I don’t try consciously not to write about politics in my blog, but it is just that so much of our opinions are guided by the media, and one year they are attacking somebody and for the next year the person is absolutely incredible. So whether that is Julius Malema today or Jacob Zuma last year, the only thing you can be assured of is that if they don’t “get their man” and he does rise up, the coverage will become more positive later.

The absolute harassment of Tiger Woods and his family is a case in point, and if you were unfortunate enough to have a child in the same school as his children, then you also had photographers and who knows who gathering outside. That kind of reporting is unnecessary, sensationalistic and quite honestly I don’t see why he has to spend his entire life apologising to a bunch of people who only know him as a golfer. The reality is that sometimes, if you are well known enough, you get your name in the media at just the wrong time – when there is no natural disaster or something else to wipe you off the front pages.