Helderberg(May 2018) Primary - High Schools by AWSUM News

Ruda Landman

For 19 years Ruda Landman was part of South Africans’ Sunday evenings as a co-presenter on Carte Blanche. She left the show in 2007, and since then Ruda presented ‘n Lewe met and VeranderDinge on kykNET and is one of South Africa’s best-known journalist and television personalities. Source: http://www.brightrock.co.za/

It was a great honour for AWSUM to do this interview with her.

Ruda, you grew up in the Northern Cape, Upington to be exact, please tell us about your school career. What school did you attend? Any achievements or great memories? I grew up in small towns all over the Northern Cape – Hartswater, then Keimoes, and boarding school in Upington for my high school years. It shaped who I am. Both your parents were school teachers, as a teenager how did you find that? By the time I got to high school they were no longer actively teaching – my dad had moved on to be an inspector of schools, and my mum stopped teaching. But I learnt what any teachers want to instil: discipline, punctuality, and doing your homework! What did you do after school? How did you end up as a presenter? I studied Afrikaans and English at Stellenbosch University, and did a teaching diploma, but decided I did not want to teach. So I got a job at Die Burger in Cape Town, and later at the Afrikaanse Diens at SABC radio, now RSG. Management at the TV news department were looking for women to read the news in Afrikaans, and I was among three or four who started doing that. It’s a well-known fact that when you started your career you could not speak English & had a very bad Afrikaans accent. Did you ever wish that you could go back to high school and do things differently? I wouldn’t know how – my world was Afrikaans. That’s who I am. When it became necessary, I could and did learn to speak English. As a young conservative Afrikaans lady in the 80’s, the boundary-pushing TV show Carte Blanche was an eye opener for you. Do you have one story/ experience that will stay with you? I can’t narrow it down to one story. We got to know the country in close-up during the transition years of the late 80s and early 90s. It was an amazing personal and professional journey. Your family is the most important thing in your life. Any advice on how to be a big career woman and a great mom and wife? Choose the right partner, and pay attention to the relationship. Find and appreciate other help, in my case Rosie Mgangathe who has been housekeeper, nanny and organiser of our lives since 1981. A lot of our readers invited you into our homes on a Sunday evening on Carte Blanche. What does a normal Sunday look like in the Landman household? The best part of leaving CB was having my Sundays to myself! We might go for a walk or a late breakfast in the morning, and then sit on our stoep, braai, have some good red wine, read, perhaps watch a cop series.

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Distribution AWSUM News is distributed to the following schools in HELDERBERG: Primary Schools: Rhenish, Lochnerhof, Eikestad, Stellenbosch, Somerset-Wes, De Hoop, Hendrik Louw. High Schools: Parel Vallei, Strand, Stellenbosch, Rhenish Girls’, Paul Roos Gimnasium, Hottentots Holland,

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Do you like cooking and what is your speciality? My husband loves to braai. I have developed a whole catalogue of delicious salads to go with that. Otherwise, I make a mean curry. Please explain to our readers what Study Trust is all about and how GRAD: Your Guide to University Success is helping students. This year, South Africa has about 150,000 first-year students at university. Around 60% of them are first-generation, the first in their family to go to university. They have no one to turn to when things get rough, no one to say, “Don’t worry, I’ve walked the road, it will get better. Hang in there.” They need skills like handling money, managing time, mastering huge amounts of information, handling stress. StudyTrust has been administering bursaries for more than 40 years, and they have a support system for the students which includes seminars on all these subjects. I adapted that content, Van Schaik Publishers turned it into a lovely, vibrant booklet (pro bono), and Capitec sponsored printing and distribution of 140,000 copies which were delivered to 22 universities in January. “Tell me your story” is your latest book that was launched in April. What inspired you to write this book? About three years ago, insurance company BrightRock approached me to interview a range of South Africans for their website, The Change Exchange (www.changeexchange.co.za). The idea was to talk about change moments in life – how do you make decisions, or how do you handle change when it is forced upon you. From that flowed the kykNET programme VeranderDinge, for which I did similar interviews. It was wonderful – people shared insight and life lessons and personal emotion, far beyond what I had expected. I wanted to find a wider audience for that, so I selected 18 of the interviews and put it into a book. Why do you think it’s important to hear everyone’s story? Our experience of our reality in this country is so diverse that we can very easily retreat into separate enclaves and start talking about “they” and “them”. That breaks up society and disables our growth and development. How will we understand one another if we don’t listen to the stories? You interviewed really big names, how do you prepare for an interview and any specific interviews that changed your life? You have to find out as much as you can about the person so that the conversation can be about his or her experience, emotion, interpretation, response, not about the facts. The facts are just the washing line to hang the real content on. Again, I can’t single out specific interviews. The experience of talking to such a wide range of South Africans has shifted and shaped my view of our reality. What is next for Ruda Landman? I’m not a planner. A door opens and I consider the possibilities. We’ll have to see!

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HOËRSKOOL STELLENBOSCH (t) 021 887 3082 (e) bw@stellies.com MCC by Louisvale Lewenswetenskappe-leerders van Hoërskool Stellenbosch het die geleentheid gekry om by wynmaker, Mnr Simon Smith te gaan inloer en meer te leer oor die fermentasie proses wat aanleiding gee tot die vorming van MCC-vonkelwyn.

Baljoggies by Varsity cup Dit is hoekom dit lekker is om ‘n skolier aan Hoërskool Stellenbosch te wees... van ons seunshokkiespelers het op Maandagaand 21 Mei die beste sitplekke in die huis gehad tydens die Varsity Beker finaal tussen Maties en Tukkies. Hierdie manne, almal leerders van Hoërskool Stellenbosch, het hierdie voorreg gehad toe hulle as baljoggies opgetree het vir die manne in maroen. Die manne het dit verskriklik baie geniet en was verbaas met die hoë vlak van hokkie wat gespeel is. Rohan Koortzen, Chris Janse van Rensburg, Tiaan Blomerus, Christo Booysen, Strauss Viljoen, Gustav Alberts, Stefan Horn en Joshua Janse van Vuuren.

Dink-of-Sink debatkompetisie Beide Hoërskool Stellenbosch se debatspanne presteer by die jaarlikse Dink-of-Sink debatkompetisie. In die uitdunrondtes wen ons seniorspan (James Bekker, Nicolas de Wet en Nicolaas Horn) teen Hoërskool Durbanville, Hoërskool Swartland en Hoërskool Settlers. Hulle kom in die semifinale rondte teen Hoërskool DF Malan te staan en verloor ongelukkig met die onderwerp “Oorbeskermende ouers berei hulle kinders op die toekoms voor”. Ons juniorspan (Louise Meyer, Walden van der Walt en Anja Venter) vaar uitstekend en wen in die uitdunrondtes teen Hoërskool DF Malan, Parel Vallei en Hoër Meisieskool Paarl. In die semifinaal wen hulle teen Hoërskool Hugenote. Hulle moes ongelukkig die knie buig teen Bloemhof in die finaal met die onderwerp “Langafstandverhoudings kan werk”. Ons juniors tree egter as naaswenners uit die stryd!

Seniors: James Bekker, Nicolas de Wet en Nicolaas Horn.

Juniors: Louise Meyer, Walden van der Walt en Anja Venter.

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LAERSKOOL LOCHNERHOF (t) 021 854 7316 (e) admin@lochnerhof.co.za Koorleiers 2018

Hoofleiers: Kiara en Mieke Onderhoofleiers: Carla en Mieke

Hulpleiers: JD, Zoë, Mieke, Karla Baie geluk!

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Netbal Micheala Birch Gr.6 is na afloop van verskeie netbalproewe gekies vir die 0.12 WP Netbalspan.

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Netball WC trials Three of our u.12 netball players were recently in Hermanus this weekend for the WC trials, Zoë van Niekerk, Charis Williams & Nicole Chitsumba. Coach Chantel Storm was also there as a selector and coach.

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