Teens left holding Xmas baby

Nothing is sacred in South Africa.

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It is a place and time where our morals are negotiable and there is no necessity for them to be upheld.What is set as a standard and norm of public decency in our age and time seems to have its lines blurred and not set in stone.

We are now in a space where corruption does not move us and sex scandals where ministers share girlfriends and their bedroom secrets are Sunday tabloid fodder.

Schools are now labour wards as teenage pregnancy rises and continues to rise.

We are in an age where presidents and their families are sold to the highest bidder, femicide and pedicide are at soaring rates and child rapists confess to using drugs with their mothers - imagine: a mother introducing her child to drugs and not warning him or her of the dangers of drug abuse.

Where is our moral compass as a nation? If this is where we are, where are we headed?