A STUDENT who went on a massive spending spree
after she received a staggering £850,000 instead of
her usual £85 monthly university food grant could
face up to 15 years in jail.
Sibongile Mani, 27, who was on benefits to allow her
to study, faces criminal charges of fraud and theft
after she splurged the cash in 73 days after the
blunder.

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

The accountancy student, 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.
In a Facebook post Sibongile claimed she had
reported the error to the authorities.

She said: "Today my personal life has become a
social media scandal. I have been named and
shamed in public. Today, I am a bad person, a
person who stole the money of students.

“With that being said, and being named a thief, but
as we all know in every story there is truth and there
are lies with the very same story".
She said she was not denying anything but would
tell her side later but she has fled the campus and
gone into hiding and shut down her Facebook page.

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
Student leader Sibongile, who has shown
no remorse despite facing possible jail, told the Daily
Daily Dispatch: "It is very clear that I didn’t make
the error”.

Sibongile was said to have undergone a Cinderella
like transformation overnight after the cash blunder.
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.

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