Category: Starting a Family
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Podcast: Maya Fisher-French on why we shouldn’t fear money
Now an award-winning financial journalist, BrightRock Change Agent, and author of “Maya On Money: Implement your Money Plan”, she grew up in a home where her widowed mother once had to sell the family piano to put food on the table.
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Podcast: Sportscaster Mpho Maboi, queen of the beautiful game
Bubbly and vivacious, Mpho switched careers from IT to broadcasting, when DJ Fresh, impressed with her voiceover on, of all things, an ad for condoms, invited her to join his show as a stand-in traffic reporter.
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Podcast: Soapie star Hlubi on life, love, change, & lobola
Best known for her breakthrough role as the HIV-positive Nandipha Sithole in Isidingo, Hlubi has never been afraid to shift gear and try something new. She studied politics and labour law at UCT, but dropped out in her final year when she fell in love with the energy of Joburg on a holiday visit.
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Podcast – Warning: Don’t film yourself having sex!
An estate agent in a small coastal town becomes infamous overnight after posting a racist rant on Facebook. A much-quoted economist blurs into the background after his views on race and the economy provoke a storm on Twitter. A widely-read sportswriter gets the boot from his newspaper after an ill-considered tweet about cricket. On social…
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Podcast: Prof Nicola Kleyn, Dean of GIBS, on turning crisis into opportunity
She sat down with Ruda to talk about shattering perceptions, the personal crisis that made her leave a high-power job in the corporate world, and the art and science of helping business get down to business.
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Podcast: Arthur Goldstuck on how we’re finally living in the real world of Star Wars
The little town of Trompsburg in the Free State lies not too far from Bloemfontein, a city famous, among other things, as the birthplace of JRR Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings series. But Trompsburg can lay claim to its own scribe of legend and lore: Arthur Goldstuck.
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Podcast: Prof Jonathan Jansen – “I get bored quickly, and I thrive in places that are difficult”
“I have never worked in a situation in which I felt comfortable,” he says. “Culturally, or socially or linguistically.” But he has never been able to resist his calling, and the challenge of turning it into an opportunity to transform others and himself.
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Podcast: How superstar publicist Farah built her fortune on fame
True fame calls for talent, attitude, determination, enigma, style, self-confidence, chutzpah, and a wealth of connections. And in South Africa, true fame calls for a fortune too. Farah Fortune, to be exact.
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Podcast: How Kass Naidoo hit the glass ceiling of South African cricket for a six
Kass Naidoo made her debut in the commentary box at the 2003 Cricket World Cup. Of course, it wasn’t so much a dream as a defiant plan of action, which Kass brought to life by sharpening her skills and knowledge, learning from colleagues and mentors, and refusing to let negative criticism get her down
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The two things you need to make your house a home
I grew up with two kitchen tables. One had a table top of solid South African pine, and the other was topped with grey Formica. At those tables, we ate breakfast, lunch and supper as a family. At those tables, I baked with my mother and my grandmother.