Imagine receiving your financial aid and seeing one million dollars.
Sibongile Mani, accounting student at Walter Sisulu University in South Africa, gets roughly $108 per month put into her bank account.
Somehow, someway, the University gave Sibongile $1,080,000 in cash.
With a million in financial aid Sibongile starts getting expensive spending habits and of course that raises eyebrows.
A receipt from a convenience store that leaked online, indicated Sibongile had 1,050,000 in her account.
Samkelo Mqhayi, deputy branch Secretary of the South African Student Congress was the one who reported her to the National Students’ Financial Aids Scheme.
It was a little late as the numbers added up saying she was spending around $860 a day in three months. And in South Africa that is considered a large amount.
The grand total missing is roughly $65,000.
A fellow student said,
“She went from hard-up, humdrum, run-of-the-mill student to the one who was leading a lavish lifestyle and seemed to have no bottom to her purse and lived the high life.”
Sibongile said yes she spent the money but will later tell her side of the story, but has fled campus and has gone off the radar.
Walter Sisulu university spokeswoman, Yonela Tukwayo says she will have to repay the money and Intellimali chief executive Michael Ansell says, legal action will be taken on Sibongile.