Julius Malema can be thankful that he lives in South Africa. Our media is positively tame compared to the media of most other countries, particularly with reference to the wealthier economies such as England. If he was living in England, there is no doubt that every newspaper would be running a news scoop, and they would not just be alleging that he is building a R14 million house but a reporter would have investigated the plans approved by the Municipality, somebody would have been questioning the big banks as to who was financing it, the architect would be getting interviewed, the builder would be getting interviewed, builders on the site would be getting interviewed, SARS officials would be getting interviewed all day long and the media would be running articles about the houses of other politicians and how he compares. It is quite clear that his salary is R25 000,00 a month and on R25 000,00 a month he manages to spend more than anyone else – which quite clearly means that he is extremely good with his investments and when he says ‘salary”, he is probably excluding other earnings on the basis that they are not salaries – but fees for being a director, or dividends, or profits from companies or commission, etc, etc. It is amazing that our media accepts such blithe answers and does not really start hitting on the facts – and that is, if you are earning R25 000,00 a month, the very most the bank is generally going to finance you for is an R800 000,00 apartment or small house somewhere, and you simply have no chance of buying a piece of land in Sandton, let alone building a house on it!