Q: Or have you invented your own? Its just that it seems africans carry on with theirs but the whites have changed theirs so many times over the years that we dont really have any anymore. Is there perhaps more to this than we think?

A: Well my mother has taught me to beat my husband up regularly and to wear the pants in the house.....just joking. Well what my parents had taught me are good table manners, eating all our meals at the dining room table, going to church on Sundays, braaing over the weekends, buying the Sunday newspapers, putting a fake Xmas tree up to conserve real trees, throwing a pinch of salt over your left shoulder when you mess salt, having a hectic social life, not only having one friend, but plenty, that sports are good for you oh and reading my kids stories before bed time. Ag Tebidy, my parents have taught me so many things/traditions, much to much to mention on here, I am virtually taking their lives over.