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News24 reports that a petrol attendant has received wide praise after he lent a woman R100 for petrol.
In a Facebook post on Thursday, Monet van Deventer wrote that she stopped at a petrol station on the N2 near Makhaza on her way to Cape Town to fill up her car's tank, but realised that she did not have her bank card with her. A petrol attendant who had been washing her windscreen told her: “'Ma'am you can't run out of petrol on the N2. I'll throw in R100 and then you can just bring back my R100 whenever you are near again.” He paid with his own card. When Van Deventer returned to pay back the money, she asked Nkosikho Mbele why he had helped me and why he had trusted her to pay him back and he replied: 'Ma'am, I am a believer." In a message on the BackaBuddy fundraising platform Van Deventer said she would love to do something for him in return and she appealed to people to donate to help Mbele support his two children, mother and brother who live with him in Khayelitsha. By Saturday morning, over R45,000 had already been raised. Van Deventer has set a fundraising target of R100,000.
- Read Riaan Grobler’s report on this story at News24
- Read too, Petrol attendant lent customer R100 ‘to bring peace and to bring people together', at News24
- And also, Petrol attendant's R100 well on its way to becoming R100,000 as donors back crowdfunding campaign, at News24
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