Meanwhile, even our children are victims of their parents' fears. In local schools in Durban, for example, children are being taught to put on rubber gloves in the event that a child is injured in the playground. A child, of course, would not understand this article, nor the concepts it is debating. There is no better way to understand a little of their world than by looking at their art. For them the world is a wondrous place, full of light, beauty and colour.
Children are the greatest of democrats.
In their innocence and honesty, the politicians, business leaders and parents of the future display a freedom of expression and simple observation in their child art. Escapism' through books, movies and alcohol is to parents, what child art is to children. It is as if accountability for ones actions and responsibility to others, which has been on the back-burner since the 1994 elections, might well be coming to the forefront of political thinking. Eskom chairman Reuel Khoza, said that most of Africa's problems were of its own making. We are a sick continent and we are largely to blame for it.