Author: Ruda Landman
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Dan Nicholl on how sport can save our crazy society
Sport can be a pursuit, a pastime or a welcome distraction. But for Dan Nicholl, writer, commentator, MC, and anchor of his own Supersport show, sport is a way of life
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Prof Nicola Kleyn, Dean of GIBS, on turning crisis into opportunity
Newly appointed dean of the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) in Johannesburg, Prof Nicola Kleyn talks to Ruda about the art and science of helping business get down to business
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Maya Fisher-French on why we shouldn’t fear money
Money talks. It talks to our hopes, our plans and ambitions. It whispers sweet somethings and seduces us with the promise of a better life. But money also preys on our deepest, darkest fears…
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Is Seth Rotherham South Africa’s answer to Richard Branson?
Internet entrepreneur Seth Rotherham turned a Cape Town mantra – “Work is a sideline, live the holiday” – first into a successful blog and then into a lifestyle industry trading in everything from furnishings to chartered flights
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EWN’s Katy Katopodis, on balancing life with the news
Editor in Chief of Primedia’s Eye Witness News Katy Katopodis is more aware than most how the advent of social media and the 24-hour news cycle has kick-started a revolution in the information age
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How Penny Heyns cried into her goggles before going for gold
After coming close to last at her first Olympics, Penny Heyns almost threw in the towel. But she pushed herself to achieve more and in 1996 won two gold medals
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Ferial Haffajee, a shy radical & fighter for Change
Ferial sat down with Ruda to chat about change, race, the future of media, and the continuing battle to make sense of our mad and mixed-up nation.
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Given Mkhari: Media power-player, ‘coward with conviction’
Change is a given in the fast-moving world of modern media, where traditional platforms are battling for relevance and commercial survival against the relentless onslaught of the Internet and mobile technology. In such a world, who would dare to build an empire in radio, the original theatre-of-the-mind medium? The answer, too, is Given.
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Graeme Joffe on the good, bad, and ugly in South African sport
Most South Africans are at least a little bit crazy about sport. We wear our green-and-gold fan-shirts, we yell and cheer and rant at the ref from our couches or the stands, we deliver our impassioned play-by-play analysis around the watercooler on a Monday morning. But Graeme Joffe is different. He’s a whole lot crazy about…
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Bertha Le Roux on life, love, & Change after 7de Laan
Life is a soap opera, full of drama, twists and turns, and quirky characters you either love or love to loathe. But a soap opera is life, too, and a good way to make a living, even if people do sometimes confuse you with the character you play.