On Friday, Mr S reported that Oxford’s Rhodes Must Fall co-founder Ntokozo Qwabe had revelled in making a ‘white waitress’ cry at a restaurant in Cape Town. The incident occurred after Qwabe’s friend wrote a note to the waitress explaining they would only tip her when she ‘returned the land’.
Qwabe — who studies law at Oxford — has since refused to apologise, instead hitting out at the response by the ‘hysterical white media’. Happily others are feeling more compassionate. After news of the incident broke, Sihle Ngobese sought out the waitress and gave her a tip in protest of Qwabe’s behaviour:
https://twitter.com/SihleDLK/status/726124957655257089
Speaking to the South African site News24, Ngobese said that someone who ‘claims to speak to the downtrodden and disenfranchised’ should not ‘bully a working class young woman’. The kind gesture has since inspired a crowdfunder campaign — set up by Roman Cabanac — which aims to help compensate the waitress for the ordeal by providing her with a sizeable tip.
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