The next time your children complain about washing the dishes, making you a cup of tea or the quality of the household Wi-Fi, go to the Stats SA website and show them the Survey of Activities of Young People.
In it, they will find out how worse off other kids between the ages of seven and 17 are.
Rural children have it particularly hard: 8.9% of them are child labourers, defined by UN conventions as “any type of employment or work which by its nature or the circumstances in which it is carried out is likely to jeopardise the health, safety or morals of young” people below the age of 18.