Steve Hofmeyr mocks Charlize Theron over parenting revelation

Steve Hofmeyr has responded to comments by Charlize Theron about raising her child as a girl, seemingly mocking the star.

Charlize sparked debate recently when she revealed that her seven-year-old child, whom fans assumed was a boy, identifies as a girl.

Speaking to Daily Mail about the gender of Jackson, whom she adopted years ago, Charlize said: “I thought she was a boy, too, until she looked at me when she was three years’ old and said: I am not a boy!”


She said that it was not up to her to decide what gender her child identified as.

“My job as a parent is to celebrate them and to love them and to make sure that they have everything they need in order to be what they want to be,” she added.

Steve took to Twitter recently to respond to the news and in a seemingly mocking tweet asked Charlize’s “advice” on raising his daughter.

Steve Hofmeyr

✔@steve_hofmeyr

Liewe Charlize
My dogter dra soms broekies. Sy is 20 maande oud. Is dit dalk die regte tyd om haar te vra of sy 'n oorwig aan y-chromosoom aanvoel?

Zuma damaged South Africa

JOHANNESBURG – Former president FW de Klerk says there is an element of truth that life and public services were better under the apartheid government.


De Klerk, who was speaking on eNCA’s The First Citizen program says this assertion is solely based, not on race and colour, but on the nine years during the Jacob Zuma presidency.


The former president (1989 - 1994) described the Zuma administration

(2009 - 2018) as “nine lost years” which have damaged the country.


“... because of bad appointments made in the nine lost years, inter alia, of cadres, instead of people with the right experience, with the right training into management posts.


“People were appointed because of their connections instead of because of their knowledge and their experience. I think this has harmed service delivery tremendously.”


De Klerk said he believed the opportunity to build a truly non-racial and just society was wasted during the Zuma years.


He advised the current government to accept the challenges it faces, improve the quality of education and training, grow the economy, build investor confidence and rise above racism.


De Klerk, who was the last apartheid government president, maintains that his hands are clean and that he is wrongly blamed.


“My hands are clean and my conscience is clear,” he said. “I have never been part of a policy that says kill people.”