Category: Life Event
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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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Let’s Keep it Local, Bokke!
As seen in the recent series against the French, a series that saw coach Allister Coetzee pick only locally based players in the run on XV, the Boks can win without the overseas based players.
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Let’s Hear it for SA Rugby’s Youngblood Revolution
Rugby spirits in South Africa were thankfully lifted when the Springboks whitewashed the French in a three-match series. After the disaster that was 2016, this run of success has restored some confidence in the future of SA rugby.
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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.