Category: Ruda talks change
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Podcast: Angel Jones on why SA expats are flocking back home
We met in June 2015 at the BrightRock studio in Johannesburg to talk about the “brain gain”, the harsh realities of life abroad, and the challenges of making a new home and a new life in the happy-sad land we call South Africa.
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Podcast: Meet the 21st Century sangoma who is teaching big business how to cope with Change
Dineo is not only a qualified sangoma and a trainer of sangomas, but an artist, an entrepreneur, a 21st Century visionary who works with major corporations to build bridges between people and unlock their own potential for greatness.
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Podcast: Gugu Zulu’s journey to becoming the Fastest Brother in Africa
I had the privilege of meeting Gugu in April 2015, a year and three months before his tragic death while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro with his wife, Letshego.
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Podcast: Letshego Zulu on love, fear, and the stranger who helped her cope with losing Gugu
Letshego opened up to me about about memory, family, and the friendship of a faraway stranger who helped to lead her back to the light.
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Podcast: John Kani on theatre & big breaks during the best and the worst of times
Ruda and John had a conversation about Change – mainly in Afrikaans – for VeranderDinge, a lifestyle programme co-produced by BrightRock for DStv channel kykNET.
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Podcast: Wouter Kellerman’s long, hard road to global Grammy success
Wouter chatted about life in the frontline of the winds of change. During Ruda’s interview with him, which was recorded at the BrightRock studio in March 2016, he also plays an exquisite excerpt from “The Long Road”, his epic tribute to the life and times of Nelson Mandela.
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Podcast: The Naked truth about SA’s most famous Nude Girl
Arno Carstens was good enough on the microphone to earn his Springbok colours, which happened when the name of his band came to him in a dream: The Springbok Nude Girls.
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Podcast: Zapiro, the patriot with a poison pen
In this candid and revealing conversation I had with Zapiro in March 2015, he looks back on his life of change and upheaval, compares Presidential attitudes to satire, and explains why, despite or maybe because of everything, he still feels happy to call South Africa home.
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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 John McInroy is changing the world, one pair of red socks at a time
Activist for change, social entrepreneur, elite endurance athlete, John McInroy is a role-model of the creed he lives by: “Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu”. A person is only a person through other people.