Innholdsfortegnelse for 2-Jun-16 i You South Africa

CONFESSION time! I can’t knit to save my life. My poor mom just shook her head in despair when I tried to knit the legwarmers I’d been assigned to make in primary school. There were two colours of yarn – one white, one magenta – but after I’d had a go at the project, it looked as if someone had thrown a bottle of purple dye at a pile of white yarn! I’ve since accepted there are many things I’m better at than knitting but whenever I see a cool pattern (turn to page 42 for our latest gorgeous one) I think I should try again. It’s so soothing, many of you have told me recently. It’s a way to unwind and enter an almost meditative state – and of…

I want to salute those who make this world a better place by doing awesome jobs – people like Paul O’Sullivan, Trevor Noah, Thuli Madonsela and our Con-Court judges! HELEN, EMAIL My wife’s sister and her cellphone are coming to visit us again for two weeks. I’ve decided to go fishing for two weeks, which my good wife has agreed to. NEIL, SMS So proud of our very own South African Princess Charlene. She’s looking so beautiful. And so is Kate. Motherhood has really brought out their bloom. ROYAL FAN, SMS Hooray! You’re printing knitting patterns again! I’m a great-gran of three, soon to be four, and have been knitting from the Sailor Boy pattern (YOU, July 2015). It’s hard to find good patterns for children, so thank you very…

When she adopted a child alone. She’d originally intended to adopt first son Maddox with then-husband actor Billy Bob Thornton. When they split she was undeterred and went ahead with the adoption in 2002, paving the way for scores of other Hollywood celebrities to go the adoption route alone. When she spoke up about rape and assault. In 2010 Angie created the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative, influencing the policies of the UN Security Council. Her speech at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict encouraged listeners to take action and reduce the stigma surrounding rape. When she soldiered on as a director despite the bumps. Female directors are hard to find in Hollywood and Angelina’s attempts in two war dramas – In The Land Of Blood And Honey…

VEGETARIAN POTATO AND LEEK SOUP WITH BASIL OIL SERVES 4 Preparation: 10 min Cooking: 40 min SOUP 15 ml (1 T) oliveoil30 ml (2 T) butter4 leeks, sliced4 garlic cloves,crushed4 large potatoes,peeled and cubed750 ml (3 c) vegetablestock250 ml (1 c) boilingwater250 ml (1 c) creamsalt and freshlyground pepper BASIL OIL 60 ml (¼ c) olive oil 10 g fresh basil, torn 1 Soup Heat the oil and butter in a pot and fry the leeks over low heat for 10 minutes (the colour shouldn’t change too much). Add the garlic and stir-fry for another minute. 2 Add the potatoes, stock and water. Bring to the boil then simmer until the potatoes are very soft. 3 Basil oil Meanwhile slowly heat the oil and basil in a saucepan. Once the…

YOUNG girls will go wild for this toasty-warm jersey and beanie combo. It looks great with jeans or leggings. MEASUREMENTS Sweater To fit ages 1-2 (2-3;4-5;6-7; 8-9;10-11;12-13) years Actual chest/bust measurement 60 (64;67;71;74;82;89) cm Length to shoulder 48 (52;58;62;66;68;70) cm Sleeve seam 24 (29;33;37;41;42;44) cm Slouchy hat To fit ages 2-3 (4-6;7-9;10-12; 13-16) years MATERIALS For sweater and hat 8 (8;9;9;10;10;11) x 50 g balls of Elle Rustica DK in Aran, shade No 014 1 pair of 4 mm knitting needles 4 mm circular knitting needle 1 stitch holder TENSION 22 sts and 28 rows to 10 cm measured over st st using 4 mm Ns. NOTE Instructions are given for the smallest size with the larger sizes in brackets ( ). Where one set of figures is given it…

SUPPLEMENTS If your doctor finds, after a blood test, that you’re vitamin D deficient they can prescribe supplements in addition to time in the sun and dietary changes. DIET “Foods such as fatty fish, fish oils, organic meat, eggs, butter and cheese are all sources of vitamin D” says food science lecturer Dr Johanita Kruger. SUNLIGHT “Expose hands, arms and face to the sun for half the time it takes for you to turn pink” Kruger says. So if your skin starts to burn after half an hour in the sun, 15 minutes is enough to get the vitamin D you need.…

A All ages D Drugs H Horror L Language N Nudity P Prejudice PG Parental guidance S Sex V Violence LISTEN TO THIS! NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC! 72 VARIOUS ARTISTS What could be better than having 22 of the hottest hits on the charts right now all on one CD? If you’re a fan of the Now! collections you’ll definitely want to get your hands on the latest one. It features a cool mix of tunes from local musos like Tresor and Black Coffee, as well as international stars such as The Weeknd, Justin Bieber, Coldplay and Ellie Goulding. If you stay up to date with the latest in pop you probably have all the tunes on your playlist already, but it’s perfect if you don’t – there’s…

THE HATEFUL EIGHT Western. 168 min. 16 LPV. R145* Idiosyncratic writer-director Quentin Tarantino returns with his eighth movie – another ultraviolent, eloquent homage to his favourite films, and a mash-up of various genres. Set a few years after the US Civil War, the film starts with a stage coach trying to outrun a blizzard in Wyoming. A bounty hunter (Kurt Russell) is taking his prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to the town of Red Rock to be hanged. They grudgingly pick up two stranded men – first a soldier-turned-bounty hunter (Samuel L Jackson), then a Southerner (Walton Goggins) claiming to be Red Rock’s new sheriff – and make it to a halfway house. There they find four shady characters: a Mexican (Demián Bichir), an English hangman (Tim Roth), a cowboy (Michael…

FANBOY After reading author John Green’s book The Fault In Our Stars he wrote a song about it and recorded it in his bedroom. The music video was shot in a children’s hospital. LOCALISLEKKER THE SOUTH AFRICANBORN ACTOR TURNS 21 ON 5 JUNE. HIS FAMILY MOVED TO AUSTRALIA WHEN HE WAS TWO. HE’S GOT IT ALL The actor/singer/songwriter started his You-Tube channel at 12 and now has more than four million subscribers. He played the clever schoolboy John Milton in the Spud films, and has released an album, Blue Neighbourhood. Talk about a triple threat! OUT AND PROUD Troye says his scariest moment was when he was 14 and came out to his parents as gay. In 2013 he decided to break the news to his millions of subscribers too:…

SPIDER VENOM The most venomous spiders in South Africa have one of two types of venom: neurotoxic or cytotoxic. Neurotoxic venom attacks the nervous system and can cause paralysis. Cytotoxic venom attacks tissue and can cause rotting of the flesh. ARE YOU AFRAID OF SPIDERS? Some people are quite afraid of spiders even though there’s no need to be. If someone has an abnormal fear or phobia of spiders, it’s called an arachnophobia. BE SAFE Although most spiders are harmless, it’s important to be careful. Keep your bedroom clean and neat. Inspect your clothes and curtains regularly to make sure sac spiders aren’t nesting in them. If you left your shoes lying about and haven’t worn them for a while, make sure no spiders have nested in them before you…

Have your blood glucose level tested. “Type 2 diabetes is such a preventable disease. If your blood glucose test shows you’re insulin-resistant or that you have type 2 diabetes, you can do something about it by changing your diet. Everyone’s so focused on cholesterol, but you need to focus on your blood sugar levels.” Don’t give up when it’s difficult. “The first couple of weeks I spent Banting were tough. You’re adjusting to it and you’re cutting out a whole lot of food you would have eaten every day, but stick with it – it gets easier.” Start with what you enjoy eating. “When my friends want to lose weight, I say to them: ‘Don’t ask me to tell you what not to eat; tell me what you want to…

BOYS GALORE! Thanks to the arrival of little NOAH, the Vermeiren home is now a certified boy cave! And mom JULIANA VASCONCELOS is thrilled. “I love being surrounded by all my boys and I wouldn’t change a thing” the 28-year-old model says. “I just imagine myself in a few years cooking for all these boys!” Dad JANEZ VERMEIREN is delighted too. “So in love with our new little addition to the family,” the Man Cave presenter wrote on Instagram. The couple’s firstborn, one-year-old VINCENT, and Janez’s son from a previous relationship, MATISSE (11), can’t get enough of their baby brother. “Vincent can’t stop hugging and kissing Noah” Juliana says, adding that Janez (37) is helping out by keeping Vincent entertained while she cares for little Noah. She’s grateful to have…

Model CARA DELEVINGNE (23) has been slapped with a fine for verbal abuse after throwing a major tantrum at a Paris train station when a security official tried to check her luggage. “It was a full-on meltdown,” a bystander says. “It’s as if she thought she didn’t have to abide by the same rules as everyone else just because she’s famous.” Others say after she swore at a police officer she was taken to a room, from which she emerged with red eyes. She later apologised. Singer MARIAH CAREY is far from burying the hatchet with rival Nicki Minaj. Asked on a US talk show recently to say “three nice things” about the rapper she said “Can you?” But she had only good things to say about Britney Spears and…

BIKE FOR FIVE In April, while holidaying on the Garden Route, I came across this five-seater bicycle (ABOVE). I’d never seen anything like it. I hired it and went for a ride, which was very hard on the legs as it had no gears. Imagine my surprise when I bought the Huisgenoot 100 book and there on page 169 was an advert for sweets with a picture of a five-seater bike. Quite amazing. The magazine was so interesting – pity it isn’t available in English. SHARON VAN DALEN, EMAIL SCREAMING SOAPIES I’m beginning to wonder if there’s a connection between TV soap operas and South Africa’s domestic violence. Take a critical look at your favourite soap – High Rollers, The Bold And The Beautiful, Isidingo and Days Of Our Lives…

‘We know war and rape are bad without Angelina telling us’ SHE’S been in the public eye most of her life and is used to criticism being lobbed at her lovely head. Weird, anorexic, home-wrecker, druggie, knife nut, vampire, adoption addict – you name it, she’s been called it. Now another label has been flung her way: hypocrite. Angelina Jolie raised hackles in the UK recently when, at an event at BBC headquarters in London, she blasted Western leaders for “preying on the fear” that uncontrolled migration can cause and urged countries such as Britain to open their hearts and homes to refugees. Angelina (40), the United Nations High Commission’s special envoy for refugees, accused European countries of neglecting their responsibilities to the humanitarian crisis triggered by the five-year civil…

IT’S not the kind of headlines you expect to see in a functioning democracy with so many checks and balances. Finance ministers in democracies generally don’t face “imminent arrest”, especially not when the country’s on the brink of a ratings downgrade. Yet this is the reality South Africa’s finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, had to deal with recently, prompting him to release a statement despite denials from those reportedly wanting to arrest him. The saga became a tangle of threats and rebuttals. We asked political analysts to help us make sense of it all. THE STORY SO FAR For months Gordhan has been at the centre of speculation regarding a so-called “rogue” or “spy unit” which was allegedly set up while he headed up the South African Revenue Service (Sars) between…

OMBRÉ painting techniques are a hot trend. The idea is to avoid even bands of colour, so don’t be too concerned if your paintwork is less than perfect – it’s all part of the effect. Because this painting technique creates a washed effect, you’re not likely to paint more than two coats so you need surprisingly little paint. You should get coverage of about 12 m² for every litre of paint. WHAT YOU NEED white PVA paint 2 resealable containers (1-litre yoghurt containers work well) PVA paint in a single colour of your choice pencil and straight edge spirit level old newspaper or drop cloth and masking tape sponge roller and paint tray STEP 1 Pour about half a litre of white PVA paint into a plastic container. Add the…

THE Dutch braided crown is a popular hairstyle. It’s cute and looks great on most heads. People often wonder how it’s done, since it’s hard to figure out where the braid starts and ends. LEVEL Medium YOU WILL NEED Small elastic band, bobby pins TIME 10-15 minutes STEP BY STEP STEP 1 Start by parting a big section of hair from one ear to the other. Use a comb if you want a neat parting line. Tie the hair at the back with an elastic. STEP 2 Pick up strands of hair right above the ear and make a French braid (taking in hair along the scalp as you plait) to the other ear. When you reach the other ear continue with a normal plait. STEP 3 Remove the elastic…

MAKE A LIST NOW The best way to avoid sliding into debt during the festive season is to plan well ahead. You still have six months to prepare for December. Be sure to draw up a budget of your expenses now – it won’t take long. Your holiday expenses are more or less the same each year. Divide them into travel and accommodation, gifts and entertainment. Even if you can’t save for everything at once now, you can at least start saving for one of these aspects. HERE’S HOW YOU CAN SAVE It’s a good idea to let your loyalty points and rewards – such as eBucks, Clicks Club Card points and Smart Shopper points – accumulate. They become a bonus for the festive season. The cost of living is…

The 19-year-old from Brooklyn, New York, is one of the hottest rappers in the game right now – he’s taking the charts by storm with his debut single, Panda. 1 Panda topped the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, making Desiigner the first American act to top this list in a record 41 weeks. 2 The song was sampled by his label boss, Kanye West, on his track Father Stretch My Hands (Pt 2) off his latest album, The Life Of Pablo. Desiigner bumped into Kanye at Los Angeles International Airport while the older rapper was en route to Paris. “I met him in front of LAX; we just sat in the car boppin’ with (paparazzi from the gossip site) TMZ outside” 3 He was born Sidney Royel Selby III…

ITALIAN author Elena Ferrante and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk were widely tipped to win this year’s Man Booker International Prize, but in a surprise move the judges decided to honour Han Kang, a little-known South Korean author, for The Vegetarian, a disturbing novel which is her first to be translated into English. “It’s almost an outlandish story – a story that could topple over into crude horror or melodrama . . . but it has extraordinary poise and tact and control,” says Boyd Tonkin, chair of the Booker judges. The Man Booker International differs from the annual Man Booker Prize in that it focuses purely on writing by foreign authors whose work is translated into English. This is the first year the prize has been awarded to a single book,…

Filter coffee Hot water is added to roasted and ground coffee beans, then slowly dripped through a filter. Espresso Brewed with steam pressure in a machine or stovetop espresso pot using a small amount of boiling water and finely ground coffee beans. Americano Espresso with extra hot water added so it’s not so strong. Café au lait A variation of white coffee, made with warm milk. Latte Espresso with steamed milk. Macchiato Espresso with a dash of steamed milk. Mocha (also known as a mochaccino) A chocolate-flavoured variant of latte. Cappuccino Italian coffee that is usually made with espresso and steamed milk froth. Cream can replace the froth and cocoa powder or ground cinnamon is often sprinkled on top. Cortado An espresso shot with a small amount of milk that’s…

SPEAK UP IF YOU’RE LONELY I’M A widow of nearly two years now and I still feel alone, lonely and on my own. Some may say those are one and the same but if you give it some thought, they’re three different things. But today I came to a realisation that has stopped me from feeling so sorry for myself. Most of the married people I know feel exactly the same way. They have a partner yet they feel as lonely, as alone and as on their own as I do. I urge you to let your partner know if indeed this is how you feel. Perhaps they feel the same, which is so sad because you do have someone in your life. Our lives are unexpected. Don’t wait. Life…

Shiloh’s birth Angie and Brad were paid at least $4,1 million (then R28,7 million) for the first photos of their first biological child in 2006. Pax’s adoption The couple reportedly received $2 million (then R14 million) in 2007 for the pictures debuting their Vietnamese son. The twins’ arrival Photos of Knox and Vivienne fetched a jaw-dropping $14 million (then R133 million) in 2008. Wedding When Brangelina wed in 2014, pictures went for $5 million (then R52,5 million). Proceeds went to the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation which combats rural poverty, protects natural resources and conserves wildlife in Cambodia.…

SHE’D taken her wedding ring off and put it away. It had been five months since she’d spoken to her husband and divorce proceedings were under way. Then on Friday 13 May, Tertia Coetzee had to get in touch with her estranged husband, actor Deon Coetzee, because she needed his lawyer’s contact details. She expected it to be a difficult conversation, full of accusations and hurtful comments. She’d opened up last year about why she’d decided to leave Deon seven months into their marriage, describing how the former 7de Laan actor had physically and emotionally abused her (YOU, 24 September 2015). But when they spoke this time there was no shouting or arguing. Instead they started talking to each other again, cautiously at first. Deon (54) had since spent time…

BLACK BOX The plane’s black box, once located in the sea, should be able to shed more light on the incident. SPIRAL OF DEATH The plane, flying at an altitude of 11 000 metres, suddenly swerves 90 degrees to the left and starts to fall. It completes a 360-degree turn right, then drops thousands of metres. Air traffic controllers lose all contact with the plane as it plunges into the ocean. 1 COCKPIT ALERTS The failure of a temperature sensor in the window of a cockpit is the first malfunction believed to be associated with fire – and the earliest sign something is catastrophically wrong. 2 SMOKE DETECTED A sensor transmits data indicating smoke is detected in the toilet nearest the cockpit. 3 AVIONICS ALERT A minute later smoke is…

IT ALL began in 2010 when she shared her chicken breyani recipe with the radio audience of Afrikaans station RSG. Then in 2014 Koelsoem Kamalie, a Muslim, asked her Christian friend Flori Schikker to share her pickled fish recipe for Easter on the same station. Now the women have brought out a cookery book, Kook Saam Kaaps, which roughly translates as “let’s cook Cape-style together”. t – teaspoon/s T – tablespoon/s c – cup/s DHALTJIES MAKES 30 DHALTJIES Preparation: 10 min Cooking: 30 min 750 ml (3 c) pea flour250 ml (1 c)self-raising flour10 ml (2 t) salt10 ml (2 t) groundcumin5 ml (1 t) turmeric10 ml (2 t) chilli powder5 ml (1 t) garlic paste2 green chillies, finelychopped½ bunch spinach,shredded1 onion, finely chopped500 ml (2 c) wateroil for deep-frying20…

‘Without enough vitamin D you could end up with brittle bones’ SHE leaves for work before the sun comes up and usually gets home only after dark. Like many office-bound South Africans, Ronell Bezuidenhout, a pastor from Johannesburg, also spends most of the day sitting behind a desk. About 18 months ago she started to feel increasingly listless and tired and was also experiencing a nagging pain in her limbs and digits. “I assumed I had glandular fever and went to see a doctor,” Ronell (51) says. “But he told me I had a chronic vitamin D deficiency.” The treatment plan? Sitting in the sun with her sleeves rolled up for 15 minutes every day. Many of us know what it’s like to feel exhausted a lot of the time,…

MY FEAR IS HOLDING ME BACK Q I retired five years ago and now live in a retirement village far from places that used to be familiar. I was diagnosed with a mood disorder in 1984 and it’s controlled with the correct medication. I recognised the first signs of agoraphobia many years ago, but it wasn’t too much of a problem as I only went to places where I felt safe. But after having lived in a safe environment for years I’m now in unfamiliar surroundings. I force myself to go to the mall with the transport provided by the home, but even though I know it fairly well now I’m terrified as soon as we hit the street. Last week it was so bad I had to put my…

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS GEMINIS . . . Need diverse leisure activities and hobbies. Want to be busy and on the go. Snack rather than have sit-down meals. Get bored with scheduled exercise. Travel light . . . in every way. Become restless when stressed. Enjoy mental stimulation and lively conversations. GEMINI MAY 21 – JUN 20 Don’t spread yourself too thin this week You may have a lot on your plate this week. Although, as a Gemini, you’re naturally good at juggling things, too many tasks may still take their toll on your body. A busy social schedule, lots to do on the domestic front, riding the waves in your professional life and tending to relationship demands may create excess nervous energy. It’s in your best interest not to spread yourself…

QUICKIES What’s the difference between a politician and an actor? An actor gets better scripts with more credible storylines. Why don’t sharks attack lawyers? They observe professional courtesy. A child’s observation: if Mom laughs at Dad’s jokes it means we have guests. My boss told me yesterday, “Don’t dress for the job you have, dress for the job you want.” But when I turned up at the office in Ghostbusters gear he fired me. What day does an egg fear the most? Friday. When a guy says he likes girls with a sense of humour he doesn’t mean that he wants a girl to be witty and funny. He means he wants her to laugh at his jokes. Driving a sports car and sticking to the speed limit is like…

HOW YOU CAN WIN Think you know your space facts? Pay close attention when going through the Gateway to Space exhibition to find all the answers to the questions in the quiz. Fill in the form, add your name and contact details, and drop it in the box at the exhibition. Then wait to see if you’ve won! QUESTIONS 1 Name the first human-made satellite in history. 2 What was the name of the first chimpanzee in space? 3 Who was the first American to “walk” in space? 4 Who contributed the Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station – America or Europe? 5 Which famous rocket launched the Apollo spacecraft to the moon? 6 True or false? Boeing is building a spacecraft that will take crew to the International…

HE’LL never forget when he tipped the scales at 159 kg – and he’s never going back there, he vows. Billy Tosh is in better shape than he’s ever been and believes his success at keeping off the 84 kg he lost three years ago (YOU, 21 November 2013) shows the low-carb, high-fat lifestyle is sustainable. “I’m doing great,” a smiling Billy tells us at his home in Parklands, Cape Town. He’s certainly doing far better than many dieters who’ve seen their weight creep up again after they’d lost massive amounts (YOU, 19 May). Slow metabolisms is often blamed – but Billy doesn’t have that problem. The 47-year-old dad of two, who lost 84 kg in seven months, says he’s fitter today than he’s ever been. He’s still “full-on Banting”…

EVERYONE loathes Rick right now because of the ruthless way he’s running Forrester Creations. But of course, because profits are up, he isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Meanwhile, on the home front, he’s more in love than ever with the lovely Maya and is contemplating a longterm future with her. But if he wants children with her he’s bound to be sorely disappointed. Maya, as fans of The Bold And The Beautiful have just discovered, is transgender and unable to conceive. For Jacob Young, who plays Rick, things couldn’t be more different in real life. The 36-year-old actor and his wife, Christen, recently welcomed their third child, a daughter they’ve named Grace Elizabeth . The couple, who celebrated their ninth wedding anniversary a few weeks ago, are also parents to…

CHLOË GRACE MORETZ (19) and BROOKLYN BECKHAM (17) made their red-carpet debut recently at Cannes – and can we all just take a moment to appreciate how adorbs they are together! The model son of David and Victoria Beckham proved to be the perfect boyfriend, posing arm in arm with his pretty squeeze, who was promoting her new flick Bad Neighbours 2. Chloë recently revealed she and Brooklyn decided to make their relationship official after being “off and on for a couple of years”. “We were always running from people taking pictures of us. And we were like, ‘You know what? It’s affecting our relationship.’ “We weren’t able to go to the restaurants we wanted to go to or just go to a movie. And so we thought, ‘If we’re…