The waitress humiliated and brought to tears by an arrogant Oxford student who refused her a tip because she is white has called for him to be disciplined.
Ashleigh Schultz, 24, waited on Ntokozo Qwabe and a friend in Cape Town, South Africa, and was insulted instead of being rewarded for serving them.
Instead of giving any money, Qwabe and his friend wrote “WE WILL GIVE TIP WHEN YOU RETURN THE LAND”.
Schultz, who works a low-paid job, owns no land, and has a seriously ill mother, broke down when she saw the snub.
In contrast, Qwabe boasted about the incident on Facebook, calling it “so black and wonderful” and glorying in the “white tears” of his victim.
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Schultz had stayed silent over the incident for more than a week, but opened up about Qwabe, whom she called “rude”, “privileged” and “an idiot”.
Speaking to MailOnline from her rented home, she said: “I think Oxford should discipline him.”
She continued: “Oxford isn’t a place where racists from South Africa are fit to go. It’s a privilege to be there. He is far more privileged than me.”
Nobody from the university was available for comment.
Before the incident, Qwabe was most famous as the firebrand leader of Oxford University’s Rhodes Must Fall campaign.
The movement wants to tear down a statue of Cecil Rhodes, a Victorian imperialist whose image in stone is attached to Oriel College, to which he gave a significant endowment.
Rhodes’ fortune is also being used to educate Qwabe, whose law degree is funded by a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship worth around $100,000.
Schultz, whose basic wage is around $1 an hour, would need to work for 50 years to earn the equivalent of Qwabe’s scholarship, which includes tuition and a large cash stipend.
As news of the café incident spread, there were calls to strip Qwabe of his funding, and even to bar him from the UK. More than 45,000 have so far signed a petition condemning him and calling for funds to be withdrawn.
But Schultz took the high ground and said Qwabe should only be “talked to” by university authorities. She said “He doesn’t deserve to lose everything for that… for being a little bit of an idiot.”