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.
Jacques Tredoux: 'People must continue to learn, to educate themselves'
Jacques Tredoux always wanted to be a teacher.
Inside Peter Bills
H.O. de Villiers: 'Rugby was like a religion'
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Peter Bills Meets... Sport is synonymous with South Africa. It goes deep into the psyche of its citizens, runs like blood through most South Africans' veins.
Helen Suzman: 'What was happening was so obviously evil, it made it straightforward to protest about it'
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Peter Bills Meets... They could hardly have come from more different social backgrounds. She was the daughter of Lithuanian/Jewish immigrants to South Africa; he, the son of a chief by blood and custom of the Thembu tribe, part of the Xhosa nation.
Helen Lieberman: 'I thought I was looking into what was hell'
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
Peter Bills Meets... Back in the 1960s, a white speech therapist working at Cape Town 's Groote Schuur hospital made a grim discovery in her life.
Donald Qubeka and Liziwe Ngcokoto: 'South Africa is a time bomb that is ticking'
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Peter Bills Meets... Their story is so incredible, you wouldn't bet against a film one day being made based on their experiences. Already, someone in the Netherlands is writing a book about this remarkable South African couple.
Graeme Pollock: 'Cricket has become far too financial'
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Peter Bills Meets... The hand that once guided a piece of willow onto leather, sending it streaking to the boundaries of the cricketing world, was used expressively to make a point.
Gerald Mallinick: 'We were dangling a red rag in front of a bull'
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Peter Bills Meets... In the dark days of South Africa's apartheid past, little victories counted for much.
Gary Player: 'You should not look into the future with fear'
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Peter Bills Meets... He knew that glorious walk to victory, up the 18th fairway at Augusta National to collect the famous green jacket, three times in his life.
Cheeky Watson: 'I am disappointed in the integrity and character of the people leading South African rugby'
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
Peter Bills Meets... Some men, it seems, spend their lives fighting. Not necessarily in a physical sense, although violence and the threat of it is no stranger to Cheeky Watson.
Brett Rightford: 'Every day you learn about wine. If you stop learning you are probably dead'
Monday, 20 April 2009
Peter Bills meets... Brett Rightford, chief winemaker for the Diemersfontein vineyard
Barbara Trapido: 'When you are young you don't look back'
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
Peter Bills Meets... She may be listening to a Monteverdi madrigal, playing gently in the background. Or perhaps on a sunny day, she will be sitting by the canal which runs past the end of her garden in this leafy suburb of Oxford.
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