Innholdsfortegnelse for 12 January 2023 i You South Africa

WE CAN never be absolutely, truly, 100% sure how things are going to turn out. The past three years showed life can present obstacles and opportunities in the blink of an eye. We can plan and predict, hoping to have some measure of control, but in the end, there are always potential unknowns. It can be terrifying, but also exciting when things go topsy turvy. Growth rarely happens in times of stability – although I know many of us crave that steadiness after the wild year that was 2022. By the sounds of it, this year is going to be another marked by challenges, many of them beyond our control. We can’t manage the war in Ukraine, we can’t tackle inflation and we can’t fix Eskom ourselves. But we can…

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YOUR MONEY SORTED ADMISSION of debt, better known as an acknowledgement of debt (AOD), is when you admit that you owe someone money and undertake to pay the amount. The agreement will stipulate the repayment with certain terms and conditions. Before you sign, you must understand how it works. These five facts can help you.. 1 WHO CAN CREATE SUCH AN AGREEMENT AND WHEN? An AOD can be created any time if you’ve missed payments. It doesn’t have to be with a financial institution such as a bank – friends who loaned you money can also request an agreement. It can also happen if, for example, you’ve been responsible for causing an accident and agree to pay for the repairs of the other party’s vehicle. That party may then request…

FAST FOOD A man is driving 80km/h one day when he’s overtaken by a three-legged chicken. So he accelerates to pass the chicken. Three minutes later the chicken passes him again as he’s driving 100km/h. The man tries to catch the chicken but it turns down a side road. The man follows it into a farmyard but can’t find it anywhere. The man finds the farmer, tells him the story and asks for an explanation. The farmer says his family like chicken legs so he breeds three-legged chickens. “What do they taste like?” asks the man. “I don’t know,” replies the farmer. “We haven’t caught one yet!” WANNA KNOW? ■ Can a kangaroo jump higher than the Empire State Building? Of course. The Empire State Building can’t jump. ■ What…

VICTORIA BECKHAM – THE MANNEQUIN The 48-year-old former Spice Girl has mastered many poses over the years, but she does the display-window mannequin stance so well you could roll in a lookalike doll and no one would notice. Left leg forward, right arm and leg back and hips pointing forward – that’s been her go-to pose since the 2000s. NICKI MINAJ – THE BALLERINA The rapper might have some hard-hitting lyrics, but on the red carpet she likes to go for a softer, more feminine pose. Nicki (40) can often be seen crossing one leg in front of the other on the red carpet, reminiscent of a ballerina. According to body-language experts, this pose is often seen as defensive – makes sense when you consider she’s been fighting off news…

Keep that carefree holiday spirit going with the latest edition of YOU Blockbusters. No 31 is a special bumper issue with so many delightful brain games to enjoy you’ll be spoilt for choice well into the changing of the seasons! Who can say no to 290 tantalising puzzles? Get your thinking cap on and start solving the crosswords, codebreakers, anagrams, cryptic puzzles, logic brainteasers, spot the difference, crypto quotes and so much more! Get your copy in stores now, online at youstore.co.za or contact Johan Terblanche at 021-406-4962 or johan.terblanche@media24.com to order. See your writing or news tips in print! Here are the email addresses you need for submitting material for publication. News ideas news@you.co.za Personal stories web@you.co.za Original jokes chuckles@you.co.za Recipes recipes@you.co.za…

CAPRICORN 21 DEC – 20 JAN EXPECT IMPROVEMENT WITH COLLEAGUES With the Sun in your sign combining forces with powerful Pluto, the course is set for you to own your personal power and act accordingly. It’s seldom that you’d take an uncalculated risk, so bear in mind that if an opportunity looks too good to be true, it probably is. If your relationships with your colleagues have been stressful and beset with conflict, you can expect a turn for the better. You’re not out of the woods yet, but there is some improvement. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 15, 26, 5, 35, 46, 21 FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS THE CAPRICORN STYLE GUIDE ■ Greys and browns are their colours. ■ Formal corporate wear is their style. ■ They have a preference for receiving expensive…

THIS year, we’ll discuss certain core academic concepts and skills in a quick, fun way and give you tips to master them. Collect these eight quick guides throughout the year so you have them handy when you’re studying or want to check something. READING COMPREHENSION It’s often hard to get a good mark in a subject like this that you can’t study for. So how can you improve your marks? When you break down the term comprehension test, you get comprehension and test. That means it’s a test to see how well you understand (comprehend) something you’ve read. You can’t study for a comprehension test, but with regular practice and a few simple strategies, you can definitely improve your skills. TEXT The word text refers to anything that can be…

Dog word search 1 The words in the list below are all hidden in the grid – horizontally or vertically, backwards or forwards. Find and circle them. 2 Complete the secret message below using every unused letter of the grid above, starting top right. Continue until all the spaces have been filled. Dot to dot Colour by letter Colour in all the spaces marked with a D. Circle the odd one out in each row Help Bo get back to Kyle Find 10 differences ANSWERS Word search secret message Man’s best friend.…

'THE year 2020 got off to a running start. My son, Zac Steyn, was in matric and my work as a freelance journalist kept me busy. Then two things happened in the first few months of the year – things that seemingly had nothing to do with each other but kind of did. I switched medical aids from one that’s since been declared bankrupt and joined Momentum Health, hoping nothing serious would happen during the three-month waiting period. Then the pandemic bomb burst in March 2020. Somewhere in between helping my son cope with matric, my work and keeping us safe and healthy, I realised it was time for a mammogram. But we were mostly in lockdown and I got to it only in September. FINDING OUT “I just need…

SHE’S slowly but surely been easing back into public life over the past few months, taking one stylish step at a time. But it’s a new year, she’s practically a new person – and she’s ready to take things up a notch or two. This is the year Her Serene Highness Princess Charlene of Monaco will be back with a bang as she puts her health issues behind her. It’s goodbye to the waif-like woman of 2021 and hello to the strong royal who rules over Monaco alongside her husband, Prince Albert. “I feel full of energy right now,” Charlene tells YOU in an exclusive interview. “And serene.” She could add busy to that list of descriptions too. Charity gigs, official appearances, overseas trips, which included attending the queen’s funeral…

LIFE in South Africa often feels like a roller coaster. One minute we’re up, the next we’re down, plunged into that familiar hell of darkness. Last year was a pretty wild ride and all indications point toward the old roller coaster doing its mad twists and turns again in 2023. So hold on tight, people! Things are going to be rough – and leading the way is the behemoth we can always count on to drag us down: Eskom. Yet it isn’t all doom and gloom. For starters, Cyril Ramaphosa is still our president – and like him or loathe him, stability is what our vulnerable democracy so desperately needs. Experts unpack the good, the bad and the ugly as we head into 2023. THE GOOD CYRIL SURVIVED The president…

Write to Dr Louise, PO Box 39410, Moreletapark 0044, or email info@drlouise.co.za. I DON’T KNOW HOW TO GET OUT OF THIS Q I’ve been in emotional turmoil for some time now. I realised a few months back that I don’t love my husband and don’t want to be with him for the rest of our lives. We’ve only been married for two years and don’t have children yet. Although he’s a good guy, we are totally different people. I am sociable and enjoy exploring new places and he’s a real homebody and only wants to stay at home. The result is that I’m bored out of my mind. I’m tired of staying at home all the time and watching movies. It feels as if my husband lives his life in…

IT’S hard to overstate what a year of change 2023 will be. Besides the requisite minimum number of change-making eclipses we get every year, there are other massive changes to the astrological landscape afoot. The most tangible of these is that Saturn is changing signs, moving from Aquarius to Pisces. Saturn is the sign of lock-downs, karma and tough lessons, and Aquarius is the sign of humanity. Suffice to say we’re all going to feel a lot less trapped than we’ve done in recent years. And now there’s a whole new set of lessons coming! Fire sign Earth sign Air sign Water sign ARIES 21 MARCH – 19 APRIL A YEAR OF CHANGE Aim to do something “healing” every day in 2023, to make the most of each day. That…

HOT & NEW HAVEN By EMMA DONOGHUE Picador It’s 17th-century Ireland and senior priest Artt, who’s a bit of a pompous pain in the neck, has arrived at a monastery on the mainland. One night God visits him in his sleep: he needs to take two monks with him to establish a monastery on an island that will be revealed to him once he’s at sea. Artt takes with him the monks he sees in his vision: weathered old Cormac, scarred by violence and tragedy, and practical young Trian, who’s always hungry but mindful of his place in the pecking order. After a few torrid days on their little boat, they arrive at what Artt is convinced is the island in his dream: a soaring outcrop of jagged black rock…

THERE could be a lot fewer plant and animal species on Earth in the next 80 years. A new study into the effect of the climate crisis on loss of habit and biodiversity (see box) has found that more than 1 in 10 species might go extinct. How the research was done Researchers used a supercomputer to build virtual models of the planet and had thousands of species “live” there to see what happens when some of these species go extinct. This way they could predict the ripple effect one species going extinct has on others. For example, if a predator’s main prey becomes extinct due to the climate crisis, we call it “primary extinction”. But because that predator species no longer has its food source, it will also go…

CLOSE your eyes and try to picture it: a billion books stacked one on top of another in a single pile, reaching up to the sky. It would be taller than 60 000 Eiffel Towers and higher than 45 000 Empire State Buildings – it’s almost unimaginable. Now imagine someone selling enough books to create such a structure and it’s not so inconceivable anymore. Because there is, in fact, one author alive whose book sales can achieve that. Danielle Steel, best known for her romance novels, is on her way to selling her billionth book this year, her publishers predict. She’s by far the world’s most successful living author, with more sales than James Patterson, JK Rowling, Dan Brown, Stephen King and Jeffrey Archer combined, and having written more than…

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