Innholdsfortegnelse for 13 November 2025 i You South Africa

EVERY time he catches a glimpse of himself in the mirror he can’t quite believe what he’s seeing. His face, once a painful reminder of the horrific biking accident that obliterated half his face, now looks whole again. Thanks to a remarkably realistic prosthetic “panel” that has replaced what Dave Richards lost, it’s hard to tell where the false face ends and the real one begins. Getting the prosthetic to be the perfect match for his hair, skin and eye colour as well as follow the contours of his face was an arduous experience, says Dave, who waited four years for the prosthetic. But when he sees the results there’s no doubt in his mind: it was all worth it. Doctors and scientists at the Bristol 3D Medical Centre, the…

AN AMBULANCE siren wails outside the hospital as she does her rounds. Nomsa Mokwai, the night-nursing shift leader in the emergency unit at Christiaan Barnard Hospital in Cape Town has just come on duty and is checking in on her colleagues, making sure they’re ready for the 12 hours ahead. From 7pm she’ll be dealing with a nonstop string of emergencies – but when her shift is finally over at 7am she won’t go home and fall into bed. Instead, it’s straight to the gym for her. It’s vitally important for Nomsa (33) to stay in shape because when she’s not in her scrubs saving lives, she’s on the field, representing South Africa in the green and gold jersey. Nomsa was part of the Bok squad that made history in…

OVERNIGHT CURLS If you want to wake up to soft, natural waves – no curling iron required – heat-less curling methods make it easy to achieve a salon-worthy style while protecting your hair. “People often think that natural texture isn’t polished enough for formal occasions, but some of the most effortless, elegant looks come from leaning into your hair’s natural state,” says Dianna Cohen, founder of Australian haircare brand Crown Affair. “With the right techniques and products, you can create beautiful styles that are gentle on your hair and fit seamlessly into your routine.” For bouncy curls, a heatless curl kit does the heavy lifting, saving you time in the morning. Prefer beachy waves? Loosely plait your hair before bed and unravel it in the morning. Pair your styling routine…

I KNOW MY RELATIONSHIP IS DOOMED BUT I CAN’T WALK AWAY Q I’ve been with my boyfriend for a year. We’re both university students who met through mutual friends. Initially, he was charming, polite and treated me wonderfully. As our relationship progressed, he became controlling. He won’t let me see my female friends alone and forced me to cut ties with all my male friends. Two months ago, the abuse turned physical alongside the mental abuse. After each violent episode, he cries and promises it won’t happen again. But within a week or two, it always does. I’m deeply in love with him. Everyone sees his charming, ideal-boyfriend facade, but they don’t know the monster behind closed doors. I know I should leave, but I love him desperately and can’t…

WATCH THIS 1 KIM K: ATTORNEY AT LAW All’s Fair, Disney+ Writer and director Ryan Murphy takes a break from true-crime to bring us a legal drama unlike those we’ve seen before. The synopsis is that a team of female divorce attorneys leave a male-dominated firm to open their own powerhouse practice. The plot focuses on KIM KARDASHIAN’s Allura Grant and SARAH PAULSON’s Carrington Lane, a lawyer representing Allura’s soon-to-be ex-husband. The cast also includes NAOMI WATTS, NIECY NASH-BETTS, TEYANA TAYLOR, Matthew Noszka and GLENN CLOSE. But here’s where it gets interesting: Murphy didn’t just cast Kim as divorce lawyer Allura Grant – he built the show around her. He revealed that he and his co-producer, Kim’s mother Kris Jenner, “marched into Hulu” with an idea for Kim to play…

WE TALK ABOUT Christmas Island’s red crabs on the march EVERY year millions of Christmas Island red crabs migrate from the island’s rainforests to the coast, making for eye-catching photos and videos. British natural historian Sir David Attenborough described it as the most spectacular animal migration and this year the large crabs once again brought traffic to a stop and lots of people came to see it. The crabs spend most of their lives on land but every year around October or November, just after the first rains of the wet season have fallen, they head for the ocean to lay their eggs. Exactly when this happens depends on the moon. It’s as if the crabs have an internal clock that tells them the time for their move has come.…

IT WAS an ordinary day for the teenager – or as ordinary as days could be for a kid growing up in an epicentre of chaos and violence. Wivine Mukata was preparing fish soup for her family, moving around the kitchen and stirring pots, when the house suddenly exploded, another casualty of a war that had devastated the lives of the people of North Kivu province in the eastern DRC. Fourteen-year-old Wivine’s leg was so badly damaged in the attack it had to be amputated above the knee. A photograph from that time, nearly 12 years ago, is a reminder of Wivine’s long recovery – it shows her sitting in a wheelchair, her left leg wrapped in a white bandage. She was first treated at the Shirika la Umoja orthopaedic…

SHE always insisted she was quite happy being single although there has long been scepticism about that – after all, how could someone named after the Roman goddess of love claim not to be interested in lasting romance? For years Venus Williams watched from the sidelines while her younger sister, Serena, built a family with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. But it would take someone truly extraordinary to make her change her independent lifestyle, Venus (45) long maintained – and it seems that special someone has finally come along to tempt her out of her singles corner. The signs are everywhere that Venus has even secretly tied the knot with Italian actor Andrea Preti – reports have emerged that they wed in September on the island of Ischia along the Amalfi…

‘After 18 innings and as many bags of peanuts, the victory was worth the wait. Go Dodgers!’ – JASON BATEMAN…

Springbok fly-half HANDRÉ POLLARD’s wife MARISE recently gave followers a glimpse into her life as a mom of two through some candid Instagram photos. “How is this my life? Feels like I’m dreaming,” she captioned photos with their toddler HUNTER and baby ISABELLA. “The newborn bubble this second time around feels more like a hurricane with a toddler in the mix,” she added. “It’s messy, loud, exhausting . . . but also the most beautiful chaos I’ve ever known.” One photo shows her with 19-month-old Hunter and Isabella, while another captures Hunter adorably playing with his baby sister. Marise said being a mother is hard but she wouldn’t have it any other way. “It really stretches you, humbles you, fills you up and empties you all at once. Yet somehow,…

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LAMBORGHINIS, Porsches, Ferraris, multi-million-rand properties, boats, works of art – it seems the greed knew no bounds. While patients lay dying at Tembisa Hospital, this was how the money that was meant to be used for their care was spent. South Africans were sickened to see the images of grotesque luxury that emerged as the Special Investigating Unit conducted raids and seized the assets of one of the biggest kingpins behind a campaign to bleed the hospital dry. It’s taken four years, but at last the wheels of justice are turning and real steps are being taken to recoup the more than R2 billion that was brazenly looted. And it might never have happened had it not been for Babita Deokaran, a brave whistleblower who sounded the alarm about the…

TO MILLIONS, the holidays are similar every year – the chance to see family and friends, eat too much, share a toast, celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of the next. But for Anthony Hopkins each season is another cause for celebration – and you can bet he won’t be saying “cheers” with anything alcoholic. On 29 December every year he commemorates the sobriety that began on that day in 1975, two days before his birthday. His alcoholism is laid bare in his new memoir We Did Ok, Kid, which also delves into his estrangement from his only child and the forces that continue to drive him at the age of 87. Alcohol was the crutch that quelled the loneliness inside him, says Anthony, who as a…

HONEY and SOY GLAZED PORK RIBS SERVES 4-6 AS FINGER FOOD / PREPARATION: 15 MINS / COOKING: 1 HR ◗ 1kg pork ribs◗ 1 onion, cut into quarters◗ 2 garlic cloves, crushed◗ 1 chicken stock cube◗ 250ml (1c) strong rooibos tea◗ boiling water as needed GLAZE ◗ 125ml (½c) honey◗ 60ml (¼c) brown sugar◗ 60ml (¼c) soy sauce◗ 60ml (¼c) tomato sauce◗ 15ml (1T) Worcestershire sauce 5ml (1t) fish sauce◗ 1 garlic clove, finely grated OR 5ml (1t) chopped garlic◗ 2,5ml (½t) dried chilli flakes (optional) Keep a pressure cooker handy. Place a well-fitting wire rack on a baking tray and spray well with non-stick cooking spray. 1 Cut the ribs smaller so they will fit in the pressure cooker. Pack the onion quarters and meat into the pressure cooker…

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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. FINANCIAL apps can make budgeting very easy, helping you to plan for financial goals, keep you on top of your savings and see how you’re spending your money. We look at popular apps that can work for you. BANKING APPS Your own bank’s app is a good place to start and some are good with budgeting. If you have an account at more than one bank you can compare apps. Most have a money management feature and the fact that they’re already linked to your account make them easy to use. LOOK OUT FOR THESE FEATURES: Budgeting: Some categorise your spending into groups such as groceries, transport or…

WINDOW LOGIC Three men are in the middle of a desert when their car breaks down. For their hike to town, they each decide to take one thing with them. One man takes a jug of water. The second man takes a sandwich. The last man takes one of the car doors. The first man says to the last man: “I’m bringing the water because if I get thirsty, I can take a drink. And it makes sense to bring a sandwich in case we get hungry, but why bring a car door?” The last man replies, “If I get hot, I can just roll down the window.” PUN-DERFUL ■ Did you hear the one about the constipated mathematician? He worked it out with a pencil. ■ It’s always difficult…

PHILOSOPHY comes from two Greek words: filo (love) and sophia (wisdom). It therefore literally means “love of wisdom” and is also known as “love of wisdom/philosophy”. But here’s the interesting part – philosophers don’t claim they are wise people who have all the answers. They rather ask questions and thus think deeply about life, the world and ourselves. You might think of philosophy as exercise for your brain. Philosophers are like detectives who pursue the trail of their ideas about truth, fairness, beauty and what it means to live a good life. ➧ A JOURNEY THROUGH THE AGES Philosophy has existed for thousands of years and originated in many parts of the world. Ancient Greece from about 2 500 years ago gave us these well-known thinkers: Socrates bombarded the people…

ONE of the most iconic fighter aircraft of the 20th century, the Soviet-era MiG-21 has had a grand makeover – and it wouldn’t look out of place at an Ndebele wedding. At its peak, the jet flew with more than 50 air forces, from the Soviet Union, China and India to Egypt, Iraq and Vietnam, making it one of the most widely operated jets in history. But this MiG, saved from a scrapyard, looks very different – gone is its characteristic battleship grey paint job, replaced with a kaleidoscope of colour shining from more than 45 million glass beads. A team of more than 100 people worked thousands of hours over nearly six years to transform this nearly six-tonne fighter jet into a fully-fledged artwork, The MiG-21 Project – the…

WHEN Beyoncé dropped Lemonade in 2016, the world watched as one of music’s most private superstars exposed her husband’s infidelity with unapologetic honesty. The album didn’t just break the internet – it redefined how celebrity breakups could be weaponised through music. Now nearly a decade later British singer Lily Allen is airing her dirty laundry with West End Girl, an unflinchingly raw album that details the implosion of her marriage to Stranger Things actor David Harbour. The album, which has topped UK iTunes charts and gained more than eight million streams, reveals how she and David had an open-marriage arrangement where paid physical encounters were permitted but emotional connections were strictly forbidden. Her most controversial track, Madeline, details how he violated their agreement by developing feelings for another woman. She…

DOVE’S GETTING MARRIED Descendants star DOVE CAMERON is reportedly engaged to her boyfriend DAMIANO DAVID. The couple were recently spotted taking a stroll in Sydney, Australia, and no one could miss the huge rock on Dove’s ring finger. Dove (29) and Damiano (26) recently celebrated two years together, and the actress marked the occasion with a loving post dedicated to the Italian rocker. “I love you in a way no words could ever express, but I will never stop trying. Buon anniversario amore mio (happy anniversary my love),” she wrote in Italian. CHRIS WOOS SOPHIE Whether it’s a rebound or the start of a beautiful relationship, we’re here for it. Game of Thrones actress SOPHIE TURNER and Coldplay singer CHRIS MARTIN are rumoured to have gone on a “secret date”.…

LEGAL VICTORY FOR ROYALS WILLIAM AND KATE WIN PRIVACY CASE PRINCE William and Catherine have won a privacy lawsuit against French magazine Paris Match which published paparazzi photos of them and their children on a private ski holiday in April. A palace spokesperson described the pictures as “long-lens paparazzi photographs” and said the accompanying article was “grossly intrusive”. The images showed William, Kate and their children – Prince George (12), Princess Charlotte (10) and Prince Louis (7) – on the slopes and relaxing on their chalet balcony. Proceedings were launched against Paris Match, which is owned by the French luxury group LVMH, in April, days after publication. A French court ordered Paris Match to publish a judicial notice, which said that its content “had infringed the respect due to their…

THIS time last year they were living in an upmarket Pretoria mansion with a Mercedes G Wagon in the garage, walk-in wardrobes full of designer brands and a grey couch that cost R700 000. He had a Rolex on his wrist – a real one, of course, otherwise what was the point? Her nail polish was encrusted with diamonds, a treatment you could only get “from us or in Russia”, he said. But those days of living high on the hog in the Highveld are a thing of the past. Peet and Mel Viljoen are forging a new life in the US – and they’re continuing to court the kind of controversy that’s followed them around for years. They’ve made racist comments to the media, with Mel saying she “hated…

Seaside vibes A blue and white printed scarf becomes the star of this look, tied as a bandeau top and paired with crisp white palazzo pants. Lightweight and breezy, this combo is perfect for a sunset walk along the beach or an al fresco dinner with sand still between your toes. TIP Choose a silk or satin scarf for a soft drape and secure it with a simple knot at the back or tucked twist for a clean finish. Poolside glam Take your one-piece beyond the pool by pairing it with a floral sarong or a scarf worn as a miniskirt. Add shell-inspired earrings and you’re ready for poolside cocktails or a casual seaside lunch. TIP Wrap your sarong or scarf as a skirt or tie it asymmetrically at the…

YOU’VE probably heard the statistic that around one-third of people over 70 who suffer a hip fracture die within a year. It’s no exaggeration – falls are a leading cause of injury-related death in over-65s. The risks come not just from the injury itself but also from complications such as surgery, infections and the effects of long periods stuck in bed – which includes muscle-wasting, blood clots and pneumonia. Most people don’t think they’re at risk until a fall takes them by surprise. “Many see falls as something that happens to other people,” says Dr Dawn Skelton, professor of ageing and health at Glasgow Caledonian University in the UK. But targeted exercises can improve strength and balance in 10 minutes a day. “Compared to any other intervention, this type of…

For daily horoscopes, go to you.co.za SCORPIO 23 OCT – 21 NOV MONEY CONFUSION AHEAD Something to do with money is irking you towards the 13th, to the extent that you may feel like blowing a gasket. With Mercury currently in retrograde, just make sure that you do not have the wrong end of the stick, as you could end up with egg on your face. It’s possible you could be misinformed, so wait until the 19th if you want to have it out with your nearest and dearest. Amid all this, you’re feeling remarkably optimistic. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 16, 28, 44, 50, 41, 21 SAGITTARIUS 22 NOV – 20 DEC It will be easy to get irate this week, especially since Mercury and Mars converge in your sign on…

THE PEAK By SAM GUTHRIEHarperCollins Charlie Westcott is the chief of staff for Sebastian Adler, who is the Australian assistant minister of foreign affairs and trade. They are also best friends and he will do anything to protect Sebastian. But he is powerless when a Chinese businessman gives Sebastian a plain-white business card with a single phrase in Mandarin on it: “It’s done”. Sebastian’s face goes white immediately, because he knows exactly what that phrase means. Sebastian summons an armed guard, hits him with a paperweight, grabs his firearm and in front of Charlie blows out his brains. What drove Sebastian to commit suicide? What secret is so heinous that he could not face living a moment longer? And does his suicide have anything to do with the chaos unfolding…

DAY after day he’d stare at the sign at the entrance to the boxing gym on his way home from school. Come in and learn to box, the big red letters said. Reinhardt Buys yearned to heed the call – he felt it might be the solution to his bullying problem. But every day he just walked past it, too shy to take a step over the threshold. Then he was beaten up again and decided enough was enough. That afternoon he did it: he pushed open the door of the Iron Fist boxing academy, black eye and all, determined to learn to stand his ground. And today the bullies who once made his life a misery give the 16-year-old from Bloemfontein a wide berth. His track record speaks for…

As two of the biggest Lord of the Rings fans imaginable, getting married on the actual film set was already a dream come true for New Zealand couple SHARIK and JESSICA BURGESS-STRIDE from Rotorua. Imagine their astonishment when, moments after exchanging vows at the magical Hobbiton movie set in Waikata, Frodo himself appeared to offer his congratulations. ELIJAH WOOD, who played the beloved hobbit in both The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit films, had returned to visit the iconic set and happened to be on a guided tour when he encountered the newlyweds. “We were just finishing the signing of the paperwork when all of a sudden Elijah Wood started to walk down the aisle,” Sharik told the Waikato Herald. “At first I thought, ‘Nah that’s not…