"Maid in SA is a laugh-out-loud take on a woman's home, but is as serious as the security guards in gated communities. It is a quirky, lighter look at one of South Africa's most important, yet most overlooked, relationships: that between a domestic worker and her madam. In this book you 'll find the women in your life - your mothers, your sisters, your cousins, your friends and yourself." " ... It is a side-splitting, tongue-in-cheek look at a subject many people have undoubtedly never given much thought to, and that is the association between maids and their employers in South Africa. Wanner puts the various employers into categories, such as the rich madams, which includes "old money" i.e. people who were rich before 1994, and the "nouveau rich"--Those who have become rich since 1994. The madams in the book are Indian, African and white, and both rich and poor. She also has a section on the different types of maids in the country, including the city helper who is usually a young woman who failed matric or got pregnant, and the rural helper who is usually an older woman, or the daughter of someone who worked for you, or someone you know." -- Internet.
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