Category: Life Event
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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.
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Why my role models in life are ordinary, everyday, amazing people
I prefer to look at the ordinary people closer to home – the heroes I bump into as I navigate through a world that is filled with as much joy as tears, as much heartache as happiness.
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Podcast: The hair-raising story of how Khulile built her business
Between her busy days and her fast-growing sideline, Khulile Vilakazi-Ofosu found the time to sit down with Ruda for an insightful chat about ambition, opportunity, and the hair-raising life of a modern business executive.
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Let’s hear it, live & loud, for the good old-fashioned phone date
Let’s consider the alternative: a string of WhatsApps that would have taken hours of back and forths to communicate the kind of things we were sharing, and a number of emoticons and gifs which didn’t quite capture the nuances we could achieve with our voices.
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How I miss the wonder years of lying in bed with my children
It’s the nights that turned into weeks that turned into months that turned into years that you spent in my bed. Hours spent feeding you, changing your nappy, and then letting you sleep in the bend of my arm.