Innholdsfortegnelse for 16 March 2023 i You South Africa

‘THE EVICTION SPELLS THE END OF THEIR TIME IN THE UK’ WHEN the queen was alive, her word was followed, her instructions obeyed, her indulgences overlooked. But Her Majesty is gone and the new monarch is a whole different kettle of fish. Winds of change are blowing through the house of Windsor – and gusts are being felt thousands of kilometres away in sunny California. King Charles has evicted Harry and Meghan from Frogmore Cottage, the home they were gifted by Queen Elizabeth as a wedding present in 2018. Banishing his son from the house is one of the sweeping decisions the 74-year-old king has made to “put to bed” the problems plaguing The Firm before his 6 May coronation, palace sources say. Charles is believed to have given the…

YOU know your day is off to a bad start when you can’t make coffee because there’s no power. But even worse is arriving home after a long day at work to four hours of loadshedding and no idea of what you’re going to feed your hungry family. This is a dilemma many of us are facing thanks to Eskom’s ever-changing schedules, but there are ways to get around the frustration of being famished in the dark. Savvy shopping choices can help you serve up decent dishes that could even become new family favourites. Here’s expert advice on what you need to do. BE PROPERLY EQUIPPED Cooking with gas opens up many possibilities while we’re hit by so much loadshedding. You don’t need to replace your electric stove if you…

IT’S a scene many teachers are familiar with – a primary school child staring at their book, battling to read basic words such as apple, balloon and flower. And when they reach the end of the page they might as well be reading Greek because many can’t comprehend how the words fit together in context. New statistics show that 82% of South African children in Grade 4 don’t understand what they’re reading and 60% of children entering Grade 2 don’t know the alphabet. President Cyril Ramaphosa set a target in 2019 that all children aged 10 and older should be able to read for meaning by 2030. But there’s no chance of all children being up to speed within seven years, according to a bombshell report recently released by the…

FROM layering illuminating skincare to loading up on antioxidants, many beauty products and treatments promise a radiant, brighter complexion but exfoliation remains among the best ways to improve your skin’s texture and tone. But choosing and using one can be quite a challenge. Should you consider a classic face scrub or a liquid exfoliant? And how do you ensure you’re not over-exfoliating or using the wrong method for your skin type? Here’s our guide to help you decipher the world of exfoliators and how to choose the correct one. WHAT IS EXFOLIATION? As we age the cell-regeneration process slows down and dead skin cells start to pile up, resulting in blocked pores, excess oil and uneven skin tone. Proper exfoliation removes the barrier of dead skin cells clogging your pores…

Keyword clue: STRANGE OR ODD >SPIRAL Starting with clue No 1, fill in the grid in a clockwise direction with four-letter words, working your way to the centre of the spiral puzzle. The last letter of each word becomes the first letter of the next. If you’ve correctly filled in the grid, there should be a seven-letter keyword reading across from clue No 8. 1 Chicken part2 Maths chart3 Girlfriend; fruit4 Somerset . . . (SA town)5 Mr and Mrs . . . (Roald Dahl characters)6 Step on someone’s . . .7 Ticket part you keep 8 Modern journal9 Steady radiance10 Show signs of age11 Autumn tool12 Heroic poem13 Copy; cot14 Gooey lump15 Talk big16 Location of Egypt’s pyramids >SUDOKU These number puzzles are quite simple. Place the numbers 1 to…

MEALIES are a very important crop in South Africa and one of the most cultivated. Maize is a staple food for a large portion of the population. Mealies are versatile and can be eaten in several ways. But how do they get from the farm to your plate? DID YOU KNOW? SA produces two types of maize: yellow maize, which is mostly used as livestock feed, and white maize, which is mostly consumed by people. About half of SA’s maize is cultivated as livestock feed and is an important source of protein. Cattle and chickens account for the largest consumption of yellow maize in the country. MAIZE PLANT TASSEL The male flowers. The tiny flowers produce pollen, which then fertilise the female flowers (silks and ears). The plant is pollinated…

HE’LL never live a normal life, doctors told Jason Arday’s parents. Your son will need full-time care, and he’ll have to live in a care home, they said. Jason was diagnosed with global development delay at the age of three. He took longer than other children his age to reach developmental milestones such as walking, talking and interacting socially. Doctors said he’d probably need to be in assisted living until the end of his days. They could not have been more wrong. At the age of 37 Jason has been appointed a professor of sociology at the University of Cambridge, one of the most prestigious institutions in the world. After a series of teaching positions at various tertiary institutions in the UK, he’s established himself as a leading scholar in…

IT LIES quietly in wait for its prey, possessing the patience of a puff adder, the sinister calm of a crocodile and the have-I-got-a-surprise-for-you innocence of a hippo. Stealthy, uncompromising, unforgiving: there are many ways to describe this beast that traps the unsuspecting. It’s become almost as commonplace as a rat or a pigeon and it’s spawned many a meme and a joke – because if there’s one thing South Africans know how to do it’s to make light of a problem. And right now, leading the charge is comedian Themba Robin, who’s turned the not-so-humble pothole into a skit so screamingly funny it’s making waves around the world. The 32-year-old Joburg funnyman recently posted a video on social media of himself doing a pitch-perfect David Attenborough impersonation, inspecting the…

ON OUR RADAR 1 GET READY FOR THE ANTIBRIDGERTON At a glance, THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON – adapted by Sara Collins from her novel – looks a lot like Bridgerton. It’s set in the early 19th century and features a cast of all hues, but that’s where the similarities end. Described by the Guardian as “grinding [and] pitiless, you could call this the anti-Bridgerton. The opening two episodes deliver a rich brew of forbidden love, slavery, racism and sinister eugenics.” The four-part drama tells the story of Frannie (KARLASIMONE SPENCE) a Jamaican maid and former slave who’s forced into servitude in England at the home of scientist George Benham (STEPHEN CAMP-BELL MOORE) and his wife, Marguerite (SOPHIE COOKSON). Frannie has a secret love affair with Marguerite and when George…

IMAGINE a world where it’s impossible to stop food from going bad. How different our lives would be! Think of some of your favourite foods – maybe a juicy burger, crispy chips or creamy cake. If we didn’t have ways to keep food fresh for longer, we’d quickly end up with stinky burgers, hard chips and mouldy cake! The process of keeping food fresh for a long time is called food preservation, and humans have been doing it for thousands of years! Let’s find out more. WHY DOES FOOD GO BAD? Before we learn about some methods of food preservation, let’s take a look at why food goes bad in the first place. All living plants and animals contain microorganisms which, when kept in balance, are vital to life. As…

ON A dank Friday night in Oxford, an ambassador from the Vatican addresses a gathering of philosophers. Other than an invocation for audience members to tweet about the event, this might be a scene from the 15th century – the location for the gathering is St Luke’s Chapel, its walls crisp and whitewashed, its glass windows stained. Yet the subject matter under discussion could not be more contemporary: robots and what to do about them. Father Paolo Benanti, the speaker, is the pope’s adviser on artificial intelligence. His urgent message to the assembled boffins, fellows of the newly created Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University, is that we’re in danger of becoming an “algocracy”, a society ruled by algorithms. “We must recognise how order is made, how power…

SIX months in the hotseat, eight new top players signed, hundreds of thousands of pounds at his disposal – and barely a win to his name. It’s all going horribly wrong for Graham Potter, the manager who carried the dreams of every fan on his shoulders when he was brought in to turn things around at Chelsea. The nickname, The Blues, has seldom been more apt than it is now. Chelsea – a lowly 10th on the English Premier League log – have barely tasted victory this year and won just two games in the past 17 matches. Some of the losses were particularly agonising, such as the 1-0 defeat to Southampton, a side languishing at the bottom of the league. A 2-0 loss to Tottenham Hotspur followed, making it…

SHE often refuses to have her licence disc scanned when she enters a gated community – much to the annoyance of security guards. But as the head of the Information Regulator (IR) of South Africa, Pansy Tlakula knows better than to expose her personal information carelessly. “One of the problems we have in this country is the rate at which personal information is collected unnecessarily,” she tells YOU when we meet at her office in Braamfontein, a stone’s throw from the Johannesburg CBD. She’s not one to pull rank, but in some instances she’s been forced to disclose her designation to protect her information from being collected. “One of the things the protection of personal information act says is that anyone who collects personal information must collect only the minimum…

A DOUBLE murder, millions of missing dollars, a 20-year drug addiction – and at the centre of it all the heir to a law firm that’s run the legal scene in a small town for decades. This family saga has more twists and turns than a potholed road, enough intrigue to grip people around the world and enough drama to have been turned into a Netflix documentary. The Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal unpacks the ruthlessness and lies of a man powerful and persuasive enough to rule the roost and fool the authorities in this pocket of America’s Deep South. Yet the finest lawyers couldn’t convince the jury he wasn’t the man behind the gruesome killing of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul. And Alex Murdaugh will now spend the…

NOISE-INDUCED HEARING LOSS IS THE SECOND MOST COMMON TYPE OF HEARING LOSS AFTER AGE-RELATED HEARING LOSS EARPODS, headsets, headphones – who doesn’t have a pair these days? They’ve become essential because audio is such a big part of our lives thanks to smartphones, computers, tablets and the internet. If you have a teenager in the house, you will have seen how they’ve become an almost permanent fixture for some. The problem is they can have dire consequences for our hearing health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), research shows that approximately 2,5 billion people worldwide – that’s one in every four people – could be living with some form of hearing loss by 2050. In addition, at least 700 million could need treatment. Noise-induced hearing loss is the second…

YOU might have heard the news that South Africa has now been put on a grey list – but what exactly is this list and what does it mean for our country? We take a look. What’s the grey list? The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an international organisation that monitors how countries fight corruption, the funding of terrorism and money laundering (a way to hide money that was made illegally). South Africa being on the list means there are certain loopholes in our laws and systems that make it too easy for people to use money in illegal ways, according to the financial watchdog. The FATF released a report in October 2021 with recommendations for SA to fix the situation. Though some of these steps have been taken,…

BURN it, bin it or stuff it in the back of a cupboard – what do you do with the mementoes of lost love when your heart’s been broken? There’s another option – you could send it to the Museum of Broken Relationships, which exhibits the detritus of shattered relationships from around the world. When Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišic´, an artist and a film producer, broke up 20 years ago, they had stuff they couldn’t decide who should get. There were things like Honey Bunny, a wind-up toy rabbit that accompanied them when they couldn’t travel together. It posed and appeared in photos they sent each other while apart. Deciding Honey Bunny’s fate led to the creation of the museum in Zagreb, Croatia, says Olinka, “to show that this…

1 JENA MALONE: I WAS ASSAULTED ON SET JENA MALONE (38) has revealed that she was sexually assaulted while filming the 2015 film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay– Part 2 in France. The actress opened up about the incident on Instagram and claims a colleague, who she doesn’t name, attacked her. “I’ve worked very hard to heal and learn through restorative justice how to make peace with the person who violated me and make peace with myself,” she says. 2 PAYOUT FOR KOBE’S FAMILY Three years after basketball player KOBE BRYANT (41) and his daughter GIANNA (13) died in a helicopter crash, the family finally found justice. Kobe’s wife, VANESSA BRYANT (40), has agreed to a settlement of $28,8 million (R519m) in damages with LA county for the dispersing of pictures…