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September is Will’s Month in South Africa, and while talking about death and our own mortality might not be the easiest conversation, getting your affairs in order is incredibly important.

This week on the “Good Things with Brent Lindeque” podcast, I chatted to Grant Fietze from Capital Legacy about why having an up-to-date Will matters and how it can make an incredibly difficult time easier for the people you love.

Capital Legacy has drafted more than 1.6 million wills since launching in 2012, helping South Africans make estate planning simpler and more accessible.

It’s a conversation about death, yes, but really, it’s much more about life, love and looking after the people who matter most.

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Gugu Zulu was my friend. I still consider him my friend. Ten years after we lost Gugs on Mount Kilimanjaro, I finally had the opportunity to sit down with Letshego Zulu and talk about that mountain, the man we both loved and the incredible life she has built since.

A year after losing Gugs, Letshego returned to Kilimanjaro and reached the summit in his honour. From there, she began the incredibly difficult journey of picking up the pieces and choosing to live, something she would later write about in her memoir, I Choose to Live: Life After Losing Gugu.

Today, Letshego is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, mom and formidable endurance athlete. She runs, she cycles, she takes on massive challenges and she uses her story to inspire women across South Africa.

She's strong, funny, adventurous and just a really lekker South African.

Gugs would be incredibly proud of her. I know I am.

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This week on Good Things with Brent Lindeque, I sat down with one of South Africa’s best-known futurists and trend analysts, Dion Chang.

I thought we were going to spend the whole conversation talking about business, technology and artificial intelligence (AI).

And we did talk about all of that... but so much more!

Dion has built an incredible career spotting the signals that tell us where society is heading. He started out in fashion and media before founding Flux Trends in 2006, and today he describes himself as a “professional cage rattler”, helping businesses understand the cultural, economic and technological shifts happening around them.

But we also spoke about pups.

Dion has been tracking the rise of the DINKWADs (Dual Income, No Kids, With A Dog). It describes couples who are choosing pets over children, but it also points to something much bigger: the changing definition of family and the increasingly important place our animals hold in our lives.

Dion is also trained as an end-of-life companion doula and has done work around pet bereavement, so we spoke about how losing a beloved pup can genuinely be one of the hardest losses a person experiences.

So yes, we spoke about what the future might look like, but one of the loveliest trends Dion is watching has nothing to do with technology at all.. it has four paws, probably sleeps on your bed and is already very much part of the family.

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There’s a South African platform changing the way we think about the people who help keep our homes running.

AskMandla is a WhatsApp-first fintech platform helping households formalise domestic employment, making it easier to manage contracts, UIF registration, payroll, payslips and leave.

And that matters because domestic work is real work. Something as simple as a payslip can give a domestic worker formal proof of income, which can open doors to banking, insurance, savings and credit.

I chatted to AskMandla’s Peter Adolphs on the Good Things poddie about why calling someone “part of the family” is wonderful, but making sure their work is properly recognised and protected is even more important.

It’s a clever South African solution making it easier for employers to do the right thing, while giving domestic workers the dignity and financial recognition they deserve.

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Nkosi “The Rugby Guy” has become one of South African rugby’s most infectious superfans, building a growing online following through his massive personality, his love for the game and some pretty incredible encounters with his sporting heroes.

Nkosi lives with cerebral palsy but he has never allowed that to define what he can do or dream about.

In his own words, “Yes, I’ve got cerebral palsy, but that doesn’t stop me from doing what I love to do.”

And what he loves is rugby. His journey has seen him meet Siya Kolisi, sharing those now-famous massive hugs and even receive a Springbok cap and jersey from Rassie Erasmus. More recently, his adventures have stretched beyond rugby too, including teaching Bryson DeChambeau a very South African “Howzit, boet!” at LIV Golf.

Nkosi is also working on a documentary series about schoolboy rugby while continuing his own medical journey, but behind all the sporting moments is a young man using his platform to show others what is possible.

And this week, Nkosi joins me on the "Good Things with Brent Lindeque" poddie to talk about the man behind “The Rugby Guy”, the dreams that have already come true and the many more he is still chasing.

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