Innholdsfortegnelse for 16-Mar-17 i You South Africa

I’M A pretty adventurous eater – I’ll try most things at least once, especially when I’m travelling. My husband and I love to eat where the locals eat when we’re abroad and once in Rio de Janeiro ordered meals off a menu simply by pointing randomly because we couldn’t understand Brazilian Portuguese (I’m still not 100 percent sure if it was chicken I ended up eating). I also love TV shows that showcase dishes from other countries. And I’m really intrigued by the growing popularity of nose-to-tail eating, where every part of an animal or plant is consumed. But even I would hesitate with one or two of the more daring dishes in our story on page 88. I have a ridiculous fear of spiders, for one, so that’s totally…

Is it only me or do other people also have difficulty trying to understand what the actresses on the soapies or other programmes on TV are saying with that horrible “twang” they use? GLENDA, EMAIL Thank you so much for the useful Staedtler hamper I received. I have seven grandchildren and there’s something for each of them. What a blessing. GRATEFUL, SMS Glad to hear I’m not the only one to have been disappointed in La La Land. I can’t understand how and where they got those ratings – I also wanted to walk out! UNBELIEVABLE, SMS La La Land, what a great movie – lovely story, super music and dancing. My hubby and I loved it! To those who said it was rubbish: oh well, we all differ! IMPRESSED,…

IT WASN’T a long letter, just a few pages, but he agonised over every word. Even though he’s a trained lawyer who’s accustomed to expressing his thoughts, it took Mathews Phosa 15 drafts before he was finally satisfied enough to press the send button. He knew once his scathing open letter was published many would accuse him of betraying his own party, of selling out. But as he sat staring at his computer screen he knew he could no longer stay silent. What he’d witnessed as he sat in parliament’s public gallery during this year’s State Of The Nation Address (Sona) – the obscenities and opposition MPs being manhandled and forcibly evicted – had left the ANC stalwart feeling sick to his stomach. This surely couldn’t be the same party…

ONE in four South Africans doesn’t have enough food. That’s why the Nelson Mandela Foundation compiled The Great South African Cook Book to raise funds for hunger relief. It’s filled with recipes by 67 of our finest cooks, chefs, bakers, farmers, foragers and local heroes, and the diverse dishes span our many cultures – from askoek and ujeqe to slow-roasted pork belly and breyani. Yudhika Sujanani of Holi Cow deli and cooking school: “I grew up doing my homework at the kitchen table, cherishing the aromas and hearing the swish of my gran’s sari as she moved about from one kitchen task to the next. Love is always the secret ingredient that turns ordinary food into magnificent dishes.” TURKISH DELIGHT CAKE SERVES 8 Preparation: 20 min plus cooling Baking: 20…

WHETHER you’ve been pulling an all-nighter studying, working long hours, nursing a newborn or having a fun night out, a lack of sleep shows on your face the next morning. And the effects of the change in season don’t help. Follow our tips to bring tired skin back to life. DISCOLOURATION Light and dark patches on the skin can be a result of not getting enough shut-eye. Lack of sleep affects the moisture in your skin and causes a pH imbalance, which in turn causes uneven colour. Use an exfoliator and moisturiser to help to fade the dark, discoloured areas and create a more even complexion. If the problem doesn’t go away immediately, use a colour-correcting base with an undertone that balances out the skin discolouration. TIRED EYES The skin…

1 What’s the annual percentage rate (APR)? Interest on credit cards and loans are usually charged annually. The annual percentage rate shows how much interest you pay on a loan in one year. But if you earn interest on savings or investments, it’s represented as the annual percentage yield on your statement. 2 What’s a fixed rate? If you take out a bank loan and the interest rate is fixed it means it’s not linked to the repo rate, so if the repo rate changes the interest rate won’t. The rate is usually fixed for a certain period. 3 What are loans or investments with variable rates? It means the interest rate on the loan or investment is linked to the repo rate and changes along with it. 4 What…

HELL OR HIGH WATER 2016. 98 min. 13LV. Crime drama. R139* After the death of their mother, two brothers – divorced dad Toby (Chris Pine) and ex-con Tanner (Ben Foster) – embark on an audacious string of bank robberies to save their west Texas farm from foreclosure. Though they plan their heists well, Tanner’s wild and unpredictable temper leads him to take unnecessary risks, jeopardising their entire operation. Another thorn in their side is the tenacious, soon-to-be-retired Texas ranger (Jeff Bridges), who manages to stay hot on their trail. Nominated for four Oscars – including best picture – this harsh sun-drenched contemporary Western is based on Sicario screenwriter Taylor Sheridan’s excellent script, which went unproduced for more than four years. Its complex narrative takes a seemingly simple and familiar story…

YOUNG KIDS THE DARKEST DARK By Chris Hadfield, Pan Macmillan This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of a little boy named Chris who’s fanatical about everything to do with space. He loves building rockets and pretending he’s an intrepid astronaut. But when it’s time for him to sleep he doesn’t feel so brave. Nothing his parents say or do can reassure him. Then one night they take him next door to the neighbours who own a television to see Neil Armstrong walking on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 landing. Chris is enthralled but as he watches he notices how dark it is in space. This leads him to an important realisation: you can’t be an astronaut if you’re scared of the dark. It’s a delightful…

LISTEN TO THIS! THE CHIEF JIDENNA He broke onto the music scene in 2015 with the hit Classic Man, but with this debut album Jidenna shows he’s no one-hit wonder. The album chronicles the American artist’s road to manhood and pays homage to his Nigerian roots. It shows his versatility as an artist and touches on subjects such as lost love, police violence and racial inequality. Some tunes will make you want to party while others will make you think – which is one of his goals with this album. Earworms include the dancefloor-ready Little Bit More and Bambi. Jidenna, who’s on Janelle Monaé’s Wondaland Records, considers himself a “swank” artist. “It’s just the next form of hip-hop” he says. Well, if this is swank we want more of it!…

A LOVE OF ANIMALS Noah used her 13th birthday as an opportunity to raise funds for the movement to ban horse-drawn carriages in New York. SHINING DEBUT Noah’s debut single, Make Me (Cry) featuring Labrinth, stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for more than nine weeks. She’s also featured on EDM producers Marshmello and Ookay’s catchy track Chasing Colors. FAMOUS FAMILY She’s the youngest member of the musical Cyrus family – pop star Miley (24) is her sister, while her half-brother, Trace (27), is a member of pop-rock group Metro Station. And of course her dad is country music star Billy Ray Cyrus (55). GIRL OF MANY TALENTS At the age of three she played Gracie Herbert in her dad’s TV series Doc. She also made a YouTube series…

IN THE wild it’s all about survival. In order to survive an animal has to protect itself against its enemies as best it can, while predators must be able to hunt well. If they’re poor hunters or their prey can hear or see them approach, they might not eat – and in time they’ll die. When an animal hides itself from its prey or predator by blending in with the surroundings or changing its appearance, we call it camouflage. This is one of the most effective techniques animals use to survive. These techniques differ from species to species but there are four ways animals camouflage themselves: Concealing colouration Disruptive colouration Disguise Mimicry Let’s look at the various techniques, what they involve and examples of animals that use them. CONCEALING COLOURATION…

Married in court Gossip Girl cutie PENN BADGLEY is a married man! The 30-year-old actor made things official with English-American singer DOMINO KIRKE (33-year-old sister of Girls star Jemima Kirke) in a small courthouse ceremony recently. Friends of the couple took to Instagram to share photos from their special day. “Love these lovebirds and their love. Congratulations babes,” one wrote. Penn dated actress Zoë Kravitz before hooking up with Domino, who works as a doula (pregnancy and birth supporter), in 2014. Congrats, guys! Engaged? GIGI HADID (21) and ZAYN MALIK (24) have sparked engagement rumours after the model was snapped with sparklers on her ring finger. The pair, pictured here in Paris where Gigi was taking part in Fashion Week (see page 104 ), have yet to confirm or…

I read Heartbroken’s letter (A Tale Of Two Daughters, YOU Say, 2 March) with tears in my eyes because this is exactly what I’ve been trying to make my husband understand when it comes to the needs of our domestic helper. I end up making my own arrangements so she can go home on weekends to see her family. I feel guilty that she bathes and feeds my child when her own daughters are being taken care of by their ailing grandmother, who has cancer. It’s my wish that those girls are successful in their endeavours as they grow up without the constant presence of their own mother. I hope I ease this burden by pitching in for birthday cakes, school uniforms and presents. HOPEFUL, KZN While my heart goes…

HE’S been through the mill, has Darren Scott: an ugly hate-speech incident that resulted in the loss of his job, money issues, a child who battled cancer, his own recurring fight with cancer, and a divorce. But the 53-year-old radio and TV personality is smiling again. And it’s all thanks to the blonde beauty sitting next to him. “I’m happy for the first time in a long time,” Darren says, chatting to us at his home in Fourways, Johannesburg. He met Natasha Laird (38) when he was in the middle of his cancer treatment in October and November 2015 – this time to have a malignant tumour removed from his lung. He underwent a five-hour surgery, then resumed work while recuperating in hospital, where he conducted interviews in the canteen…

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EVER heard the ancient Chinese proverb, “You’re only as old as your spine”? If you’ve had back pain that makes it difficult to move, you’ll know how true this is. Keeping the muscles around your spine strong and flexible with the right kind of exercise will improve your core strength, posture, balance and joint health. And it will probably do wonders for your state of mind too. We asked Cape Town yoga instructor Zo Hoka Dashati to put together a basic yoga-inspired stretch routine you can do at home that will help keep your spine healthy and your body limber. 1 CAT/COW What it does: Strengthens and stretches the spinal and abdominal muscles Go on all fours, knees hip-distance apart, hands shoulder-width apart and fingers spread out flat. Start with…

ARIES MARCH 21 – APRIL 19 As an Aries you probably like to be active and on the go. But, since the week has a reflective tone, it’s time to focus on being rather than doing. It’s an opportune time to join a meditation group, go on a retreat or simply escape the rat race to spend time in nature contemplating the wonder of creation. With your personal year drawing to a close, it’s an appropriate time to slow down and mull over the past year. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 11, 28, 6, 5, 14, 3 TAURUS APRIL 20 – MAY 20 It’s a week where who you know plays a more significant role in furthering your goals than what you know. Although as a Taurus you probably feel comfortable with…

LIONS SKIP MARLEY Long live the Marley legacy! Reggae icon Bob’s grandson Skip is fast becoming one of our favourite new artists. Katy Perry features him on her new single, Chained To The Rhythm, and his politically charged debut single, Lions, is totally giving us One Love vibes. “I want to spread my music to the people and help them unify,” Skip says. “I want people to take away a message of love, of looking at the way you’re living and thinking where we can work to be our best. I want them to be able to turn up my music and think, relax and get good vibes.” Mission accomplished! LOVE LANA DEL REY Lana fans rejoice! The songstress is back with her first new track in nearly 16 months…

A STORY WORTH TELLING HAVING read the extract from veteran journalist and author Fred Khumalo’s new book, Dancing The Death Drill, in your sister magazine Drum, I went to a discussion about the book at the University of Johannesburg’s Chinua Achebe Auditorium in Auckland Park. There Khumalo spoke about the ship SS Mendi which sank in the English Channel on 21 February 1917, claiming the lives of 607 black South African men who were to be labourers during World War 1 in aid of the mother country, Great Britain. The story of the Mendi is an important one which schoolchildren in particular should know. We have many South African and indeed African authors willing to tell our stories. Thus, instead of schoolchildren mainly studying William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Othello, they…

THERE they stood at the altar: the beautiful bride and her groom ready to commit their lives to each other. But as they said their vows most of their guests’ attention was focused elsewhere – on the loved-up couple in the third pew who were holding hands and exchanging flirty whispers and adoring glances. Even the minister officiating at the ceremony noticed them. As Prince Harry and his beautiful girlfriend, Meghan Markle, later emerged arm in arm from Hopewell Baptist Church in Jamaica at the end of the service Pastor Conrad Thomas couldn’t resist. “It’s your turn next, sir,” he said. Harry (32) just gave a cheeky grin. While marriage might still be a way off, royal watchers are reading Meghan’s presence at the wedding as a sign that things…

THE odds were against the little girl from the word go. She was one of a set of triplets born at 26 weeks, making her entrance in her parents’ car instead of in a hospital environment with professionals on hand to ease her into the world. Her two sisters arrived soon afterwards – one in a lift and the other just outside the maternity ward. It was a traumatic birthing experience for mom Jean-Mari van Vuuren (36). And it was followed soon afterwards by bad news from the doctors: not only were Lara, Julia and Lily very premature, they were also born with holes in their hearts and Jean-Mari and her husband, Divan (35), were warned difficult times lay ahead. The doctors were right: both Julia and Lily would pass…

‘We were told there was nothing more doctors could do’ THEY had a difficult choice to make – but for them it was a no-brainer. They had to choose between allowing their baby daughter to be given a first-of-its-kind medical treatment that had no guarantee of working or preparing to say goodbye to her. Ashleigh Richards and Lisa Foley didn’t even consider not doing the experimental treatment. Despite the fact it had only ever been tested on mice, the couple from Enfield, London, weren’t ready to give up on their daughter, Layla (now 2), who had been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia at 14 weeks. “It was scary to think the treatment had never been used in a human before but even with the risks there was no doubt we…

BOMBOLONI (ITALIAN JAM DOUGHNUTS) MAKES 18 Preparation: 30 min Rising: 1½ hours Cooking: 20 min 10 g instant yeast 250 ml (1 c) lukewarm milk 750 ml (3 c) flour 125 ml (½ c) sugar 5 ml (1 t) salt 60 ml (¼ c) butter, melted 2 eggs, whisked oil for deep-frying TO COMPLETE 125 ml (½ c) sugar 80 ml (¹/3 c) jam 1 Mix the yeast and milk in a large measuring jug. Stir until the yeast has dissolved. Mix in 250 ml (1 c) of the flour, cover and leave to stand in a warm place for about 30 minutes or until the surface of the mixture is frothy. 2 Mix the remaining flour, the sugar and salt in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with…

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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest – AMERICAN STATESMAN BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BALANCE Your account balance is the amount you have left after all deposits, interest and deductions have been taken into account. It might not be the same as your available balance, which is the amount available to you when you ask for a statement. Say you have R2 000. Then a cheque for R1 000 is paid into your account, but the bank hasn’t cleared it yet. Your balance will show R3 000 but your available balance will be R2 000 – until the cheque goes through. DEBIT ORDER This is when you give a third party, such as a phone company, permission to regularly withdraw money from your bank account. The amount might vary and the…

MY HUBBY’S NEW YOUNGER WOMAN Q In early January my husband told me he’s fallen in love with someone else and no longer loves me. He wants a divorce. I’ve done all I could think of to save my marriage. I don’t want to divorce him as I believe we can still have a good life together, and we also have a son who’s in matric. But no matter what I’ve tried or said, my husband is adamant he wants a divorce. In late January he left and moved in with this woman he says he’s in love with. But I don’t think it’s love – I think he’s simply infatuated with her as she’s 20 years younger than him and that’s making him feel good about himself. Beth, email…

Spend time with people who’ll motivate you With the Sun taking its leave of your sign towards the end of the week, it’s time to give it your best shot at soaking up its vitality and using its creative energy. Try to surround yourself with people who’ll inspire and motivate you, devote your time to activities that will uplift you and develop attributes that will enhance your self-belief. It might go against the grain of a free-flowing Pisces, but it’s a week to make a concerted effort. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 18, 7, 30, 3, 9, 11 FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS THE PERFECT GIFT FOR PISCES IS . . . A foot massage and pedicure. A book of poetry. A ticket to the aquarium. A CD of love songs. A sunset booze cruise…

HEAR, HEAR An elderly man thinks his wife is losing her hearing so he calls their doctor. “We need to figure out how bad her hearing is,” the doctor tells him. “Using a normal tone, talk to her from various distances until she can hear you.” That night the man decides to try this. Sitting about 10 m from his wife he asks her, “What’s for dinner, dear?” He hears nothing from her so he moves to about 6 m away. “What’s for dinner, dear?” he asks again. Still nothing. Finally he walks right up to her and asks, “What’s for dinner, dear?” “For the third time,” she says, “chicken!” BRIAN’S BABY Brian is sure his heavily pregnant wife is going into labour so he calls the hospital. “I think…

Celebs stepped out in all their fashionable glory at the beginning of the month for the annual Veuve Clicquot Masters Polo Cup at Val de Vie Estate near Paarl in the Western Cape. Gorgeous actress Nomzamo Mbatha was MC for the event and made quite an entrance when she and US TV presenter Zuri Hall arrived in a helicopter, touching down on the grass shortly before the start of the match. “There was so much glamour and luxury,” says Zuri, who covered the event for E! Africa. “Everyone was so fabulously dressed, from Nomzamo to Boity – who had one of my favourite looks of the day.” Here’s our pick from the fabulous fashion on display. TV and radio personality SOMIZI MHLONGO looked fabulous as usual in a self-designed turquoise…

LOUIS TOMLINSON (25) has defended his recent airport tussle in Los Angeles, saying he was only protecting his girlfriend. The One Direction star was arrested and later released on $20 000 (R260 000) bail after an altercation involving his girlfriend, ELEANOR CALDER (24), a photographer and female fans, one of whom has been identified as ANA BECERRA (22). According to the singer’s lawyer, “The paparazzi provoked and caused the altercation with Louis. While this was going on, three other individuals were attacking his girlfriend and Louis came to her defence.” Louis recently reconciled with Eleanor, the English model he split from in 2015 after three years.…

MARCO’S NEW TATTOO Not a venue most would bring their kids, but Zoe’s hubby, Marco Perego, thought nothing of bringing along their eldest sons. He already has a tattoo of Zoe and it looked as if he was adding the twins to his collection. Actress ZOE SALDANA looked nothing like an A-lister when she had to juggle her two-year-old twin boys, CY and BOWIE, on her hip while out in Los Angeles. It didn’t look easy, especially when one of them burst into tears. Not with them was the latest addition to the family, baby son Zen, whom Zoe (38) and hubby MARCO PEREGO (38) welcomed in mid-February. Zoe did however show off the latest addition to her family on Instagram. In the snapshot all three boys can be…

HARVARD HAILS RIRI She’s one of the world’s biggest pop stars so it’s easy to forget how much RIHANNA (29) does for charity – but the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations hasn’t. At a recent ceremony ALLEN COUNTER (ABOVE), the foundation’s chairman, presented her with the Humanitarian of the Year Award for her work in her native Barbados. In her speech Riri said as a kid she’d think, “When I grow up and get rich, I’m gonna save kids all over the world.” QUEEN HONOURS NAOMIE Congrats to NAOMIE HARRIS, who’s received an OBE from QUEEN ELIZABETH. The British actress was made an officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her services to drama at Buckingham Palace and described the experience as lovely. The…

ANGELINA JOLIE (41) is planning to buy an idyllic stretch of jungle in northeast Cambodia to extend the piece of jungle she bought from a Khmer Rouge commander in 2002. The actress and director uses the land as a compound for her charity MJP Foundation but it doubles as a holiday hideaway. Apparently the By The Sea star and her six kids love to swim in the area’s beautiful lagoons and she’s planning to build an eco-resort in the once heavily landmined area. ADELE reckons fans can expect a slimmer version of her after she’s finished touring Australia. After admitting she was “boiling” during her first concert in Perth, the 28-year-old singer told the crowd, “The weight is going to fall off of me on this tour. The sweat is…