CHILDREN ARE GOING TO SCHOOL IN RAGS WHILE THE COUNTRY WATCHES. NOW, A FORMER BEAUTY QUEEN IS FORCING SOUTH AFRICA TO LOOK AT THE SHAME.
A viral social media video, featuring former Miss South Africa Megan Coleman, exposes a crisis hidden in plain sight. In the clip, Coleman reveals she walked into a Pep store and PAID OFF the lay-by accounts of strangers—parents who couldn’t afford their kids’ school uniforms. “They were in complete disbelief,” she said, describing the moment families were called. This isn’t charity. This is a DAMNING INDICTMENT of a broken system where basics are luxuries.
This shocking act follows an anonymous man in the Eastern Cape who secretly spent over R132,500 to clear 260 lay-bys at another Pep store. The total was staggering. In 2019, another stranger paid R337,000 in Mossel Bay. These aren’t isolated acts of kindness. This is a PATTERN of desperate citizens doing the government’s job, filling a void of neglect with their own wallets. Where are the leaders? SILENT.
Why does this matter? Because while politicians debate, real people are drowning. Pep’s own chief marketing officer admitted they were “taken completely by surprise” by the generosity. But they shouldn’t be. The stores are packed with lay-bys for uniforms and baby clothes—the evidence of a nation on the edge. Who benefits from the silence? Every official who allows childhood to come with a price tag.
The so-called “Good Samaritan” left a note saying, “It’s just the decent thing to do.” But when decency is an act of rebellion, you have to ask what’s really going on here.
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
