The real questions are as follows: 1. Can a country's assets be won back? Answer: Yes. 2. Can a woman be unraped? Answer: No. None of this country's 57-odd million people are going to be left with a permanent psychological scar once Zuma and his cronies have vacated their seats. Given time and proper leadership, the money stolen can be recovered, or at least the economy can be fixed. How long does it take a real rape victim to get over that very intimate agony? A lifetime? I think it is too easy for some people to create analogies between things that are, at best, incomparable. To compare rape with the state capture thing is, to my mind, sick. Call it what it is - it is enough of a crime on its own. But it certainly cannot ever be equal to robbing a person of his or her most private, intimate property. Once that has been taken, it can never be returned.