Category: Life Event
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Thank you, Kate Moss, my role-model, for helping to save my life
At a time when Lance Armstrong was denying that he doped his way onto the winners’ podium and Tiger Woods was denying breaking his wedding vows, Kate Moss showed the world what it meant to take accountability and do the right thing.
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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.
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Podcast: Bonnie Mbuli on fame, reinvention & rediscovering happiness
Bonnie’s journey has led her from bright lights to dashed dreams to divorce and the darkness of clinical depression. But she is a survivor too, resilient and determined, a blazing star about to embark on the third act of her remarkable story.
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Siya Kolisi, a captain for Change
Though much was changing in his life, thanks to all the hard work he was putting in on and off the field, he never changed who he was.
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Goodbye, dear old plum tree, and thank you for the shade
What a tree you have been, dear Plum. You stood for our family. You stood up for us and supported our growth. But, finding myself alone in this rambling, overstuffed home, you must make way now. Things have changed.
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Podcast: How Andries Kemp, South Africa’s King of Colour, built a business that is brightening up the world
It’s a story of homegrown ingenuity and global success that has turned Andries into a leader in the field, taking him a long way from the Free State and from his early career path as an accountant.
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Podcast: Black Like Herman: Joburg’s Hair to the Throne
Where do great entrepreneurial stories begin? With a dream, of course. But they also need a space for their genesis. For Joburg’s newly elected Mayor, Herman Mashaba, business began in the boot of a car.
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The day my all-time rugby hero took me for a ride
Yep, the self-same oke who had managed the World Cup winning 1995 Boks under the slogan “One team, one country”. The same oke who was awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in 2007 for “excellent achievement in rugby”, established the Chris Burger Petro Jackson Fund, and the same guy who was inducted into the International Rugby…
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Face it, Dave, you’re my faraway role model, whether you like it or not
When things get hard, he works harder. When the call of change summons him closer, he answers. He is never scared of the truth, even when it feels bigger than the Burj Khalifa.
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The 3 parenting life-lessons I learned from my rescue mutt
I was going to be a rock star school governing body (SGB) mom. Ten years in, I know how foolish I was at the start and I’ve learnt some lessons. And some of those lessons came from a rather surprising source.