ” Legal action will be taken
against the student. A forensic investigator had been appointed”.
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