Innholdsfortegnelse for 2022-09-24 i Pretoria News Weekend

The Woman King is a big-budget Hollywood movie that has been anticipated since 2018, when US star Viola Davis was announced as the lead in the story of the “amazons” of Dahomey. Rising South African star Thuso Mbedu also takes a key role in the film, which has premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and is opening at cinemas nationwide soon. The action blockbuster is adding to renewed global interest in the historical woman warriors of Dahomey, a kingdom that flourished in the 1700s and 1800s in what is today Benin in West Africa. The “amazons” were skilful female warriors. They inspired fear and curiosity among locals and foreigners who had come to explore and colonise the territory. Protectors of the king, the anti-colonial women warriors are referred to…

The death of Queen Elizabeth II marks a shift in the relationship between fashion and the British monarchy, with younger members of the royal family, notably Catherine, Princess of Wales, probably taking on a greater public role. The late queen had a precise fashion formula – elegant coats, trim hats and square-heeled shoes shaped her familiar silhouette, as well as her handbag, which became a symbol of stability. “The Queen was aware of how useful a tool style was to help convey her image as monarch,” said Alicia Healey, who worked in the Queen’s household for four years and has since written a book, Wardrobe Wisdom from a Royal Lady’s Maid: How to dress and take care of your clothes. “I think, to a certain extent, her clothes were a…

THE government led by Premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube said Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelethini, who elbowed his brother, Prince Simakade, to take over the throne in May last year, is a treasured figure in the province. Yesterday, the King, first-born son of King Goodwill Zwelithini and his late great wife, Queen Mantfombi Dlamini-Zulu, who was born on September 23, 1974 at Hlabisa hospital in northern KwaZulu-Natal, turned 48. However, there were no high-profile celebrations, just a low-key event at Ohlange High School in Durban where he was represented by his wife, Queen Ntokozo Mayisela-Zulu. The Queen, who is involved in initiatives to fight gender-based violence, handed gifts to pupils and motivated them ahead of their final exams towards the end of the year. “On behalf of the provincial government of KwaZulu-Natal,…

THE Audi RS3 has been a long-time favourite due to its ability to be practical for everyday use as well as its uncanny ability to decimate just about everything double its value. Offered in Sedan and Sportback guises, the latest Audi RS3 brings a host of new driving technologies while retaining that sublime 2.5-litre in-line 5 cylinder. We spent a day behind the wheel of the new speed machine to see what it has to offer. In 2000, BMW released an award-winning advert, with the vehicle being filmed doing a high-speed run. At the end of the advert, it is revealed that the camera car was indeed the E39 M5. BMW unashamedly stated that the M5 was the fastest four-door saloon on the planet. It was powered by a race-inspired…

IF the Lions thought the Ospreys were easy prey in last year’s United Rugby Championship, then they will have to rethink that mindset ahead of tonight’s clash in Swansea (8.35pm SA time kick-off). The Johannesburg outfit ran in seven tries in a comprehensive 45-15 victory over the Ospreys last season, but there were significant mitigating factors for the Welsh club. Not only were they playing at Ellis Park for the first time, most of their top Test figures were involved with the national team in the Six Nations at the time. George North, Justin Tipuric, Alun Wyn Jones, Adam Beard, Tomas Francis, and Scott Baldwin did not feature in March’s encounter, and will be keen to return the favour to Ivan van Rooyen’s Lions on their home ground. The visitors…

KYLIAN Mbappe admitted he enjoys having more “freedom” when playing for France than he does with Paris Saint-Germain after his superb goal set the World Cup holders on their way to a 2-0 win over Austria on Thursday. “I play differently here. I am asked to do different things than with my club. I have much more freedom,” Mbappe said at the Stade de France, where victory for Les Bleus allowed them to stave off the threat of relegation from the top tier of the Uefa Nations League. Mbappe’s opener was followed by a goal from Olivier Giroud for a France side who won despite an injury crisis. The 23-year-old PSG superstar has to share the limelight at his club with Lionel Messi and Neymar, with the Brazilian currently their…

IT is official. Francois Phillipus Lodewyk Steyn has the longest Springbok career of them all, having recently overtaken Victor Matfield and Os du Randt. And what a journey it has been for the precocious “lightie” way back in 2006 to the “hardebaard” (hard beard) of 2022. The 35-year-old’s career spans 15 years and 310 days since he debuted on the left wing for Jake White’s Boks against Ireland in Dublin. He was the youngest player to debut for the Boks in the modern era (19 years, 181 days), a record he still holds — and in his first seven matches for South Africa, he would score three tries and kick four drop goals. The young Steyn scorched to 50 caps for South Africa in record-breaking time, that milestone arriving against…

The 5 Drive Heritage Tour 2022 has kicked off with the 5FM Drive team embarking on an epic Heritage Month journey. The tour is set to run until September 30 and aims to showcase the best South Africa has to offer. The team set out to visit destinations across nine provinces and discover amazing places, hidden gems people, food, art and activities, in search of stories that celebrate the richness of culture that makes South Africa remarkable. We caught up with Mike Bower (MB), the show’s producer, and JD Mostert, business manager for 5FM, to find out which hidden gems, and epic experiences the team have faced so far. Magaliesburg and the Cradle of Humankind, Gauteng MB: There is a small tourism community just outside the Cradle of Humankind. On…

The younger generation, also known as Generation Z, is embracing travelling, bringing a new dynamic to the global travel space, including business travel. With remote work being a popular trend, people, including Gen Zs, are earning while travelling – the best of both worlds. This opens huge doors of poten- tial for the tourism industry to attract Gen Zs embarking on “bleisure” travel – spending their money on fully experiencing destinations and their attrac- tions – across leisure and business travel. Gen Z tech connection Gen Zs are born with technology, so they expect tech to be part of their business travel experience. For many independence is a key factor. Smart technology has made it easier to do their own travel research and bookings for…

They say a change is as good as a holiday, but going off on a holiday every time you feel like a change isn’t always possible. My mother’s top home decor advice is, “Turn your home into a place you’d want to escape to for a holiday”, and when I visit our family home, it truly does feel like a mini getaway. If you’re looking to give your home a facelift or to create a feeling of “escape”, the 2023 four Dulux ColourFutures™ decorative paint colour palette, “Wild Wonder”, will bring a feeling of fluidity and equilibrium to your home. Inspired by the regular rhythms of nature and the cyclical tides of life, it includes forest hues, meadow brights, harvest shades and seashore tones. “This year, we’ve put the wonder…

STATISTICS South Africa recently raised the alarm on the “significant” increase in hijackings across South Africa over the past 12 months. Releasing the results of the Victims of Crime Report from the Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey 2021/22 at a media briefing in Pretoria, Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke said there had been a marked increase in hijackings. In June, Gauteng police commissioner Lieutenant-General Elias Mawela said hijackings, kidnappings and murders top the list of serious offences committed in all districts of the highly-populated province, including Tshwane, Joburg and Ekurhuleni metros. Mawela was presenting the Gauteng crime statistics for the financial year which ended on March 31, to the provincial legislature sitting at the Randfontein Municipal building. He said hijacking of trucks and passenger vehicles had increased in Gauteng compared to…

The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Team Tujenge has done the institution proud by clinching second place in the Universities for Sustainable Development Goal 13 Award competition. The team entered its small-scale solar-powered water purification system using plasma technology in the competition. A joint venture between the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Siemens Gamesa, the international competition is aimed at finding multidisciplinary solutions to climate-related problems. UP was one of five participating universities invited to the competition alongside the US Arizona State University, Germany’s Göttingen University, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and Tsinghua University from China. While Tsinghua University took first place with their digital solution on a new pathway to realise the intangible value of tropical rainforest, team Tujenge’s second-place spot is nothing to sniff…

“I DON’T know how to say this without sounding like I’m glorifying apartheid, but honestly, white people knew how to run this country. “0ur leaders are failing us,” said Vusi Ngwenya, a tuck shop owner from Soshanguve who is growing frustrated with the ceaseless load shedding. Ngwenya’s family owns multiple tuck shops around Soshanguve which have been operating since the early 1980s. The more recent ones were opened as the township kept growing. As the eldest among the siblings, Ngwenya took over the running of the business when his parents retired, retreating to spending more time at home rather than running around keeping the business going. “This is the only source of income I know. It has sustained our family for decades and continues to support the new families we…

DRUMPOPE and Ntsika, who make up the new dynamic South African duo Prayer Warriors, say they don’t celebrate their heritage only in September, but rather throughout their lives. As their name suggests, the two make music to sooth the soul, but with an Afrobeat twist that has been well received by the industry and fans. DrumPope, real name Frans Phetole Lebepe, is a multi-award-winning producer who has worked with the likes of Lady Zamar, Dr Muruti and Vusi Thanda, while Ntsika Fana Ngxanga rose to fame after being apart of the internationally-acclaimed a cappella group The Soil in 2003. He too is a multi-award-winning singer/songwriter, vocal producer and arranger and lead composer. In August the two released their first self-titled EP, Mvelinqangi. They recently released their second single, Nguwe…

WHILE much of the world’s focus is on electrification, Ford has come out swinging with a new unashamedly 5.0-litre Coyote V8 and a manual transmission. And if you’re leading the sales charts with the world’s most popular sports car, why change a winning recipe that people love and admire? This is exactly what the new Ford Mustang embraces while giving us a good few years to enjoy the thundering sound of eight pistons gulping down petrol in a classic American coupé or convertible. Revealed at the Detroit Motor show in downtown Detroit recently, the launch event was preceded by a stampede of more than 1 000 Mustangs that assembled in Washington from all over America to drive to the home of Ford. They were there along with the world’s media…

DON’T expect the Proteas to show their full hand on the upcoming white-ball tour of India, says coach Mark Boucher. The Proteas men’s team departed for the subcontinent yesterday where they will play three T20Is and three ODIs. The first leg of the tour is significant as it is the team’s last match preparation ahead of the T20 World Cup in Australia next month. Boucher will therefore keep some cards close to his chest, with Rohit Sharma’s team in the same T20 World Cup group as the Proteas. The two sides lock horns at the Optus Stadium in Perth on October 30. “It’s a massive tour for us, the tour before the big event, which is the World Cup,” Boucher said. “We hope to see a couple of options and…

The Springboks will be going all out to claim the Rugby Championship title when they square off against Argentina at Kings Park tonight (5.05pm kick-off). Los Pumas won’t just roll over, though, as they showed in fighting back to within two points of the South Africans in Buenos Aires in last week’s 36-20 loss. Here are five key battles that can decide the Durban clash… Canan Moodie v Juan Imhoff The 19-year-old Bok wing has made a top-class start to his Test career, scoring a try on debut against the Wallabies in Sydney. In Buenos Aires, Moodie was up against 22-year-old Lucio Cinti – and it will be a different story against Juan Imhoff. The 34-year-old strike-runner loves Kings Park, having produced a hat-trick in Los Pumas’ victory over the…

JOHN McEnroe says Roger Federer and Serena Williams are “irreplaceable”, but tennis “goes on no matter what”. Federer, a 20-time Grand Slam singles champion, brought the curtain down on his glittering career in the Laver Cup at London's O2 arena alongside long-time rival Rafael Nadal last night. The two players, representing Team Europe, took on Team World's Frances Tiafoe and Jack Sock in doubles in the evening session on the first day of the event. The 41-year-old Federer's retirement comes hot on the heels of a similar decision by Williams, who won 23 majors in singles. McEnroe, who is captain of Team World, admitted the sport would miss the two players, but is optimistic about the future, just weeks after 19-year-old Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz won the US Open. “These two…

FRANCESCO Bagnaia is not interested in comparisons with Valentino Rossi as he makes his bid to become the first Italian since the motorcycling legend to win the sport’s biggest prize. Ducati rider Bagnaia is 10 points behind MotoGP leader Fabio Quartararo with five Grands Prix remaining after winning four of the last five races and coming second in the most recent Aragon GP. The 25-year-old is in a strong position to win Italy’s first title since Rossi in 2009 and Ducati’s first since Casey Stoner two years before, as French reigning champion Quartararo has struggled in recent races, crashing out in two of the last five. “There can never be an heir to Valentino Rossi. Everyone needs to walk their own path,” said Bagnaia in an interview with AFP. “The…

Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Lewis are “so ready” to film Sister Act 3. The 66-year-old star – who plays Deloris Van Cartier in the film franchise – said she would “do everything I can” to join forces with Lewis again in the third movie, which is to be released on Disney+. Speaking to Lewis on The View, Goldberg said: “You know we’re still going to do that movie. “And I’d do everything I can to work with her because she’s fun.” Lewis, who starred as Michelle in the 1992 original Sister Act film, revealed she encouraged Goldberg to use her own singing voice in the movie. She said: “They were going to use my voice and I told Whoopi, ‘Look, you just get in this mirror with the two of…

SOUTH Africa’s commercial and retail banking industries comprise a large and important part of the financial sector, according to the Competition Tribunal’s ruling in the matter of the Sekunjalo Group versus the Banks. The tribunal granted interim relief to Sekunjalo last week preventing three major banks from closing bank accounts belonging to the group and ordered the banks that had closed the accounts to reopen them. Gardee Godrich Attorneys described the ruling as a milestone for every South African as this might become a law of precedent to resolve future cases of a similar nature. Head of the law firm Godrich Gardee said the ruling would vindicate his clients who had also laid complaints against several banks for unfair treatment. Gardee, who is the former EFF secretary-general and party MP,…

THE ANC on Thursday blocked the debate sponsored by the DA for the establishment of an ad hoc committee to investigate the break-in and theft at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm. However, its victory was short-lived as the motion will now be rescheduled for next week, the same week Ramaphosa returns to the National Assembly to answer outstanding questions abandoned in an earlier, chaotic session. This comes after the DA altered its initial motion on the crisis of illegal land invasions with a draft motion on Phala Phala, which the governing party deemed as having been “sneaked through the window”. DA chief whip Siviwe Gwarube said the party initially submitted a motion, and then wrote to Parliament last Friday asking to replace it with another. “It is well within…

THE legendary Vusi Ximba, the iconic musician, songwriter, comedian and satirist, was best known for his comic style of music and skit-like performances. Born and raised in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, he later moved to KwaSwayimane in Pietermaritzburg where he lived until his death on February 2, 2011. More than a decade after his death, his daughter has earned a Master of Arts degree for her research, in which she analysed the storytelling tactics used by the late music giant. Nonjabulo Ximba graduated from the University of KwaZulu-Natal with her Master of Arts degree, which she completed in isiZulu. In her dissertation, she analyses storytelling tactics used by her father in his music as a way of paying homage to him. She believes that her father is one of the arts innovators…

FERRARI has pulled the covers off its first-ever four-door model, the Purosangue. Yes, it’s a crossover, and yes, it enters a highly profitable market segment that will keep the Italian marque cash-flush enough to keep producing the sports cars that it is renowned for. Win-win? And this is still very much a Ferrari at heart. Unlike the SUVs of some other performance marques, the Purosangue doesn’t share a platform with SUVs from other brands. This is certainly no Maserati Levante in drag. Underpinning the four-door Ferrari is a completely new chassis, whose lower section is made entirely of aluminium. Providing the necessary fireworks is a front-mid-mounted, 6 496cc normally aspirated V12 engine, which produces 533kW at 7 750rpm and 716Nm at 6 250rpm. Expect it to prance from 0-100km/h in…

SPRINGBOK captain Siya Kolisi made the sanest comment about today’s final round of the Rugby Championship when he said that the Boks have booted all the permutations into touch and will have just one thing on their minds against Argentina at Kings Park. “Forget about who wins in Auckland (between the All Blacks and the Wallabies) and how many tries and points are scored ... The only definite is that we have to win and that we will have to play well to do that against a very good Pumas team.” Of course, the Boks will be watching the game at Eden Park (this morning at 9) with keen interest — if Australia shock the Kiwis then all the Boks have to do is beat the Pumas to secure the…

mihlali.baleka.@inl.co.za SOUTH Africa coach Hugo Broos is confident Sierra Leone will give them a run for their money given that they are “almost identical” to Liberia. Bafana Bafana were scheduled to meet Liberia in the third and fourth match of the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers in the ongoing international break. But those matches were postponed, with CAF deciding to give the World Cup-bound teams some time to prepare ahead of the main event from November. As a result, Bafana have since decided to organise two friendlies against the 113th ranked Sierra Leone and 146th placed Botswana for today and Tuesday, respectively. The teams’ low rankings have raised eyebrows on the competition they’ll give Bafana ahead of back-to-back clashes against Liberia in March. But Broos says they’ll take…

THE Joburg Open will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a new host course in Houghton Golf Club when it is played from November 24-27, as the city continues to use this event to showcase its diversity to a worldwide audience. “When we launched the Joburg Open it was with the specific intent that this must be a tournament that provides a sense of inclusivity for all of the city’s residents, while at the same time showing all elements of our world-class African city to an international audience,” said mayor Mpho Phalatse. “The aspirational effect of the Joburg Open is incredibly important to us and therefore we take very seriously its ability to travel to the leading golf courses in Johannesburg and expose all of our residents to the wonders of…

WE ARE a few months away from the December holidays and a new year. In the meantime, the stress levels are dangerously high. And I know the thought of sipping on some vino and putting your feet up in a tranquil setting sounds heavenly right about now. No deadlines. No errands. No stress. That’s why this Heritage Month, which is also Tourism Month, we propose a Sho’t Left break. KWAZULU-NATAL Fordoun Hotel and Spa, Midlands This family-owned luxury boutique hotel and spa near Nottingham Road in the Midlands serves the best views, history and serenity. The hotel has 22 stylish rooms, but if you are looking for something a little more private, they recently added a self-catering farm village with 9 cottages, kitted out with all the amenities. The panoramic…

Ricardo Da Costa, J’Something and BlackBrick have partnered to create Artistry, an entertainment hot spot with a three-level experience which will take guests on a journey from a rooftop restaurant to a middle level for live music and theatre performances and, finally, to a street-level lounge bar for an unforgettable after party in Sandton. Artistry is set to be the perfect trilogy operating in one eco-system and igniting all the senses where a night out on the town will be a full cultural immersion in one building, they said. The concept is set to ignite the entertainment scene in Sandton early next year. “Everything we do is inspired by the classics, the things that have managed to stand the test of time; from the food to the drinks, the interior…