Author: Ruda Landman
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Podcast: Esmaré Weideman on Loving Change from the newsroom, to the boardroom
As a member of her Board of Directors, I have enormous respect for the way she has steered that huge media ship through the upheaval of the digital revolution, as traditional sources of revenue fell away and new paths had to be forged.
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Podcast: Patricia de Lille on the politics of life – and Change
We met in Cape Town in February 2016 to record an interview for VeranderDinge, a lifestyle programme co-produced by BrightRock for Afrikaans DStv channel kykNET. Since then, she has become embroiled in controversy; with her position in the city and the DA both hanging in the balance.
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Podcast: Meet the 21st Century sangoma who is teaching big business how to cope with Change
Dineo is not only a qualified sangoma and a trainer of sangomas, but an artist, an entrepreneur, a 21st Century visionary who works with major corporations to build bridges between people and unlock their own potential for greatness.
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Podcast: Gugu Zulu’s journey to becoming the Fastest Brother in Africa
I had the privilege of meeting Gugu in April 2015, a year and three months before his tragic death while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro with his wife, Letshego.
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Podcast: Everything you ever wanted to know about sex, apartheid, Pieter & Evita
In 2014, 20 years into South Africa’s democracy, Pieter-Dirk agreed to his most candid and confessional interview yet to celebrate his partnership with Evita in the frontline of our funny-peculiar nation. Listen and enjoy – it’s the hottest one-man, one-woman show in town!
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Podcast: Letshego Zulu on love, fear, and the stranger who helped her cope with losing Gugu
Letshego opened up to me about about memory, family, and the friendship of a faraway stranger who helped to lead her back to the light.
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Podcast: John Kani on theatre & big breaks during the best and the worst of times
Ruda and John had a conversation about Change – mainly in Afrikaans – for VeranderDinge, a lifestyle programme co-produced by BrightRock for DStv channel kykNET.
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Podcast: Nick Binedell on jumping chasms & the joys of fingerspitzengefühl
Nick introduced a lovely German word to my vocabulary of change: Fingerspitzengevoel. Feel it in your fingers. Go out and jump the chasm, and in the process, learn to love change.
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Podcast: Wouter Kellerman’s long, hard road to global Grammy success
Wouter chatted about life in the frontline of the winds of change. During Ruda’s interview with him, which was recorded at the BrightRock studio in March 2016, he also plays an exquisite excerpt from “The Long Road”, his epic tribute to the life and times of Nelson Mandela.
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Podcast: The Naked truth about SA’s most famous Nude Girl
Arno Carstens was good enough on the microphone to earn his Springbok colours, which happened when the name of his band came to him in a dream: The Springbok Nude Girls.