Kids are wise to Zuma’s kleptocratic shenanigans
President’s shambolic doings have added another compulsory topic to difficult conversations with children, writes Sean O’Connor
Talking with children about difficult things requires a careful approach. Take the vexed issue of our so-called leader for example. This true story began while encouraging my then six-year-old daughter to open a bank account, somewhere to put her pocket and birthday money. "No daddy," she said. "I don’t want to." "Why?" "Because the president will steal it." "No he won’t. He can’t." "It’s safer in my desk," she said, settling the argument. It is obvious now, almost a year since Nenegate (9/12 — don’t forget) and simply too many other things to mention, that the kleptocrats whose tentacles have entwined themselves around the soul of the ANC, led by the omnishambles that is our president, can steal your money and will. My daughter was right, after all! Again and again it feels as if we arrive at some tipping point, where the emperor’s nakedness is visible to everyone, except himself. My son, aged 12, is certainly under no illusions. He relays jokes from the primary school playground a...
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