Category: Life Event
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The trouble with making rugby players our role models
Adults looking for role models in sport is a bit like adults waiting for Santa on Christmas Eve. You need to move on from such things. When it comes to the kids though, sports stars are a vital link between them and a sport.
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Podcast: Comedian Marc Lottering on living life of laughter, change after change
A thread of laughter ran through the entire interview, but it never negated his deeply thoughtful view of the world, and of himself.
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Podcast: How one amazing woman found a home of hope in Hillbrow
Khanyisile Motsa, affectionately known as Mam’ Khanyi, is the founder of Home of Hope in Berea near Hillbrow. More than a shelter, Home of Hope is an awe-inspiring initiative aimed at taking street children, child prostitutes and abandoned teenage mothers off the streets.
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Podcast: How ProVerb worked his way from underachiever to hip-hop hero
Growing up in Kimberley in the Northern Cape, he struggled at school, whiling away his free time by rapping freestyle with his friends. He turned his skilfully rhyming words into action when he moved to Joburg in 1999 and began entering rap contests and talent shows. Having discovered his niche in sound engineering, he found…
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Podcast: Katlego Maboe on how the flip of a coin can Change your life
As a member of the acapella group, Flip a Coin, he has enthralled audiences on Idols and the Huisgenoot Skouspel, and his portfolio as an engaging, multilingual TV presenter ranges from 50/50 to Strictly Come Dancing to the SABC3 magazine show, Expresso.
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Podcast: Angel Jones on why SA expats are flocking back home
We met in June 2015 at the BrightRock studio in Johannesburg to talk about the “brain gain”, the harsh realities of life abroad, and the challenges of making a new home and a new life in the happy-sad land we call South Africa.
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Podcast: Esmaré Weideman on Loving Change from the newsroom, to the boardroom
As a member of her Board of Directors, I have enormous respect for the way she has steered that huge media ship through the upheaval of the digital revolution, as traditional sources of revenue fell away and new paths had to be forged.
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Podcast: Patricia de Lille on the politics of life – and Change
We met in Cape Town in February 2016 to record an interview for VeranderDinge, a lifestyle programme co-produced by BrightRock for Afrikaans DStv channel kykNET. Since then, she has become embroiled in controversy; with her position in the city and the DA both hanging in the balance.
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How Zoe, my Facebook friend, saved me from homelessness
I eventually gave up looking for a place closer to work. It made me feel like no one wanted me in their space. I started wondering what was wrong with me. Then, after about a month, I met a girl named Zoe.
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How I survived the great rugby battle in the desert
When Joe flipped on the telly to catch the rugger, I thought “Great! I can do rugby! I have a favourite team. I’ve live-tweeted the Rugby World Cup, and I’ve even watched my team, the Stormers, live at Newlands, from a box, nogal!