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.

Shaun Johnson: 'The making into a saint of human beings is very dangerous'

Peter Bills Meets... The subject was, unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela and what has been a widespread deification of the great man's lifelong achievements.

Inside Peter Bills

Rachel Zadok: 'I was so angry at journalists and the media'

Thursday, 21 January 2010

Peter Bills Meets... She says she still feels bruised by the whole affair. Publishing your first novel and finding it short listed for the Whitbread First Novel Award ought to have been an experience to cherish for Rachel Zadok.

Precious McKenzie: 'I thought, no way apartheid would end'

Thursday, 7 January 2010

Peter Bills Meets... In one sense, at 4ft 9ins, there isn't a lot of Precious McKenzie. But it's a case of the old saying – there is more than meets the eye.

Philip Le Roux: 'I became disillusioned with commercial forestry'

Monday, 14 December 2009

Peter Bills Meets... Cape Town is not exactly short of decent views. But the vista from Philip Le Roux's office window is breathtaking. Laid out before him are the sumptuous gardens of Kirstenbosch and the mountains behind as a backdrop, as if in a painting.

Pam Golding: 'I have never felt that I wasn't one of the boys'

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

Peter Bills Meets... She glides serenely into the room, with the grace and elegance of a swan. But like the swan, you do not see the non-stop motion of the legs, propelling Pam Golding here, there, everywhere...

Sherylle Calder: 'When in South Africa we were isolated'

Thursday, 3 December 2009

Peter Bills Meets... Imagine the fantasy of being the most successful sports person in the world.

Mike Miller: 'The biggest problem facing South Africa is the attempt at Africanisation'

Thursday, 3 September 2009

Peter Bills Meets... The fund of goodwill and optimism for South Africa is felt right across the world.

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.