20 Questions: 20 Questions with Reitumetse Pilane

Get to know Daily Maverick reporter Reitumetse Pilane beyond the byline. Dynamite in a small package, and living proof that some of the biggest dreams can start in Benoni.

How to Get Away with Murder is God’s greatest gift to humanity. The sci-fi series, Travelers, is my most recent favourite.

What is the last thing on your phone that you took a screenshot of?

A text message from my news-avoidant friend that read “I’ll call you later, but you need to be prepared to explain the Phala Phala scandal to me”. It made my day!

“I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less” have similar meanings even though they sound like opposites. One says you reached rock bottom on the caring scale, and the other implies you could sink lower. What creative ways to say “I really don’t care”?

Never sleep with an empty chair facing your bed because spirits might sit and watch you sleep. I’m not really the superstitious type, but the scary ones get to me!

If you could relive one specific experience, what would it be?

I would love to relive a day from my childhood. Adulting is a scam!

If you could live as someone else for the day, who would it be and why?

I just graduated and have been employed for about five minutes, but joining Daily Maverick has been a dream come true.

You’ve just been arrested. What crime were you likely to have committed?

I broke a law that I didn’t know existed in a moment of absent-mindedness.

If you weren’t working in your current role, what industry would you be in?

I think I’d be in the fitness industry, working as a personal trainer.

Half of my wardrobe. I don’t own a lot of clothes, and I’m a proud outfit repeater.

I eat way too much township achar. I’m currently taking a break, but I have been known to put it on everything and sometimes eat it on its own.