Those Literal Cleaners

Saw this in “The Star” this morning.  A wife is taking her husband to the cleaners – literally:

Omphitlhetse Mooki, omphitlhetsse.mooki@inl.co.zaThe scorned wife of a senior cabinet minister is taking him to the cleaners - <strong>literally</strong>.  She wants a house worth no less than R70 million; R3m to furnish it; a new car worth no less than R1m ...

To the cleaners, From the Star, 2013-02-08

The amazing thing about this report is that the rest of the report has very little to say about this trip to the cleaners, and instead flies off at a tangential examination of the divorce.  This leaves many questions:

  • What have the cleaners got to do with the story?
  • What is the name of their cleaning business? Where do they operate?
  • What do these cleaners clean?
  • Considering the signs of acrimony between the wife and her husband, will the husband be willing to be taken to these cleaners?
  • Who will fund this trip to the cleaners?
  • Who will pay the cleaning bill?
  • Will cleaning things up help the matter

This reminds me that bad grammar and sloppy reporting is not the reason I do not buy the Star.  I don’t buy the Star because it consistently pushes some weird agenda which insists on calling evil good, and occasionally calls good evil. They prefer to publish the voices of evil and insanity and give scant coverage to the voices of reason and wisdom. Being evil makes you stupid.

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