Category: Starting a Family
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My Day of Tackling Change With Tomorrow’s Rugby Heroes
We want to drive transformation numbers in our professional teams, yet we are denying the very people we want to take up the sport in order to achieve that goal, the ability to watch said teams on TV?
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Garth Japhet, Heart and Soul Adventurer, On How Stories Make Us Human
A true South African role-model and activist whose ultimate quest is to get us to share our stories and learn from each other. He sat down with Ruda Landman to share the challenges and triumphs of his remarkable journey.
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My Old Clothes Aren’t Hand-Me-Downs, They’re Lift-Me-Ups
A change in clothing has accompanied every phase of my life, as it has for my children. Nappies were their welcome-pants to life, but are mercifully no more. Now, I take deliveries of clothing from my sister and others, some which we parted from and which have returned.
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The Shock of Finding Out That Your Teens Aren’t Quite as Terrible as You Were
‘It’ll happen to you too now,’ my Mom once told me, dandling my firstborn son on her knee and cooing down at him. ‘One day he’s all cute and snuggly and the next minute, you open a cupboard door to hang up some pants and bam… you get hit by a tsunami of badly hidden…
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Talking to Your Kids About the Ultimate Taboo
Children are exposed to death, and need support to understand the sudden absence of a loved one, as does everyone. I have come to see that children are more candid and less guarded than their adults, and that there is much to learn from them.
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If Heritage be the Food of Love, Let’s Eat!
Melkkos is a boarding school staple and it’s best described as a liquid pancake. It’s just flour and milk with a touch of cinnamon. Melkkos is so wrapped up in my childhood that I would honestly include it in my family tree. It’s my family. It’s my heritage.
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On the frontline of Change with Adam Habib, the troublemaker who became a campus leader
Professor Habib tells Ruda about his rabble-rousing early years, his political reawakening far away from home, and his realisation that the struggle for liberty continues to rage, even in a free society.
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From Padkos to Oukos, These Are the Foods of My South African Soul
I grew up eating boontjiebredie, tamatiebredie and a host of other versions of this Afrikaans stew – mutton paired with onions and another vegetable and slowly braised till the meat melts off the bones, and the vegetables practically dissolve in your mouth.
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In Teaching me to Cook, My Mother Taught Me About Life
My mother taught me how to cook. When I was 10 years old, she stopped packing my school lunches and made me help her in the kitchen at night.
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SP Marais: ‘What I Learnt From Losing My Contract’
Fullback SP Marais has worked for several of South Africa’s rugby unions before settling at the Stormers in January of this year. Mandy Collins caught up with him to talk about Playing the Bounce.