Category: Landing that Job
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How rugby’s new dawn made me happy to be South African all over again
Rugbyphoria! It’s that exquisite feeling of joy and triumph that leaves you with a glow, when the Bokke and the BitzBokke go out of their way to prove the healing, uniting power of sport.
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Thank you, Kate Moss, my role-model, for helping to save my life
At a time when Lance Armstrong was denying that he doped his way onto the winners’ podium and Tiger Woods was denying breaking his wedding vows, Kate Moss showed the world what it meant to take accountability and do the right thing.
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Siya Kolisi, a captain for Change
Though much was changing in his life, thanks to all the hard work he was putting in on and off the field, he never changed who he was.
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The day my all-time rugby hero took me for a ride
Yep, the self-same oke who had managed the World Cup winning 1995 Boks under the slogan “One team, one country”. The same oke who was awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in 2007 for “excellent achievement in rugby”, established the Chris Burger Petro Jackson Fund, and the same guy who was inducted into the International Rugby…
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Face it, Dave, you’re my faraway role model, whether you like it or not
When things get hard, he works harder. When the call of change summons him closer, he answers. He is never scared of the truth, even when it feels bigger than the Burj Khalifa.
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Why my role models in life are ordinary, everyday, amazing people
I prefer to look at the ordinary people closer to home – the heroes I bump into as I navigate through a world that is filled with as much joy as tears, as much heartache as happiness.