Innholdsfortegnelse for 16 January 2025 i You South Africa

THE NEWS breaks just as South Africans are preparing to celebrate the festive season: Oscar Pistorius has found new love – and with a woman who looks remarkably similar to Reeva Steenkamp. Like Reeva, Rita Greyling has long blonde hair, a bright smile, clear skin, a slim figure. And like Reeva she too is smart and successful, a business management consultant in Pretoria. Photographs of Rita suggest they shared interests in animals, sports and travel. Much is made of their similarities – yet Rita doesn’t only have things in common with the woman whose name will forever be etched in South African history. There are crossovers with Oscar too. Behind each of them lies the glamour of old money, the trauma of divorce – and the shadow of death. TWO…

IT WAS New Year’s Eve and she had so much to look forward to – she was in Paris and was planning to party the night away in the luxury to which she was accustomed, with the champagne flowing and in the company of some of the city’s wealthiest people. As always Jocelyn Wildenstein knew all eyes would be on her. Famously known as “Catwoman” because of the extensive plastic surgery she’d undergone which had left her with striking feline features, she was always the centre of attention wherever she went – and that’s exactly the way she liked it. With the festivities due to stretch on into the wee hours, the 84-year-old Swiss socialite was determined to be in top form. And so, after enjoying a few pre-celebration drinks,…

t – teaspoon/s T – tablespoon/s c – cup/s THAI PRAWN & BRINJAL ANGEL HAIR PASTA SERVES 4 / PREPARATION: 10 MIN / COOKING: 15 MIN ◗ 375g angel hair pasta ◗ 30ml (2T) olive oil ◗ 1 onion, finely chopped ◗ 2 garlic cloves, crushed ◗ 30ml (2T) red curry paste ◗ 80ml (⅓c) white wine ◗ 4 Roma tomatoes, diced ◗ 500g cooked prawns, peeled, deveined, and tails attached ◗ 250ml (1c) brinjal strips, marinated and drained, ◗ 125ml (½c) coriander leaves ◗ lime wedges, to serve 1 In a large saucepan of boiling salted water, cook the pasta according to the packet instructions. Drain and reserve 60ml (¼c) of the cooking liquid. 2 In a large frying pan, heat the oil on high. Sauté the onion and…

January • Deadhead (remove dead flower heads) and prune (remove dead and sick wood, twiggy branches and cut in a V-shape to allow sunlight into the centre of the plant). • Water three times a week. • Use preventative fungal spray according to packet instructions. • Feed with a 5:1:5 or 8:1:5 fertiliser according to packet instructions. You can alternate between feeds high in nitrogen and feeds high in potassium. February • Continue to deadhead. • Water three times a week. • As new buds develop, feed with a nutrient-rich 5:1:5 or 8:1:5 granular fertiliser according to packet instructions. • Use Rose Protector, Rose Guard or Rosecare3 or a similar product to control insect and fungal infestations and an insecticide to protect against sucking insects. March • Continue to deadhead. • As the weather cools, decrease watering to…

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. OH NO, it’s that time again! There’s a good reason the first month of the year is known as Janu-worry – the holiday season is over, you’ve spent all your money and now there are payments due along with the expenses of getting the kids ready for a new school year. With so many days to go before your salary gets paid, it can be tempting to take a payday loan to tide you over. These are short-term loans that usually need to be paid back in two weeks or a month’s time so they seemingly offer the perfect solution to your January money woes. But while this…

ON OUR RADAR 1 5 THINGS ABOUT CELESTE If you’ve been watching the excellent thriller series The Day of the Jackal, streaming on Showmax, you’ll have heard the entrancing opening credits track This Is Who I Am by British singer-songwriter Celeste. 1 The American-born British-Jamaican singer (30), whose full name is Celeste Epiphany Waite, is also an Oscar nominee for her contribution to the soundtrack of the Academy Award-nominated Netflix movie The Trial of the Chicago 7. She co-wrote the track Hear My Voice with composer Daniel Pemberton and lent her vocals to the jazz-tinged ballad There Will Come A Day, which was featured in the recent musical remake of The Colour Purple, also streaming on Showmax. 2 Celeste, whose husky, soulful voice has been compared to those of Nina…

YOUR GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF CELEBS THE FINAL CURTAIN IT’S taken eight long years, but finally the fight is over! For BRAD PITT and ANGELINA JOLIE the new year rings in a new chapter now that the embittered A-listers have finally wrapped up their lengthy divorce battle. Brad (61) and Angie (49) reached an undisclosed settlement after years of fighting it out in court over child custody and the splitting of their joint assets. “This is just one part of a long ongoing process that started eight years ago. Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over,” her legal team said in a statement. Even though they had a prenuptial agreement, dissolving their marriage proved anything but straightforward. CALLING IT A DAY In 2016,…

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Jeans When dressing up jeans, pair them with a shirt such as a poplin shirt that is made with a strong, crisp fabric. Tuck in the shirt and pair with metallic accessories and heels to elevate the outfit. If it’s wide-leg jeans, which are trending this year, pair with a fitted shirt and pair more fitted jeans with looser shirts. Sneakers No longer just for jogging or pairing with sweatpants, wear your sneakers to work by pairing them with feminine dresses or skirts. Neutral colours will pair with anything while you can also keep a few colourful pairs for a more eclectic look. T-shirt Pair a simple T-shirt with a suit for an instant office glam-up. If you’re wearing a trendy oversized suit, finish off the look with sneakers or…

For daily horoscopes go to you.co.za. CAPRICORN 21 DEC – 20 JAN TIME TO HAVE THE MONEY TALK... The question needs to be asked whether it is you or your spouse/partner who is in the mood for a good, clean fight so as to clear the air between the two of you. Whichever it is, it may bring you to the crux of the matter towards the 21st, which is bound to be monetary in nature. Tap into your ability to bring structure and shape into any area of life, so draw up feasible plans and proposals that are both workable and can be implemented shortly. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 15, 37, 47, 50, 39, 21 AQUARIUS 21 JAN – 18 FEB The sun settles into your sign on the 19th,…

ONE OF US IS DEAD BY PETER JAMES Pan Macmillan James Taylor is at the funeral of an old friend, Barnie Wallace, when he notices a man six rows in front of him. He’s certain it’s Rufus Rorke, another old friend. But that’s impossible, as Rufus died two years ago after being eaten by sharks when he fell overboard in the Caribbean. In fact, James was at Rufus’ funeral and delivered the eulogy. At Brighton police headquarters, detective superintendent Roy Grace is investigating the deaths of two people who died from mushroom poisoning in separate incidents. Could this be a massive coincidence or is there something else going on? When more suspicious deaths come to Grace’s attention all fingers point at Rufus Rorke, a supposedly dead man. This, No 21…

HE EXPLODED onto the scene like a swearing, hard-drinking whirlwind, saying what he thought, doing what he wanted and even answering a call of nature in the garden while the eyes of the country were on him. Still, viewers voted for him to win SA’s first season of Big Brother because, well, he was entertaining, in-your-face and made for great TV. Off he walked into the big wide world with the R1 million prize in his bank account and a world of opportunity at his feet. But the Ferdinand Rabie of today is different to the one many of us remember. Gone is the booze and the bad-boy behaviour – today Ferdi is sober, conscientious and hardworking. He gets up at 4.30am, is at work by 6.30am, drives a tractor…

1 LILY PLAYS DETECTIVE When British singer LILY ALLEN suspected her estranged husband, Stranger Things star DAVID HARBOUR, was cheating on her, she decided to spy on him on a dating app. According to the Daily Mail, Lily (39) is reeling after discovering David (49) had been active on the celeb dating site Raya weeks before they split just before Christmas. “Lily has never even looked at anyone since she met David. She is devastated,” a source said. 2 AUBREY’S LOSS Support is pouring in for The White Lotus actress AUBREY PLAZA after her husband, JEFF BAENA, recently took his own life. According to TMZ, the director was found by his assistant at a Los Angeles home and was pronounced dead on the scene. Just days before, Aubrey (40) had gushed…

THE sounds of nature rise from deep within the rocky cliffs of the Waterberg mountains in Limpopo. Baboons chatter as a piet-my-vrou pleads with the skies for rain. Across the lush bushveld thorn trees lie scattered, like upturned beach umbrellas. Then something stirs amid a dense thicket of tamboti trees. You need to squint to see the animals amid the camouflage but soon their distinctive stout bodies and short sturdy legs come into view. Ears perked and tails curled, rhino calves Mpho and Mathlatse waddle towards us to munch on bales of hay. Extraordinary is the only way to describe the experience of standing barely an arm’s length from the most threatened animals in the world. Yet as remarkable as this moment is we’re only able to enjoy it because…

YOU’RE not alone if you spend a small fortune chasing your original colour in a salon chair. There’s a lot to be said for it. After all, women are harshly judged for showing the physical signs of ageing. And grey roots have been a double whammy of sexism and ageism: we often hear the George Clooneys of this world being referred to as “silver foxes”. To be fair, he is handsome. But the same lens isn’t also applied to a woman with silver at her temples. However, there are signs of a cultural shift. When actress Andie MacDowell (66) hit the Cannes Film Festival red carpet a few years back with salt-and-pepper strands, she declared it was the ultimate power move. Apparently, her agents told her not to do it.…

THEY JUST DATE ME FOR WHAT I CAN GIVE THEM Q I was married for several years but then my ex-wife told me she’s actually a lesbian and that she’d fallen in love with another woman. We got divorced and I remarried again and was very happy for 13 years until my wife got cancer and died shortly after it was diagnosed. It’s been five years since her death and those years have been lonely. I have dated but found that most women are just looking for a meal ticket and someone to care for them. Divorcees with young children are just looking for a father for their children. It disgusted me as I have never felt they really cared about me when it mattered, like when I was ill…

WALLET WOES ■ To the guy who found my empty wallet . . . I don’t know how to repay you. ■ I bought a R900 wallet Now I have no use for it. ■ Wife: I can’t find my wallet! Husband: I’m right here. ■ Earlier today I heard classical music coming from my wallet . . . I opened it and realised I had three tenners in it . . . ■ What did the duck say when he lost his wallet? Quap! ■ My dad came up to my room and handed me my soaking wet wallet, after accidentally leaving it in my jeans as they went through the wash. “Son, you’re going to have to stop money laundering.” ■ Steal a man’s wallet and he will…

HE WEAVES through the campus car park and walks up and down the stairs at the university with ease. Most people take these things for granted but for 29-year-old Ian Thomson these achievements are truly remarkable. In 2012 he lost his right leg above the knee following a motorbike accident and as his family was unable to afford a high-quality prosthesis his daily activities were severely restricted. But after a years-long battle with the Road Accident Fund, Ian received compensation that enabled him to acquire a superior prosthesis. His new limb, which cost R1,3 million, improved his mobility and quality of life, helping him to regain independence and engage in activities that were previously challenging or impossible. However, Ian, a lecturer in engineering at North-West University, knew many others struggled…

SHE may only be a little over 1,5m tall but you don’t need to be big to make a bang – and this pint-sized powerhouse has well and truly cast her spell over Hollywood. Cynthia Erivo’s performance as the ostracised yet defiant Elphaba, the Wicked Witch in Wicked, has been hailed as extraordinary and groundbreaking – a “planetary pull” that makes it impossible to look away from her mesmerising green face. Little wonder the 38-year-old British actress has emerged as one of the darlings of this year’s awards season and strutted her uniquely glamorous stuff on the red carpet at the recent Golden Globes, where she was nominated in the category for best performance by a female actor in a motion picture – musical or comedy. “Now that my feet…

Funny girl QUINTA BRUNSON might be tiny in stature, but she packs a big punch. At the ESPY sports awards she held her own next to tennis greats SERENA and VENUS WILLIAMS. Actress OLIVIA WILDE might only be 1,78m but she stands a head taller than fellow actress SALMA HAYEK. Just like the title of her album, singer SABRINA CARPENTER is Short n’ Sweet. She’s often the shortest person in the room, and looks particularly tiny next to her bestie, TAYLOR SWIFT. At almost 2m tall, The Crown actress ELIZABETH DEBICKI is always going to be the one to get the stuff off the top shelf. Her MaXXXine costars, LILY COLLINS and singer HALSEY, aren’t short but next to her it’s another story. Euphoria star JACOB ELORDI says, “I’m excellent…

1 ANGELINA JOLIE oozed elegance in an Alexander McQueen gown with crystal chain details. 2 Actress EMMA STONE debuted a bold pixie cut, pairing it with a Louis Vuitton gown featuring a glossy belt. 3 Shōgun star ANNA SAWAI showed simple is still elegant in a white Dior dress featuring a structured bodice that took 450 hours to create. 4 Actress CATE BLANCHETT was resplendent in her gold floor-length gown by Louis Vuitton featuring a bubble-hem bodice and crystals dotting the neck and shoulders. 5 Lifetime achievement award honouree VIOLA DAVIS stunned in a sequined V-neck dress by Gucci with a multicoloured beaded cape. 6 Actress ZENDAYA stole the show in a strapless burnt-orange gown by Louis Vuitton, plus a swanky diamond ring! 7 Comedian MELISSA MCCAR-THY brought all the…