{"id":122869,"date":"2016-05-08T08:04:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T06:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=122869"},"modified":"2016-05-08T08:04:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T06:04:42","slug":"qwabe-is-far-more-privileged-than-me-bullied-waitress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/122869\/qwabe-is-far-more-privileged-than-me-bullied-waitress\/","title":{"rendered":"Qwabe is far more privileged than me: bullied waitress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ashleigh Schultz, the waitress who was bullied by Rhodes Must Fall<\/span> activist Ntokozo Qwabe, has told the Sunday Times that she will not charge the Rhodes scholar with racism.<\/p>\n

Qwabe bragged last week on Facebook about the way he treated Schultz at a cafe in Observatory, Cape Town.<\/p>\n

Schultz was reportedly reduced to tears after Qwabe\u2019s group of friends wrote on the bill: \u201cWe will give tip when you return land.\u201d<\/p>\n

“I think Oxford should discipline him,” Schultz told the Sunday Times in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n

“Revoking his scholarship is not going to help. But I do think the university should have a word with him. 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. He’s at Oxford and I can’t afford to study and then I get harassed.”<\/p>\n

“But he doesn’t deserve to lose everything for … for being a little bit of an idiot,” she said.<\/p>\n

Schultz explained why she was brought to tears. “What made me cry was the fact that someone could be so rude without understanding somebody else’s circumstances. I can understand protests and aiming at political figures and stuff like that. But you can’t go into a restaurant and demand your land back. I have got nothing to do with this.”<\/p>\n

“I was down to my last R10, I had to move out of my place because I hadn’t earned enough to cover even half my rent and I had nowhere to stay. My mom was having chemo and is struggling financially. The incident was just the last straw. It was already beyond freak-out.”<\/p>\n

A petition, signed by at least 40,000 people, was delivered to the vice-chancellor of Oxford University,\u00a0Louise Richardson, to revoke Ntokozo Qwabe\u2019s Rhodes scholarship, \u2018or at the very least, initiate disciplinary action for his recent cowardly and disrespectful behaviour displayed towards a working class female citizen in a Cape Town cafe\u2019.<\/p>\n

Following the incident, two separate online campaigns were initiated to raise money for the waitress, purportedly in a show of solidarity against racism and bullying. Both campaigns generated a substantial amount for Schultz, approaching R150,000.<\/p>\n

Qwabe\u00a0is the co-founder of Rhodes Must Fall In Oxford \u2013 \u201can organisation determined to decolonise the space, the curriculum, and the institutional memory at, and to fight inter-sectional oppression within, Oxford\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

He is\u00a0a former law student at KwaZulu-Natal, and received the Rhodes Scholarship to further his studies at England\u2019s Oxford University, in 2013.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Oxford told TimesLive<\/a> that the university encouraged freedom of speech, however offensive it might be.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur duty of care to all members of the university means we do not discuss individuals. Oxford is a place where non-violent speech, however objectionable, can be expressed and challenged. Our students may voice opinions which others believe to be misguided or which they find offensive. They have a right to do this, but in exercising it we expect them to respect other people and the law.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The full article can be found in the 8 May 2016 edition of the Sunday Times.<\/em><\/p>\n

More on South Africa<\/h3>\n

Oxford University responds to calls to revoke waitress bully\u2019s scholarship<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Petition to revoke waitress bully\u2019s Oxford scholarship hits 35,000 signatures<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Rhodes Must Fall leader dares whites to have him expelled from Oxford<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

New funding campaign raises a small fortune for bullied waitress<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Rhodes Must Fall leader tells waiter: \u2018We will give tip when you return land\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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