Innholdsfortegnelse for 17-Mar-16 i You South Africa

I’VE been on at my husband recently about starting our own herb garden. Green-fingered we’re not, but the rising cost of herbs and the wastage that comes with buying them have really been bothering me. You seldom need the full amount of fresh herbs you buy and all the good intentions of using them before the sell-by date never seem to work out. And although I’ve read so many tips on how to keep them fresh for longer or freeze them, we still find forgotten limp herbs in the fridge drawers! But after reading our article on page 44 on how to start your own vegetable garden I’m inspired to do that too. Every time you go to the supermarket the price of veggies seems to be higher. So not…

“Don’t fight it with everything you’ve got – you’ll drive yourself mad and time will stand still like you wouldn’t believe. Just hope for the best and be prepared for the worst.” You can only find solace if you take responsibility for what you’ve done, Christo says. “Whether you wanted to or not, you murdered somebody. Make peace with it.” Remember too that people aren’t in prison for “good reasons”. “If he wasn’t devious before, prison will make him devious! Trust nobody,” he warns. No matter how friendly or nice someone looks, he shouldn’t even know where you keep your socks, never mind anything illicit you might have in your possession. “He will tell the warders in the hope his sentence will be reduced.” Christo believes in minding his own…

ON A HILL next to a farm road between Vredenburg and Paternoster you’ll find Mondvol cottage with its green pitched roof and view of the sea. Here Alexander and Charmaine Pieters have made a home with their one-year-old daughter, Lika, and run a farmstall where they serve delicious breakfasts, cakes and coffee. Alexander used to run the Oep ve Koep store in Paternoster with his parents and met Charmaine when she got a holiday job in the seaside village. She’s had no formal food training but has always loved cooking. And her father-in-law, Koos, taught her how to fry eggs, she says. For the past four years Charmaine has done the cooking at Mondvol while Alexander bakes the bread and cakes and waits on patrons. They do the clearing up…

SHADES OF PURPLE Tennis star Venus Williams opted for deep purple to complement her darker skin while fashionista Kelly Osbourne opts for lilac to suit her pale complexion. YAY FOR YELLOW! Are you bold enough to wear your hair in the colour of sunshine? Clearly singer Kesha has what it takes! PINK Pink is just as popular as blue this season. Rapper Iggy Azalea decided to go with light pink highlights. RED HOT! TV personality Bethenny Frankel chose bright red for her shoulder-length bob. HUES OF BLUE Blue is definitely a popular choice in hair colour, from light blue for the easy-going to electric blue for the bold and all the way to midnight blue. Singers Gwen Stefani, Hilary Duff and Rihanna show us how it’s done in different shades.…

‘Grief and love are conjoined; you don’t get one without the other’– AMERICAN NOVELIST JANDY NELSON MY HUSBAND LIKES WEARING BIKINIS Q I’ve been married for 35 years, have three children who are all married and six grandchildren my husband and I love to bits. I’ve just discovered that for the past 20 years my husband has been going to the beach alone wearing a woman’s swimming costume, taking pictures of himself and hiding them. There are also pictures of him with false breasts and with women in bikinis. I confronted him about it and at first he lied but then said it’s nothing and that he’ll stop. A few weeks ago my daughter did our laundry and came across a woman’s costume. She asked me whose it was and…

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 2015. 89 min. PG V. Animated comedy. R139* In this entertaining sequel to the 2012 hit, Mavis (voiced by Selena Gomez), the vampire daughter of Count Dracula (Adam Sandler, surprisingly amusing), gets married to her human boyfriend, Jonathan (Andy Samberg). Drac is delighted when he later becomes “vamp-pa” to their son, Dennis (Asher Blinkoff), but worries that the little boy isn’t showing any signs of being a vampire. With Mavis thinking of moving to California so Dennis can be safe from the perils of Transylvania, Drac hatches a plan to bring out the monster in the little boy. Though not quite as heart-warming and witty as the first film, this is still lots of zany, Looney-Tunes-style fun, partly thanks to the addition of two new very funny…

Saddle up! Connect the dots from 1 to 30 to complete the picture, then colour it in. Find 10 differences Iguana puzzle Match each puzzle piece to the correct space on the iguana’s body. Which shadow matches? Summer treat Find all the small items below hidden in the big picture. Owl’s wordsearch The words in the list below are all hidden in the grid, horizontally, vertically, diagonally, backwards or forwards. Find and circle them. Find two identical gems Garden maze Help Fred the gardener find his way to the thirsty plant.…

HIS dance class is due to start in a few hours and 11-year-old Faahkir Best-man is already limbering up, practising his steps in the corridor outside the studio. The boy dubbed the Billy Elliot of Hanover Park, Cape Town, has never needed much encouragement to go to his lessons – he’s too much in love with dance for that. But the gold medal he won at the fifth Cape Town International Ballet Competition has spurred him on all the more. “I didn’t expect it at all,” he tells us. “I didn’t even hear them announce my name; the other competitors told me, ‘It’s you; you’ve won!’ “The competition was good for me. It was a chance to meet dancers from all over the world and see how much I still…

Isn’t this adorbs! TAYLOR SWIFT (26) and CALVIN HARRIS (32) shared their first anniversary with fans – the Scottish DJ took to Snapchat to post a video of them with a cake. “One year,” he announced. “We got one year cake.” The Wildest Dreams singer also received a gift from her beau – a locket, which she showed off on Instagram with the caption, “One year down!” Calvin clearly doesn’t want to mix business with pleasure as he recently “politely declined” an offer to collaborate with his babe, reportedly because he doesn’t want to jeopardise their romance.…

THEY’VE remained tight-lipped about their apparently secret romance, but perhaps now it’s a case of actions speaking louder than words! Actors JAMIE FOXX (48) and KATIE HOLMES (37), who are rumoured to be dating, have both been seen out recently with bling on their ring fingers, leading to speculation they’ve said their “I dos”. While the Annie actor’s gold band makes quite a statement, Katie’s is quite subtle by Hollywood bling standards, but according to some reports it’s because it once belonged to Jamie’s grandmother. OK! Magazine USA recently went so far as to claim the Ray Donovan actress is pregnant with Jamie’s child! “The buzz started around Valentine’s Day that she’s almost three months along, and that they’re having a girl” a source is quoted as saying in the…

• He’s one of the most successful actors around yet CHRISTIAN BALE (42) still drives a second-hand pick-up! “It’s practical and all my friends need it for moving stuff,” the Night Of Cups star, who was recently nominated for an Oscar, told the Daily Beast. “Also I don’t give a crap if it gets scratched and no one wants to steal it. I’ve had it for 13 years!” He also revealed that at the Oscars he ends up staring at the ceiling! “I find the ceilings to be the most interesting things; they’re incredible!” • Kourtney Kardashian’s estranged baby daddy SCOTT DISICK has spoken out after pictures emerged of him drinking beer and hanging out with bikini-clad babes during a recent Mexico getaway saying “people must just relax”. The 32-year-old…

THINK BEFORE YOU MOAN, LADIES! Before they publish their maintenance woes in the media, do celebrities ever consider how ordinary mothers cope when their exes give them only a minimal amount for child maintenance? We still have to pay our kids’ upkeep out of our own salaries and we don’t have the media to run to to make the whole world feel sorry for us. So Amor, Loui, Morgan and co: grow up and live with it. I used to get maybe R250 a child a month. I lost my home in a fire and had no insurance. I’ve had cancer three times but still I go on looking after my teen daughters. GET REAL, EMAIL TIPS SHOW APPRECIATION L Naidoo, your opinion on the hospitality industry is incredibly uninformed…

FROM all over they came, dressed in designer jeans with dreams of pop-star glory. But as the hundreds of aspiring singers stood waiting to perform for the judges at the auditions for the 12th season of Idols SA at Carnival City, east of Johannesburg, there was one among them who was impossible to ignore. Every 10 minutes or so Radlyn Naidoo, a 19-year-old student from Pretoria, would slap his head hard. Then an unearthly growl would escape his lips, his shoulders would jerk and a tirade of swear words would stream from his mouth. Everyone stared. Some people laughed. It’s what strangers usually do. They don’t understand that Radlyn has no control over what he says and does. He suffers from a neurological disorder known as Tourettes syndrome (see box,…

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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax – PHYSICIST ALBERT EINSTEIN NEW BRACKETS Substantial increases in the tax rates were expected to boost the government’s coffers. Fortunately this hasn’t materialised. As usual tax brackets were adjusted: if you’re younger than 65 you now qualify as a taxpayer if you earn R75 000 a year or more. For people aged 65 to 74 this figure is R116 150; and those 75 and older it’s R129 850. The new tax rates are detailed on the treasury’s website. CAPITAL GAINS TAX Capital gains tax is paid when you sell an asset – for example a property that isn’t your primary residence. Previously the first R30 000 of a taxpayer’s capital gain was excluded from capital gains tax. This…

ALL GONE An audibly upset blonde calls the police to report her car has been broken into. “They’ve stolen the dashboard, the steering wheel, the brake pedal and even the accelerator!” she cries. “Stay calm” the cop says. “An officer will be there shortly.” But before the police can get to the crime scene the blonde calls again. “Oh, never mind, officer,” she says. “I got into the backseat by mistake” WHAT GOES AROUND Mildred lives in a small town where she’s the local gossip and self-appointed monitor of the villagers’ morals. She keeps sticking her nose into other people’s business and although many don’t approve of this they fear her enough not to speak up. Then a man named George moves into the village. After spotting his car parked…

ARIES 21 MARCH – 19 APRIL Prepare to launch into your new year With the Sun moving into your sign, it’s soon time for a new personal year to begin, right up the street of an Aries who likes new beginnings and fresh starts. It’s time to put on your thinking cap in terms of birthday celebrations. Also allocate time to make plans and set goals, whether professional or personal. If a true Aries, you’re probably impatient and want to get on with things, but proper preparation is an important part of the mission. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 24, 17, 21, 16, 7, 43 TAURUS APR 20 – MAY 20 Seeing that you could be in a laid-back mood, this makes it a good week for escaping the rat-race and indulging…

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SHE’S been in show business for more than a decade so she’s no stranger to being in the public eye, but seeing herself on a huge cinema screen took things to another level. “It was so exciting,” says Renate Stuurman, star of new local film Happiness Is A Four-Letter Word. Based on Nozizwe Cynthia Jele’s award-winning novel of the same name, the movie follows three best friends as they navigate life in Johannesburg’s fast lane, dream of the perfect love and try to find true happiness. It’s clearly struck a chord with local audiences – the film raked in more than R5 million at the box office in the 10 days after its release on 19 February, drawing larger crowds than Oscar-winning films such as Spotlight, Room, The Danish Girl…

His soon-to-be released album may be called Back To Basics but there’s nothing basic about BRIAN TEMBA. And he may have a solid career as an actor – he plays Ranthumeng in popular soapie Muvhango – but music is in his bones. The first single off the album Lost Without You is already receiving massive airplay on local radio stations. We caught-up with Brian to learn a little more about the man behind the music. I would be lost without . . . my nine-year old daughter. My celebrity crush is . . . actress Nomzamo Mbatha. Oh my, this woman is gorgeous! My hidden talent I’m a really great soccer player. If I could play professionally it would be for Kaizer Chiefs – my heart is with that team.…

‘It’s natural for me not to explain my private life’ CHARLOTTE CASIRAGHI CHARLOTTE CASIRAGHI’s new romance with Italian film director LAMBERTO SANFELICE (40) is clearly going well as she took him along on a recent family skiing trip to Austria. The 29-year-old royal, who was joined by her 59-year-old mom, PRINCESS CAROLINE of Monaco, was seen trying to teach her two-year-old son, RAPHAËL, to ski but he looked far happier being taken for a joy ride on a little sleigh. Charlotte split from her baby’s father, French comedy actor Gad Elmaleh (44), last year. The two had dated for three years. She reportedly met Lamberto on the film-festival circuit in Europe.…

STAR LOOKS American models KENDALL JENNER and GIGI HADID, both wearing wigs, stepped out in matching baby pink outfits by Balmain. STAR LOOKS Actress EMMY ROSSUM stood out in red while singer CIARA went for a more minimalist look at the Lanvin show.…

I HAVE A FRIEND IN YOU I WANT to say thank you to YOU. Some time ago I rescued a copy that had been discarded and was reminded of a time in my early teens when I had no friends to speak of. I had no Gameboys or any source of entertainment for that matter, including TV or radio. So I was a pretty lonely child. Then I discovered the world of magazines thanks to a school project. I remember how I’d pester mom to bring me copies of YOU from work and for a long time the only friends I had were old copies of YOU. No kidding. My lonely little world got more interesting with each copy. I’d read every little thing – from the editor’s note to…

“You can’t arrive and make demands and be superior or arrogant,” says Professor Anni Hesselink of the University of South Africa’s department of criminology. Seasoned inmates and gang members will soon put you in your place. It would be advisable for him to keep a low profile and attract as little attention as possible, adds Professor Anna van der Hoven, a Pretoria criminologist. “But everyone knows who Oscar is and what he’s in prison for,” she says. Anonymity isn’t an option so he’ll have to box clever. Prison gangs tend to target weaker inmates as they’re easier to manipulate. Others go for celebrities or people known to have money so it can be difficult to protect yourself. Oscar already has 10 months of prison time under his belt, which could…

A£2,4 million (R52 million) ring, a 25-year age gap, 100 guests, 10 kids between them, a whirlwind five-month romance and one big juicy kiss to seal the deal. All marked the wedding of a billionaire media mogul to a beguiling blonde who once stole the hearts of rock ’n roll legends. The guest list was expected to be spectacular and it didn’t disappoint: politicians, media bigwigs, actors, famous ex-wives and a gaggle of glamorous offspring descended on the damp streets of London to celebrate the union of Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall. Some detractors thought they wouldn’t last and you can’t blame them, really – they didn’t seem the likeliest couple. But Rupert (85) and Jerry (59) have been smitten from the start. They met in Australia in October when…

ROAST CHICKEN WITH HONEY-GLAZED CARROTS SERVES 4 Preparation: 10 min Cooking: 1 hour 1 whole chicken salt and freshlyground pepper RUB 4 garlic cloves,crushed 30 ml (2 T) softenedbutter 30 ml (2 T)mayonnaise 15 ml (1 T) lemon juice CARROTS 15 ml (1 T) butter 8 small carrots 2 rosemary sprigs 30 ml (2 T) honey salt Preheat the oven to 200 °C. Grease a baking sheet or ovenproof dish with nonstick spray. 1 Season the chicken with salt and pepper. 2 Rub Mix the ingredients and rub into the chicken. Transfer to the prepared baking sheet or ovenproof dish. 3 Roast the chicken for 15 minutes, reduce the temperature to 180 °C and roast for another 45 minutes or until done. Cover the chicken with foil if it browns…

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LEGENDARY crooner Lionel Richie chats to us ahead of his second South African tour. The local leg of his All The Hits, All Night Long tour kicks off in Durban on 13 March. We asked Lionel what fans can expect from the show, what life’s like for a rock legend granddad and how often he hears the words “Hello, is it me you’re looking for?” You visited South Africa in 2008. What are your best memories from that trip? It was my first time in the mother country and I really didn’t know what to expect. But the welcome I received was so warm and emotional – like a giant reunion. People would stop on the street to greet me and shake my hand and I was so shocked and…

LISTEN TO THIS! WONDERFUL CRAZY NIGHT ELTON JOHN He’s 68 and has more than 30 albums under his belt but the British singer and songwriting legend’s latest offering – a collection of new tunes penned with his long-time lyricist, Bernie Taupin – is proof he has no intention of slowing down. The title track kicks things off on a high note but highlights such as Blue Wonderful and Guilty Pleasure appear much later, so keep listening. Elton probably won’t win over any new fans with this album – it doesn’t have any of those classic tunes we’ll be singing along to for years to come – but it’s good to know he’s not quite ready to retire yet.…

VANISHING GAMES By ROGER HOBBS Doubleday They’re criminals – thieves and murderers. Her name is Angela and his – well, his true name is never revealed so just call him Jack, one of his many aliases. She was his mentor (as a thief), but six years ago she disappeared. Now she’s sent him an urgent message asking for help. Because when her “team” of pirates killed the crew of a ship carrying smuggled sapphires, they found much, much more than just precious gems. Now very dangerous men are out to recover that valuable object and they’ll stop at nothing. To survive, Angela and Jack have to fight fire with fire. There’s enough action – if you like it violent and deadly – in this novel to satisfy the most bloodthirsty…

He loves to share cute snaps on Instagram of his beloved pooch, Rhino. One he captioned, “Kiss from dad”. INKED UP Zayn has more than 40 tattoos. Among them is a microphone on his right forearm, his late grandfather Walter’s name in Arabic on his chest and the quote, “Be true to who you are,” also in Arabic, on his left collarbone. CHART-TOPPER Pillowtalk has topped charts in more than a dozen countries since its release. It debuted at No 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the 25th song in history to do so. MILLIONAIRE STATUS The 23-year-old is rolling in the dough. He’s worth $23 million (R356,5 million) and loves to spend his money on his family. In 2013 he bought his mom, Trisha (46),…

‘I used to dress up as Alice almost every day when I was little’ – SARASWATI AT A glance it’s hard to believe the pictures are all of the same person – in fact, it’s hard to believe they’re of a human being at all. Tinker Bell, Ariel, Princess Elsa from Frozen, Catwoman, Bat-woman, Kylie Jenner . . . they’re the crafty work of a comic-book nut who transforms herself using only a make-up brush, a few pots of paint and a strategically draped hijab (headscarf). The talented Malaysian make-up artist and mom of two has become an Instagram sensation, amassing a following of more than 240 000 after she started sharing photos of herself in the guise of superheroes, celebrities and beloved Disney characters. Known only as Saraswati or…

Their latest album is called Home Sweet Home so local band Mi Casa figured combining their latest tour with TV travel show Sho’t Left was a marriage made in heaven. The trio have just kicked off with concerts in Gauteng and over the next four months will visit all nine provinces to not only thrill fans but also take in the sights and explore SA’s diverse cultures. We asked the guys to let us in on their five travel must-haves when they’re on the road and their favourite local destination. J’SOMETHING (VOCALIST AND GUITARIST) Top five travel essentials My laptop, power bank, cellphone, a good book, my Huawei Mate 8 Favourite local destination Hands down, Joburg! I love home. I love the energy, the passion, the culture. But if I…

‘Katy is definitely into Orlando’ – INSIDER Looks as if KATY PERRY and ORLANDO BLOOM’s romance is heating up! The new lovebirds were snapped hiking in Hawaii where a shirtless Orlando (39) showed off his impressive six-pack while Katy (31) displayed her busty assets in a bikini top under a white vest. They’ve been seeing each other for around two months and looked relaxed and happy as they worked up a sweat. A few days later the Pirates Of The Caribbean star joined his new squeeze in the US for a Hillary Clinton fund-raiser (Katy’s a big fan).…