Category: Exchange
-
Hugo Porta: “When Madiba introduced me to the Pope”
Argentinean rugby legend Hugo Porta is remembered as the captain of the only South American team that ever managed to give the Springboks a proper hiding when his team, the Jaguars, beat the Boks with a shocking 21-12 score in 1982. What makes this match even more memorable is the fact that Porta scored all his team’s points,…
-
Cameron van den Burg: “My (painful) big break”
It was a Big Break of a different kind that led to Olympic gold medallist Cameron van den Burg’s actual Big Break in his swimming career: A Broken ankle.
-
On the #LoveChange Showcase: Miss SA Liesl Laurie’s Sash
One studio guest who made the second episode of The Dan Nicholl Show particularly … beautiful, was Miss South Africa 2015, Liesl Laurie.
-
Gugu Zulu: “My epic marriage proposal”
Rally Champ Gugu Zulu clearly played his cards right when he decided to propose to now-wife Letshego Moshoeu in 2013.
-
EWN’s Katy Katopodis, on balancing life with the news
Editor in Chief of Primedia’s Eye Witness News Katy Katopodis is more aware than most how the advent of social media and the 24-hour news cycle has kick-started a revolution in the information age
-
On the #LoveChange Showcase: Pete Goffe-Wood’s new book
We loved the first episode of The Dan Nicholl Show. Not just because we had an opportunity to get to know Springbok rugby legend Francois Pienaar, football striker Shaun Bartlett and Master Chef judge Pete Goffe-Wood a little better, but because we finally received our first display item for #LoveChange Showcase.
-
Francois Pienaar: “What happened to my pants there?”
One of the highlights from the first episode of the Dan Nicholl Show (on SuperSport 1 on Wednesdays at 20:30) was when 1995 Rugby World Cup winning captain Francois Pienaar reflected on his career-defining, trophy holding, victory moment after the Springboks’ legendary win over the All Blacks. He seems to be rather embarrassed about pulling his pants…
-
How Penny Heyns cried into her goggles before going for gold
After coming close to last at her first Olympics, Penny Heyns almost threw in the towel. But she pushed herself to achieve more and in 1996 won two gold medals
-
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.
-
Given Mkhari: Media power-player, ‘coward with conviction’
Change is a given in the fast-moving world of modern media, where traditional platforms are battling for relevance and commercial survival against the relentless onslaught of the Internet and mobile technology. In such a world, who would dare to build an empire in radio, the original theatre-of-the-mind medium? The answer, too, is Given.