Innholdsfortegnelse for 4 July 2024 i You South Africa

IF I can’t run, I’ll walk, if I can’t walk, I’ll crawl. And I won’t stop – I won’t stop. These heartrending words say it all: Céline Dion is refusing to give up despite the ravages of a disease that have left her a shadow of the star she once was. She might never get back to her best but she’s fighting every day – and now she’s finally telling the world about the battle she’s been waging for years. For months after her shock 2022 announcement that she had stiff person syndrome (SPS) the singer retreated behind closed doors, giving the occasional update about her health but stopping short of providing much information. That’s all changed. In the moving documentary I Am: Céline Dion she peels back the layers…

GRADUATING from high school is a major milestone – a farewell to one chapter and the heralding in of another. But for a group of teenagers in Connecticut in the US the moment was marred by complex emotions. They might have been standing on the threshold of adulthood but there were others who didn’t get the chance. Many of the kids they went to primary school with were wiped out in a shooting spree that’s gone down in infamy as one of America’s darkest days. The Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre of December 2012 claimed the lives of 20 Grade 1 children and six staff members. It was committed by 20-year-old Adam Lanza – who took his own life as cops closed in – and remains the deadliest shooting at…

Minced meat is wonderfully versatile and can be served to family or guests. Use it to make an array of delicious dishes inspired by various flavour profiles – think Mediterranean, Mexican and Asian – using affordable beef, pork and chicken mince. t – teaspoon/s T – tablespoon/s c – cup/s CURRIED beef mince PHYLLO PIE SERVES 4-6 / PREPARATION: 30 MIN / COOKING & BAKING: 60 MIN ◗ oil◗ 2 onions, chopped◗ 3 garlic cloves, crushed◗ 500g lean beef mince◗ 30-45 ml (2-3T) tandoori masala or roasted masala◗ 30ml (2T) ground ginger◗ 20ml (4t) ground coriander◗ 2 x 50g tomato paste◗ pinch each of sugar, salt and pepper◗ 250g peas◗ large handful of chopped fresh coriander and flat-leaf parsley◗ 8 sheets of phyllo pastry◗ melted butter TO SERVE ◗ 2-3…

TIE IT TOGETHER Create a harmonious look in a room by tying together the colours in your art with some of the dominant hues in the rest of the room. Here, orange, yellow and blue-green ties the space together nicely. PLAY WITH SHAPES Have fun with art and frames that come in a variety of shapes. Here, symmetry is in play and it creates a lovely balance, even though two different shapes are used. AROUND THE TV Adding art to the wall behind your TV is a great way to add interest to this space. Stick to mostly square and rectangular frames to ensure a unified look. IN THE KITCHEN In contrast to the minimalist and meticulous kitchen aesthetics of the past, now it’s cool to include art in the…

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 have a side hustle, you can boost your sales and income by offering customers the option of card or digital payments, instead of accepting only cash. There are many handheld card machines on the market, offered by banks and independent financial services groups. While the device itself may seem affordable, there could be ongoing fees. Here are six things you should consider before getting one. 1 FEES This is probably the biggest consideration. Compare costs across various models and brands as each provider has a different offering and fee structure. Check the upfront costs and the ongoing fees of each option. Costs might…

ON OUR RADAR 1 CAMILA CABELLO IS BACK! She’s back with new music . . . and peroxide hair! Camila Cabello’s fourth album has just dropped, and fans of the 27-year-old songbird can expect something different this time around. “It always has to be about challenging myself and doing something new. So really consuming a lot of new art and a lot of new references. A lot of new music, new movies, new novels, new photography. To me, what produces different output is having new input. That’s what’s inspired me,” she told Rolling Stone. The album features the track I Luv It with Playboi Carti released earlier this year, as well as new material featuring Drake. The Canadian rapper performs the track Hot Uptown and a two-minute interlude called Uuugly.…

YOU don’t need his cellphone number or address to track him down – you can find him in a flash by walking onto the beach in Muizenberg and asking anyone with a surfboard under their arm, “Where can I find Paul Sampson?” Today a grey-haired surfer is happy to oblige. “His adopted family owns the Surfshack – it’s over there near the railway crossing.” Having surfed here since he was a little boy, Paul (24) is one of the most well-known people in the seaside community near Cape Town – and his new status as Africa’s joint number one-ranked surfer has this bohemian enclave abuzz. Paul’s recent victory at the Cape Town Surf Pro tournament, which he entered as a wildcard, saw him rocketing up the continent’s rankings to share…

AS AN actress she’s used to criticism – it goes with the territory and she tries not to take it personally. But this time it’s been extra hard: the cameras hadn’t even started rolling on her latest movie before the trolls started having a go at her. She was too old, some said. She wasn’t talented enough, others said. “This is quite possibly the worst casting ever,” yet another declared. Blake Lively had expected things might be tough – she’d landed the part of Lily Bloom in the eagerly awaited movie adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestseller, It Ends with Us, and knew there would be some kind of reaction from fans. But this was next level. Some even went so far as to describe her presence in the film as…

1 JEN’S ONE OF 27 Singer JENNIFER HUDSON recently opened up about her father, Samuel Simpson, having 27 children with various women. Jennifer (42) shared on the Your Mama’s Kitchen podcast that she only found out about all her siblings when she was 16 and still hasn’t met everyone. “We found quite a few of us. And I’m the youngest of all of them,” she said. Samuel was absent from her childhood but she reconnected with him when she was 16. 2 IAN TAKES A TUMBLE Actor IAN MCKELLEN was seriously injured recently after he took a tumble off the stage during a fight scene in the play Player Kings at the Noël Coward theatre in London. The 85-year-old actor is said to have cried out in pain and shouted…

The journey to Miss South Africa is filled with many milestones and one of those is featuring in the Crown Chasers TV series. Each year the show presents the pageant finalists with real-life challenges. At the end of each episode the judges select a challenge winner and eliminate one contestant until the crowning on 10 August in Pretoria. Actress and presenter LEANDIE DU RANDT returns as a resident judge, a role she considers an honour. “I love the show because it prepares participants for the expectations of being Miss SA,” she says. Leandie will be joined by model and media personality Lerato Kganyago, who can’t contain her excitement about the show. “It feels surreal to be a judge. Being part of a show that celebrates and empowers women is something…

Planet Earth might be one of many in our solar system but it’s full of amazing wonders that make it truly unique. Get a copy of YOU Kids: Our Wonderful World as we go on a journey to explore some of the most bizarre and wonderful places on our seven continents. Kids (and parents) will enjoy learning about giant Komodo dragons, starry glowworm caves, space rocks in the Antarctic and so much more. It also has great options for school orals and projects. Buy your copy online at youstore.co.za. You can also place an order with Johan Terblanche at 021-406-4962 or johan.terblanche@media24.com and have it delivered straight to your door. See your writing or news tips in print! Here are the email addresses you need for submitting material for publication.…

SHE had plans to celebrate her 25th birthday with a taste of home: a braai with friends on the farm in America they’d called home for the past few years. But the celebration never happened – instead she spent her birthday in a hospital bed after her face was all but destroyed in a freak accident. Chané Dreyer and her husband, Willem, work on a rice farm in Ruleville in Mississippi in the American South. She was operating a John Deere tractor when her life changed in an instant. She’d stepped down to clear a blockage and the tractor lurched forward, knocking her down and then reversing over her, crushing her face. Paramedics stabilised her at the scene before she was airlifted to hospital in Jackson, the nearest large city.…

TAKING part in a half-distance Ironman Triathlon isn’t for the faint-hearted: you have to complete a 1,9-km swim, a 90-km bike ride and a 21-km run. Preparations require a next-level training programme and hours and hours of commitment. It’s a lot for the most able-bodied of athletes to take on, let alone one with a disability – but Edwin Nelson isn’t letting anything dim his determination. Come November he’ll be lining up with hundreds of other competitors on the starting line of the Ironman in Mossel Bay – and he’s making sure he’ll be ready for this brute of a challenge. Every morning he rises in the bone-chilling cold of Vanderbijlpark and heads to the gym for strength-training and swimming sessions. And every afternoon he pulls on his running or…

Preppy German TV host Frauke Ludowig and daughter Nele Roeffen show off a preppy-cool look – perfectly on-trend for any daytime occasion this season. Shop the look Formal Actress Teri Hatcher and daughter Emerson Tenney out looking chic with a touch of formal. Shop the look Comfort cool Swedish model Elsa Hosk and her mother, Marja Hosk, opted for stylish comfort while out and about in New York. Shop the look Casual formal Influencer Chloe arrouche and her ughter stuck to neutral palette, ut added lots of xture while ttending Paris shion Week. Shop the look WE MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO PROVIDE ACCURATE PRICES BUT MISTAKES MAY OCCUR. YOU AND THE SUPPLIERS DO NOT BIND THEMSELVES TO THE PRICES PRINTED HERE.…

For daily horoscopes go to you.co.za. CANCER 21 JUNE – 21 JULY YOU NEED TO LET GO OF THE PAST You can be self-centred this week, and primarily focus on your own wants and needs, as described by the new moon on your sign on the 6th. Take stock and have a holistic approach to those areas of your life that need attention, but not necessarily improvement. Try not to let this process be overshadowed by a recent development related to money, debt and/or loans. You sometimes have an inclination to live in the past, but try to let go. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 1, 8, 39, 25, 17, 7 LEO 22 JULY – 22 AUG Something that recently happened between you and your partner is still bothering you, especially if…

MOEDERLAND By CATO PEDDERJohn Murray From the time she was a little girl Cato Pedder was obsessed with South Africa. Raised in England, she made frequent trips here and as the great-grandchild of former prime minister Jan Smuts, she felt proud to land in Joburg at an airport bearing her famous relative’s name. As she grew older and discovered the role her great-grandfather had played in the formation of apartheid, her sense of pride diminished. But surveying her family tree, she realised it wasn’t only Smuts who was problematic – there were many other powerful men, including Voortrekker leader Piet Retief, whose actions left her feeling deeply ashamed. But what about the women – why was so little written about them? That was the starting point for this book: to…

THERE was a time when being told you have the appeal of a rat might have been insulting. But now some of Hollywood’s sexiest leading men are being called “hot rodent men”. It turns out fans aren’t looking for chiselled jaw lines, symmetrical features and beef cake physique anymore. They’re now drawn to men who have what fans are calling rodent-like attributes – angular, pinched features, big ears, beady eyes. But served with a certain svelte, sexy allure. It all started after the release of the throuple movie Challengers, when someone commented that one of its stars, Mike Faist, was cute but in a dormouse kind of way. Comparisons started rolling in comparing him to cartoon characters such as Despereaux from the movie The Tale of Despereaux and the mouse…

HE ELECTRIFIES audiences with his performances, juggles daily school runs, helps cook family meals and gets stuck in with the household chores. You might assume musician and TV presenter JSomething wouldn’t have room for more in his busy schedule – but the Mi Casa frontman still manages to moonlight as a “detective”. Every week he features on The Masked Singer SA, a show that features celebrities singing incognito while J and his fellow panellists try to decode their identities. Initially he was hesitant to join the show “because I don’t know many people” but he was persuaded by Anele Mdoda, the show’s host and head of Rose and Oaks production company which produces the programme, to take part. Now he’s actively involved in the second season and embracing the unique…

HE ISN’T a hard man to find in these parts – say his name and everyone can point you in the direction of his house. Ben Ngemani Mabuza – or Umkhulu or Grandfather Ben as people call him – is the most famous resident in the village of Silobela just outside Carolina in Mpumalanga. “He lives down the street,” a spaza shop owner tells us and we make our way down a winding dirt road. We stop outside a house with a steel door, and a TV set can be heard blaring away inside. We have to knock several times before the sound is shut off and the door is opened. And there he is: a man who could well be the second-oldest living person in the world. According to…

WE KNOW that daily cleansing and sunscreen application are non-negotiable steps, but the unsung hero of any skincare routine is exfoliation. No matter your skin type, regular exfoliation is essential to help keep your complexion fresh and healthy and can even help tackle your most concerning skin worries, from dark spots to rough texture. With so many formulas on the market, how do you choose the right one? Read on to understand why you need to exfoliate, the various methods and how to make the correct choice for your skin type and concerns. WHAT IS EXFOLIATION? The process involves the removal of dead skin cells – using physical, chemical or enzymatic exfoliators – from the skin’s outermost layer to reveal new skin cells and help you retain a healthy glow.…

MY DAUGHTER IS PAYING THE PRICE FOR MY SUICIDE THREAT Q Three years ago, my ex-husband and I had a serious altercation and I stupidly threatened to commit suicide. He then brought a legal charge against me claiming I was a threat to our two-year-old daughter. I not only had to move out of the family home but lost custody of my child. My ex-husband, his sister and her husband, took over the care of my daughter and I was subjected to a psychologist who only saw me for half an hour before writing a report stating I was a danger to my child. He didn’t even witness any interaction between us. Since then I barely see my daughter. I can only see her for two hours a week and…

JOB HUNTING I’m having such bad luck with jobs lately. I wasn’t suited to be a tailor. The muffler factory was just exhausting. I couldn’t cut it as a barber. I didn’t have the patience to be a doctor. I wasn’t a good fit in the shoe factory even though I put my soul into it. The paper shop folded. Pool maintenance was too draining. I got fired from the cannon factory. And I just couldn’t see any future as a historian. AT THE BARBER SHOP ■ How does a barber cut the moon’s hair? Eclipse it. ■ How did the barber win the race? He knew a short cut. ■ What do you call a female barber? Barbera. ■ My barber isn’t exactly the brightest spark. For some reason…

JUSTIN IN JAIL JUSTIN TIMBER-LAKE’s big comeback year has been anything but smooth sailing. First, he faced a PR disaster after the release of ex-girlfriend Britney Spears’ tell-all memoir and now he’s been arrested for driving while intoxicated. Justin (43) was recently pulled over by police after he failed to stop at a stop sign and stay in his lane while driving. “His eyes were bloodshot and glassy, a strong odour of an alcoholic beverage was emanating from his breath, he was unable to divide attention, he had slowed speech, he was unsteady afoot and he performed poorly on all standardised field sobriety tests,” the police report read. The Selfish singer was pulled over just after midnight in the Hamptons, New York after a night out with friends and told…

From her voluminous curls to her dewy skin, actress and model AMANDA DU-PONT always looks like a million bucks. The Swazi-South African beauty first broke onto the scene as an actress when she starred in the drama series Life is Wild in 2008. An alum of the New York Film Academy, Amanda (35), has since starred in various TV series and films and also ventured into presenting and modelling. But lately this Joburg-based talent has had her hands full with her skincare brand, lelive. Just last year she was awarded top women media personality of the year at the Standard Bank Top Women Awards, which recognises those who promote gender equality in business. “I love and support women and believe the future of leadership and entrepreneurship is in our hands,”…