Innholdsfortegnelse for 14-Dec-17 i Drum English

FUN FESTIVE GIFTS FINDING great gifts that offer good value and won’t break your budget is becoming harder every day. It’s not as if our salaries suddenly grow when the festive season rolls around, after all. This is where we’d like to step in. We’ve brought out a special edition homework magazine for parents who want to get a head-start on school items for next year. It’s a gift that will keep on giving when you have to help them with their homework! For the lady who loves to look fine, get a copy of DRUM Hair, and for the foodie in your life there’s DRUM Food – a wonderful collection of recipes that will keep the cook in your life busy for months. Email johan.terblanche@media24.com to order these bang-for-your-buck…

IT WAS absolutely perfect and if she were to do it again she wouldn’t change a thing. Simple and elegant is what former Generations actress Xoli Zondi wanted for her big day – and it ticked all the boxes. She didn’t want anything complicated – she’d had enough of that playing Zodwa with all her visions, nightmares and love triangles. Xoli (34) was cool, calm and collected when she said “I do” to the love of her life, ward councillor Phiwokuhle Zamisa, surrounded by friends and family at the CityHill Church in Hillcrest outside Durban. Not even being two hours late for her wedding brought out the crazy in her, as it would’ve in Zodwa. Xoli took it all in her stride, putting the final touches to her make-up, hairstyle…

IT COULD’VE been the start of a golden career. Blessed with a voice that can make you tear up and a backstory of tragedy and hardship that tugged at the heartstrings of all who heard it, he had people rooting for him left, right and centre. Sure, he didn’t win Idols SA but as runner-up to teenager Paxton Fielies, Mthokozisi Ndaba had attracted the attention of the music industry – and plenty of past runners-up have gone on to bigger and better things. But the 25-year-old singer has hardly showered himself in glory since the Idols finale, barely congratulating Paxton, refusing to appear at post-contest press conferences and going to ground. Mzansi Magic, the channel that screens Idols, issued a statement saying he was receiving counselling to deal with his…

COCONUT CUPCAKES MAKES 12 CUPCAKES PREPARATION: 15 MIN BAKING: 20 MIN 125ml (½c) coconut cream 15ml (1T) lemon juice 20ml (4t) unsalted butter, softened 80ml (¹/ ³ c) cooking oil 180ml (¾c) sugar 2 eggs 10ml (2t) vanilla essence 375ml (1½c) cake flour 7,5ml (1½t) baking powder 1ml (¼t) salt ICING 500ml (2c) icing sugar 60ml (¼t) coconut cream 60g butter, softened 1 tub (230g) cream cheese toasted coconut silver edible balls Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line two cupcake tins with cupcake liners. 1 Mix the coconut cream and lemon juice and set aside. 2 In a large bowl, beat together the butter, oil and sugar until well combined. Add the eggs one at a time, whisking well after each addition. Stir in the vanilla essence. 3 In a…

BIG BLUE Give your French manicure a radical twist – paint your nails blue and the crescent black. TANGERINE Add some summer fun to your look by painting your nails bright orange. PRETTY IN PINK Be ladylike in soft or brighter hues of this old favourite. PASTEL Pastel hues are perfect for summer, but these shades tend to get streaky when applied. If this happens, add a thin third coat of nail polish and finish off with a topcoat. HEAVY METAL From glitter to metallics in shades of silver, gold and copper, make your nails shine this season. GET ARTY Take tips from this model’s nail art. We love how she used green, orange, red, white and blue to create something funky and fun. HOW TO MAKE IT LAST If…

‘As much as it isn’t always fun being on your own, you don’t want to rush this’ Q WHO SHOULD I CHOOSE? I’m 20 and live in Pretoria. I’m in a relationship with my baby daddy, but I’m also in love with someone else. I love my baby daddy and he wants to marry me. But I’m not sure how to choose between them, or how to tell my family as the other guy is my late sister’s husband. CONFUSED, SMS A Why are you putting yourself in an impossible situation and confusing yourself? You have someone who loves you and wants to do right by you and your child. If you truly love him, as you say you do, you should be focusing on building a future with him…

RHYTHM CITY Bash (SIPHIWE MTSHALI) agrees to David’s unusual proposition and Cuba calls on Pastor Isaac for help. Big Man moves in on the 66ers as David tries to ward off his assassin. Rene gets caught in the middle of more goat drama and Dumisani lets the team down. David is sure he knows who took out the hit on him and Dumi is approached by a stranger who gives him money. GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY Dumisani shows up at S’khaftin and is shocked to see Brian there. Mazwi wants more from the land deal or he’s out. Uncle Kabisi’s arrival at the Moroka house doesn’t go down too well. Fana has made up his mind and won’t back down. Nolwazi (THANDO THABETHE) calls Zitha out on acting like a teenager.…

FREE FIRE *** ACTION COMEDY. 2016. 90 MIN. 18LV. In the ’70s a group of IRA fighters meet up with international gangsters in a warehouse to buy guns – but things go spectacularly wrong. The movie, starring BRIE LARSON, is one long gunfight that’s often violent, but funny too. The characters, their individual feuds and smart dialogue will keep you glued to the screen. Best of all is SA actor Sharlto Copley as an arms dealer with a wonderfully silly SA accent. – GYS VISSER THE MUMMY** ACTION HORROR. 2017. 111 MIN. 13HV. This is certainly a first: a dull TOM CRUISE movie. Tom plays Nick, an American soldier who is cursed by an ancient Egyptian princess to become her undead husband and help her take over the world –…

READ THIS SLEEPING BEAUTIES BY STEPHEN KING AND OWEN KING (HODDER & STOUGHTON) R259* A sleeping illness called the Aurora virus has hit the town of Dooling in West Virginia. Women who fall asleep are slipping into comas, enveloped in a cocoon-like web. And it’s not simply a case of ripping off the cocoon and waking them – if they’re disturbed they turn into zombies who kill until they fall asleep again. As the virus starts spreading the town’s sheriff, Lila, arrests Eve – a mysterious half-naked woman who kills a couple of drug dealers – and takes her to the town’s prison. Lila’s husband and the prison psychiatrist, Clint, soon realises Eve has something to do with Aurora. It’s a fascinating story but it gets bogged down by the…

‘Man, all I gotta do is shake my leg? I want to do that one day’ BRUNO MARS BRUNO MARS (32) has landed himself in a spot of trouble after slapping a photo of himself as a pint-sized Elvis Presley impersonator on his social media accounts! The Uptown Funk hitmaker – who posted the adorable black-and-white shot back in June as part of the Way Back Wednesday craze – is now reportedly being sued by photographer Catherine McGann who took the 1989 image. She says she still owns the copyright to it and the singer didn’t ask her permission to use it. Bruno previously revealed to Parade, “As a kid, I didn’t know what he [Elvis Presley] was singing about, it was just the fact that he got the girls…

IF YOU’RE looking for a job and have debt, this can limit your chances of landing your dream position. I recently applied for a job in retail, and when they told me I was one of the best candidates I was so excited. My excitement didn’t last long when I was told they would check my credit status. As a young unemployed person drowning in debt, this means I could miss out on a lot of opportunities, like buying a car, getting a home loan, etc, as is the case for many South Africans. As we are nearing the festive season, many will be tempted to buy things on credit to impress friends and families – forgetting they’ll be left to pay their debt on their own. Be wise fellow…

BY THE time you read this, President Jacob Zuma will have mere days left as head of the ruling party. Under his watch much has happened – people have been hired and fired, the rand has plummeted, the economy has suffered and the state has been captured. All of which has led many to rejoice at the fact that, come 2019, he will become “an ordinary voter”, as he puts it, at his local Nkandla branch of the ANC. Yet there is more than a year to go until the general elections – and the million dollar question now is, will Zuma still wield power and influence after the elective conference closes on 20 December? We went looking for answers to this and other questions as Zuma’s last year at…

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IT'S a common myth that people who suffer from depression can’t get life cover. They can, and their premiums aren’t necessarily higher because of their illness. Long-term insurance products for those suffering from depression tend to make use exclusions instead. We explain what they are and how they’re applied. BEFORE YOU SIGN UP When you take out a policy you’ll be asked on the application form if you suffer or have suffered from depression, anxiety or stress, or if you’ve experienced problems with your nervous system or mental health. Depression presents in a variety of ways and the insurance company has to determine the severity of your condition. By law you’re obligated to disclose such a condition to the insurer because it can influence the risk analysis and conditions of…

TO-DIE-FOR OBITUARIES She leaves behind a brother and 117 cats. Passed away in a failed stunt that’s been viewed more than 40 million times on YouTube. Was always quick to point out others’ grammatical errors. He is survived by his parents and animatronic wife, Elizabot. NOVEL APPROACH A guy goes to his local library and asks if he can take out George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm. After a search the librarian reports back that the book has gone missing but that she’ll let the guy know if they find it. A few days later he gets a call from the librarian. “We found Animal Farm,” she tells him. “Our intern had placed it in the section for dairy and poultry.” TWISTED SENSE OF HUMOUR A guy walks into a bar…

‘The secret is staying in your own lane and doing things at your own time and pace’ I’D FELT depressed before but this was a new low. I was tired and drained, but not the kind of tired that could be put right by sleep. It could only be eradicated by divine intervention or a new sense of purpose. Basically I was lost. At the tender age of 19 I’d taken a good look at the world and come to the conclusion it was a vicious cycle. To me it seemed repetitive and predictable. Everyone spoke about the same things, aimed for the same goals and fitted the same mould. Individuality was just a word in the dictionary. You’re born, go to school, spend your life working towards monetary wealth,…

FIFTY years ago a cardiac surgeon from Beaufort West took a heart into his hands – and incredibly, miraculously, transferred it into a human body. On 3 December 1967 Professor Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, putting South Africa on the medical map. Half a century later, that procedure remains a major breakthrough in the history of medicine. And yet fewer and fewer heart transplants are taking place in SA every year. In fact, in the past 17 years, the number of heart transplants done in the country has dropped by nearly half because of a lack of registered donors. According to the Organ Donor Foundation, less than two out of every 1 million South Africans are organ donors. “People…

FIRST TIME EJECTION FOR LEBRON Basketball star LEBRON JAMES was ejected from the court for the first time in his NBA career in a game against the Miami Heats. It was the first time in 1 082 games that the Cleveland Cavaliers player was removed from the court after he expressed anger at a lack of a foul call. “I got fouled,” James said after the game. “I showed my frustration to the ref and he sent me to the locker room.” The legendary player scored 21 points with 12 rebounds, six assists and five steals before he was taken out of the game. “I said what I had to say and I moved on but (ref Kane Fitzgerald) decided I should get two (technical fouls).” His team still managed…

‘I’m lucky to have you in my life and even luckier to call you my wife’ KEVIN HART JUMANJI star KEVIN HART and his wife, ENIKO, celebrated son Kenzo Kash’s speedy discharge from hospital after his birth in November with an Insta pic of the new parents kissing in the parking lot with Kenzo in his pram. “Little Man is coming home,” Kevin captioned the picture. “As you can see @enikonhart is up & running & back to normal. She’s a rockstar. The strength that she displayed over these past 3 days was like nothing that I have ever seen. I’m lucky to have you in my life and even luckier to call you my wife . . . I love you woman.” Kenzo is Eniko’s first child, and Kevin’s…

JENNIFER LOPEZ (48) and her bae, ALEX RODRIGUEZ (42), gave their kids matching sets of red and black pyjamas and had them all pose for the cutest picture. “Twinning x5,” A-Rod captioned the photo of JLo’s twins MAX and EMME (9) and niece LUCIE WREN LOPEZ-GOLDFRIED (9), with his daughters, ELLA (9) and NATASHA (13). “Amor amor amor,” he also wrote on his Insta post along with the same photo. Jenny also shared the picture of the kids and captioned it, “Thanksgiving Eve,” with a red heart emoji. There were no pics of J-Rod in matching PJs, but the couple have already said they consider themselves winning at twinning. “We are very much twins,” Alex told Vanity Fair magazine of his girlfriend. “We’re both Leos; we’re both from New York;…

After a rough year Fast & Furious star Tyrese Gibson visited South Africa with his wife, Samantha Lee, to recharge his batteries. DRUM readers share their feelings on having him in Mzansi. He is my everyday #mancrush . . . I love, love Tyrese Gibson. CHRISTINA LERATO It’s always the broke ones that come to SA! What’s he going to do here, vele? KHOLIWE MTSHALI Yoh, he is full of drama, he’s going to go on Instagram and cry his heart out in Mzansi. Maybe he is here for a healer. NTHABISENG NTORI-KHOMBA So he has started wasting the money he got from Will Smith and the wife, I see. ONALETHATA OUNAH NTABENG Oh gosh, has he brought that madness of his here? Welcome, nonetheless! CLARIS DICKENS He’s not stable…

HE PROMISED it would be explosive – yet no one was ready for the multiple bombs he dropped in his recently launched book. Shocking claims about his love life, Satanism, the use of muthi at his previous club, Orlando Pirates, and his volatile relationship with Mamelodi Sundowns coach Pitso Mosimane are just some of the revelations the footballer made in his autobiography, The Curse of Teko Modise. Teko is certainly no stranger to controversy – he’s one of Mzansi’s flashiest football players and has been the talk of the town for splashing millions on his rides. Who can forget the snazzy black R2,8 million Aston Martin he bought? Now the 34-year-old fiercely private footballer is causing a stir with the disclosures in his book. The soccer star promised as much…

CHICKEN WALDORF SALAD WITH SORGHUM FLATBREADS The chunky flatbread adds a lovely crunch to this salad. SERVES 4 PREPARATION: 20 MIN COOKING: 7-10 MIN FLATBREADS 375ml (1½c) cake flour 125ml (½c) coarsely ground sorghum 160ml ice water 60ml (¼c) olive oil 5ml (1t) salt GARLIC BUTTER 60ml (¼c) butter 4 cloves garlic, crushed handful parsley, finely chopped SALAD 1 iceberg lettuce, shredded 4 sticks celery, chopped 1 cooked chicken, deboned and roughly shredded 50g walnuts or cashew nuts, roughly chopped DRESSING 60ml (¼c) mayonnaise 60ml (¼c) full-cream natural yoghurt finely grated zest of 1 lemon and 45ml (3T) of the juice Preheat the oven to 200°C. Grease two large baking sheets with oil. 1 FLATBREADS Put all the ingredients together in the bowl of a food processor and pulse until…

SAGITTARIUS 22 NOV – 20 DEC With the sun still in your sign, it’s a week to make the most of your creative talents. If there’s a latent artist inside you waiting to be born, now is the time to develop your artistic bent. Whether you want to sign up for art classes, enrol in a writing course or learn to play a musical instrument, seize the day. On another tack, when it comes to your love life it’s probably better to impress him/her with deeds rather than words. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 40, 9, 48, 11, 22, 41 CAPRICORN 21 Dec – 20 Jan Your planet, Saturn, moves into Capricorn this week to start its lengthy journey through your sign. You can look forward to feeling at ease doing your…

MIDDLE-EARTH: SHADOW OF WAR PS4, XBOX ONE, PC Almost every part of Shadow of War is better than its predecessor – but not all. The expanded nemesis system is great and is still the series’ best feature, combat is fun and varied and the world is a joy to traverse. But the story misses the mark as the narrative feels like it’s been twisted to fit the gameplay. Gripes aside, this is a brilliant game which offers hours of fun. – GARETH SEILER SOURCES: BILLBOARD.COM, EW.COM, ROLLINGSTONE.COM, THR.COM, VIBE.COM…

1 A rainbow has . . . colours? A. Five B. Six C. Seven D. Eight 2 What is orthopterology? A. The study of eye diseases B. The study of snakes C. The study of mostly plant-eating insects D. The study of mountains 3 What’s the longest recorded flight of a chicken? A. 13 seconds B. 30 seconds C. One minute D. Five minutes 4 There are . . . letters in the Hawaiian alphabet? A. 10 B. 13 C. 20 D. 25 5 What is the capital of Zimbabwe? A. Gaborone B. Lusaka C. Lilongwe D. Harare 6 How many years are in a score? A. 12 B. 13 C. 18 D. 20 7 When was the South African Constitution adopted? A. 1992 B. 1994 C. 1996 D. 1998…

SHE’S glowing with health and happiness and looking forward to welcoming her new baby into the world – it’s safe to say she’s living her best life. But behind the bubbly exterior and big smile lie years of pain, anger and suffering. In fact, Mmathabo Mooa has been through so much in her short life, she once considered ending it all. She was raped twice as child – once at the age of seven and then again two years later – before turning to a life of prostitution when she was just a teenager. For Mmathabo, living at home had become unbearable and selling her body on the street was preferable to that. But despite her hardships, she refuses to be called a victim – she’s a survivor, the gutsy…

‘My victory didn’t come about with muthi – it was through practise’ HE TRAINED long and hard to retain his coveted championship crown. For weeks he religiously followed a rigorous exercise routine, working up a sweat while jogging, running in challenging sand and racing up the unforgiving hills of the Eastern Cape. Zolani Tete pushed through the pain every day knowing what was at stake: retaining the shiny World Boxing Organization bantamweight championship belt he’d worked so hard for when he beat Arthur Villanueva over 12 long rounds in April. It turns out the bantamweight boxer had nothing to worry about. The world title fight he’d prepared so hard for was over before he could even work up a sweat. Tete made history and set a new world record when…

STEP aside Justice League – there’s a new set of sensational superheroes in town! Rapper KHULI CHANA, rapper and poet SHO MADJOZI, photographer, blogger and stylist Trevor Stuurman, and photographers Fabrice Monteiro and Osborne Macharia have teamed up for a task of global importance. The artists want to change how the world thinks about Africa and its people. They’ve recently collaborated under the banner One Source Live where pictures of them portrayed as modern superheroes inspired by Africa’s history and mythology were revealed. Khuli, who spearheads the campaign, says he connects with his character, Dragon. “Dragon speaks blue fire. I can relate to him because everything I have I had to speak it into existence. As a rapper I use the power of the word to change lives.” We caught…

KENDALL JENNER is the world’s highest-paid model, according to Forbes, which recently released its 2017 list of top-earning models. She takes over from GISELE BÜNDCHEN, who’d been No 1 since 2002. ASHLEY GRAHAM also cracked the top 10 – a first for a plus-size model – while GIGI HADID and ROSIE HUNTINGTONWHITELEY tied in fifth place. 1 KENDALL JENNER (22) $22 million (R301 million) Instagram followers 85 million 2 GISELE BÜNDCHEN (37) $17,5 million (R239 million) Instagram followers 13,6 million 3 CHRISSY TEIGEN (32) $13,5 million (R185 million) Instagram followers 15,1 million 4 ADRIANA LIMA (36) $10,5 million (R147 million) Instagram followers 11,4 million 5 GIGI HADID (22) $9,5 million (R133 million) Instagram followers 36,9 million 6 ROSIE HUNTINGTON- WHITELEY (30) $9,5 million (R130 million) Instagram followers 7,6 million 7…

IT’S no surprise, really, but BEYONCÉ is the world’s highest-paid woman in music, having earned a massive $105 million (R1,4 billion) this year. Forbes magazine compiled its annual list of top earners, based on their pre-tax earnings from June 2016 to 2017, with information from Nielsen SoundScan, Poll-star, the RIAA and interviews with industry insiders. Last year saw the release of Queen B’s smash hit Lemonade, which gave the hitmaker her sixth solo No 1. Her Formation World Tour grossed a quarter of a billion dollars. Here’s a look at the rest of the top 10 highest-paid women in music. 2 ADELE $69 million (R944 million) The Grammy winner turned down millions in sponsorship deals over the years, but makes serious seven-figure money from touring. 3 TAYLOR SWIFT $44 million…