Tell Me Your Story
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To know each other and understand the whole of our reality, we must hear each other's stories. Journalist Ruda Landman, widely known for her compelling interviews, talks to prominent South Africans about their life choices and how change has affected them. A colourful mosaic of experience emerges as people share stories – from changing careers to coming out, losing a partner or following a calling. The book includes insights by the likes of John Kani, Ferial Haffajee, Pieter-Dirk Uys, Katlego Maboe, Gugu Zulu, Zapiro, ProVerb, Arno Carstens, «Mam' Khanyi» (who takes in street children and orphans), Nick Binedell, Patricia de Lille and Marc Lottering. Revealing and wise, their stories will touch your heart. (All royalties from the sale of this book will go to StudyTrust, an organisation which supports university students.)
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Ruda Landman. Tell Me Your Story
Preface
John Kani: “Just say the truth”
Angel Jones: “Create change and make it happen”
Anton Harber: “Finding a full range of South African voices”
Dineo Ndlanzi (Gogo Dineo): “The healing practice requires huge responsibility”
Arno Carstens: “Ignorance and youth, it’s a brave and wonderful thing”
Gugu Zulu: “This is what I have to make work”
Letshego Zulu: “Be yourself. Change the world!”
Patricia de Lille: “I am forever asking questions”
Jonathan Shapiro: “A term that I have been using is patriotic sceptic”
Katlego Maboe: “You have to take into account the people you influence”
Khanyisile Motsa (Mam’ Khanyi): “I cannot allow this to happen to anyone’s child”
Esmaré Weideman: “Women can do anything”
Marc Lottering: “Jump out of that box”
Nick Binedell: “I am an African”
Ferial Haffajee: “Power doesn’t reside elsewhere; it’s within you”
Pieter-Dirk Uys: “Confront your fear”
ProVerb (Tebogo Thekisho): “Find what makes you unique”
Wouter Kellerman: “We were just playing, experimenting, venturing into the unknown”
Ruda Landman: “Building a shared understanding of our history”
Endnotes
Summary
About the Author
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RUDA LANDMAN
Tell Me Your Story
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John: We didn’t do anything! But we had an incredible run – apart from the fact that every night we would get bomb threats. We’d get a call that there’s a bomb. Colonel Tait from John Vorster Square, the bomb squad, would come with the sniffer dogs. I had a person who drove with me. Sandra was protected too once she got into her car. We decided not to give Sandra the hate mail, because it was terrible. It was terrible, terrible hate mail.
Ruda: What did that mean to you?
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