All in People
A smile can turn a bad day on its head. Smiles can change people’s minds and moments, and memories of those moments.
“My motherland is in Nepal but this city is a place that made me who I am really am, made me the real Dipen, gave me an identity. Whoever I am today is thanks to Hong Kong.”
A group of remarkable twenty-somethings embarked on an African adventure most of us will only dream about; 12 countries in 12 months by bike.
Who would have thought that a sport which allegedly originated from American students throwing around pie dishes on the college campuses of 1960s USA would eventually make its way to the villages of South Africa’s Wild Coast?
It was ten years ago when Gina Woolley was offered a job working for Jamie Oliver Ltd that this young woman from the Sundays River Citrus Valley began one of her greatest adventures.
“If this was a crime, we would never do it. We do this for the love of music. We do this to support our children and families,” says Ricardo Goliath, member of Fusion Vocal Group.
“You have to stamp out in some regions because there are no borders on Lake Malawi except for where there are harbours. We were pirates on the lake for a couple of days when we’d stamp out of one country and it would sometimes take us two days to get to the next point where we’d be able to stamp into the next country.”
When I threw a ball to Anna Kournikova before one of her serve points, my throw was not at her desired height and the ball came flying back at me with extra speed. That is a moment I will never forget. I felt so humiliated.
This particular tale is about the serendipity of travel; of coincidence and timing, of friendship. It is a story I have been meaning to tell for some time.
For one of the most talked-about entrepreneurs in Port Elizabeth, Mike Chizeya is very relaxed and down-to-earth. When he is not making coffee or racing between his three Micoffee shops, Mike loves to play a bit of soccer and spend time with his family. "You're famous," I tell him. "Not really," he replies with a grin.
“We would love for the show to restore the raw sense of South African music; for people to come and watch, learn something and put the word out there that our music history is something to be proud of,” vocalist Sharon Zulu said.
It was almost like watching a summarised version of Clegg’s autobiography; his greatest highs and lowest lows laid bare for all of us to see. And it was incredible.
She has worked at Nelspruit Tennis Club for nearly 15 years. She always has a cold beer waiting in the fridge for when you come off the court, and a cooler box of ice in the deep freeze for when she leaves for the day, and you want to stay. And it is all with a smile...
“When MNet said they didn’t want my services anymore, I was happy because I was bored. But people like EFF National Chairperson Dali Mpofu said I just couldn’t let that happen,” Gareth Cliff explained. So he took on one of the largest media companies in the world, Naspers.
