Getty Images Student Receives And Spends Accidental Financial Aid Accounting student Sibongile Mani, who studies at Walter Sisulu University in South Africa, gets $108 each month put into her bank account, which she is supposed as financial aid to use to pay for food and books. Instead of the 100 bucks, the company that administers the financial aid allowances at the university messed up and accidentally sent $1,080,000 in cash. BUT LIIIIIKKKKEEEEE how, Sway?? #NSFAS it wasn't a mistake. How do you mistake R1400 for R14 million? — Sibongile Money (@SibongileMani) August 30, 2017 Apparently after her major lifestyle upgrade tipped everyone off, a receipt from a local convenience store leaked online showing that she had $1,050,000 in her account. She was then outed by Samkelo Mqhayi, deputy branch secretary of the South African Students Congress (SASCO), who reported her to the National Students’ Financial Aids Scheme. By the time they reined her in after her nearly 3-month spending spree, they discovered she had blown an average of $860 a day, which is a huge amount by South African standards. The total missing from the account is $65,000. A fellow student said about Mani, “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.” I guess getting an accidental mil isn’t as lit as expected. Mani said she was not denying anything and would tell her side later, but she has fled the campus and gone into hiding. Walter Sisulu University spokeswoman Yonela Tukwayo said, “she will have to repay the money” and Intellimali chief executive Michael Ansell said, “Legal action will be taken against the student. A forensic investigator had been appointed.”
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Trappin’ Out The School House: Financial Aid Accidentally Sends Student $1 Mil In Cash
