Vanessa Burger

‘Bafana, bam seater nikhulumane iqiniso nyakunya!’
[‘You boys had better start talking the truth because you’re going to shit yourselves.’">

2014 was not the only year in which insincerity, fabrication, half truths and downright disinformation became our national pastime in South Africa, but it must reign up there with the best.

I will not bore you with the run-up to my financial demise, suffice to say, ordinary life circumstances brought me to the doors of the Blue Bank’s financial advice department in 2011, not a fleet of Lamborghinis or a taste for Johnny Walker Blue.

I first met - let’s call her Rosie - in 2010.

This is the story of Sbu.