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Irony of leaving your baby in the care of underpaid ‘mboch’

No one in the informal sector expects to earn much. It’s the way of the world.

I’ve had three domestic managers (DM) in a 13-month period. If I listed all their shortcomings – real and imagined – the words would fill a book.

I have enough material to write a bestseller. Maybe one day I will. Yeah, why not? The Nanny Chronicles, I’d call it. And it would sell like illicit brew.

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