Innholdsfortegnelse for 4/23/2020 i You South Africa

EVERY time I start to feel even slightly frustrated at the challenges that come with working remotely I think of all the people out there every day, trying to keep South Africa safe and ticking over. And I’m reminded how grateful I am to every one of them, especially after the lockdown was extended by two weeks. The essential workers risking their lives to do their jobs are true heroes and we salute them all for working in what is nothing short of dangerous conditions. Many are putting themselves and their loved ones at risk and that kind of selflessness isn’t something that comes easily to everyone. There are hundreds of thousands of these incredible human beings all over the country and we speak to just a few in our…

The Covid-19 virus robs us daily of our freedom of movement, our nourishment, our employment and quite literally our lives. While all this is true and devastating, heartbreaking and scary, I also grow concerned for the increasing loss of our collective compassion, our human decency, our patience and our care for one another. This disaster is shining a bright light on the inequality and the divide in our society that we’ve so effectively kept hidden or accepted as the norm. And instead of acknowledging this truth and helping our most vulnerable in ways that effect meaningful and positive change, we respond by offering judgment, ridicule, criticism, name-calling and insult. Perhaps worse than all of that is that we encourage and expect those not as privileged as us to behave like…

IT FELT like the bottom had fallen out of her world. Sitting in the office, she struggled to get her head around what the developmental expert was telling her about her 20-month-old son. “He’ll never speak, go to school, be toilet trained, have friends, hold down a job or get married,” was the grim prognosis. Other experts were even blunter. “Put him in a home and forget about him,” were the words of advice that Ilana Gerschlowitz (44) and her husband, Martin (46), received about their son who was diagnosed with autism almost 16 years ago. But the Joburg couple refused to listen. For the next few years Ilana searched tirelessly for answers – and what she learnt didn’t only allow her to help David to lead a happy and…

EXTRAMARKS This website offers learners support in maths, science and English, is based on CAPS and parents can track their child’s performance. Content for all three subjects is divided into chapters, with tests at the end of each chapter. The cheapest package (R699) gives you access to content for all three subjects for 90 days or to one subject of your choice for a year. There are also six-month and one-year packages. Where to find it extramarks.co.za Best suited to Grade R to 12 Cool features Learners can study with friends or mentors online and there’s a section for assessing a learner’s aptitude and career interests. You can also sign up for a free trial. The Extramarks Learning App offers animated lessons in maths, science and English for Grades 6…

WHO needs cash? These days you can simply whip out your phone when you’re at the till and use it to pay for purchases. Play your cards right and you can avoid banks altogether and instead do all your transactions – from buying electricity to paying bills – from the comfort of your couch. As South Africans go out of their way to practise social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, here’s how to take full advantage of the modern banking technology at your fingertips. THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT If you haven’t downloaded your bank’s app onto your smartphone yet, now’s the time. You’ll find the app in the Apple App or Google Play stores. You have to register and choose a password or PIN to use the app. Or…

REAL-LIFE INSPO The British actress and singer plays Addie Monroe in new Netflix series Self Made, which tells the inspiring true story of Madam CJ Walker (played by Octavia Spencer), a washerwoman who ended up launching a hair-care empire that would lead to her becoming the first self-made female millionaire in America. Addie is Sarah’s mentor-turned-rival and her character is based on entrepreneur Annie Turnbo Malone, who established Poro Beauty College in 1918, the first cosmetology school specialising in the hair of African-American women. BIDING HER TIME After leaving the UK to look for work in the US in the mid-’90s, Carmen found that being of Scottish and Nigerian descent brought more challenges in Hollywood than she’d anticipated. “The industry wasn’t really ready for someone who looked like me,” Carmen…

OTHERHOOD Comedy. A trio of moms (Angela Bassett, Patricia Arquette and Felicity Huffman) who’ve been BFFs for years get together to travel from the suburbs to New York to visit their adult sons (Sin-qua Walls, Jake Hoffman and Jake Lacy) who’ve been too busy to stay in touch with them. Based on the novel Whatever Makes You Happy by William Sutcliffe and written and directed by Cindy Chupack – a writer and producer on TV series Sex and the City – Otherhood is a breezy, occasionally formulaic comedy. But it does have moments of genuine warmth and wit thanks to its talented leading ladies. – DENNIS CAVERNELIS 2019. 100 MIN. 13.…

TIDELANDS By PHILIPPA GREGORY Simon & Schuster In 1684 in England the last thing you want to be known as is a wise woman. As witch-mania grips the country, neighbours eye one another suspiciously and family members turn on one another. Amid this paranoia and religious intolerance, the poverty-stricken Tidelands is perhaps the most perilous place to be. As tensions mount between royalists and republicans, another civil war is brewing. And against this backdrop, a beautiful young midwife, Alinor – widely believed to be a witch who had children with demons and unmanned her missing husband – is determined to make something of her life. When she meets James, an undercover priest on a secret mission on behalf of the royalists, her fate changes – but it may just be…

‘I just want every child to know they’re not alone’ SUPERHEROES come in all shapes and sizes, buttheyall have one thing in common: they help make people’s lives better in some way or another. SuperMash is no different. This caped crusader is determined to do something good – he wants to inspire children across Mzansi. His overall mission is to unlock confidence and kindness in kids and, more recently, to help them be safe from Covid-19. The Gauteng department of health roped in SuperMash to encourage kids to wash their hands properly to prevent the spread of the dreaded coronavirus. And he’s doing so well he’s even created a brand of hand sanitiser to encourage constant cleanliness. So, who’s this pint-sized powerhouse? The little boy behind SuperMash is Prince Mashawana…

HE’S used to training in an Olympic-size swimming pool, doing lap after lap in a sleek 50m slab of water complete with ripple-free lanes and starting blocks. But these days you’ll find him in a 14m pool at his family home in Durban – but he’s doing his best to stay fit, Chad le Clos says. The show must go on – even if that show is being delayed by the coronavirus. For four years Chad has been training with one goal in mind and one goal only: Olympic glory in Japan. Now of course the Games have been postponed until next year and Chad, one of the best swimmers South Africa – and the world – has ever seen, is having to adjust his mindset. “Ten days ago, I…

FURRY FRIENDS AYANDA THABETHE The TV presenter, actress and model recently shared this adorable pic of herself and Pomeranian pup SAINT. DJ ZINHLE It’s a girls’ club at this household during lockdown, says DJ ZINHLE. Just three gals hanging out and having fun – herself, daughter KAIRO and their Biro Yorkshire terrier, KLEO (who has her own Instagram account, by the way). LIEZEL VAN DER WESTHUIZEN The media personality is making the most of lockdown by taking time out to be with her “furry little ones”, dachshund rescue dogs LEIA (brown) and LUKE (black). JASON GOLIATH The comedian says his miniature dachshunds, LILLY and LOLA, took some time to adjust to lock-down as they were deprived of their daily walk. “I had to be innovative and look for activities on…

It appears that quarantine has claimed its first major celebrity split. Singer JESSIE J and actor CHANNING TATUM have separated, after dating on-and-off since late 2018. The Domino singer and Magic Mike star got back together in January after splitting in December 2019 after dating for more than a year. ‘They really care for each other. That’s why they wanted to give their romance another shot’– A SOURCE At the time of their first split, an insider claimed that although they tried to make their relationship work, the “timing was off”. “He’s super busy with his career and as a dad,” a source said at the time, referring to six-year-old Everly (6), the daughter he shares with ex-wife Jenna Dewan (39). But the couple were soon back on, and Channing…

HEY’RE the people who’ve kept the country going while the rest of us have been holed up at home in a bid to escape a virus that shows no mercy. The people who’ve had to tamp down their own fears and put on a brave face in order to tend to the sick, serve the hungry, protect the vulnerable. The men and women who stand on the forecourt of petrol stations at all hours of the day and night, ready to fill up our vehicles. The police officers who risk ridicule and violence when they try to clear the streets of groups of people. The bus drivers and taxi drivers who ferry people to work, to the shops, to the hospitals. As President Cyril Ramaphosa so aptly put it in…

AFTER his friends and family begged him to share his best recipes with them, Great South African Bake Off judge Tjaart Walraven compiled his cookbook, Summer Food, in which he shows you how to make easy yet sophisticated recipes that will impress even the foodies in your life. CHICKEN PIE This is one of my ultimate cheat recipes, but it’s so good it’s as if you roasted the chicken yourself. It’s quick and easy, especially if you aren’t feeling inspired, and you’ll have most of the ingredients in your cupboard. Best of all, this pie tastes even better a day or two later! I love getting my friends’ kids involved as they’re great at stripping the meat off a chicken carcass. Just watch that they don’t eat it all! SERVES…

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TAURUS 20 APRIL – 20 MAY Identify your goals for the new year ahead The Sun has moved into your sign, which makes it a time in which to celebrate your birthday and start a new personal year. You might not be able to have your friends over for an impressive party or celebrate in style with your loved ones at a high-class restaurant just yet, but when you’re able to, do so. You should also get the ball rolling with regards to your goals for the next year, both professionally and on a personal level. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 5, 40, 14, 10, 31, 22 GEMINI 21 MAY – 20 JUNE If you’re a true Gemini, chances are you travel light and breeze through life. But this is a week…

Bringing happiness The songbird’s second album, Future Nostalgia,which dropped last month, has already earned critical acclaim, with NME magazine calling it “powerful pop perfection from a star unafraid to speak her mind”. Unlike some other stars, Dua says she didn’t want to hold off on releasing it because of the coronavirus. “I was a little conflicted about whether it was the right thing to do because lots of people are suffering,” she admits. “But I think the thing we need the most at the moment is music and joy. So I hope it makes you smile and I hope it makes you dance, and I hope I make you proud.” Packed with hits The album features her hits Don’t Start Now, Physical and her latest, Break My Heart. “Physical is…

THE DALAI LAMA By ALEXANDER NORMAN Rider Drawing on more than three decades of special access to His Holiness, Norman, an Oxford-trained scholar of the history of Tibet, provides a vivid account of the Dalai Lama’s life – from his childhood in an isolated Tibetan village to his rise to worldwide standing as a spiritual and political icon and his escape to India, where he’s spent the past 61 years in exile. If you want to know more about the revered Buddhist leader then this is the book to go for because it’s being hailed as the most definitive account of an extraordinary life. It’s also the first authorised biography in 25 years so it offers a much-needed update, putting events of recent years into perspective. THE WAY OF THE…

JUSTIN BIEBER (@justinbieber): 11 million followers Whether he’s leaping over furniture or grooving from his bed, the Biebs offers plenty for his TikTok Beliebers to revel in. He recently posted a three-part series of him singing Yummy in the kitchen – all the while brandishing a fork. HOWIE MANDEL (@officialhowiemandel): 6 million followers The America’s Got Talent judge’s account is kind of dad territory. Still, watching his excruciating dances – one takes place in a baby’s cot – is great fun. MILEY CYRUS (@mileycyrus): 3,1 million followers Miley is fairly new to the platform but she was born for it. From hiding in a washing machine to boasting about not having changed her clothes for days while in quarantine, she never fails to entertain. Lots of silly dancing and goofing…

Selena: ‘I’m bipolar’ SINGER and actress SELENA GOMEZ has talked about mental health before, opening up about her experience living with anxiety and depression. Now, the Rare singer has revealed she was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The 27-year-old spoke about her diagnosis with singer Miley Cyrus on Instagram Live as part of Miley’s Bright Minded video series. “After years of going through a lot of different things I realised I was bipolar,” Selena said, opening up about her mental health journey. When Miley (also 27) asked Selena how she copes with her mental health struggles, the Dead Don’t Die actress said she’s a huge advocate for information and communication. “I think people get scared of it and I’ve seen it, even in my own family. I’m from Texas…

It’s the stuff of nightmares. Welsh singer DUFFY has revealed more harrowing details of the four-week ordeal during which she says she was drugged, taken to a foreign country and raped by an unnamed attacker. In a post shared to her website the Mercy singer, who first revealed her trauma in an Instagram post in February, started by advising those unable to “take on someone else’s suffering” not to read it. ‘I’d spent almost 10 years completely alone’DUFFY “It was my birthday, I was drugged at a restaurant. I was drugged then for four weeks and travelled to a foreign country. I can’t remember getting on the plane,” she wrote. “I was put into a hotel room and the perpetrator returned and raped me. I remember the pain and trying…

When we say JOSEPH BAENA has dad ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER’s back, we literally mean he has an identical back with all the well-defined muscles. The 22-year-old was revealed to have been fathered by the Terminator star with household employee Mildred Baena in 2011. Arnie w as still married to his ex-wife, journalist Maria Shriv er (64), with whom he shares four children. Joseph proved to be the spitting image of his 72-year-old father, as can be seen from this Instagr am snap (LEFT) that shows off his impressive physique.…

I get plagued by emails from people saying they can make me a fortune. It’s such a load of drivel. I delete them immediately. I’ve written back threatening them with a lawyer’s letter and even went to the police to lay a harassment complaint against them but they keep on coming. I’m desperate. How can I get rid of them? SO FRUSTRATED, EMAIL I nearly got conned again by the woman supposedly from Nedbank (YOU Say, 2 April). Last time I reported it to Ned-bank. This time I went to the police but they say no crime has been committed. It’s a landline from the Middelburg area. BE VIGILANT, SMS I hope all our local TV programmes are three months old, what with all that hugging and kissing going on!…

‘Let us never despair. For we are a nation at one, and we will surely prevail’ HE’S been accused in the past of not being decisive enough, of playing the waiting game, of keeping quiet when the nation expected him to speak out. But when the chips were truly down, Cyril Ramaphosa rose to the occasion. It’s taken the biggest global crisis since World War 2 for him to banish the naysayers and flex his presidential muscle – and it’s come at a time when we needed it most. His decision to enforce strict measures in a bid to halt the spread of Covid-19 made leaders such as US president Donald Trump and British prime minister Boris Johnson look like amateurs. And the speech he delivered when he announced the…

THE fight is on.Come November – barring an unforeseen turn of events – it will be Joe Biden taking on Donald Trump in the 2020 US presidential election. And experts are predicting it’s going to be brutal. They’re both well into their seventies and prone to putting their foot in it with embarrassing verbal gaffes – but that’s where the similarities end. Having served more than three decades as a senator and two terms as vice president, Biden needs no introduction to voters – for eight years he was President Barack Obama’s loyal sidekick. And experts believe that out of all the contenders in the running to be the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, the veteran politician is the one who Trump least wanted to go up against. But after Bernie…

THE WORLD HAS FORGOTTEN ME Q I’m so lonely in my house with this lock-down. I feel as if I’m going mad because there’s nobody to talk to and I feel like an alien alone on Earth. Our street is so quiet. When I look out of my gate, I see nobody. I’m an accountant and can work from home but I’ve found that I’ve become extremely depressed and just want to sleep all day. I’m afraid of getting ill and dying without anybody even knowing what’s happened to me. It feels as if I’ve lost all my initiative to keep myself busy. What can I do to get myself going? Isabella, email A This time in lockdown is in some ways more difficult for people who live alone. You…

TAURUS AT WORK ■ As a boss, they set high standards but remain patient and tolerant. ■ As an employee, they get the job done slowly but surely. ■ As a colleague, they won’t let you down. ■ Their management style is all about quality control. ■ You’ll find a luxury chair and high-class stationery at their workspace. ■ At the office party, they may be a stick-in-the-mud. ■ Their paycheque is saved to build up a secure nest egg.…

THE GOLDFINCH Drama. Thirteen-year-old Theo Decker (Oakes Fegley from Pete’s Dragon) loses his mother (Hailey Wist) in a bombing at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. This sets his life on a course he could never have predicted. Endearing at times, incredibly sad at others, this coming-of-age film is told from the perspective of a young boy grappling with who he is and how he fits into the world, while carrying a dark secret – he’s stolen a valuable painting, The Goldfinch by 17th-century Dutch painter Carel Fabritius, from the museum during the aftermath of the explosion. As Theo (played by The Fault in Our Stars’ Ansel Elgort as an adult) navigates his way through life, he meets people who love and accept him unconditionally and those who use him…

CALM 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER The Aussie pop-rockers have proved they’re more than just pretty boys who make catchy hits. This, their fourth studio album, sees a more mature sound in both their vocals and songwriting, as the individual members grow up. Calm is essentially a journey through a young man’s life showing we’re all human and make mistakes. The album’s first single, Easier, has already landed a spot on Billboard’s list of the 100 best songs of 2019 while the follow-up single, Teeth, sees them partnering up with guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine. Frontman Luke Hemmings’ vocals are as flawless as ever. Standout tracks are the opener Red Desert, with its fiery drumming, Easier, and the acoustic ballad High.…

Don’t want to see a certain kind of TikTok video or user in your feed? Hard press on the offending video to reveal a “Not Interested” button. TikTok is notorious for sending out loads of push notifications. If you don’t want to be inundated, turn off TikTok notifications in your phone’s settings menu. Worried about going down the TikTok rabbit hole? The app has a feature that warns users when they’ve been looking at it for more than an hour. Find it under “Digital Wellbeing” on your profile.…

600km That’s how far above the Earth the Hubble telescope orbits, making it well beyond the reach of our planet’s light-distorting atmosphere. 97 The number of minutes it takes the Hubble to orbit the Earth, moving at 8km a second (that’s 28 800km/h)! 2 The number of solar panels that power the telescope 42 000km This is how long the wiring in the Hubble would be rolled out. 4 000 The number of spare parts it has 13m The length of the Hubble. It’s 4m in diameter and weighs about 12 tons. 4km It’s powerful enough to observe an object measuring just 1mm from this distance. 10x The universe comprises tenfold the number of galaxies previously thought to exist.…

DOUBLE TAKE That pout, that flawless complexion, those voluptuous curves – it’s easy to see why actress and DJ THULI PHONGOLO has been dubbed South Africa’s KIM KARDASHIAN WEST. Many of Thuli’s 1,8 million followers on Instagram have commented on how similar she is to the reality TV star, not only in looks but also in their sense of style and their love of sharing saucy snaps on social media. Well, as the saying goes, if you’ve got it, flaunt it! LOVE DURING LOCKDOWN They’re already used to spending most of their time apart, so lockdown hasn’t really been a big problem for Sharks rugby player CURWIN BOSCH and his model girlfriend KAYLEIGH PETERS. With the flyhalf based in Durban and Kayleigh in Port Elizabeth, good communication has been one…

‘I’ll never live in LA again. I can’t see myself living in a city’– ELSA ON THE HEMSWORTH FAMILY’S IDYLLIC LIFE DOWN UNDER CHRIS HEMSWORTH (36) and wife ELSA PATAKY (43) might be socially distancing due to the coronavirus pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped them from hitting the beach and getting a dose of vitamin sea. The couple – who share sons Tristan and Sasha (6) and daughter India (7) – spent some time on a quiet beach near their home in Byron Bay, Australia. They were pictured soaking up some fresh air without another soul in sight. How the other half live!…

FLORENCE PUGH (24) has been forced to defend her relationship with former Scrubs star ZACH BRAFF after being inundated with abuse from trolls over their 21-year age difference. The trouble started when the Oscar-nominated Little Women star shared a birthday tribute to Zach, whom she’s been dating for the past year. But some of Florence’s Instagram followers took exception to the post, and she quickly responded with an emotional video defending her unconventional romance with the 45-year-old actor. “I don’t need you tell me who I should and shouldn’t love, and I’d never in my life ever tell anyone who they can and can’t love,” she insisted in the clip. You tell ’em, Flo!…