R44 000 raised in crying waitress spat

Ashleigh Schultz. pic facebook

Ashleigh Schultz. pic facebook

Published May 1, 2016

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Carlo Petersen

A TALE of black pain versus white tears is playing out on social media after a Rhodes Must Fall activist boasted about how he and his peers visited a restaurant and brought a white waitress to tears.

A war of words erupted on Facebook and Twitter at the weekend after the incident at Obz Café on Thursday.

Rhodes Must Fall movement at Oxford University member Ntokozo Qwabe took to Facebook after one of his peers, Wandile Dlamini, who is a member of UCT Patriarchy Must Fall, wrote a note on their bill, which read: “We will give tip when you return the land.”

When waitress Ashleigh Schultz, 24, read the note she broke down in tears.

Qwabe later wrote on Facebook that he could not “stop smiling” because something “so black” and “wonderful” just happened.

Yesterday, when the Cape Times contacted Dlamini, she pretended it was the wrong number.

Qwabe failed to respond to messages and Schultz could not be reached for comment.

RMF – which claims it fights institutional racism – is using its official Twitter account to wade into the debate.

Roman Cabanac and Jonathan Witt, who co-host the Renegade Report podcast aired on CliffCentral, and a guest on the podcast, Social Development MEC Albert Fritz’s spokesperson, Sihle Ngobese, created a crowd-funding campaign for Schultz on Friday.

The total amount raised last night was R44 777.70.

RMF said the crowd-funder shows “the white conservatives rallying behind the protection of their privilege”.

Some of the tweets on Twitter include:

@RhodesMustFall: “White liberals love espousing free speech giving one the ‘right to offend’ when it suits them. Now they’re utterly quiet though. Odd.”

@ZackieAchmat: “Is this really @RhodesMustFall or a person using #RMF for self-aggrandizement?”

@RhodesMustFall: “Honestly, why is this even news? Coz a white woman cried after not getting a tip for political reasons?”

@StannisGibson: “@RhodesMustFall not a liberal but would love to kick Qwabe in the teeth! Come find me.”

@RhodesMustFall: “Amazing that Blacks must either die, burn things or write a book before making it in the media. A white woman cries and the world shudders.”

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