Innholdsfortegnelse for 1 May 2025 i You South Africa

BY HER own admission it hasn’t been an easy time. Her two-year marriage collapsed in front of the world and she’s had to get used to going solo – no mean feat for someone like Jennifer Lopez, who has a penchant from rolling from one romance to the next. But this time she wants to be on her own for a while, to “prove to myself that I can do that”. And so far, so good. J Lo put on a dazzling display at the recent Broadway premiere of Good Night, and Good Luck, the play starring her good friend, George Clooney. The 55-year-old made sure all eyes were on her when she arrived in a black velvet gown teamed with a huge white cape that billowed dramatically around her.…

THERE’S a spring in her step as she crosses the lawn, looking carefree in a light-pink dress on a warm autumn afternoon. We’re meeting Suzette Jansen at the historic Vergenoegd Löw wine estate between Stellenbosch and Somerset West near Cape Town – the same place she and the married church minister regularly met on the sly. The last time YOU spoke to Suzette (54) was in October last year and she was somewhat melancholy then, having just confessed to the congregation of the Uniting Reformed Church in Eerste River, Cape Town, that she’d had a passionate affair with 60-year-old Reverend Eddie Kotze. Eddie denied it all but Suzette’s confession gave the congregation, the community and social media users plenty to gossip about. Those were dark days for Suzette. “I wasn’t…

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1 5 THINGS ABOUT THUNDERBOLTS* 1 Marvel’s latest big-screen offering is about a team of super-powered folk but the Thunderbolts* are nothing like the Avengers – they’re unconventional, anti-heroic outcasts. 2 The lineup includes a lot of familiar faces from Black Widow, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier and Ant-Man such as: 1. Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) 2. Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) 3. Red Guardian (David Harbour) 4. Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) 5. John Walker (Wyatt Russell) 6. And the new guy, Bob (Lewis Pullman) 3 After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap set by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), these disillusioned castoffs must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront their pasts. 4 Thunderbolts* is directed by Jake Schreier who is best known for the movies…

‘WE WANTED TO SHOW THEM BIG LANDSCAPES: DESERTS, MOUNTAINS, STEPPES. WE WANTED THEM TO HAVE THE WIDEST, MOST MAGNIFICENT VIEWS THEY COULD’ WHEN Mia Pelletier was three, she struggled to see in the dark. If she got up in the night, her parents noticed that she bumped into walls and tripped over furniture. They thought it was odd and mentioned it to an optician, but Mia was their first child so they knew no better. They tried not to worry too much. Over the next four years, as their family expanded to include Leo, Colin and Laurent, Edith Lemay and Sébastien Pelletier took Mia to a succession of eye specialists, who conducted tests for a variety of diseases and came up with a name: retinitis pigmentosa. When Mia was seven,…

WHAT would you do if you knew your days were numbered? It’s a question that fuels philosophical debates and late-night conversations. For Molly Kochan, the answer wasn’t skydiving or travelling the world – it was sex. Lots of it. With different partners. On her own terms. Diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer at 45, Molly decided to leave her unhappy marriage to explore her sexuality, determined to enjoy her body even as disease took it away. Her journey is now the subject of a gripping miniseries, Dying for Sex – and Michelle Williams, who plays Molly, found her story so moving it reduced her tears. The series, which is on Disney+, is based on a popular podcast of the same name, which the real Molly created with her best friend,…

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THE picture of him approaching the finish line has become one of the enduring images of the recent Two Oceans half marathon. Moving with remarkable grace, sweat glistening on his brow and a huge smile spreading across his face, Ipeleng Khunou completed the 21.1km race on crutches – yet another achievement in a life characterised by perseverance and courage. The 38-year-old from Rustenburg was born with septo-optic dysplasia, a rare congenital disorder that affects brain development and can have an impact on vision and coordination. In Ipeleng’s case it has particularly affected his balance and his childhood milestones were delayed. “I was three when I started to crawl,” he tells YOU. “When I was about 12, I had an operation to lengthen my Achilles tendon and thigh muscles. That’s when…

HE’S LOST THAT LOVING FEELING! Q I’m studying at university and have been dating a fellow student for the past four months. At first, he seemed very much in love with me and lavished a lot of attention on me, but he also told me he gets bored with people easily. I’ve tried to keep him entertained when we’re together and to pursue lots of outdoor activities with him as he’s an outdoorsy type of guy. Lately, however, he’s not as loving as he used to be and tends to want to go out with his friends rather than spend the day with me. He’s also not as affectionate as he used to be and if I get a kiss out of him nowadays, it’s a wonder. When I ask…

SMOKE SIGNALS ■ Three smokers are on a boat. They have four cigarettes but nothing to light them with. So they throw a cigarette overboard and, just like that, the boat becomes a cigarette lighter. ■ What do angels light their cigarettes with? A match made in heaven. ■ I saw a guy walking on the street with six smoke machines so I called the police. He must be part of some extreme mist group. ■ Smoking will kill you. Bacon will kill you too. But smoking bacon will cure it. ■ This girl on Tinder asked me why I have an unlit cigarette as my profile picture. I told her I’m on the app looking for matches. ■ Why did the cigarette break up with the lighter? Because the spark wasn’t there anymore. IN YOUR…

MARBLE HALL MURDERS By ANTHONY HOROWITZHarper This is the third book in the series of fiendishly clever detective novels featuring Susan Ryeland, the editor of a series of novels about a fictional detective, Atticus Pünd. The stories were written by Alan Conway, who was knocked off in an earlier instalment, Magpie Murders. After the cataclysmic ending to that book, Susan has returned to London from Crete where she’s asked to edit a “continuation” novel, Pünd’s Last Case, written by Eliot Crace, who’s the grandson of children’s writer Miriam Crace. Eliot is a troubled soul who’s convinced his famous grandmother was murdered 20 years earlier. Susan soon realises that his novel is a thinly disguised retelling of the suspicious circumstances surrounding Miriam’s death. It also becomes clear that someone in his…

WHAT CAN IT BE USED FOR? ● You won’t be able to lift heavy objects like apples or your water glass with your robotic hand, but you should be able to pick up lighter things such as a ping-pong ball, a pen or a pompom. YOU’LL NEED STEP BY STEP 1 CUT INTO THE STRAW ● Using the scissors, cut a notch in one of the straws. This will be your “finger joint”. Don’t cut the notch too deep. It should bend easily, but spring back to its straight position when you let go. ● Cut another notch above the first one. Now you have two “finger joints”. 2 PUSH THROUGH THE STRING ● Cut a piece of string about four times longer than the straw and thread it through…

EVERY time she hears about someone’s child going missing she can feel her stomach clench, feel the familiar tug at her heart. She knows how those parents feel and knows their desperate prayer – “Please God, please let my child be found alive.” The most recent story was of Cowan Reed Titus, a 28-year-old teacher from Durban who disappeared in the rubble of his apartment building in Myanmar during the catastrophic earthquake of 28 March. Nothing has been heard of Cowan since, yet his mom, Samantha, remains convinced he’ll be found and returned to them. Coleen Bothma (54) hopes Samantha’s faith will be rewarded and one day the family will get the closure they need. She knows how the Titus family feels – the panic when your child vanishes in…

“I became a robot. But not just a robot – a sort of child robot. I had been so infantilised that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself” – BRITNEY SPEARS, THE WOMAN IN ME MEXICO has always been a refuge for Britney Spears, so it’s not unusual to see her at an airport there. But fans were left slightly baffled when they spotted one of her entourage carrying what looked like a newborn baby doll. Britney (43), all covered up in a black hoodie and shades, walked next to the burly man carrying the doll like a real baby, with its feet dangling out from underneath a blanket. While some have pointed out that Britney has made no secret of owning dolls in her social…

GAYLE BLASTS OFF Media personality defends space trip GAYLE King has expressed disappointment over the public backlash following her historic Blue Origin flight that recently sent an all-female crew into space for an eight-minute journey. “There was nothing frivolous about what we did,” she said, addressing critics who questioned the value of the costly expedition. “I’m very disappointed and saddened by the criticism.” The 70-year-old US TV anchor, who is Oprah Winfrey’s bestie, admitted initially she also had reservations about the merits of the mission. “I was one of those people before I went on this flight who thought, ‘Why are we spending so much money on space when there’s so much to do on Earth?’ But every time a flight goes up, they get some type of information that…

IT STARTED as a mild rash under her left eye when she was 12. At first she wasn’t too worried – her doctor told her it was ringworm and that if she used the cream he prescribed it would soon clear up. But it didn’t. Over the next few years Gillian Kgotla saw other doctors in Francistown, Botswana, where she was born and raised, but nobody could find an answer. Meanwhile, to her horror her features started to change – it looked like the one side of her face was melting away and her left eye was caving in. For a teen girl it was mortifying. “Every day I had a new symptom and it was altering every part of my life,” Gillian (30) tells us via video call from…

t – teaspoon/s T – tablespoon/s c – cup/s SATAY CHICKEN or LAMB with PEANUT SAUCE MAKES 10 CHICKEN SKEWERS / PREPARATION: 10 MIN / MARINATING: 4 HOURS OR OVERNIGHT / COOKING: 30 MIN ◗ 350g chicken thighs, boneless, skin on, chopped into chunky strips OR 400g small lamb cutlets MARINADE ◗ 4 lemongrass sticks, tops cut off and bottoms bashed and roughly chopped◗ 30g ground turmeric◗ 15ml (1T) salt◗ 5ml (1t) chilli powder◗ 60ml (4T) dark brown sugar◗ 75ml (5T) vegetable oil◗ 100g ginger◗ 5ml (1t) each ground coriander and ground cumin GLAZE ◗ 45ml (3T) castor sugar◗ 5ml (1t) salt◗ 2 lemongrass stalks, bashed◗ 5ml (1t) vegetable oil◗ 1 red chilli, halved◗ 250ml (1c) boiling water PEANUT SAUCE ◗ 20g ginger◗ 1,2ml (¼t) each ground coriander and ground…

MATERIALS ■ Elle Pure Gold Chunky (100g ball) : 25 balls Marigold 138■ 8mm circular knitting needles■ Cable needle MEASUREMENTS Width x length: ± 150cm x 155cm TENSION 11 sts and 16 rows = 10cm over double moss stitch using 8mm needles and 2 strands together. For best results it is essential to obtain the correct tension. If there are too few stitches on test swatch, use thinner needles; if there are too many stitches, use thicker needles. STITCH EXPLANATIONS The yarn forward (yfd), yarn over needle (yon) and yarn around needle (yrn) all serve the same purpose – to make a stitch to correspond with the stitch(es) that is(are) lost when working a k2tog or a SKPO. They are just worked slightly different dependent on where they are placed…

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 car loan, chances are that you have insurance. We answer the questions policyholders often wonder about when it comes to car insurance. 1 ARE CAR INSURANCE PAYOUTS TAXABLE? No, with short-term insurance, the payout is tax-free when something happens to your car. Sars doesn’t view an insurance claim as payment for a standard good or service. The indemnity principle applies, which aims to restore the insured’s financial position to what it was before the loss or damage. There are some exceptions where VAT could be payable on a claims settlement, for example under some commercial vehicle insurance policies. You can ask your insurer to…

TAURUS 20 APRIL – 20 MAY TEMPTATION ABOUNDS, SO BE WARY Your planet Venus smooches up to idealistic and glamorous Neptune on the 2nd, bringing along with it all sort of temptations. As long as you go into this with your eyes wide open, nobody is entitled to pass judgement if you are of an adult age and taking responsibility for your actions. Be careful if this involves a scandal of sorts, though; your better half may not think twice about airing grievances in a rather public way. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 1, 34, 40, 49, 35, 2 GEMINI 21 MAY – 20 JUN Having too many expectations of people only sets them up to disappoint you. Therefore, towards the 2nd, you’d do well to lower your expectations and endeavour to…

WE TALK ABOUT Tongue-biting louses and bee-flys in the invertebrates top 10 FROM water bears that can survive extreme conditions to fireflies that shine like stars in nature, The Guardian has announced its top 10 for the 2025 Invertebrate of the Year and it is quite the selection. Perhaps we don't think much about creatures without skeletons because some are so small you need microscopes just to see them. However, these little animals have their own role to play in nature, from fertilising soil to purifying water. Here's a look at this year's most popular invertebrates. WATER BEAR This year’s winner is the water bear. This invertebrate can survive radioactivity, cancer, extreme cold, scorching heat, zero gravity and even 30 years in a freezer – that's very impressive for a…

PLATTEKLIP Gorge isn’t regarded as one of Table Mountain’s technically difficult climbs – there are steps all the way, snaking through stone and fynbos to the top of the famous flat-topped rock that looms over Cape Town. But it’s steep with a gradient of nearly 800m and for some, doing it once or twice a year is enough. Yet for Tania Morkel, this trail has become a daily event. She has pledged to do it 64 times in 64 days to raise funds for Wilderness Search and Rescue and the Table Mountain National Park – and the reason behind her mission is nothing short of inspiring. Tania is the reason there are signs on sections of the trail that warn, “Danger: keep away from the cliff ”. And it’s this…

HE SHOT to fame playing a medical doctor – and a sizzling hot one at that. To Grey’s Anatomy fans, Eric Dane will always be McSteamy, the dashing dreamboat with the come-hither eyes and a smile that could melt the hardest heart. As Dr Mark Sloane, he helped Meredith, Derek and the crew tackle a multitude of medical crises – but now, 15 years after leaving one of the most successful hospital dramas in history, Eric is facing his own private health battle. And it could see him live only a few more years. Last month, Eric shared the news that he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a debilitating condition also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. “I am grateful to have my loving family by my side as we navigate…

1 SNL APOLOGISES TO AIMEE White Lotus star AIMEE LOU WOOD has hit back at comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live after they impersonated her with oversized teeth. In the skit White Potus, SNL cast member Sarah Sherman (32) spoofs Aimee’s character, Chelsea, by wearing dental prosthetics. Aimee (31) has previously spoken about being bullied about her teeth and even though she now embraces her buckteeth, said she found “the SNL thing mean and unfunny”. Shortly after her comment on Instagram and an outpouring from fans, she let fans know that SNL reached out and apologised. 2 SHANNON’S SA MISSION American Pie actress SHANNON ELIZABETH (51) traded Hollywood’s glam eight years ago and is now pursuing wildlife conservation in South Africa for a noble cause. She recently spoke about the…

SOUTH Africa’s finest joke-slingers descended on Joburg’s Lyric Theatre for the 12th annual Savanna Comics’ Choice Comedy Awards. Hosts Nina Hastie and Carvin H Goldstone presided over the chaos while comedians Mpho Popps Modikoane, Vafa Naraghi, KG Mokgadi and Mashabela Galane made some funny jabs and handed over trophies while sipping ciders. We asked some of the funny people how they got into comedy.…