A donation drive is under way to raise funds for a Congolese car guard who was hit by a car and killed in Plumstead early on Sunday.

Fabrice “Rasta” Ndombasi, 25, died outside the Chilli Bar nightclub when a car carrying five friends Dudley Adams, 24, Baden Philander, 27, Neil Asia, 24, Ruwahn Gordon, 22, and Ezra Pieterson, 25 crashed into a shop in Plumstead.

On Tuesday, Rasta’s brother Dudu Ndombasi, 35, said he needed help to raise about R18 000 to transport his brother’s body to Kinshasa, in the DRC, for burial.

On Thursday night at the Chilli Bar, Marc Lottering and other Cape Town comedians performed to raise money for Ndombasi.

Bar owner Sonny Naidoo said the fund-raising drive was a “huge success” with between R6 500 and R7 000 being raised.

The bar charged a R40 cover fee at the door from 6pm until midnight.

“People are arriving in their numbers, the whole comedy community is here,” said Naidoo last night. “Usually we don’t pay attention to car guards but tonight it’s amazing how the people of Cape Town are coming together for a stranger.”

Naidoo added that people had been coming to the bar to donate money towards the funeral and he had appointed an accounting firm to handle the donations.

Ellen Fedele, a volunteer counsellor at the Diep River police station and representative of the Ndombasi family, said they managed to raise R300 during a radio interview, and that the Roads Accident Fund had offered to transport Rasta’s body from the Langa to the Observatory mortuary, where his body would remain until it is flown to Kinshasa.

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