Bontle disappears with R300 000 of stokvel money.

Bontle disappears with R300 000 of stokvel money. At the beginning of the year Bontle asked her followers to join her grocery stokvel and make monthly deposits into her account.

The money was to be split now in December and Bontle has since disappeared with everybody coint.

Dozens of social media users have been left up in arms after the founder of an online stokvel has seemingly disappeared without a trace.

A South African influencer has got the country rattled. But this time it’s not because of a hot take or a controversial tweet. The X user, @BontleFeela (Major Bontle Feela) has been known as one of South Africa’s most recognisable influencers for several years. Her profile was ever-present in topical discussions and she had a following of over 50,000 South Africans who engaged with her content.

This was all until she disappeared from all social networks after soliciting thousands of Rands from innocent South Africans who invested in her stokvel.

HOW DID THIS STOKVEL START?

A stokvel sees a group of people contributing towards a common goal. Members contribute an amount of money to a central fund on a monthly (sometimes more frequently) basis and by the end of a term (usually a year) they receive their portion of the payout.

In this particular story, the online stokvel began when Bontle Feela posted on social media, “Grocery stokvel from next year Jan, DM if you are interested”

The interest picked up and over the course of 2023, dozens of South Africans contributed to her stokvel for months. However, in the final days of December, when the groceries were meant to arrive, Feela suddenly went AWOL and her social media accounts went offline.

WHERE IS BONTLE NOW?

Social media users have conducted their own investigations into the saga and it hasn’t taken long for many to conclude that this must have been a scam operated by social media influencers.

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Bontle, who made a proposal to her fans that they should join her for Grocery Stokvel, is now WANTED after she vanished with R300 000.
The followers trusted her enough & deposited money into her account, hoping they would get it back. pic.twitter.com/Pv9Vcgud3w

— BEAST OF NEWS (@EversonLuhanga) December 23, 2023

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