Joy as 'Guardian Angel' visits

Update

MOSSEL BAY NEWS - On Wednesday, 11 November, a number of shoppers in town had a pleasant surprise from a gentleman only known as The Guardian Angel.

He gave R100 000 to the Pep store on the corner of Marsh and Zietsman streets in Mossel Bay for anybody to purchase what they needed.

Shortly after that, the shop closed its doors, as chaos broke out inside and outside, while members of the public frenetically tried to benefit from this offer.

Some said the man had won the lottery.

Andorette Smit, the manager of the store, said she had to close the shop for the day. It was still closed on Thursday, 12 November.Almost the same scenario played out last December at the KwaNonqaba Pep store, when an anonymous benefactor gave

R337 000 to the shop to pay off people's lay-by items. It is thought it could be the same person who donated the money to the Pep in Marsh Street this week.

Anonymous caller
In December 2019, an anonymous caller spoke to Elizma Johannes, the store manager at Pep in KwaNonqaba. What she initially thought to be a practical joke, ended up making national headlines.

At the time she told the Mossel Bay Advertiser that the man called during the week after 20 December 2019, saying he would like to help people in the area specifically. Thereafter she referred him to her area manager and arrangements were made.

Johannes said that when calling the 363 clients who lay-byed items ahead of Christmas to say they were being paid for, some just laughed, others gasped in disbelief. Some started crying.

She said that in her 13 years of employment at Pep, she had never experienced anything to match this. The benefactor added a card to the lay-by items collected, signed "Grateful Humanist".

This woman was persistent that the shop should reopen so people could obtain clothes.

According to this man he was invited by the "Guardian Angel" to get whatever clothes he needed at the Pep store and was told they had all been paid for.