Student Accidentally Given £850,000 University Grant Instead of £85. Splashes Out On Wild Parties, D

Sibongile Mani was said to have undergone a Cinderella like transformation overnight after the cash blunder was made in in Mthatha, South Africa.

A STUDENT who received a staggering £850,000 instead of her usual £85 monthly university food grant is in hot water after going on a massive 73 day spending spree with her pals.

Accountancy student Sibongile Mani, 27, who was on benefits to allow her to study was said to have undergone a Cinderella like transformation overnight after the cash blunder.

Sibongile Mani went on a staggering spending spree after she was accidentally given £850,000 instead of £85 for her student maintenance

Student leader Sibongile who is at the Walter Sisulu University in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa, gets £85 each month put into her bank account in food and book allowances.

But instead the company that administers the financial aid allowances at the university called Intellimali fouled up and sent £850,000 in cash to the hard up student.

Eyebrows were raised initially when her neat corn-row hairstyle was replaced with £180-a-time Peruvian weaves and she began wearing designer outfits and bought a brand new i-phone 7.

She began flashing the cash kitting out her closest friends with new outfits and drinking £50-a-time bottles of whisky and jetting herself and her pals round the country to wild parties.

The 27-year-old student splurged a fortune on booze, parties, haircuts and designer clothes

Suspicions were first aroused when a receipt for 13.6 million rand (£810,000) was found after she shopped at a SPAR supermarket

Suspicions grew when a till receipt from a local SPAR shop was leaked showing that she he had £810,000 in her account and her wild spending became more lavish and talked about.

She was finally outed by Samkelo Mqhayi, deputy branch secretary of the South African Students Congress (SASCO), who reported her to the National Students’ Financial Aids Scheme.

He told Herald Live: “She threw surprise birthday parties for her friends and showered them with expensive gifts and flew them to events where she bought the best seats.

Source:https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4360923/student-accidentally-given-850000-university-grant-instead-of-85-splashes-out-on-wild-parties-designer-clothes-and-180-hairdos-in-epic-73-day-spending-spree/

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