Category: Making a Home
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How I miss the wonder years of lying in bed with my children
It’s the nights that turned into weeks that turned into months that turned into years that you spent in my bed. Hours spent feeding you, changing your nappy, and then letting you sleep in the bend of my arm.
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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.
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Podcast: Drama queen Rami on how to alter your ego
An all-round entertainer since her schooldays, Rami has effortlessly made the transition from acting to singing, and the title of her debut album sums up her attitude to taking up a challenge: “From Fear to Love”.
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Podcast: Jo-Ann Strauss – from glam girl to modern mommy
Ruda Landman caught up with Jo-Ann in Cape Town to chat about her change journey, which hasn’t stopped since she wore the Miss South Africa crown in 2000.
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Podcast: Comedian Marc Lottering on living life of laughter, change after change
A thread of laughter ran through the entire interview, but it never negated his deeply thoughtful view of the world, and of himself.
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Podcast: How one amazing woman found a home of hope in Hillbrow
Khanyisile Motsa, affectionately known as Mam’ Khanyi, is the founder of Home of Hope in Berea near Hillbrow. More than a shelter, Home of Hope is an awe-inspiring initiative aimed at taking street children, child prostitutes and abandoned teenage mothers off the streets.