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Our Women of the World share their stories, thoughts, ideas, influences and inspirations with us. Their words and actions have touched the lives of thousands of people across the globe. Their commitment to sharing their wisdom with us in order to enrich our lives has made this possible.

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I Love Ginger!

I Love Ginger!

Spice4Life News

Mary's beloved Jamaican nanny, Jennifer, made her crazy about ginger.

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IESE-IWEC Scholarship Awardee - Yewande Zaccheaus

IESE-IWEC Scholarship Awardee - Yewande Zaccheaus

Spice4Life News

Yewande is the CEO of Eventful Ltd, the leading events planning and consulting company in Nigeria.

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a journey down the yellow brick road

a journey down the yellow brick road

Magdalena Zukowski

Helping You Embrace The Moment and Fall Inlife

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Why Are Cakes So Expensive?

Why Are Cakes So Expensive?

Sherree Lee Kruger CEO Supakids and Supacakes

So many people have the idea that cakes made by professionals are expensive. 

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Projects that make a Difference

Projects that make a Difference

Petanque Consultancy

In February this year Pétanque Consultancy teamed up with iLivetoLead International (iL2L), teaching project management skills as part of their dynamic international leadership training programme for young women. An integral part of the training programme is the delivery of a community project.

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Hlubi Mboya

Spotlight on Hlubi Mboya

Spice4Life News

Through her famous role as the HIV positive Nandipha in the hugely popular daily soap Isidingo, HlubiMbova has become an unwitting yet highly willing HIV/AIDS ambassador throughout Africa, embracing the opportunity the show has given her to raise awareness of the disease and becoming a role model, educator, agony aunt and nurse wherever she travels.

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Linda Trim – Director of Giant Leap

Linda Trim – Director of Giant Leap

Linda Trim

Linda Trim is the Director of Giant Leap, a Johannesburg-based company specialising in office workspace design. In this profile, she discusses her personal interests, likes and inspirations.

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Dedication to Feriel Berraies Guigny

Dedication to Feriel Berraies Guigny

Spice4Life News

Our sister in Libya, you are in our thoughts and prayers during this time of unrest.

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Julia Susan Wills – Beauty Therapist, Lecturer and Principal of Beauty School

Julia Susan Willis

Spice4Life News

Julia Wills is a qualified beauty therapist with a BA degree in Psychology from UCT. On the 1st August 2011 she opened her own beauty school in Somerset West.

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Lebo Madiba

Lebo Madiba - Communications Professional

Spice4Life News

Lebo Madiba has close on 15 years experience working as a communications professional and has been involved in providing strategic counsel , government relations and reputation management services to some of the country’s blue chip companies.

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Skydiving Cape Town

Hello, my name is Naomi.

Naomi van Ree

SPICE4LIFE intern Naomi van Ree. "To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you somebody else,vis to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting." - E.E. Cummings

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Whats Growing In Your Soul Garden?

Whats Growing In Your Soul Garden?

Ayanda Ngwenya

“Now is the season of life. Perhaps you’re awakening from spiritual hibernation, crawling slowly out of a dark cave of disillusionment and discouragement. Don’t be afraid to try again.

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Dealing with life's Crossroads

Dealing with life's Crossroads

Muriel Connell

Our life is a Journey…We are always ‘on the road” In life we each in our own way have travelled many kilometres. Experienced much, lived.

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One from the road greetings

One from the road greetings

Mala Bali

I thought you’d enjoy reading about Indian festival celebrations centering around harvest time the theme linking our country from east to west, north to south at this time of the year.

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Cheeky Map to Social Etiquette minefield

Cheeky Map to Social Etiquette minefield

Kirstin Rowe

I am not a hugger. I don’t like hugging people I barely know. And I really don’t like the awkwardness an impending hug brings with it.

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On finding Mr Right and other curvaceous issues

On finding Mr Right and other curvaceous issues

Angelika Hammel

Why is it, that when everything in life seems to be at peace and harmony and you think your life is so on track and you should be thankful and happy, that you stand in front of your mirror and wonder:“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all!”

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Mothers against drunk driving

Mothers against drunk driving

Spice4Life Archive

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) - www.madd.org - circulated this poem to raise awareness and support.

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Marge Simpson on Playboy?!

Marge Simpson on Playboy?!

Tessa Kerrich – Walker

Oh good. The world is no longer satisfied with human women selling their bodies in porn mags, but now asks the same of cartoon characters. Great! Let’s sexualise every female form!

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Welcome to South Africa

Welcome to South Africa

Veronica Prusent

South Africa is a unique landscape and diverse, mixed cultures, in South Africa love is our nature, & ubuntu (compassion) is our profound key.

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Living Messages

Living Messages

Cynthia Chitongo

Stella is an enthusiastic and passionate grade one teacher who loves her work.

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Intolerance

Intolerance

Lizelle Summers

What has made us so intolerant towards one another?

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She

She

Vuyokazi Yonke

Golden sun rises with her smile Constant as layer of blue sky high

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My shweet side of life

My shweet side of life

Muriel Connell

When do we reach a stage of life when we can finally become real?….Dropping the mask of being all things to all people.

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Penguins and Happiness

Penguins and Happiness

Jo Hazelhurst

My friend says he is happy. I forgot to ask, what happiness means to him. He is engaged to a woman he loves and adores.

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Time is of essence

Time is of essence

Veronica Prusent

They say the humor you have. It’s a healing to others

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Season of the soul

Season of the soul

Muriel Connell

Our life flows in Seasons. The four seasons tell a story of transformation in our life.

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Home coming

Home coming

Muriel Connell

What a pleasure to see, smell and embrace the familiar after being way from home , but also the gnawing sadness of knowing you have left loved ones behind

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Understanding a Tsunami Rocked World

Understanding a Tsunami Rocked World

Alida Raubenheimer

For close to 10 years I have covered the world's greatest, best and even most gruesome tales, but today a natural disaster is shaking through my whole being.

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Message to the women of South Africa

Message to the women of South Africa

Spice4Life Archive

SPICE4LIFE asked a number of people to share their message for the women of South Africa with us at the Women's Show.

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Honour thy

Honour Thy

Ayanda Ngwenya

Shouldn’t we honor our musicians when they are alive and able to use the money they make on their music to produce better sounds, hire more experienced producers, and get an autographed copy of the cd which might be worth much more and hire or build state of the art studios?

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Amanda Boardman

Spice4Life Archive

Inspiring and educating in Eden

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She is you; she is me

She is you; she is me

Colleen Figg

In the news a while ago: In Welkom, a girl of 13 faces her rapist, a certain Theunis Prinsloo (now aged 52) who sexually assaulted her since she was 8 years old.

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Saartjie Baartman

Saartjie Baartman

Spice4Life Archive

A Spice4life reader sent us this plea and accompanying poem.

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Reflections on workers day

Reflections on workers day

Martina Loetscher

The widespread custom in the northern and southern hemisphere of celebrating the first day in the lovely month of May was inspired by events in the United States.

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Movement for sharing of life stories in South Africa

Movement for sharing of life stories in South Africa

Spice4Life Archive

Our vision; South Africans who love, appreciate and understand each other

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He Ain't Heavy, He's my Brother

He Ain't Heavy, He's my Brother

Cynthia Chitongo

Every year as I was growing up, we celebrated Commonwealth Day at Primary School.

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