Category: Making a Home
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How I solved the mystery of the disappearing rugby girlfriend
The girlfriend who loves rugby as much as she loves her boyfriend, turns into the wife who forgets all about the game while her husband carries on cheering.
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The Friday afternoon phone call that changed my life
In the unfolding of one stage of life into another, another stage of life begins. And all it takes is a phone call, a chance encounter, and the curious intervention of synchronicity
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The 4 ways I’m changing my mood this festive season
It isn’t always easy to handle the stresses, strains, and pressures of what is meant to be the holiday season. But if you put your mind to it, there are ways to make it the best time of the year.
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Seven super-silly ways to survive the silly season
It’s tinsel-time, and however you choose to unwind before the new year kicks into gear, try these guaranteed tactics for playing the fool this Yule.
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The money lessons I’ve learned from my teenage daughter
Why imagination is more valuable than money, and other life-lessons from a thoroughly modern millennial.
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The coffeeshop lessons of Leanne Manas, everyone’s favourite TV presenter
Sometimes, all it takes to change your life, and edge your dreams a little closer to reality, is a chance encounter and a few words in the right ear.
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The art of finding financial happiness by making yourself invisible
Being seen to have money is a natural human instinct in our status-obsessed society. But true wealth takes its cue from a deeper impulse to avoid showing off, and being happy with what you have.
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The happy ever after-life of Matthew Booth, the former Bafana Bafana tall guy
As he tells Ruda in this candid and revealing interview, he’s been busying himself with training, youth development, running a charitable trust, studying for a degree in political science, and writing a book about what he calls the “after-life” of footballers, 75% of whom “will either be divorced, bankrupt, drug or alcohol-dependent or a mixture…
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Shhh, money’s too tight to mention
When you grow up in a household where money is the great unmentionable, it takes a lot of hard work and discipline to start the conversation with yourself
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How a wizard named Paul pulled me out of my poverty mindset
At rock-bottom, smothered by debt and anxiety, the call for help went out. A financial adviser answered, and that was when the money nightmare turned into a wake-up call that worked