Innholdsfortegnelse for 27 April 2023 i You South Africa

I WAS fascinated by the story we have this week about people who fall in love with or are in relationships with artificial intelligence (AI). It raises so many questions about these interactions, how people see themselves and others and what it means if you’re in a human relationship but you’re falling for a machine. Is it cheating if it’s an AI persona? Are your feelings less or equally valid? Are the consequences in terms of heartbreak as severe? What are the boundaries and who gets to set them? What are the long-term – or even short-term – effects on your physical and emotional state? AI technology is advancing rapidly every day and more questions are going to arise. We have no idea just how much the world is going…

SHE’S spoken out about a lot of things and people usually listen because, well, she’s Oprah Winfrey: the guru of self-help, the magician of inspiration, the wizard of the pick-me-up. And when Oprah talks about matters regarding herself it often helps us to feel a little bit better about ourselves too. The talk-show queen has been open about her traumatic childhood, her weight issues, the grief she felt when she lost loved ones and her health. Last year she revealed she’d had a double-knee operation that’d left her in agony but had ultimately given her a greater appreciation of life. See, her fans said. Oprah is really just like us – she’s getting older, she has aches and pains too. O has never shied away from the subject of ageing.…

HE’S one of the most-revered religious leaders in the world, an advocate of world peace, a symbol of unity, a crusader for everything from women’s rights to the poor. His words of wisdom appear regularly on social media timelines, promoting non-violence, spiritual enlightenment and compassion. But the Dalai Lama (87), the foremost leader of Tibetan Buddhism, has been making headlines for a different reason lately. Scandalous, disgusting and abusive are some of the words that have been used to describe His Holiness’ actions, which were captured on a video. Footage shows the Dalai Lama being approached by a young boy at Tsuglagkhang Temple in Dharamshala, India, where the holy man lives. The child was one of 100 young people attending a skills training course run by an Indian initiative that…

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YOUR MONEY SORTED 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. IF YOU’RE a client of Absa, FNB, Standard Bank or Nedbank, you’ve probably heard of PayShap or seen the payment option on your banking app. It’s a new electronic payment system for customers to make cash payments. But before you start using it, it’s important to understand how it works and what the costs, advantages and disadvantages are. 1 WHAT IS IT? PayShap allows banking clients to transfer or receive small amounts of money to and from other banking clients. The money is immediately available. It’s a different system from electronic fund transfers (EFTs) and banks’ own cash payment systems such as eWallet and…

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FOR years his life was in limbo. He struggled to get a job, couldn’t get a driver’s licence and he wasn’t able to get married – all because he wasn’t recognised as a South African citizen. Tebogo Khoza (26) was born in South Africa but he had nothing to prove it. For almost a decade he’s battled to show he is who he says he is – and finally he has the precious piece of paper that will allow him to get on with his life. The North Gauteng high court in Pretoria recently ruled the department of home affairs should register him as a South African and issue him with an identity document. The first step was giving him a birth certificate and when he received it he could…

SHE does drama with a capital D, plot twists to drop the most rigid of jaws, sexy with so much extra sizzle and intrigue that it can only be described as epic. And if you’re a fan of small-screen hit shows, you’re likely to have stumbled across something she’s had a hand in – Grey’s Anatomy, How to Get Away with Murder, Inventing Anna, Scandal, Station 19 and the hit Bridgerton series to name a few. It seems whatever Shonda Rhimes touches turns to TV gold, and it’s made her one of the most powerful women in Hollywood. The powerhouse producer’s next offering is set to be another Netflix hit. Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton story, premières on 4 May on Netflix, and fans of the franchise are thrilled. The Ton’s…

It was a night of celebration and loads of laughter as some of the country’s funniest peeps gathered at The Galleria in Sandton to celebrate the 10th annual Savanna Comics’ Choice Awards. After a three-year hiatus the popular awards have returned, honouring the best of the best in comedy – those comedic content creators who make us forget our troubles by making us laugh. The evening was filled with tons of entertainment all around.…

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IN AGREEMENT Employee: “Sir, may I have a day off next week to visit my mother-in-law?” Boss: “Certainly not!” Employee: “Thank you so much, sir! I knew you’d be understanding.” CAKE LOVER A man comes home from work and finds that the cake he put in his fridge is missing. There’s a note where the cake was that says: “I broke into your house and saw the cake in your fridge. I didn’t steal anything else – I only took the cake that was in your fridge.” The man is furious. What kind of a burglar steals cake, he wonders. “I’ve had thieves take my bike, I’ve had thieves take my delivery packages, but nothing like this. . . This one takes the cake!” AT THE DOCTOR’S… ■ What did…

ENCORE IN DEATH By JD ROBB Hachette Famous movie star Eliza Lane and her beloved husband, Brant Fitzhugh, host a glamorous event celebrating her triumphant return to a play in which she’d previously starred as a young up-and-coming actress. But chaos erupts when Brant collapses after drinking a cocktail intended for Eliza. Guests crowd around to witness the distraught star cradling her dying husband in her arms. This is the scene that greets homicide detective Eve Dallas’ team in another thrilling crime novel by Robb, a pseudonym for the prolific Nora Roberts. Among the many guests are several suspects, including a disgruntled assistant who was recently fired, a jealous rival, an obsessed fan and a grief-sticken mother who’s been terrorising Eliza for years. This is the 56th book in the…

IT WAS her longest relationship and fans had hoped this may be her happily ever after – the one she’d make sweet music about for the rest of her life. After all, Taylor Swift had already penned a song believed to be about Joe Alwyn in her track Dress, trilling about “your buzzed cut and my bleached hair” – a reference, everyone believed, to the time when they first met at the 2016 Met Gala when his hair was buzzed and hers ultra-blonde. And TayTay has always sung about the loves of her life – usually after they’ve broken up so, hey, this was a good sign, right? But Swifties are expecting another tune to hit the charts now. The guy everyone thought might be the Romeo to her Juliet…

AS FAR as farewell tours go this one has to be the candle that just keeps on burning. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road? More like let me jump on that road and never get off. Because if there’s one crocodile who knows how to rock, it’s the Rocket Man. Elton John may have broken fans’ hearts five years ago when he announced he was calling time on his touring career – but if they thought it meant the imminent disappearance of one of the greatest music legends of all time, they were wrong. His Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour has been on the go for the better part of five years and has taken him to Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Australia, Canada, America and England. There have been plenty of…

OLD age comes for all of us but there are some who walk among us who seems to have made a deal with Father Time. Take musician PHARRELL WILLIAMS who recently turned 50. The Grammy award-winning artist’s style and music may be ever evolving but his ageing process screeched to a halt somewhere along the line. For years now he’s had fans baffled by the fact that he hasn’t seemed to have aged one bit since hitting the scene in his twenties. One fan tweeted on his birthday “Again, the brother needs to drop the anti-aging elixir formula”, while another called him the “youngest 50-year-old in the world”. In an interview with GQ Pharrell shared that his beauty secret is pretty simple – exfoliating. “When you exfoliate and you drink…

THE woman in the mugshot is worlds apart from the one who often posted pictures of lavish overseas holidays, fancy cars and a wardrobe full of designer clothes. She looks like she’s been crying, isn’t wearing any makeup and is dressed in a hoodie, sweatpants and sneakers. The flamboyant lifestyle of 33-year-old Nandipha Magudumana, once an aesthetic doctor to some of SA’s most beautiful women, is over. For weeks she was the country’s most-wanted women, on the run with SA’s most-wanted man, Facebook rapist and murderer Thabo Bester. They were finally hunted down in Tanzania and brought back to face the music – and Nandipha is facing multiple charges, including aiding and abetting Bester’s escape, murder due to “a number of bodies found”, violation of corpses and fraud. Bester, who…

‘LIKE ALL OTHER CHILDREN THEY’RE CAPABLE OF ANYTHING EASTER may have come and gone, but three kids are still on the hunt in this garden, peering into bushes, lifting pots, inspecting trees and tiptoeing through flowerbeds. The chocolate eggs have long been devoured, but there are still plenty of treasures out here and this trio is determined to find them. “I have one!” eight-year-old Izak yells, holding up his prize: a snail plucked mid-journey down a path in the corner of the garden. It’s enough to make mom Rika Lowe (35) roll her eyes. Izak and his sisters, Abigail (12) and Khloe (10), have a thing for snails, she says. “I don’t know where their obsession comes from, but they love collecting them. They have bowls of them in the…

I AM OVERCOME WITH REGRET Q I’m 60, and looking back, I regret many of the things I’ve done. I married twice and divorced twice because for me the grass was always greener on the other side. Yet when I look back now, I see I had two wonderful wives who loved me and with whom I could have grown old and enjoyed life. I didn’t have children with either of them, so now I don’t have children to brighten up my life. I also regret the heartache I caused my wives – even though I loved them, I threw them aside for relationships that were not worthwhile. Both of them are now deceased – one died in an accident and the other had heart failure – so I can’t…

TAURUS 20 APRIL – 20 MAY BEWARE OF BEING OVERCONFIDENT Chances are that you may be feeling overconfident in terms of your ideas right now, especially with regards to money. If you’re a typical Taurus, you’re practical and savings-orientated, and you’re pretty much always on a mission to see how you can gain and invest financially. Even though the Sun meets up with ingenious Mercury in your sign on the 2nd, you could just be fooling yourself, as Mercury is in retrograde movement. Try to be patient YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 2, 18, 35, 37, 26, 5 GEMINI 21 MAY – 20 JUNE Venus is still cruising through your sign, so soak up all the attention and the flattery. Your own planet, Mercury, is in retrograde and joins forces with the…

MILLIONS of people will tell you their kids are the best thing to happen to them. That they enrich their lives, fill their days, that they bless them with grandchildren to enjoy in their retirement. But there are others who say not having kids is one of the best things they did – and actor and comedian Seth Rogen is one of them. His trophy cabinet is packed with awards and being childless is part of the reason behind his success, he says. In a recent interview on the podcast The Diary of a CEO, Seth reflects on his rise to fame and the fact that he’s had more time to devote to his career because he isn’t a dad. “I work with a lot of people who have kids…