HeyJaredCharmain Naidoo
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- Sep 2, 2026
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Calling a wrap on the gender gap: Mentoring makes movie magic for women in TV (opens the original)
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Hands-on internships prove mentorship works: women now hold major Netflix and Showmax credits, yet South Africa still records only 11% female directors. Although the lack of gender parity in the film and television industry is a global trend, the underrepresentation of women in behind-the-scenes roles in South Africa is alarmingly high. Reports like Gender Matters in the SA Film Industry, based on a study by the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), highlight the continuing challenges in br
Old? Do not fear, your new best friend is here to help (opens the original)
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Itâs impossible to keep up these days. Lucky, then, that AI has the time and patience to teach us. Charmain Naidoo is a journalist and media strategist. Okay. I admit it. Iâve turned into my mother. I am now as technophobic as she was; worse, if thatâs possible. She refused to have a cellphone or use internet banking. âIâm old,â my librarian-history teacher mum would say. âIâve had a lifetime of learning, and Iâm all out of brain capacity.â Iâm tempted to say I know how she
Dog moms dominate: money talks more than biology ticks (opens the original)
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People are choosing to have pets instead of kids, mostly because raising the latter is too expensive. Charmain Naidoo is a journalist and media strategist. I chose not to have children. It was a conscious decision made in my early thirties at the height of my journalism career. Not once did I consider the cost of raising a child. My reasons were more selfish, choosing work and travel and independence over family. Itâs a choice Iâve not regretted â until now. I watch wistfully as my girlfri
Knitting needles can be a cure, as grans and Georgian ladies knew (opens the original)
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Along with producing useful things, old-fashioned, by-hand hobbies reduce anxiety â just ask a perpetual teeth-grinder who found relief by casting on yarn. Charmain Naidoo is a journalist and media strategist. When I imagine my mother, gone these past 26 years, I see her in her garden, humming gently, a pair of secateurs in her muddy gardening-gloved hands. Her back bent â one half of a parenthesis â as she tended her prized roses. Trimming, shaping, pruning, cutting: a tuneless strain, mo
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