Innholdsfortegnelse for 30-Aug-18 i Drum English

DATING these days is pretty difficult. We’re all so busy all the time with work, kids, family, friends, and church – where are we supposed to even find a gap for love? When we do, it’s not always easy and the rules have certainly changed over the years. So what’s a modern person to do when faced with tricky relationship issues? Turn to page 42 to get some great advice from experts we spoke to. They’ll advise you on how to deal with being disillusioned by someone you thought you knew well to dealing with dating after heartache. There are also good tips on handling blind dates and all the advice is really practical. Until next week, THE DRUM TEAM We’d love to hear from you on some of your…

Unwind with 117 great brain games in the first issue of DRUM Puzzles (R32)! This magazine is perfect for puzzle lovers of any skill level – beginners and experts. Solve classic crosswords and arrow puzzles, crack codebreakers, have a go at spot the difference with celeb pictures, become the master of sudoku and more! The solutions are included at the back of the magazine. DRUM Word Search (R42) offers hours of word-search fun. Sift through a maze of letters for hidden words in 101 great puzzles. Puzzles are grouped in themes and there’s a section for kids that will help expand their vocabulary with themes such as animals, superheroes and more. Get your copy in stores or order from Johan Terblanche at johan.terblanche@media24.com  or 021-406-4962.…

WE’VE been shining a light on fraud, scams, banking and money matters – we trust the tips will have made a difference. Your bank protects your hard-earned money, but it’s up to you to protect your unique PIN and keep your personal details safe so that fraudsters don’t hack your account or obtain your details online. What to look out for Fraudsters try to duplicate your card by “skimming” or copying your card details with a device they place in ATM slots. This allows them to withdraw your money and steal from you. You may have heard of people falling victim to this form of fraud. Make sure you are safe and ensure the ATM you are going to use was not tampered with before you withdraw money – look…

On 1 August 2017, a remarkable and unorthodox event took place in the social media space: the launch of a poetry competition in all 11 official languages to serve South Africans as a source of comfort and consolation. Sponsored by AVBOB Mutual Assurance Society, a competition of this reach was unprecedented in South Africa. And while a modest 5 000 poems were anticipated, 20 774 were finally entered. Of these, 3 108 were published on www.avbobpoetry.co.za.From there, three poems in each language category were selected, and at a gracious gala evening on 20 June 2018, the AVBOB Poetry Prize was presented to the first-placed poets.…

N THESE tough economic times we could all do with some extra financial advice. These reads are filled with valuable tips on how you can save or make money. RICH DAD, POOR DAD BY ROBERT KIYOSAKI It’s widely regarded as one of the best personal finance books on the market and still sells well despite its first edition being published 21 years ago. Robert offers advice on how to improve your financial IQ, how to become financially independent, what to teach your kids about money and the difference between good and bad debt, among other things. Using the tale of his two “dads” – one his real father who wasn’t very wealthy, the other a friend’s father who became his “rich dad” and taught him about wealth – he makes…

GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY Tau desperately tries to get hold of some very important leverage. Wandile gets the shock of her life from what Maggie’s profile reveals. Jack sends a message to the underworld. Tau is like a dog with a bone – he's not going to give up! Zitha (ZOE MTHIYANE) struggles not to say "I told you so" after seeing the gossip pages. ISIDINGO When the walls start closing in on them, the miners start to turn on each other. Hendrik asks a huge favour of Zandre. Time is not on Majola (YONDA THOMAS) and Ntombi’s side as they attempt to find Roman. The Lategans are rocked by allegations of racism. A scheming Mavusana makes life tough for Sechaba. RHYTHM CITY Sabelo (ISHMAUEL SONGO) gets some encouragement at last.…

12 STRONG WAR DRAMA. 2018. 133 MIN. 16LV. The day after the 9/11 attacks on the USA, a team of special forces soldiers volunteered to be the first Americans to go to the Middle East to fight alongside the Northern Alliance, a group of Afghans fighting the TaIiban. The US soldiers, led by Captain Mitch Nelson (CHRIS HEMSWORTH), fought on unfamiliar terrain on horseback. The superb cast shine in this riveting tale of bravery in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. – LYNN ELY MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH  CURE SCI-FI. 2018. 143 MIN. 16HLV. In the dystopian sci-fi trilogy’s final instalment, Thomas (DYLAN O’BRIEN) and his rebel friends rescue a brother-in-arms from scientists who hope to find a cure for a world-destroying virus by experimenting on those immune to it.…

Although the African elephant is the world’s largest land animal by mass, at around 5,5m the giraffe with its long neck is the world’s tallest. Despite its neck being so long, it has the same number of vertebrae as most mammels, including humans – seven. Because it’s so tall, the giraffe has a complicated blood-circulation system that’s kept going by an enormous 10kg heart (a human heart weighs only about 300g). One of the nerves in its throat is also longer than any other living animal’s – more than 2m! Each giraffe has a unique pattern on its skin (almost like fingerprints in humans). Giraffes also have the longest tails of all land mammals – they can grow up to 2,4m. HABITAT AND DIET The giraffe’s habitat is mostly savanna…

1 The Constitutional Court recently ruled that Shaun Abrahams should vacate the office of the . . . A Public Protector B National Protector C National Prosecuting Authority D National Intelligence 2 Sbahle Mpisane, the daughter of . . ., was recently involved in a near-fatal crash. A Shauwn & Shona Mpisane B Shauwn & Sbu Mpisane C Pearl & Sbu Mpisane D Shauwn & Sihle Mpisane 3 Which Natural Woman singer is reportedly “gravely ill”? A Aretha Franklin B Mary J Blige C Carole King D Celine Dion 4 Which African city turned the deadly Koshe dumpsite into a waste-to-energy plant? A Lagos B Addis Ababa C Pretoria D Nairobi 5 Which South African cricket star was named Wisden’s Golden Boy of 2018? A Andile Phehlukwayo B Kagiso Rabada C Aiden Markram D Lungi…

THEY have the hopes of thousands of PSL fans resting on their shoulders. Each game is make or break and there’s nothing easy about their jobs – a couple of bad games and thousands of soccer fans are out baying for their blood. Learn more about some of the coaches leading from the front in the 2018/19 season. PITSO MOSIMANE (54) CLUB Mamelodi Sundowns TROPHY HONOURS 3 Absa premiership titles with Sundowns; SAA Supa 8 with SuperSport United; 2014/15 Nedbank Cup with Sundowns; 2014/15 Telkom Cup with Sundowns; 2016 CAF Champions League with Sundowns; 2016 CAF Super Cup with Sundowns. WHAT TO EXPECT This serial winner has admitted the club’s ambition is to establish themselves as an African giant by winning a second CAF Champions League title but that doesn’t…

2-1 With barely 10 minutes left in an Absa Premiership match, AmaZulu went from 0-1 against Free State to a 2-1 victory, starting with Emiliano Tade’s 53rd minute goal. 3–2 A determined Chelsea recently beat Arsenal 3-2 in a thrilling Premier League derby. 38-13 New Zealand recovered from a relaxed start to beat Australia 38-13 in their Rugby Championship game in Sydney. 34,26 Nedbank Running Club’s Irvette van Zyl was declared the winner of the Pietermaritzburg leg of the Spar Grand Prix. She finished in at time of 34,26.…

I AM a mother to two little girls, and I worry daily about their safety. Girls are being violated by their male relatives and it’s disgusting. I think to myself, “Where has society strayed?”, and I think perhaps we are too lenient with our male children. A few days ago my niece came home from school, crying because a boy had hit her. I was enraged! We need to drill it into our boys, firmly and with love, that women are to be loved, cherished and protected. They need to know that even if she is wrong, violence is never the answer to a dispute with a woman. Boys need to be taught this from a young age. We must address this evil surge of violence against women and children.…

SHE couldn’t believe it was all over. She thought she and AKA were still very much an item – but the way he treated her one fateful weekend left her in no doubt that things had changed. That something, Nicole Nyaba says, is his relationship with DJ Zinhle, his ex and baby mama. They’re back together, the 26-year-old model, singer and video vixen claims. What’s more, Nicole believes they were already rekindling their romance when she and the rapper were still supposedly an item but she was no side chick, Nicole insists, speaking exclusively to DRUM as rumours of the AKA/Zinhle/Nicole love triangle swirl. She and the musician were living together as a couple and he made her feel like the most important woman in the world – until everything…

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LOUNGE Add three major pastel items to your living room – an artwork, a key piece of furniture like an armchair, and a unique rug with soft tones. These items will subtly soften the look of your lounge. DINING ROOM Sticking to a primary pastel like mint green will keep your room from looking too busy. HOW TO DECORATE WITH PASTELS If you want to add colour to your space but don’t like brights then pastels are the perfect choice. They’re subtle and work well with muted items in white, grey and light wood. Before you invest in a larger piece of furniture like an armchair, first experiment with smaller pastel items. Don’t stick to only one shade. Choose a colour and add different shades to your space, from light…

I MISS MY CHILD  Q I fell in love with someone and we had a baby girl together. After nine years we separated for no real reason. I’m not saying I want to get back with her, I don’t, but I miss my kid and she misses me too. The problem is my daughter no longer lives with her mother – she stays with her granny, my ex’s mother – so what can I do? Do I have a right to ask her to live with me? JT, SMS A When a relationship sours and there’s a child in the middle of it all it’s often a real challenge. This happens in a lot of broken relationships and unfortunately the child is the one who suffers emotionally because of the…

VIRGO 23 AUG – 22 SEP With the Sun currently in your sign, it’s the perfect time to focus on your goals and ambitions, whether on a personal or professional level. It’s a week when your own aspirations should rank above the desires of others. You may thus want to take some time to figure out what is needed to progress in life. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 5, 21, 20, 39, 25, 51 LIBRA 23 SEP – 22 OCT As a social Libra, you probably enjoy getting out and about and interacting with others. However, it's a week to put social outings on the backburner, escape the rat-race and disengage from the world to spend time alone. You may want to go on a solo retreat, a road trip by yourself…

Masked musicians and secret identities have been a staple of popular music for ages. Here are some of the more memorable incognito musos. SIA Sia Furler (42) doesn’t often wear her signature wigs in public anymore and does it mostly when she performs. She used to hide her face a lot more. “I don’t want to be famous, or recognisable,” she once said. “I don’t want to be critiqued about the way I look on the internet.” NILS SJÖBERG The hit 2016 track This is What You Came For, by Calvin Harris featuring Rihanna, was credited to Calvin and a mysterious Swedish co-writer, Nils Sjöberg. Nils turned out to be TAYLOR SWIFT (28), Calvin’s girlfriend at the time. He outed her alter ego not long after they’d broken up. DAFT…

MANY couples do the things they’ve always wanted to do once their kids have grown up – and these two are no exception. Travel is one of the things they vowed to do more of and, true to their word, they’ve made their dream come true: a marathon road trip to Namibia last year and a once-in-a-lifetime holiday to Bali a few months later. Nothing all that unusual in that, you might be thinking – except there’s something that makes them exceptional indeed: they’re both wheelchair-bound double amputees. But they’ve shown no setback is great enough to stop them from living their best life. In fact, Maria and Rodney Lakay are now happier than ever, determined not to let anything get them down. The couple from Ravensmead, Cape Town, made…

THE National Football League (NFL) in America is as much about the cheerleaders as it is about the helmeted brutes who make touchdowns and tackle opponents. Yet the teams that shake pompoms and dance up a storm are all made up of women – at least, they were until Quinton Peron came along. He was watching the spectacle on TV one day and thought, “I could do that too.” He then called a friend to ask if the Los Angeles Rams would be holding any auditions for their cheerleading squad. Yes, his friend said – so a few days later Quinton, a professional dancer, arrived at the trials, blew the selectors' socks off and is now one of three men making history as the first-ever male cheerleaders in the NFL.…

THE PRETTY VILLAIN Actress LUNATHI MAMPOFU (31) is the perfect villain on Mzansi Magic's the Queen. Her potrayal of gangster Benni is scarily convincing and keeps viewers glued to their screens every weekday. The Afda and New York Film Academy graduate's star is clearly on the rise. She’s played the feisty Zikhona on the SABC1 drama Ingozi, a spiritualist on Mzansi Magic’s Isiziki and cut her teeth on theatre productions such as Almost Maine and Look Before You Leap. DRUM caught up with the Eastern Cape-born artist. What childhood games did you like to play? I was an introvert but we did play shenxe (dodge ball), hide and seek and raced each other . . . and some soccer here and there. School sports included swimming, hockey and frisbee. If…

Kanye West has been having “sick thoughts” according to his new song XTCY, which include “smashing” his four sisters-in-law, Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian, and Kendall and Kylie Jenner. DRUM readers weighed in on the hitmaker’s latest revelation. Why is everyone misinterpreting this? This is actually a compliment, he’s showing pride in how desirable his sisters-in-law are. Being the genius that he is, he knew idiots around the world would over-analyse this. SIMPSON MAANDA I’m sure he had a severe head injury and it was never treated or diagnosed. MIHLE B MBONGWA This guy, his head is just big for nothing! I seriously love him and his music, but lately, aiii . . . THEO AYEYEE NKOMO Where is Kanye’s family in all this though? His brothers, sisters, etc? LUNGISA ZANGASHE…

SHE sits on the floor on a mattress in her tiny wooden shack in Orange Farm, near Johannesburg, in so much agony she can’t do the everyday things she could do with ease just months ago. The pain and the patches of discoloured skin are daily reminders of the horrific attack Olivia Makete endured during what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. The 52-year-old mom of four was with a group of residents hoping to deliver a memorandum to the ANC at Luthuli House demanding water and electricity when she was driven straight into a nightmare. Another protest was underway outside the ANC headquarters and her group was caught in the middle of the mayhem. Olivia made national headlines after she was attacked, kicked and beaten up, allegedly by…

'I want to climb Everest next because I want different challenges' CONQUERING Africa’s highest mountain – a towering block of rock and ice that soars nearly 6km into the sky – isn’t child’s play. Any mountaineer will tell you that. But one small boy has proved you’re never too young to tackle anything, as long as you have guts, determination and a strong head for heights. It took Retshegofaditswe Hatang four days to conquer Mount Kilimanjaro but he did it – bundled up against the bone-numbing cold in three pairs of pants and three layers of gloves. He’s just 10 years old, making him one of the youngest climbers to summit the mountain and he did it all for a good cause, he tells us soon after returning home from…

FOR GUESTS BAKED CHEESE AND OLIVE FONDUE This recipe is easy and fuss-free, and the result is bound to be a hit with your guests. SERVES 8-10 PREPARATION: 15 MIN COOKING: 20 MIN 1 tub (250g) plain cream cheese, softened 125ml (½c) mozzarella cheese, grated 100g White Rock cheese, pear and caramel flavour, grated 60ml (¼c) plain double-cream yoghurt 10ml (2t) cornflour 40g pitted green olives, roughly chopped 40g pitted black olives, roughly chopped 1 garlic clove, finely minced 2 fresh thyme sprigs, chopped TO SERVE sourdough bread, broken into chunks olive oil salt and freshly ground pepper Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease a medium oven-proof dish with butter. 1 Whisk all the ingredients together in a bowl using an electric beater. 2 Spread the mixture into the prepared…

SHORT CUTS My wife enjoys sports and anything else that calls for an argument. You know you’re getting old when the neighbourhood Peeping Tom leaves a note saying “Please draw the curtains”. “I hope this plane doesn’t travel faster than sound,” an old lady says to the stewardess. “Why?” the stewardess asks. “Because my friend and I want to talk.” EXOTIC TASTE An elderly couple, Bheki and Julia, decide to go to a Thai restaurant, just to try something new. While browsing through the menu, Julia notices that her husband is checking the vegetarian section. “What would you like, Bheki?” she asks. “I’m thinking about this eggplant spicy dish.” “Bheki, you like meat and potatoes. You won’t like that dish,” “What do you know,” Bheki snaps. “I’m ordering it.” “Bheki,…

YOUNGBLOOD 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER “We don’t want to just be for girls – 75% of our lives is proving we’re a real band,” the group’s drummer Ashton Irwin says. It’s true the Aussie boys have become teen heartthrobs – which also suited their punk-pop sound – but this, their third album, is pure pop. The tunes are slick and catchy and include the hit Want You Back, but I miss their old bratty ’tude and goofy humour. – MAXINE PETERS…

Ruminants are animals that have multiple stomach compartments. Like cows, giraffes have four stomachs to help them digest the coarse food they eat and get as many nutrients out of it as possible. They chew their food, regurgitate it (bring it up), chew and swallow it again, then pass it back to the stomach. 1. RUMEN The rumen is the briefly chewed food’s first stop in the stomach. It’s softened in this chamber by digestive fluids before being regurgitated back up the oesophagus all the way to the mouth. 2. RETICULUM Once the cud has been chewed and swallowed a second time it goes to the reticulum, which has a honeycomb-like network of ridges to break the food down even more. 3. OMASUM From the reticulum, the food goes to…

Create your “family” (kids, co-parents, grandparents, and so on). Your family can view your full schedule. Create your “village” – the people who are part of your family’s day-to-day support network (au pairs, drivers). Create a comprehensive schedule with recurring and ad hoc activities (ballet, soccer, doctors’ visits, and so on). Allocate drops-off and pick-ups to specific members of your family and/or village. Calendar events and allocated drop-off and pick-up notifications can be sent via email. You can stay on top of pick-ups and drop-offs with the easy-to-use tracking function. The allocated family member or villager can plan their route (using Google Maps). Family members and villagers can send one another messages and notifications. Milestones, birthdays and memories can be captured and shared.…

BOKS DOMINATE PUMAS The Springboks bounced back from a difficult first half to win 34-21 against Argentina at Kings Park Stadium. Bok wingers APHIWE DYANTYI and Makazole Mapimpi scored four of SA’s six tries. But Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus wasn’t too happy with his squad’s overall performance, calling it “worse than he expected”. “The first 25 or 30 minutes in the second half was probably the only decent rugby we played,” he said. “I think we got dragged into a slow pace between set plays and we struggled to switch it on again when the ball was actually in play. Luckily Siya [Kolisi] and the boys fixed it and we were much better after half time.” BENNI’S GOALLESS FRUSTRATION For Bafana Bafana’s all-time record goal scorer, being in charge of…