By Victoria John –
Last week a group of Mail & Guardian readers rallied around to rage at a column published by Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
The column makes qualified statements that the white people of Johannesburg’s leafy suburb of Parkhurst might be delegating child-minding to domestic workers so that they are freed up to walk their dogs. It also suggests that child-minding might be a duty that the domestic workers had not agreed to. Mohamed Dawjee’s commentary elicited a fireworks display of fury.
Because I am not a mother, I cannot know exactly what I will decide about who looks after my child one day. But I do know that I would probably feel as angry as many of these readers if someone questioned my decision about this without knowing my reasons.
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