Peter Bills
Peter Bills is an award-winning, widely travelled writer for the Independent News & Media group, operating in a variety of fields including sports, travel, politics and general features.
Recently, he has worked on a series of interviews with South Africans from all walks of life including famous freedom fighters, authors, lawyers, teachers, sportsmen and women plus ordinary citizens who have exceptional stories to relate.
This series is entitled 'Peter Bills meets...' and will be published on the Independent website on a weekly basis.
Mike Miller: 'The biggest problem facing South Africa is the attempt at Africanisation'
Peter Bills Meets... The fund of goodwill and optimism for South Africa is felt right across the world.
Inside Peter Bills
Michael Lutzeyer: 'The benefits from the World Cup will last for decades'
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
Peter Bills Meets... It started with a simple camping trip to the Cape's Gansbaai region, back in 1991. Heiner Lutzeyer and his son Michael just wanted a few simple days resting and relaxing close to nature...
Melvyn Wallis-Brown: 'I'm horrified by the pain I inflicted on those fellows'
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Peter Bills Meets... He lives in a Cape Town cottage built for officers before the Boer War. Perhaps not surprising then, that Melvyn Wallis-Brown revels in the subject of history, not least how it has underpinned the structure of his beloved Bishops school.
Margot Janse: 'Mandela still had that aura'
Thursday, 13 August 2009
Peter Bills Meets... The important guests had arrived, 60 of them were in the restaurant. In the kitchen of 'Le Quartier Francais' at Franschoek, you could cut the tension, like a knife through butter.
Luvo Ntezo: 'I would rather be better than the best'
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Peter Bills Meets... Shootings, robberies, assaults: damaging levels of long term unemployment. Young people without jobs and with little hope...
Lungi Sisulu: 'It was pointless fighting and hating'
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Peter Bills Meets... They came at three in the morning, their regular calling time. He still remembers the fear of a 5 year-old boy, awoken in the dark by the shouts, the barking of police dogs and the threats.
Louis Mzomba: 'The Government has to do something'
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Peter Bills meets... Louis Mzomba is a schoolteacher in South Africa. He’s a man in love with his job and his country but sometimes they make him cry. Take the case of Andile.
John Pilger: 'I have watched the political ground shift beneath my feet'
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
He has pursued almost a crusade, a missionary like zeal against the Western world, its inadequacies and corruptions, for almost 40 years. Few politicians of recent times have escaped the withering criticisms, the icy blast of his rhetoric. He once disparagingly called South African former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel "a long haired biker of the 1980s".
John Gainsford: 'When you are young, sometimes you get confused by the headlines'
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Peter Bills... Under the shade of a leafy tree, within a stone's throw of Newlands, his great old stamping ground, John Gainsford reflects on his life and times.
Joel Stransky: 'That single kick changed my life'
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Peter Bills Meets... Joel Stransky's whole life changed the minute the drop goal attempt which he successfully steered between the goalposts at Ellis Park sailed over. It won South Africa the World Cup.
Jacques Tredoux: 'People must continue to learn, to educate themselves'
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Jacques Tredoux always wanted to be a teacher.
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