Tag: brightrock
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Ways to maintain your income when you can’t work
Income-protection disability cover that pays a monthly income is the best match to replace your income and should include temporary disability cover By Charlene Steenkamp A staggering 70% of South Africans will, in their lifetime, have a disability that will prevent them from earning an income either temporarily or permanently. Yet only 47% of South…
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The gut-punch that sent me reeling off the corporate ladder
After years of a doubly reinforced glass ceiling in our industry, the older ones amongst us had smashed those ceilings and were racing up to Exco level. The band of sisters following them were determined to follow in their footsteps.
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How driveshow host & magazine editor Thabiso “TT” Tema juggles his high-octane multimedia career
When the owner of a production company told Thabiso Tema “you will never make a living with your voice”, Thabiso took it as an incentive to learn and improve, rather than as a career-stopping criticism.
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Change Matters with Ruda: Education & Change
Ruda Landman speaks to Performer and Social Activist, Pieter-Dirk Uys, Rapper and Producer, ProVerb, Sangoma and life Coach, Gogo Dineo Ndlanzi, and Media Law Guru, Emma Sadleir about education.
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Podcast: Meet the Hollywood actress who became a knitwit for Madiba
If the name Carolyn Barkhuizen doesn’t immediately ring a bell, in the way that “Charlize Theron” does, it may be because fate works its changes in the strangest of ways. Carolyn, now known as Carolyn Steyn, is an accomplished actress who moved from her hometown of Joburg to find fame and fortune in Hollywood.
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Podcast: On the frontline of Change with Adam Habib, the troublemaker who became a campus leader
At the height of the Fees Must Fall protests that rocked South African campuses in 2015, Professor Adam Habib, Vice-Chancellor of Wits University, was offered a chair to sit on during a mass meeting with students. He declined, and sat down on the floor instead to listen to their grievances. It was a gesture of…
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Podcast: Dan Nicholl on how sport can save our crazy society
From breaking windows with cricket balls in his childhood home of Zimbabwe, to playing golf with his Springbok rugby heroes, Dan is the ultimate fan, and his career has taken him around the world and into the homes of millions.
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Podcast: Maya Fisher-French on why we shouldn’t fear money
Now an award-winning financial journalist, BrightRock Change Agent, and author of “Maya On Money: Implement your Money Plan”, she grew up in a home where her widowed mother once had to sell the family piano to put food on the table.
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Podcast: Soapie star Hlubi on life, love, change, & lobola
Best known for her breakthrough role as the HIV-positive Nandipha Sithole in Isidingo, Hlubi has never been afraid to shift gear and try something new. She studied politics and labour law at UCT, but dropped out in her final year when she fell in love with the energy of Joburg on a holiday visit.
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Siya Kolisi, a captain for Change
Though much was changing in his life, thanks to all the hard work he was putting in on and off the field, he never changed who he was.