Author: Ruda Landman
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Podcast: How Kass Naidoo hit the glass ceiling of South African cricket for a six
Kass Naidoo made her debut in the commentary box at the 2003 Cricket World Cup. Of course, it wasn’t so much a dream as a defiant plan of action, which Kass brought to life by sharpening her skills and knowledge, learning from colleagues and mentors, and refusing to let negative criticism get her down
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Podcast: Bonnie Mbuli on fame, reinvention & rediscovering happiness
Bonnie’s journey has led her from bright lights to dashed dreams to divorce and the darkness of clinical depression. But she is a survivor too, resilient and determined, a blazing star about to embark on the third act of her remarkable story.
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Podcast: How Andries Kemp, South Africa’s King of Colour, built a business that is brightening up the world
It’s a story of homegrown ingenuity and global success that has turned Andries into a leader in the field, taking him a long way from the Free State and from his early career path as an accountant.
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Podcast: Black Like Herman: Joburg’s Hair to the Throne
Where do great entrepreneurial stories begin? With a dream, of course. But they also need a space for their genesis. For Joburg’s newly elected Mayor, Herman Mashaba, business began in the boot of a car.
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Podcast: The hair-raising story of how Khulile built her business
Between her busy days and her fast-growing sideline, Khulile Vilakazi-Ofosu found the time to sit down with Ruda for an insightful chat about ambition, opportunity, and the hair-raising life of a modern business executive.
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Podcast: Is Seth Rotherham South Africa’s answer to Richard Branson?
Ambitious, restless, driven, and above all, happily in control of his holiday-obsessed life, Seth Rotherham is a model of how to make it on your own terms.
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Podcast: How Penny Heyns cried into her goggles before going for gold
But Penny Heyns pushed herself, even when she could find little joy in the pursuit, and the agony paid off when she stood on the podium twice to earn her place as South Africa’s Golden Girl in Atlanta in 1996.
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Podcast: Given Mkhari – Media power-player, ‘coward with conviction’
It sounds like risky business, but Given, Mkhari a former teacher, ad industry executive, and talkshow host, doesn’t think of himself as a risk-taker. “I’m a coward with conviction,” he tells Ruda.
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Podcast: EWN’s Katy Katopodis, on balancing life with the news
But as much as Katy thrives on the adrenaline of the ever-shifting agenda, she admits that she herself has had to be kick-started into accepting the challenges and opportunities that have defined and driven her career.
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Podcast: Graeme Joffe on the good, bad, and ugly in South African sport
As a participant, spectator, commentator and reporter for CNN, Highveld 94.7, and now his own sports journal, SportsFire Daily, “Joffers” has been able to turn his love for sport into a multimedia career.