Tag: featured
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Chatting Change Episode 10: Take a break! Why going for the gap can put you back on track
Between school and varsity and choosing a career, between tying the knot and finding a home and raising a family, there’s barely time to pause in the hurly-burly of modern life.
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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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The life-changing magic of being selfish
“I can just be me, in my schlumpadinkas, reading all day, and living on toast.”
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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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My secret life as an undercover posy-picker
It’s that blooming time of year, when flowers spring up, like old friends, to remind us of the brighter things in life
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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.