Cape Town -
A Cape Town actress who believes a supermarket should have offered Iris Beukes more in compensation for how it humiliated her, has started an online collection campaign for the distraught grandmother.
Chantal Stanfield has already collected R4 000 since Friday.
Her target is R10 000.
Pick n Pay last month gave a R500 grocery voucher to Beukes as an apology for the manner in which she was treated by its staff at a store in Mitchells Plain.
Her grandson Tylan had broken a wrapped chocolate slab and Beukes was threatened with arrest.
A photo of a crying Beukes on the floor with her grandson went viral on social media.
Stanfield approached Beukes after reading she was a factory worker raising her grandchildren alone.
She
launched a fundraising campaign on the website Backabuddy.
Sandi Ndlovu, who donated R60, wrote the following message: “Aunty Iris what happened to you should NEVER have happened..”
Happy camper, who donated R205, added: “Enjoy, Aunty Iris. Happy (grand)mother’s day x.”
Weekend Argus