The amount raised for Ashleigh Schultz, a waitress in South Africa made to cry by a ‘racist’ customer who said he would tip when she ‘returned the land’, has reached more than £4,000.

She started crying when she read the note on the bill which read in bold ‘We will give tip when you return the land’ at a restaurant in Cape Town.

Customer Ntokozo Qwabe bragged about what happened on Facebook, saying he and a friend had made their server cry ‘typical white tears’, leaving him ‘unable to stop smiling because something so black and wonderful had happened’.


He wrote: ‘She sees the note and starts shaking. It is irrelevant whether you personally have land/wealth or you don’t. Go to your fellow white people and mobilise for them to give us the land back.’

Ntokozo Qwabe is a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University (Picture: REX/Shuttlestock)

The appeal to raise money for Ashleigh has now closed, with the intention being to urge people to say no to racism of any kind.



Tesco pays £3,000 to boy for stop-and-search racismIt was sparked by Shile Ngobese, who left a large tip at the restaurant after hearing about what happened.

Ernst Shea-Kruger, who is from Louisiana, read about what happened and started an online fundraiser. However, he faced criticism from some who claimed a black waitress suffering racism would not have received the same attention and outrage.

Defending his actions, Ernst said: ‘I would like to say, to all those who are trying to make this about White Privilege….IT’S NOT. It’s about righting an injustice.

Chef dubbed ’10-second rapist’ has his sentence reduced’I decided to start this the GoFundMe page purely because I was having a bad day and when I saw the news about this issue, I was outraged and quite frankly, FED-UP at the constant stream of racist news that was appearing on my Facebook newsfeed.

‘If it had happened to be a situation where a black waitress was discriminated against… I would have done the same because of my frame of mind at that point in time.

‘It’s easy to be a spectator and complain, judge and talk trash….but if you really believe that life is so unfair and that nobody would do something like this for a black person, then how about you go out and do something about it? Be the change you want to see.’