Category: Making a Home
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Podcast: Letshego Zulu on love, fear, and the stranger who helped her cope with losing Gugu
Letshego opened up to me about about memory, family, and the friendship of a faraway stranger who helped to lead her back to the light.
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Podcast: John Kani on theatre & big breaks during the best and the worst of times
Ruda and John had a conversation about Change – mainly in Afrikaans – for VeranderDinge, a lifestyle programme co-produced by BrightRock for DStv channel kykNET.
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Podcast: Nick Binedell on jumping chasms & the joys of fingerspitzengefühl
Nick introduced a lovely German word to my vocabulary of change: Fingerspitzengevoel. Feel it in your fingers. Go out and jump the chasm, and in the process, learn to love change.
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Podcast: Wouter Kellerman’s long, hard road to global Grammy success
Wouter chatted about life in the frontline of the winds of change. During Ruda’s interview with him, which was recorded at the BrightRock studio in March 2016, he also plays an exquisite excerpt from “The Long Road”, his epic tribute to the life and times of Nelson Mandela.
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Podcast: The Naked truth about SA’s most famous Nude Girl
Arno Carstens was good enough on the microphone to earn his Springbok colours, which happened when the name of his band came to him in a dream: The Springbok Nude Girls.
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Podcast: Zapiro, the patriot with a poison pen
In this candid and revealing conversation I had with Zapiro in March 2015, he looks back on his life of change and upheaval, compares Presidential attitudes to satire, and explains why, despite or maybe because of everything, he still feels happy to call South Africa home.
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Podcast – Anton Harber: “News is the stuff people don’t want you to talk about”
Anton Harber sat down with Ruda to talk about change moments, taking risks, and life on the frontline and behind the scene of your daily news.
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Podcast: 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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How to hunt down the home of your dreams
The problem is the concept of a perfect house in the first place. Even if you build your own home, as I learnt from experience, cost limits are always going to mean compromise. So how do you find your nearly perfect home at the perfect price?
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The lovely, lazy joys of being a couch potato family
If we’re feeling altogether slothful, it’s a race to the couch for who gets the best spot, and who picks the movie. Sometimes, if we’re exceptionally lucky, our dogs will even let us enjoy the full couch experience, instead of snuggling in with us. Sometimes, but not often.