TOM EATON | Whitney Houston’s prophetic songs have come back to haunt SA
As Whitney sang, ‘our children are our future’, but their present is an indisputable disaster area
13 November 2023 - 21:08
Whitney Houston believed that the children are our future. I’m not familiar with all her work, so it’s possible she also sang songs wondering where bears go to the loo or whether the Pope is Catholic, but in terms of the repertoire I know, she never made a safer claim than when she suggested that human beings age...
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