Innholdsfortegnelse for 2 March 2023 i You South Africa

IT’S not easy for me to write about a cover price increase. I know things are tough with the economy what it is, load-shedding, petrol prices, never-ending increasing fees of practically everything. I wish there was a way we could delay or stop it, but the reality is our bills have gone up too – some with massive leaps, like the cost of the paper we print this magazine on. We may not be able to prevent a rise in our cover price but what we can do is bring you the best mix of features. There are moving human interest stories like the soccer-playing grannies and South Africans in the heart of an earthquake. There’s great advice, like our story on how to cope with loadshedding, and escapism in…

THIS time 70 years ago the world was abuzz with excitement. A beautiful young woman was preparing to be crowned queen and, for millions of people wearied by war and weighed down by lingering austerity measures, it was a golden light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. Queen Elizabeth, with her dashing husband by her side, had movie star status and the lead up to her coronation captured the imagination of the globe. But the world is a very different place now. And if one person knows that, it’s King Charles III. For starters, he’s 74, his mother was 26. Back then the royal family – although it’s always had its critics – was on a pedestal, almost untouchable. These days it’s conflicted and complex, riven by scandals…

SHE still lives in the sprawling apartment she shared with the love of her life, despite the bittersweet memories it holds and the tragedy that unfolded on the street outside. And it’s likely Yoko Ono was in her home when she recently celebrated her milestone 90th birthday. Over the past few years the world has seen little of the raven-haired, bespectacled Japanese-born artist who won the heart of John Lennon and who many blamed for the breakup of The Beatles. Dogged by depression for decades, she’s become a virtual recluse as she battles mobility issues that have reportedly left her needing round-the-clock care. But Yoko has always been something of an enigma and she continues to keep people guessing about the life she leads in the famous Dakota building in…

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WHAT’D HE SAY? NASA’s preparing for the Apollo project, so they start doing astronaut training on a Navajo Indian reservation. One day a Navajo elder and his son are herding sheep and come across the space crew. The old man, who only speaks Navajo, asks a question which the son translates, “What are the guys in the big suits doing?” A member of the crew says they’re practicing for their trip to the moon. The old man gets really excited and asks if he can send a message to the moon with the astronauts, in the hope that aliens will receive it, so the NASA trainees record the message. They ask the son to translate, but he refuses. So the NASA reps go to the rest of the tribe and…

LUCY BY THE SEA By ELIZABETH STROUT Viking Lucy Barton – subject of the author’s beloved previous books My Name is Lucy Barton and Oh William! returns in this thought-provoking novel that begins just as the Covid pandemic starts to take hold. Lucy is persuaded by William, her ex-husband and father of her two daughters, to leave New York and hole up in a rented seaside house in Maine. She hates it at first – she misses her old life and her kids and finds herself unable to work at her writing. She’s also unsure how she feels about William and sometimes finds herself hating him. But as the virus digs deeper and New York buckles under the weight of the disaster, Lucy finds herself adapting to Maine and reassessing…

EVERYONE is talking about the new chatbot ChatGPT as well as other forms of AI (artificial intelligence). We take a look at this technology making headlines around the world. What is ChatGPT? A chatbot is a computer program (or bot) that’s able to talk to people as if it were a real person. It does this through machine learning. Machine learning means the bot scans through an enormous database of words and definitions to understand what someone means and chooses its response from that. It also means the bot becomes smarter the more people use it. ChatGPT was created by American research lab OpenAI and released to the public in November last year – and it’s been making waves ever since. You can, for example, ask the bot to explain…

IT’S not something that most people like to dwell on, but we all know it’s going to happen – because death is part of the human condition the loss of a loved one is a cruel inevitability that faces us all. Even with the great strides in technology we still can’t bring the dead back to life but what tech can do is offer a few soothing sticking plasters by making our recollections of the dead even more vivid by collating our memories, storing them, then serving them back to us as a reminder of what once was. Some firms are using advances in artificial intelligence (AI) to create authentic representations of those who have left us; perhaps in audio form, perhaps in visual form, perhaps with an interactive element.…

TO SAY our patience is constantly being tested would be an understatement, given that we’ve had loadshedding practically every day this year. Rescheduling plans, spending more on buying food, sitting in darkness for hours on end – it’s a reality with which South Africans are all too familiar. Although there are constant talks from government about plans to get us out of the dark, they have yet to shed light on actual solutions. Meanwhile, with no end in sight to the country’s energy malaise, consumers are having to adjust to living with load-shedding. While not many people can afford to cough up hundreds of thousands for solar panels and inverters to take themselves off the grid entirely, there are a number of options available to help you avoid being left…

YOUR GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF CELEBSHave YOU Heard SHE was the original bikini babe, a breathtaking beauty who embodied the glamour of the ’60s. Tributes have been pouring in for screen icon and sizzling sex symbol RAQUEL WELCH (82), who died recently at her Beverly Hills home after a short illness. The legendary actress started her career as the quintessential pin-up girl in the movie Fantastic Voyage, but it was her iconic role in One Million Years BC that cemented her image as a screen siren. In her 50-year career, Raquel gained critical acclaim for her performances in movies such as The Three Musketeers and the TV series Right to Die. But her sex-bomb image, which she reluctantly embraced, was hard to shake. “I’m not a fool,” she told…

BUST-UP OVER LISA-MARIE’S WILL IN A sad turn of events, a family feud over LISA MARIE PRESLEY’s estate has erupted between her mother, PRISCILLA PRESLEY (77), and her eldest daughter, RILEY KEOUGH (33). Lisa Marie (55), the only child of the King of Rock, Elvis Presley, died at her home in January after suffering cardiac arrest. When her will was read, it was revealed she left Graceland and the 15% ownership of Elvis’ estate to Riley and her 14-year-old twin sisters, Harper and Finley Lockwood. She’d amended her will in 2016, removing Priscilla entirely. This came as a surprise to the matriarch, whom Lisa Marie had made co-trustee of her estate, along with her former manager, Barry Siegel, in a 2010 version of her will. Priscilla has now started a…

AISHA Baker and Rushda Moosajee are moms who have built businesses and personal brands for themselves. YOU chatted to the Cape Town entrepreneurs about juggling work and family life. Aisha Baker If a blueprint existed for creativity, Aisha Baker would’ve drawn it up. The Cape Town influencer and entrepreneur is the CEO and founder of clothing brand Baked Collection, and a full-time content creator. She’s also married to cricket player Wayne Parnell (33), with whom she has two children, KHALID (4) and SALMA (1). In balancing her busy life, Aisha (32) says it helps to be self-aware and know your limits. “I work hard on getting to know what my needs are so that I can excel at all my roles. It isn’t easy. It takes discipline and the ability…

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IT’S the period of your life when you want to spend days with loved ones and stop to smell the proverbial roses every so often. But for some of the residents of a retirement village in the Free State, peace and quiet is far from the agenda. On the one side is 72-year-old Beverley-Ann Shahia, who vows to spend the rest of her golden years fighting anyone who wants to evict her from her home. There’s a witch hunt that’s been going on for years, she claims, and she doesn’t plan to just roll over and give up. On the other side is the board of Welkom Retirement Village, which claims Beverley-Ann misused the organisation’s money when she was both chairperson of the board and manager of the village, and…

Write to Dr Louise, PO Box 39410, Moreletapark 0044, or email info@drlouise.co.za. WHY DIDN’T I TRUST MY GUT ABOUT THE AFFAIR? Q Twenty years ago I suspected that my husband was having an affair with a married friend of mine. He said they were just friends, so I gave him the benefit of the doubt (stupid me!). He recently admitted he’d had a four-year affair with this woman. I’m devastated. She continues with life as though butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth while I have to build up trust once again with my now 64-year-old husband. He assures me that it was nothing more than sex and that he’s very sorry for hurting me. So where do I go from here? Hurt wife, email A Your subconscious mind at the…

For daily horoscopes go to you.co.za. PISCES 19 FEBRUARY – 20 MARCH REFLECT ON YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES A major planetary shift happens this week when Saturn, the planet of karma, duties and maturity, moves into your sign on the 7th. Considering that it has a seven-year cycle, you may want to connect with what transpired in your life at that time. You’ll have plenty of time to get used to its vibe, but in the meantime, reflect on where your priorities lie now. These are bound to shift and fluctuate as you take on more new responsibilities. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 19, 34, 5, 42, 35, 20 ARIES 21 MARCH – 19 APRIL The combination of love diva Venus and generous Jupiter in your sign means you have an abundance of love…

Where are we now with grief? How does grief fit into our digital world? Has it been changed by the vastness of the internet or by the fact that a social media profile can still live after someone has gone? What does it mean to grieve for someone in the age of Facebook memorials? I started becoming aware of this new world of grief through Griefcast, the podcast I started in 2016, which examines grief and death. “Digital grievers” would invite me to look at their phone screen to show me their dead person’s photo as if this were normal. I say this as only I, an analogue griever, can. My dad died in 1998, before the internet was the world we lived in, five months before Google was created,…

1 BENNIFER’S MATCHINGTATTOOS After that uncomfortable Grammy Awards appearance, A-listers JENNIFER LOPEZ (53) and BEN AFFLECK (50) are proving their love is here to stay – with matching tattoos. The couple debuted the tattoos of their initials on Valentine’s Day. JLo posted pics of the new ink on Instagram with the simple message, “Commitment”. 2 BRUCE WILLIS HAS DEMENTIA Almost a year after announcing his retirement from acting due to aphasia, BRUCE WILLIS (67) has now been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. In a statement his family revealed that one of the heartbreaking symptoms he now faces is challenges with communication. “While this is painful, it’s a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis.” 3 CREATIVE ROLE FOR PHARRELL Fashion house Louis Vuitton has announced that musician PHARRELL WILLIAMS (49) has…

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Send suggestions for topics and requests for info to yourmoney@you.co.za. We may answer your questions in this column but won’t reply personally. WITH R2,2 trillion in outstanding debt owed by South Africans at the end of September 2022, according to the latest Consumer Credit Market Report from the National Credit Regulator, it’s no wonder so many people need help from debt counsellors. Here’s what to know about debt counselling. 1 What is a debt counsellor? A debt counsellor makes payment arrangements with your creditors on your behalf so your payments are reduced to a manageable amount each month. Before doing this, the debt counsellor must first look at your income and expenses and work out how much money is left for debt repayment after your living expenses are covered. The…

ON OUR RADAR 1 CREED III MICHAEL B JORDAN steps behind the camera to make his directorial debut with Creed III, the Rocky spinoff he’s headlined as Adonis “Donnie” Creed since 2015. The second sequel picks up several years after the last film, with Donny thriving in both his career and family life, until the return of his former childhood friend and boxing prodigy, Damian (JONATHAN MAJORS), fresh out of prison and eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. DIRECTING DEBUT Helming the movie has been “the most challenging thing I’ve done in my career, by far”, Michael said. Wearing two hats on set, Michael is following in the footsteps of Rocky star Sylvester Stallone, who wrote all six of the Rocky films and directed…

UNIFORM, check! Backpack, check! Butterflies in the tummy, check! Welcome to one of the biggest days in the life of both little ones and parents: the first day of big school! As parents excitedly shared their munchkin’s first step to success on social media, YOU decided to be part of the celebration and asked moms and dads to send us pictures of their kid’s first day of school. Pictures of adorable young girls and boys in their school uniforms, all neat and smiley, came flooding in for our First Grader competition and it was up to the public to vote for the winner. This year seven-year-old Jaylynn Essack of Mitchell’s Plain, Cape Town, has been crowned our winner. The little lass recently started Grade 1 at Yellowwood Primary School and…

THINGS ARE LOOKING UP Su Kaye of the UK took this snap of her French bulldog’s wrinkly neck in her studio. “I was just trying to do something different from the norm and create something unique,” she says. “It isn’t something I’ve seen other people doing and it created a great response.” The pic is the first-place winner in the studio category. I’LL TURN MY BACK ON YOU! This image of Mimi the Yorkshire terrier was shot by Jane Thomson of Vancouver, Canada, and perfectly captures the tiny dog’s big attitude. It won second place in the studio category. SNOW JOKE Dalia Fichmann of Switzerland took this pic of border collie Kyron, an avalanche rescue dog,earning first place in the portrait and landscape category. “I lay down with the camera…