Alleged| This woman ran away with R300,000 stokvel money that was deposited by followers on twitter

A Stokvel is a type of credit union in which a group of people enter into an agreement to contribute a fixed amount of money to a common pool weekly, fortnightly or monthly. Universally, such a system is known as a rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA), which is a group of individuals who agree to meet for a defined period in order to save together.

This morning, a man going by the handle @AdvoBarryRoux posted photos of a woman who reportedly stole stokvel money on Twitter.

The woman in this photo is reported to have fled with stokvel money that she received from her Twitter followers, as the tweet above shows.

According to the caption, the woman’s name is Bontle and she allegedly received an amount of R300,000 from her followers on twitter as it was part of their stokvel agreement. It has been stated that she deactivated all her social media accounts after receiving the money.