Category: Ruda talks change
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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
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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
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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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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.
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Graeme Joffe on the good, bad, and ugly in South African sport
Most South Africans are at least a little bit crazy about sport. We wear our green-and-gold fan-shirts, we yell and cheer and rant at the ref from our couches or the stands, we deliver our impassioned play-by-play analysis around the watercooler on a Monday morning. But Graeme Joffe is different. He’s a whole lot crazy about…
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Bertha Le Roux on life, love, & Change after 7de Laan
Life is a soap opera, full of drama, twists and turns, and quirky characters you either love or love to loathe. But a soap opera is life, too, and a good way to make a living, even if people do sometimes confuse you with the character you play.
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Nick Binedell on jumping chasms & the joys of fingerspitzengefühl
As one of South Africa’s most influential and inspirational business leaders, Nick has grappled with the joys and challenges of change in the “frontier country” he is happy to call home. In this wide-ranging interview, he shares his thoughts on overcoming your fears, making the most of every opportunity, and learning by doing.
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Drama queen Rami on how to alter your ego
She played everyone’s favourite love-to-hate villain in the hit SABC Soap, Muvhango, but there’s a lot more to Rami Chuene than sly conniving on the small screen.
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Alec Hogg: Journalist. Entrepreneur. Pioneer.
Picture this. It’s 1995, and a colleague calls you to his office to show you a new thing he he thinks you might find interesting. It’s called ‘the Internet’. You fall in love with it. And the rest is history. Ruda Landman caught up with Internet entrepreneur Alec Hogg, the founder and editor of BizNews, to…