Category: Life Event
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The happy-sad chaos of raising a child from afar
It takes a village to raise a child, but what happens the parents are living in diffetent cities, and the village is far away from home? What happens is that in spite of all the challenges, a plan for a better life slowly and lovingly comes together
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Chatting Change Episode 9: Super-Planner Precious on Preventing & Surviving Wedding Day Disasters
Whether the Big Day is a grand traditional affair or a trendy contemporary celebration, every wedding is fraught with the prospect of the most carefully-calculated plans going wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Chatting Change Episode 8: Where do you stand, when living together turns to falling apart?
For young couples who choose to live together before or instead of getting married, it’s a tough question that must be tackled, no matter how happily they’re habitating.
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Here’s to the game that made me believe, once again, in hope and heroes
When the view from your garden is of the H-shaped posts that beckon the bouncing ball, you begin to see just how rugby can shape a nation, and turn its dreams into cause for reflection and celebration
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Chatting Change Episode 7: The heavy costs, financial & emotional, of striving to bring a child into the world
Love is the currency you need to raise a child, but let’s be honest: it takes a bit of money too.
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How the Boks cope with the nerve-wracking weirdness of final week
As the seconds tick by to the kick-off of the big game in rugby’s ultimate contest, with the trophy tantalisingly within grasp, being a Bok means training, planning, and a quiet quest for distraction
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Chatting Change Episode 6: Multipreneur Mo Malele on making the most of yourself in today’s changing world of work
Toiling away from 9 to 5, confined and defined by the specs and KPIs of the job that occupies you, is no way to make a happy living in the digital age.
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My Crazy Tour With the South Africans who Won the World Cup in Japan
On the eve of the Rugby World Cup, setting the scene for a hard-fought, hoped-for victory by the Boks, a university team from Cape Town claimed their own global crown, in a city of millions that is almost eerie in its orderliness.
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Chatting Change Episode 5: How actress-baker Renate Stuurman found a way to bake her cake and eat it too
When you have too much month left over at the end of your money, and the bills keep piling up, there’s only one thing you can do. Or two things, or three, or maybe even more.
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Hitched
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