Innholdsfortegnelse for 22-Aug-19 i You South Africa

IT WAS a delight to read the interview with Zamani Saul, premier of the Northern Cape. That’s not something you can say often when discussing politicians. Usually when we read about the people who run the country it’s about corruption, infighting, backstabbing and all the other nasty things that permeate politics. But this politician is an inspiration because he’s put people front and centre of everything he does – as it should be. Instead of taking advantage of the perks of his office, he’s used that money for service delivery. Not for him a luxury vehicle – instead he bought ambulances for his province. Zamani proves it can be done right. He’s shown that those elected to positions of public office can use the opportunity to do good things and…

August being women’s month always brings a huge smile to my face. It brings to mind those women who’ve played a vital role in my life: my mom who gave birth to me and offered me all that a mother can give her child; my grandmother who took care of me while my mom was out working; and my aunt who was strict with me to the point that I thought she hated me. That was until I grew up and realised she was trying to shape me into a responsible person. I also want to show gratitude to the woman in my life today. She makes sure I always look good and that I don’t go to bed without having something to eat. I really appreciate these women and…

MANY kids think their moms are superheroes but the brood of one of the world’s most famous women have more reason to think so than most. Next year, their mother will transform into a warrior who lives forever and helps save the universe from madness and evil. She has superhuman strength and speed, the agility of a panther and the reflexes of a cat. Her bow fires arrows that release “cold energy” and her spear surrounds her victims with a ring of intense heat. Cool, hey? That’s what Angelina Jolie’s kids think – because their mom will play the warrior Thena in the next Marvel movie, Eternals, about a race of immortal beings who once lived on Earth. All of which points to one thing: Angie (44) might have largely…

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EVERY parent dreams of giving their children the best education possible, equipping them with a solid foundation to unlock future opportunities and prosperity. But the harsh reality is tertiary education costs a small fortune. Fees are one thing – but accommodation, books, travel, living expenses and study aids such as laptops often need to be included too. And they can blow the family budget. Funding is often needed. Here are a few of the available options. 1 GOVERNMENT FUNDING The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas) awards bursaries to students with academic potential who don’t have the funds to study. General requirements for application: ❚ You must be a South African citizen. ❚ Your household’s total annual income must be less than R350 000. ❚ You must have completed…

BOY ERASED Biopic. After he’s outed by a fellow student, Jared Eamons (Golden Globe nominee Lucas Hedges) checks into Love in Action – a religious conversion programme. This he does at the insistence of his domineering father, Marshall (Russell Crowe), and doormat mother, Nancy (Nicole Kidman). While grappling with his sexual identity and his upbringing as the son of a small-town Baptist minister, Jared finally finds his voice. This film is based on Garrard Conley’s autobiography and lets you in on the harrowing practice of gay conversion therapy. Directed by Joel Edgerton – who also stars as a “therapist” – this powerful drama is made even more so by the knowledge that this terrible system continues today. The actors are excellent and the nuanced script gives you insight into and…

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IT’S been ages since he was in South Africa for work. Home has been Hollywood for decades and he’s carved a comfortable life for himself near the ocean, walking his dog in the hills of Los Angeles and keeping house for his accountant wife when he’s between jobs. But Arnold Vosloo is back, lured by a project he finds both intriguing and disturbing. He plays police colonel Dick de Waal in the movie Griekwastad, based on the triple family murder that rocked South Africa and tore the Northern Cape farming community apart. The movie – which is in Afrikaans with English subtitles – debuted at the annual Silwerskermfees in Camps Bay, Cape Town, and will soon make the rounds on the international film festival circuit before it hits cinemas. Arnold…

Anne remembers tasty tea leaves (YOU Say, 8 August). I remember a thick layer of rich cream on a bottle of milk. SYDNEY, SMS In response to the letter about the joy of long-distance relationships (YOU Say, 8 August): Dineo Makala, you’re truly blessed with such a loyal partner. During my first three years of marriage my husband lived in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, while I was in Roodepoort, Gauteng. Not so far away from each other, yet he was still unfaithful. So, heartbreak! Unlike yours, our love won’t age like red wine. JOY, EMAIL I found out that my husband is someone’s sugar daddy. He’s almost 50. Now he’s falling apart because I found out and I’m leaving him. ANGRY, SMS In response to John Shabangu who wrote in expressing…

IN FAMILY photographs they look like three ordinary kids: a gap-toothed boy who loved playing with his toy dinosaurs and his two older sisters who doted on him. But there might be secrets hiding behind their seemingly carefree smiles. Because it turns out that life in their home in Brakpan, Gauteng, was far from happy. Pictures show fire-damaged rooms in disarray, with clothes and toys strewn all over the floor. Most disturbing of all are two bloodstained mattresses pushed together on the living room floor – this was where two of the siblings, Simeon (10) and Shereé (19), were recently found shot dead along with their mother, Sandra Schwartz (39). There’s blood spatter nearby, next to a black leather couch where their sister, Lee-Ann (16), was also shot. Now detectives…

FISH IN AMASI BATTER WITH CHIPS SERVES 4 PREPARATION: 30 MIN RESTING: 30 MIN COOKING: 30 MIN BATTER 250ml (1c) flour 5ml (1t) baking powder 2,5ml (½t) salt 250ml (1c) amasi 2 eggs, whisked 125ml (½c) soda water CHIPS oil for deep-frying 4-6 large potatoes, cooked sea salt FISH 4 hake fillets salt and freshly ground pepper 2,5ml (½t) paprika 2,5ml (½t) cayenne pepper 5ml (1t) dried mixed herbs 250ml (1c) flour TO SERVE fresh parsley, chopped lemon wedges 1 Batter Mix the flour, baking powder and salt. In a separate bowl, whisk the amasi and eggs together, then add to the flour mixture. Whisk until smooth. Add the soda water and mix well. Leave to rest for at least 30 minutes. 2 Chips Heat oil for deep-frying in a…

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ABBREVIATIONS alt – alternate beg – begin(ning) c/on(off) – cast on(off) cont – continue dec – decrease(ing) foll(s) – follow(s)(ing) g st – garter stitch (k every row) inc – increase(ing) k – knit N(s) – needle(s) patt – pattern p – purl rem – remain(ing) rep – repeat RS – right side sl - slip st(s) – stitch(es) st st – stocking stitch (k 1 row, p 1 row) tog – together WS – wrong side MEASUREMENTS Note The pattern is designed to fit boys and men. ■ To fit chest 71-76 (81-86; 91-97; 102-107; 112-117)cm ■ Actual chest measurements 82 (92; 103; 113; 123)cm ■ Length from shoulder 56 (62; 68; 72; 74)cm ■ Sleeve length 40 (44; 46; 48; 50)cm MATERIALS Note The jersey in the photo…

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Here’s why a digital subscription to YOU is the best thing since, well, the invention of magazines. Each week the latest issue of YOU appears on your device – right on time every Friday. It couldn’t be more convenient. A digital subscription gives you the advantage over a regular one because it bypasses pesky Post Office problems. You don’t need to go out to the shop to pick up your weekly fix – all you need to do is switch on your device and voila! The new issue is there, ready and waiting for you. Most importantly, you get it for much less! Subscribing digitally to YOU saves you 40% every month. As a digital subscriber, you pay R72,80 – that’s nearly R40 less than you’d pay if you picked…

THUMBS UP LIL NAS X MAKES HISTORY It’s official: Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road (featuring Billy Ray Cyrus) has overtaken Mariah Carey’s 1995 hit collaboration with Boyz II Men, One Sweet Day, to become the longest-running Billboard Hot 100 No 1 single of all time. Mimi, who held the record – at 16 weeks – was quick to congratulate the cowboy rapper, tweeting, “Sending love & congrats to @LilNasX on breaking one of the longest-running records in music history!” alongside an image of herself passing a torch to the 20-year-old. “We’ve been blessed to hold this record with a song that means a great deal to @BoyzIIMen and myself and has touched so many. Keep living your best life!” THUMBS DOWN THE JURY’S OUT: KATY LOSES LAWSUIT Katy Perry…

RED DEAD REDEMPTION II Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One The sprawling world of this game has no equal in terms of immersion and is a joy to traverse, with something new to discover around every corner. It’s a prequel to the previous game and follows Arthur Morgan, a member of the infamous gang led by Dutch van der Linde, the first game’s antagonist. The story, sadly, is the one area where it doesn’t quite reach the heights set by other aspects. There are standout moments but it’s a mostly linear affair. Gameplay is slower than you might expect but this suits the game, as it’s about a cowboy on horseback moseying across a plain, not a race, and it’s all the better for it.…

KNIFE By JO NESBO Harvill Secker Harry Hole has gone through a lot over the years but in this 12th instalment in the series Nesbo takes things to a new level. The detective wakes up in his flat in Oslo with blood on his hands and no idea how it got there. After being booted out by his wife, Rakel, he’s off the wagon again. But although he’s used to waking up hungover, this time is different – he has absolutely no recollection of what happened the night before. Then he gets some terrible news: someone he loves is dead. Unable to say where he was when the murder took place, he becomes a suspect. Harry is convinced Svein Finne, a recently released rapist whom he put away for 20…

THERE are only 25 000 Buddhists in South Africa, but it’s the world’s fourth-largest religion, with a following of about 520 million people worldwide. WHAT IS BUDDHISM? Buddhists don’t worship a god. Instead they focus on personalspiritual development and gaining insight into the true nature of life. The Buddha isn’t a god but a man who became enlightened. Buddhism developed in India in reaction to Hinduism. The founder of Buddhism was born a Hindu and the two religions have many of the same beliefs such as reincarnation – the idea that all living things go through a continuous cycle of death and rebirth. A way to escape this cycle is to build up good karma, which means if you do good things, good things will happen to you so when…

A total of 571 passengers sailed from East London. Of these, 221 were airlifted by helicopter, the rest evacuated by lifeboat. There were no deaths. The Oceanos sank within 17 hours of water first entering the ship. Back in Greece the crew faced an official inquiry but the formal report has never been made public. A Wikipedia entry for the Oceanos records that the captain and some of his officers were convicted of negligence for fleeing the ship without helping passengers. It emerged that Captain Avranas (BELOW) had tried to board a lifeboat carrying his wife and daughter but was stopped by one of the passengers. But when the first helicopters arrived, he jumped the queue. After the fiasco he’s understood to have been placed in command of a small…

IT REALLY wasn’t what her mother had in mind when she asked her to greet the other spectators. What Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, wanted her daughter, Princess Charlotte, to do was give everyone a polite royal wave. But the four-year-old clearly wasn’t in the mood for airs and graces – instead she stuck her tongue out at the waving crowds and treated them to a cheeky raspberry. Luckily, her mom was able to laugh off the moment of mischief and the cute tot didn’t get into trouble. Big brother George (6), on the other hand, was the ultimate Prince Charming, flashing his sweet gap-tooth grin and donning a captain’s hat at the inaugural King’s Cup regatta at Cowes, Isle of Wight. He cheered on his mom and dad, Prince William,…

YOU Quick Puzzles No 2 offers a great variety of brain games perfect for a relaxing tea-time break. Put your vocabulary to the test with our crosswords and codebreakers. Exercise your brain with logic puzzles, sudoku and kakuro, and kick back with all-new spot the difference, a general knowledge quiz and so much more. YOU Quick Puzzles is in stores now. Order online at youstore.co.za or contact Johan Terblanche on 021-406-4962 or at johan.terblanche@ media24.com and have it delivered to your door.…

HIS office on the sixth floor of the provincial legislature building in Kimberley is strikingly unremarkable. There are no portraits of the new premier on the wall and nothing flash or fancy about the place – the desk, strewn with documents and files, is like every other hard-working person’s space. And this is exactly the way Northern Cape premier Zamani Saul wants it. He’s here to do a job, not splash cash around. There’ll be no unnecessary red-carpet events on his watch, no luxury vehicles for him and his officials and no expense-account splurges. His predecessor, Sylvia Lucas, used her state credit card to buy R50 000 worth of fast food during her first 10 weeks in office but Saul is cut from a different cloth. And it’s been getting…

AS HE lay under a giant boulder, its weight crushing his right leg and the blood seeping from the shattered limb, one thought kept running through his mind: “I just want to live. I just want to live.” Jethro Watson focused on those words for 12 hours, from the time the rock pinned him to the ground in the climbers’ paradise of the Cederberg in the Western Cape until he was wheeled into an operating theatre for life-saving surgery. “I knew if I lost consciousness, it would be the end,” he says. Jethro has been in Cape Town’s Netcare Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital since his horrific accident last month, adjusting to his life-changing injuries. The rock-climbing fanatic’s right leg was smashed beyond repair and surgeons had to amputate it to…

A STATE of flux – that’s probably the best way to describe South African cricket right now. First there was the disaster of the ICC Cricket World Cup, followed by the sacking of the coach and his entire management team. Then batting maestro Hashim Amla and bowling sensation Dale Steyn retired – and all this shortly before the Proteas face India in September and October. In December World Cup winners England arrive on our shores for a tour, so we’re going to have to sort ourselves out soon. Whichever way you look at it, it’s safe to assume the next few years won’t be plain sailing for the Proteas. STABILITY AND FRESH BLOOD Amla and Steyn – who’s said he’d still be available for One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and T20 matches…

APPLE RING CAKE WITH APPLE PURÉE MAKES 1 MEDIUM CAKE PREPARATION: 30 MIN COOKING: 20 MIN BAKING: 35-40 MIN APPLE PURÉE 4 apples, peeled and grated juice and zest of 1 lemon 2 bay leaves 2 whole cloves 1 cinnamon stick 30ml (2T) demerara sugar CAKE 100g dried pears 250ml (1c) rooibos spiced chai 800g apples, peeled and diced grated zest and juice of 1 lemon 80g demerara sugar 100g sweetener such as erythritol 160ml (²/3c) olive oil 2 eggs 100g almond flour 200g cake flour 2,5ml (½t) ground cinnamon 7,5ml (1½t) bicarbonate of soda 7,5ml (1½t) baking powder 2,5ml (½t) salt TOPPING 125ml (½c) double-cream yoghurt 30ml (2T) icing sugar TO FINISH canned baby apples bay leaves Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease a 23cm silicone ring mould well…

HE’S ADDICTED TO HIS ‘PLAYMATES’ Q My husband has been cheating on me since we got married 15 years ago. Every time I find out about another infidelity and confront him he says he’s sorry and it won’t happen again – but invariably after a few months the next “sweetheart” is on the scene. We’re both in our forties and both still look good for our age. It’s almost as if he sees these affairs as a confirmation that he’s not old and that women still find him attractive. The women he chooses to have affairs with are young (usually in their early twenties) and beautiful. When he’s having an affair he tends to spoil the woman rotten, buying her jewellery and taking her away for weekends whereas he makes…

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS THE ESSENCE OF VIRGO ■ Being practical, efficient and productive are your hallmarks. ■ You can be critical, pedantic and prone to nit-picking. ■ Striving for perfection is part and parcel of Virgo’s makeup. ■ You’re likely to be a worrywart and tend to sweat the small stuff. ■ You’re humble, kind and reserved in all you do. ■ Nagging is your least desirable trait. ■ You’re helpful and need someone to serve and something to remedy. VIRGO 23 AUGUST – 22 SEPTEMBER Reflect on the past and plan for the future The sun moves into your sign this week, which means it’ll soon be time to celebrate your birthday and begin a new personal year. It’s a good week in which to think about the year that’s…

HE’S a man of many talents. Not only is he a successful musician, he also played soccer in Norway’s premier league and worked as a stockbroker and journalist. But being a bestselling author is what Jo Nesbo (59) is most famous for. His popular series about Oslo detective Harry Hole has been translated into 40 languages and has sold millions of copies worldwide. We chatted to the Norwegian crime mastermind by phone to quiz him about his writing habits and his inspiration for his new Hole novel, Knife. You put Harry through a lot in your new novel. Do you ever feel guilty about torturing him so much? I guess it’s the nature of the story. It’s not like I find any enjoyment in putting my main character through hell.…

THEY would’ve celebrated a decade of marriage this month. But instead, days shy of the milestone, their partnership came to a shocking end. For nine years Lira and her manager husband, Robin Kohl, seemed to live in perfect harmony. The record label boss helped the velvet-voiced singer produce hit after hit, proudly watched her perform for former American president Barack Obama and was firmly in her corner when she was a judge on The Voice SA. Now she’s making new memories as a single woman. Lira (40) announced her separation from Robin a few days before what would’ve been the couple’s 10th anniversary. She doesn’t want to go into the details of what caused the split, but she’s taking things in her stride. “I generally take whatever comes my way…

WHAT a difference a day makes. When she woke up on Women’s Day it was with butterflies in her stomach and a dream in her heart. Fast forward 24 hours and Zozibini Tunzi finds herself in a luxury hotel suite, the woman of the moment, her beautiful face plastered all over newspapers and news websites. She’s also become an overnight social media sensation. “Waking up as Miss South Africa meant waking up to 44 000 [new] Instagram followers, which is insane, but I guess it shows just how big a platform this is,” the newly crowned beauty queen tells YOU from her suite in The Maslow Hotel at Time Square, Pretoria. “I think that was when it first dawned on me how much my life has changed.” The 25-year-old is…