South Africa: Everyone From the EFF to the Waitress's Mother Have Spoken Out On #WaitressTip

South Africa has been lit with the Ntokozo Qwabe #WaitressTip saga - R130, 000 in donations have been raised, and a petition to rescind Qwabe's scholarship has reportedly been delivered to Oxford University.

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have signalled their support of Ntokozo Qwabe in a statement released on Thursday. "We stand with Qwabe and defend his right to protest," the statement said, adding that the student activist's refusal to tip the waitress signals social discontent over black landlessness.

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