South Africans have taken to Twitter to demand accountability from the reality TV star, actor and Youtuber, Thulasizwe Siphiwe Dambuza, known professionally as Lasizwe, on how he disbursed the R12m he received earlier this year from R10GoesALongWay donation.
Lasizwe initiated a program he termed R10 Goes A Long Way” designed to ameliorate the hardship among students from poor background who are unable to pay for their academic needs.
However, after the donation, nothing concrete has been heard from him and the people are beginning to question how he spent the money.
This action has triggered a lot of people questioning and demanding that he makes clear explanation of what he received and what he disbursed.
Lasizwe however, downplayed the allegation but instead made jest of the situation with a video clip of him running on the football field.
Some of the persons who are aware about the program rather responded on his behalf, explaining what truly happened.
According to one of Laziswe’s defenders, 17,000 students applied for the registration fee assistance.
He further clarified that the program is not a bursary as erroneously being insinuated but a only registration fee assistance in which 166 students qualified to get higher earning institution registration fee covered.
By this campaign, the maximum payable fee per student was R11 000 but some students needed less, the rest of the money which was left went into round 2 selection of students who also qualified for this registration assistance fee.
Heh that’s interesting and how many “winners” were selected?
Nna I honestly thought this was for students who couldn’t afford to pay off their reg/outstanding fees. This means even if you could afford to pay of ur reg there was a possibility to win?
They say this was round 1, and these are approximately 169 “winners”, they allegedly won R11000 which was said to be registration money. But still, it doesn’t make sense coz 11K × 169= 1,859,000, more than 100k was left, unless if they did a round 2 selection of more “winners”.
Lasizwe bathi where are the students that benefited from this program 💀
# Lasizwe was supposed to post list and how much each student received. Not just names. You can still do that sana.