Social media went abuzz over the weekend when an inspirational petrol attendant Nkosikho Mbele offered to pay 100 out of his own pocket to top up a motorist who stopped for fuel, but had forgotten her bank cards.
Monet van Deventer shared the heartwarming story of her encounter with Mbele in a post on Facebook. She then created a crowd funding campaign through BackaBuddy.
R400 000 has been donated to him so far in a crowd funding campaign on his two children’s education and on living expenses at their Khayelitsha home.
The funds will be administered by BackaBuddy at his request, due to a concern about crime.
During an interview with Bongani Bingwa on 702, the petrol attendant said he did what is in his heart.
“I didn’t even think that there would be a crowd funding campaign. I was doing what was in my heart.”
He says he helped Van Deventer because he was worried and didn’t want her to run out of petrol on the N2.
I saw the gauge of her tank and I thought I needed to help. I didn’t expect anything, I was doing what is right.
When asked what he would do with the money, Mbele had this to say:
“Only God knows what I will do with the money, at the moment I don’t know what I will do with it.”
