Author: Prudence Makoge
Sometimes, I think about how easy it is for a person’s life to get ruined or dreams to be destroyed. These destructions are mostly caused by taking things lightly, failing to maintain control over our choices, and thinking we can easily bypass certain situations. Self-control is needed to achieve any dream or goal. It is synonymous with self-discipline. When there is self-control, anything is achievable in this world. One day, while I was in a taxi, we passed by the shop where I had learned fashion design before moving away. I noticed my former boss’s daughter inside the shop, completely…
“The business breakfast felt like walking into a room where possibility is alive….” This was how attendee Tabisa Konyashe, one of gsport’s valued guests, described the event held at Henley Business School Africa in Johannesburg, on Thursday, 27 November 2025. The event highlighted the #PowerOfCollaboration, as gsport continues to advocate for greater investment and progress in women’s sport. Konyashe, who is a social cyclist and well-known for her impact cycles, waxed lyrical about just how striking the gsport Business Breakfast was, and what it meant to be in attendance. “It was professional, warm, intentional, and threaded with purpose. I experienced…
Photo Credit: Venus Williams/Instagram Just when the world thought her 2025 comeback couldn’t get any more eventful, Venus Williams added a new chapter to her story. The tennis icon has now released the first photos from her engagement to Italian actor Andrea Preti, offering a quiet glimpse into the day he asked the question back in January. In the photos shared on Instagram, Williams included a simple caption — “Engaged 1/31/25” — confirming the exact date the proposal happened. The images show the couple outdoors with her senior dog, Harry, marking the first public glimpse of what had been a…
The boys are backing the Vodacom Bulls and Stormers to make an Investec Champions Cup statement this weekend. The post KEO & ZELS: Bok-heavy Bulls to star against Bordeaux appeared first on SA Rugby magazine. Source link
In Lawretta Egba’s An Escape to Paris, travelling is not just an act of leaving, but an act of arriving. It is arriving at a deeper sense of self, at clarity, at purpose, and at a version of our lives that might have slipped away if we’d stayed rooted in the familiar. Travel, as Thomas Jefferson says and as Egba reveals, is not done to escape one’s life but to ensure that life does not escape us. This memoir wraps her first encounter in Paris in a vivid, emotional bubble, highlighting the intensity, confusion, wonder and tenderness that colour her…
South Africa began their FIH Hockey Women’s Junior World Cup campaign with a 4-1 over Austria in their opening match. It is the nation’s ninth appearance at the event and their first meeting with Austria at this level which added an extra layer of anticipation to the start of the tournament. With England and China also in the pool both teams understood how important a positive start would be. South Africa settled quickly when Leah du Plessis ran onto a through ball and showed patience to round the keeper and roll the ball into the back of the net. Team…
West Ham midfielder Lucas Paqueta has been warned about his behaviour but will avoid an extended ban from the Football Association for his reaction to being sent off against Liverpool.The 28-year-old was shown two yellow cards in quick succession for dissent by referee Darren England during West Ham’s 2-0 home defeat on Sunday. The punishment was imposed for persistently arguing over a decision to award a foul against his team.Before leaving the field, the Brazilian continued to argue with officials and sarcastically applauded England’s decision.”As guidance, we’ve issued West Ham United’s Lucas Paqueta with a warning and reminder of his…
In his new memoir How Depression Saved My Life, media entrepreneur and storyteller Chude Jideonwo shares for the first time, details of the darkest moment of his life which is the day he almost took his own life on Lagos’s Eko Bridge. The memoir, published by Narrative Landscape Press (publisher of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Femi Otedola), spans 2014 to 2024 and traces a decade‑long journey through success, mental illness and healing. From running a presidential campaign to rebuilding a life of purpose through WithChude. “For a long time, I had dealt with a troublesome twitching on my right…
Johannesburg’s title defence took another knock-on day two of the SPAR National Netball Championships in Boksburg as the three-time defending champions were held to a draw by Mangaung at Dr EG Jansen High School in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni, on Tuesday, 2 December 2025. Tuesday’s setback followed their opening-day defeat to Cape Town, who remain unbeaten in the tournament so far, and Coach Elsjé Jordaan’s side suffered a sluggish start in a rematch of last year’s final, which Johannesburg edged by a single goal. The defending champs found themselves 8-0 down before registering their first goal but, determined not to let the…
It was a night to remember for African talent at the 2025 Gotham Awards in New York on Monday, December 1. Sopé Dìrísù took home Outstanding Lead Performance for “My Father’s Shadow,” making history as the first Nigerian film to be officially selected by the Cannes Film Festival. On the same evening, Akinola Davies Jr. won Breakthrough Director for the same project, a film already celebrated with multiple accolades, including a Special Mention for the Caméra d’Or and Best Director at the British Independent Film Awards. Davies accepted Dìrísù’s award on his behalf, as the actor could not attend the…