Innholdsfortegnelse for 26 October 2023 i You South Africa

WOULD you keep you kid out of school simply to let them play and have fun if they’re over the age of six? A mental health day, is how one mom in the US puts it – and, unsurprisingly, others have plenty to say about it. I’d love to know what you think too because it’s such a fascinating subject and both sides believe their position is right. In the one camp are people who believe there’s nothing wrong with occasionally letting your kid bunk – with your permission – to do something fun instead of being in class. And on the other side are those who say it’s giving kids the wrong idea about how to deal with stress and it’s setting them up for hardship later in life.…

SHE commanded the screen in Girl, Interrupted and created an enduring fan base as video-game character Lara Croft. Over the years she took a turn as a spy, an assassin and a delicious Disney villain with a few emotional dramas tossed in along the way. But it’s been years since fans of Angelina Jolie have seen her really shine on the silver screen. For the past seven years she’s been directing and taking on smaller roles that didn’t bring much fanfare and she’s been busy developing her fashion line. And, of course, she’s been dealing with the aftermath of her split from Brad Pitt in 2014. But now Angie is back in all her pillowlipped glory, taking on a role that might score her another Academy award. The 48-year-old is…

IS THIS the year the Proteas break their streak of bad luck and bring home the world cup trophy that’s eluded them so far? They certainly weren’t the favourites when the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup began on 5 October in India, but after winning all their games so far and breaking the tournament’s run record, the Proteas are looking good. Since South Africa’s return to world cricket in 1991, we’ve never made it further than the semifinals of a world cup and at the start of this year’s tournament, the odds were not in our favour. The bookies’ favourites from the start were India, Australia and reigning champions England. But then the 2019 champs lost to Afghanistan in a shock defeat and five-time world cup winners Australia lost to…

IT’S not a request you hear every day: “Do you have a dead vulture in your fridge you can donate to me?” But specialist wildlife vet Katja Koeppel knew the people from VulPro, an organisation that protects vultures, wouldn’t find it strange at all. Katja was desperately trying to save the life of a white-backed vulture that had been hit by a car and needed a donor bird. The white-backed vulture’s one eye was injured and her beak was so badly damaged she had to be fed with tongs. “We attached an acrylic prosthesis with orthopaedic thread-work to what was left of her beak,” says Katja, who works at the University of Pretoria’s faculty of veterinary science. But within a week the prosthetic became unstable. Katja returned her patient to…

HOLIDAY plans secured and your summer wardrobe sorted? It’s now time to turn your attention to the next item on your get-ready-for-summer agenda: your beauty routine. While the warm season brings with it long sunshine-filled days, the hot and dry or humid weather can affect skin and hair. Here are helpful tips to beat the heat, handle the humidity and maintain that glow right through the sunny season. Body While you might be going all out to protect your face, the rest of your body needs some TLC too. Flaunt flawless limbs by incorporating these steps for softer, smoother skin from head to toe. BUFF AWAY Your skin can easily develop acne and bumps because of excessive sweating and clogged pores. By gently exfoliating the body once a week with…

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. YOU don’t have to pay a fortune to install a solar power system – homeowners can now rent one. It’s more practical and makes more financial sense to rent as you’re not responsible for installing it yourself and usually don’t have to worry about maintenance. Rental companies offer various options so you need to compare them and see what suits your needs. Your Money asked Sumarie Greybe from digital insurance platform Naked to answer five questions about rented solar power systems. 1 WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INSURANCE? Typically, the person renting the solar power system, unless the contract states otherwise. This responsibility begins once the…

A SIGHT FOR SORE EYES A couple go for a meal at a Chinese restaurant and order the Chicken Surprise. The waiter brings the meal, served in a pot with a lid. Just as the wife is about to serve herself, the lid rises slightly and she briefly sees two beady little eyes looking around before the lid slams back down. “Good grief! Did you see that?” she asks her husband. He hadn’t, so she asks him to look in the pot. He reaches for it and the lid rises again. He also sees two little eyes looking around before the lid slams shut. Rather perturbed, he calls the waiter over, explains what’s happening and demands an explanation. “Apologies, sir,” the waiter says. “What did you order?” The husband replies,…

WHEN KANYE “YE” WEST suddenly started love-bombing actress JULIA FOX in the midst of one his erratic episodes, their relationship was bound to be anything but normal. Now Julia has lifted the lid on the whirlwind affair that looked like a mix of fashion parades, jet-setting and endless paparazzi moments. But it wasn’t all glitz and glamour. In her new memoir, Down the Drain, she describes the relationship, which lasted less than two months in 2021, as a “sick, twisted game” in which Ye constantly sought publicity. Julia (33) says that in hindsight Ye (46) “weaponised” her against his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, who’d separated from the rapper just months before. HOW IT STARTED They met in a club at a New Year’s Eve party in Miami in 2021. “Without saying…

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IT’S the kind of domestic scene that plays itself out in many homes. A young girl keeps busy while her father makes dinner, music playing as he unwinds after a long, hard week. But this scene of familial bliss didn’t end with a sparkling kitchen and a sweet goodnight. In fact, what was meant to be a relaxing start to the weekend turned into a nightmare when Klaas du Toit was shot and killed, allegedly by a neighbour after an argument over loud music. The shocking scene played out in Boksburg, Gauteng. Evan Swanson (72) is believed to have walked across to Klaas’ home at about 7pm on Friday, 18 August, to ask him to turn down his music. An altercation ensued and Klaas allegedly followed Evan to his front…

COTTAGE CHEESE & ROASTED TOMATO EGG BOWLS SERVES 2 / PREPARATION: 10 MINUTES / STANDING: 5 MINUTES / COOKING: 15-20 MINUTES ROASTED TOMATOES › 30ml (2T) olive oil› ½ onion, chopped› 250g cherry tomatoes, halved› salt and freshly ground pepper EGG BOWLS › 60ml (¼c) cream or milk› ½ round feta cheese, crumbled› 2-4 eggs› 60ml (¼c) smooth cottage cheese› 2,5ml (½t) cumin seeds TO SERVE › fresh basil› toast (optional) Heat the air fryer to 180°C. Grease 2 small ovenproof dishes or 2 ramekins with nonstick spray. 1 Roasted tomatoes Mix the oil, onion and tomatoes well. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper and divide the mixture between the dishes. 2 Put the dishes in the fryer and air-fry for 5-10 minutes until the tomatoes start bursting open.…

SENSATIONAL SEATING In this yard, cement Moroccan tiles were used to add an exotic aesthetic. Tiles can be added to cement seating or around a braai place to give it new life. WALL AND ALL Have leftover tiles? Use them to create a feature wall. Tiles are weather-resistant and they can be prettied up with some outdoor paint and a stencil. STICK IT Tiles can easily be painted with a tile or chalk paint or you can use vinyl stickers to add a special touch to boring tiles. STRIKING STAIRS What a simple idea to transform a plain stairway! You can use a full small tile or little mosaic tiles, such as the ones pictured, using any tile adhesive. TILE RUG We love this creative use of tiles as a…

WHY ARE PEOPLE SO OBSESSED WITH SOCIAL MEDIA? Q I find social media very perplexing and I can’t understand why people need to post about everything they do, say and experience. I also find it strange that other people find it wonderful to read about the lives of others and slavishly follow their Instagram and Facebook posts, among others. Aren’t there enough things to do other than watching the lives of other people online? Puzzled, email A Most people find lifestyle management very difficult. Lifestyle management refers to the ability to plan your life and build into your life interesting activities, moments and projects at work, etc. If you do this, life can be very fulfilling, but it takes time and effort and most people are too lazy even…

ON OUR RADAR 1 GEN V’S JAZ SINCLAIR Having superpowers is something many kids dream about, but for the teens of Gen V, Prime Video’s spinoff of The Boys, it’s the stuff of nightmares. Like its parent series, Gen V is a biting satire of modern life, this time through the eyes of younger folk and, like The Boys, it plunges viewers head-first into gushing geysers of bodily fluids and ultra-violence. The series is set at Godolkin University, a campus run by the sinister Vought Corporation, dedicated to training superheroes. An elite few will become detectives and crimefighters and the rest will learn to use their superpowers to become actors and entertainers. Like their counterparts in The Boys, this is a world where superheroes are not only real, but…

Beach 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 Make up a story or draw a picture using as many of the words in the list as you can. Can you catch the fish? Help the little girl find her way to the beach Connect the dots Unscramble the letters HINT It gives shade on the beach Find 7 differences Find the shadow Find them all! Look carefully at the picture to find all the beach items in the grid at the bottom of the image. ANSWERS Find the shadow 2. Unscramble the word Umbrella.…

WE’RE SEPARATED THERE has been persistent gossip about an open marriage and they’ve been fighting rumours that their union was in trouble for years now. So when JADA PINKETT SMITH (52) recently laid bare that she and WILL SMITH (55) have been separated since 2016, heads all over the world were being scratched. Jada made the surprise revelation during an interview with NBC’s Hoda Kotb while promoting her new memoir, Worthy. “[We’re] still trying to figure out between the two of us how to be in partnership and how do we present that to people. We hadn’t figured that out,” Jada said. “Why it fractured . . . That’s a lot of things. I think by the time we got to 2016, we were too exhausted with trying.” According to…

A REGAL ROMANCE Portugal has celebrated it first royal wedding in decades PORTUGAL’S Duke and Duchess of Braganza, Dom Duarte Pio and Dona Isabel, pulled out all the stops for their daughter’s big day. In the first royal wedding in the European country in a quarter-century. INFANTA MARIA FRANCISCA, the Duchess of Coimbra, married DUARTE DE SOUSA ARAÚJO MARTINS. The couple exchanged vows in a lavish ceremony at the Basilica and Palace of Mafra attended by 1 200 guests, many of them European royals and aristocrats. The bride wore a designer gown teamed with a diamond tiara that belonged to Queen Amélie, the last queen of Portugal. Maria Francisca is the only daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Braganza and her father, Dom Duarte Pio, is the heir to…

THE skintight catsuits, dazzling accessories and raunchy dance moves were 100% Madge. And as she strutted her stuff, belted out her beats and increased the energy, it was hard to believe she was at death’s door just a few months ago. In fact, Madonna (65) twirled and twerked on stage like someone half her age when she recently kicked off her long-awaited Celebration Tour at London’s O2 Arena. Just months ago she was in an intensive care unit fighting a serious bacterial infection, but there was no sign of it on stage. She told the 20 000-strong crowd of her early days being “hungry, broke and scared” in New York, with a lack of support from her father, who wanted her to come back home. “But I was not about…

SCORPIO 23 OCT – 21 NOV YOU’RE FEELING ENERGETIC AND MOTIVATED With plenty of planetary activity currently in your sign, you’re feeling energetic, motivated, and keen to get things going on many levels. Focus on developing your ideas around the 29th, a singular time when your intuition and intelligence combine to tip you off on what will work and what won’t. Even though you and your partner have your differences, all is done with good humour. Do watch out for some sensitivity towards the 28th. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 34, 18, 8, 2, 15, 21 SAGITTARIUS 22 NOV – 20 DEC Your current frustration is understandable. It’s as if you’re parked in a loading bay, waiting for the light to turn green. Use this period to ensure you’re in top condition…

FEARLESS By MW CRAVEN HACHETTE As head of the US Marshal’s unit, it was Ben Koenig’s job to hunt down the really bad guys. But six years ago he disappeared and started drifting from town to town. Nobody knows where he is and he wants to keep it that way. But when he’s having a meal in a hotel bar, Ben suddenly sees his image on the TV and realises he’s now listed as a most-wanted man. Someone from his past is also desperate to find him because they have a job for him. That job leads Ben to the small desert town of Gauntlet, which hides a secret that some people will commit murder to protect. They know Ben is coming. What they don’t know is that he suffers…

EVERY year the Nobel Prize is awarded to people who have done outstanding work in their fields – and this year two scientists whose research led to the development of the Covid-19 vaccine received the prize for physiology or medicine. Hungarian biochemist KATALIN KARIKÓ and American immunologist DREW WEISSMAN met in a hallway at university in 1997 while trying to make prints of documents. The pair struck up a friendship that led to more than 20 years of collaborating on research into how messenger RNA (mRNA) works and how it interacts with our immune system. MRNA carries information from DNA in our cells and provides instructions on how to build proteins so that the body can function. HOW DOES IT WORK? Vaccines are traditionally made from weakened or inactive versions…

THE woman with the cornflower-blue highlights and crocheted shawl didn’t look as if she might have had an alien implant stuck inside her since 2007. But then, I suppose that’s exactly what the aliens would want us to believe. And as I will be told more than once during my weekend at the Awakening UFO & Conscious Life Expo – to outmanoeuvre the aliens, we need to think like the aliens. Derrel W Sims understands this well, so he responds to the woman’s claim by simply flicking the rim of his cowboy hat, fixing her with a cold, hard stare – the kind of cold, hard stare he fixed an alien with when he was first abducted by one in Texas, aged four – and unholstering his handheld infrared camera.…

SHE sits in hospital day after day, hoping and praying her baby boy will makes a full recovery. Becoming a mom again is something Timika Thomas had wanted for years, and her prayers were finally answered in July. But now her baby, who was born prematurely at 25 weeks, is fighting for his life in hospital. “It’s a lot to process. It’s like I’m on autopilot,” Timika tells YOU from her son’s hospital bed in Utah in the US. Her journey to welcoming baby Truu has been a long and complicated one, marred by legal challenges and heartbreaking losses. In 2019 Timika (38) underwent in vitro fertilisation (IVF) to help her fall pregnant. Doctors implanted two embryos and prescribed fertility drugs to ensure a healthy pregnancy, but her joy turned…

‘ONE THING ABOUT MICHAEL THAT STOOD OUT WAS HOW HARD HE WORKED’ HE WAS barely out of his teens when he became a basketball superstar and one success after another followed as he got older. It wasn’t long before Michael Jordan cemented his status as one of the world’s greatest athletes. And over time he’s expanded his empire to becoming the owner of a basketball team and being behind the iconic Air Jordan brand partnership with Nike. Now he has another feather in his cap – he’s the first professional athlete to crack The Forbes 400, the magazine’s list of America’s 400 wealthiest people. Michael (60) is worth an estimated $3 billion (R57bn). This also makes him the wealthiest NBA player of all time. It was the recent sale of…

Want to get your hands on AMY WINEHOUSE’s famous wig? Well, it could be yours if you have around R700 000 burning a hole in your pocket. Rock and pop memorabilia are big business these days and now auction house Propstore in London is selling off 200 items that were either worn by, owned by or connected to famous musicians. Fans and collectors will be able to bid on everything from Amy’s beehive and jackets worn by GEORGE MICHAEL and MICHAEL JACKSON to a framed set list from a Nirvana concert handwritten by Kurt Cobain. “For many of these exclusive lots, it is the first time they have been offered for sale to the public and Propstore expect bidding to be highly competitive,” says Mark Hochman, director of music and…

LIFE can be a drag when you’re a former first daughter and always in the spotlight. Just ask SASHA and MALIA OBAMA, who were both photographed puffing away in Los Angeles recently. Malia (25), who was caught smoking a joint at a music festival in 2016, was seen smoking outside a store while chatting with a friend. Just a few weeks earlier Sasha (22) was seen lounging in a park, lighting up a ciggy and reading a book. What their mother, former first lady Michelle Obama, who is an advocate for healthy living, thinks of this nasty habit, we can only imagine! Especially since she put the frighteners on her husband, former US prez Barack Obama, a few years ago. “I haven’t had a cigarette in probably six years .…