Category: Starting a Family
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My Journey Towards Aligned Family Deliverables
‘I am not sure we’re all aligned as to the weekend deliverables,’ I said to my family over Saturday breakfast two weeks ago. ‘There may be conflicting agendas and I just want to make sure we are all on the same page and expectations are being managed.’
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Should You Get an Instagram Account for Your Newborn baby?
Just for fun, what would your social media strategy be if you were to put your newborn on the popular photo-sharing service?
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The Ins & Outs of Life With the In-Laws
If all goes well, your married life will be enriched by these new horizons. If not, well, that’s what mother-in-law jokes are for. Funnily enough, you hardly ever hear a father-in-law joke, which is a bit of a joke in itself.
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Letshego Zulu on love, fear, and the stranger who helped her cope with losing Gugu
In a candid chat with Ruda, Letshego opens up about memory, family, and the friendship of a faraway stranger who helped to lead her back to the light after the loss of her husband, legendary racing driver Gugu Zulu.
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Parents, Send Your Teens to Work!
In South Africa, turning 16 means you get your first ID card. It’s one step towards becoming an adult. In my household, however, there’s a second step: I have strongly encouraged (yes, that’s a euphemism) both of my daughters to get a weekend job.
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How Graeme Richards danced his way from darkness to light
Graeme has worked his way through the industry with zestful determination, trying his hand at everything from continuity announcer to video producer to online entrepreneur to morning-show presenter.
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A Heart-to-Heart With SA’s First Female Heart Transplant Surgeon
Dr Susan Vosloo, the first female heart surgeon in South Africa, was only in her early 30s when she performed her first heart transplant, and she has since earned global acclaim for her work in the field, specialising in life-saving surgery on children as young as six months.
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My Life is Like a TV Series, & I’m Not Going to Change the Channel
If there’s one thing I’m proud of from my single parenthood journey (I don’t declare myself as such anymore), it’s this: laying the foundations for my daughter and I to be a team, all the time.
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How Giggling Gourmet Jenny Morris Put the Rude & the Nude Back Into Food
“I dream of food every night,” Jenny Morris tells Ruda in this lively, entertaining interview, in which she reveals her recipe for living life to the full, and relishing every moment of change that comes along.
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What I Learned From My Wild & Stormy Year of Change
Life has a way of throwing things your way in groups. Common wisdom would have it as groups of three, but sometimes there’s a whole lot more.