Category: Change moments
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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 Momma Bok looks after her herd away from home
“She’s really the mom of the team. I can’t imagine the Springbok team without her,” says former skipper Jean de Villiers. “She’s basically the reason that the players are always happy. The Springboks without Annelee would just not be the same.”
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Trudi Makhaya, an economist of dreams
Trudi Makhaya, newly-appointed adviser to pres. Cyril Ramaphosa, is one of the clearest and most quoted voices on the myriad of matters affecting the economy in South Africa and beyond.
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A postcard from home is love in its purest form
When my children, aged 14 and 11, left with their mother to stay in Germany for a year, it was always going to be hard, for all of us. The children had just spent four months in my solitary care, and my house is now very quiet and empty, although littered with the evidence of…
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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.
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Why rugby is like a war that builds friends for life
It’s a sport that keeps you humble, it’s helps you learn to work with others, and most importantly it brings you together with people.
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Why I’m giving up trying to cycle my way to success
‘Oh good!’ said our trail-biking manager. ‘Imagine? Someone who can’t ride a bike!’ ‘Ha, imagine,’ I said with a nervous laugh. ‘How pathetic?’