THE rich really are different from you or me, Mr Hemingway.
So a certain politician’s wife apparently boasted on social media about buying two pairs of shoes, each of which cost R16 000. Pretty hefty price tag for a pair of sneakers with some added bling. (What’s with the idea of using a lock as decoration, by the way?) And surely a bit distasteful in a country where so many are desperately in need.
I wonder what my impoverished young friend (who’s just completed her BSc and is looking desperately for a job) thought when she saw that? She’s never let on to feelings of envy, even when she was a teenager and a rich woman decided to do her bit for social responsibility and took her out for the weekend.