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AM writing this on what is a very special day for two reasons: it’s my dad’s birthday and it’s the day our national Covid-19 vaccine rollout plan kicks off. I wish my father could’ve received a vaccine shot on his birthday – it would have been a wonderful way to ensure many, many more celebrations in the years ahead. I know our vaccine rollout has been chaotic. It’s been a mess marred by international political intrigues, logistical nightmares, bureaucratic bungling and sometimes just plain incompetence. But today I thought, “Well, here we are” – we somehow always get there in the end. I know my vaccine shot is still a long way off but I’m so thrilled my parents, in-laws and all the other over-60s I know are going to get theirs soon. It’s such a relief to know there’s at least one more layer of protection against this deadly scourge that’s ravaged our world. Meanwhile, I’m going to continue wearing my mask, washing my hands and keeping a safe distance from others. It’s the very least I can do to protect the people I love.

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lives in Bangkok, Thailand. On the Friday I’d planned meals for Dave and Garth, who were coming for the weekend to celebrate my birthday. I had been rushing around getting everything sorted and had just sat down when they arrived. When I opened the door Dave and Garth said hello. Next moment Ian came around the corner. All I remember was a feeling

We so often get caught up in the negative eﬀects of Covid on our daily lives. Well, this is my story and how I found something to be happy about. I had my 66th birthday recently. I always get so spoilt and feel so loved by my family and friends on my special day. I have been blessed with three amazing sons: Dave and Garth who live in Cape Town and the youngest, Ian, who

‘I H HAD AD D TO STA TO TAY POSI PO POSI SITI TIVE’ TI VE V E’

RIGHT: Shan and her husband, Anthony, who left his job to help care for her.

She lost all her limbs and half her face after a mongoose attacked her – but this KZN mom has mastered the art of looking on the bright side

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HE knew something was wrong as soon as she got to work that day – she felt feverish and nauseous and when she went to the bathroom to freshen up, she fainted. Confused and scared, Shaninlea Visser asked her boss to drive her to the hospital. “My hands and feet were on fire – it was the worst pain I’ve ever experienced,” Shaninlea tells us from her home in Sezela, south of Durban. “My kidneys started to fail and my arms and legs were pitch black; my nose and lips too.” The diagnosis was shocking: Shan, as everyone calls her, had contracted septicaemia (an infection in the blood) after a friend’s pet mongoose bit her on the hand. “I thought nothing of the bite,” she says. “I cleaned the wound and that was it.” As with a dog bite, a tetanus injection was needed to prevent infection – but Shan didn’t believe the bite was serious enough to warrant one. Two days later the sepsis ripped through her body with devastating speed, shutting down her organs and halting the blood supply to her arms, legs and parts of her face.

Thanks to aids such an electric wheelchair, Shaninlea Visser lives a fairly independent life.

In a bid to save her life, doctors amputated first her limbs and then her nose, lips and the tip of her tongue. She was put into a two-week coma and when she came round, she had to confront her ravaged features in the mirror. “I insisted on seeing my face almost immediately – it was appalling,” she recalls. But she knew she had to stay strong for her daughter, Kiaralea (15). “I took each day as it came. I just had to get myself used to it.” Shan needed long-term rehabilitation before she felt physically and mentally ready to face the world again. Seven months and several surgeries later, she was finally discharged from hospital. Her ordeal could have crippled her both mentally and physically but Shan refused to believe her life was over. Yes, she looked different but deep down she was the same person – and that person still had a lot to offer. Today, four years later, she’s an inspiration, helping others who face adversity share their stories and motivating people in her new inspirational talk show. The 37-year-old mom is on a mission to make a difference with her YouTube show, The Shan Show. It features a former crystal meth addict who became a successful actor and comedian; a swim-

mer who lost a leg at the age of two; and a woman with lupus, a debilitating autoimmune disease. “All my guests have overcome challenges,” she says. “I want to show others you’re capable of anything – no matter your background, where you come from or what disability or illness you have.”

HAN is seated on a comfy couch in her home with the family’s Maltese poodle, Pixie, at her side and a purple rinse in her hair. “It’s my favourite colour,” she says. “You can’t be sad when you have purple hair.” Children often come up to her to ask what happened. “I prefer that,” Shan says. “It’s adults who whisper behind your back and look at you strangely. I stare right back if they stare at me.” Just a few days before the event that changed her life, Shan temporarily moved to Gqeberha (then Port Elizabeth) to open a new office for the transport logistics company she worked for. Then, almost overnight, she went from a successful, independent young woman to a quadruple amputee who needed help taking care of herself. “I’d always been a very busy person and

hu sh ea at cu th ar w fo w “The idea came w ho “M m an tu ch w It an ta She shows us pics of her recovery by balancing her phone on one stump and using the other to swipe through photos on her phone. One pic shows her in hospital, her lips and nose black. Hope wore thin in those early days, but Shan has bounced back against all odds. Her road to recovery has been long and painful, though – she’s had at least 68 operations since her deadly infection, including facial reconstructive surgery. She’s had to learn to operate a wheelchair, including skills such as curb-hopping and back-wheel balancing, but she navigates life with a can-do attitude. “I’ve learnt to get by with what I have – with willpower you can overcome anything.” Shan’s attitude is an inspiration, says Greg Nefdt, owner of Alfacam SA, who helped produce The Shan Show. “Shan humbles us,” Greg says. “She reminds us that overcoming great turbulence is possible – at a time when we all need that reminder.”

suddenly I couldn’t do something as simple as drive a car,” she says. Doctors told her amputation was her only hope and all she could think of was Kiaralea, who was 11 at the time, and how much she needed her mom. “I told them, ‘Do what you have to do’.” First her legs were amputated just below the knee. Her arms were amputated the next day. “Initially I thought how was I going to live my life if I couldn’t do things for myself? But I had to be strong for my daughter.” Just days later, doctors told her they had to remove her nose, lips and the tip of her tongue. It was another blow for Shan, who’d always taken pride in her appearance. Still, she refused to feel sorry for herself. “I was fighting for my life. I had to stay positive.” Anthony, her husband of 15 years, has been a pillar of strength, she says. “When I was discharged from hospital, he immediately made the house wheelchair-friendly. If I can’t reach something or struggle with something, he’s always there to help.” Anthony (47), who used to work for a sugar company but now helps care for his wife full-time, thinks Shan is beautiful. “I love her and will always be there for her.”

At first Kiaralea had difficulty accepting her mother’s disfigurement, he says, but watching Shan overcome daily challenges earned the youngster’s respect and admiration. Mom and daughter are very close now and love snuggling up on the couch to watch movies. “Now if my daughter tells me she can’t do something, I tell her look at me,” Shan says. “If I can overcome challenges, she can too.”

HAN lives a pretty regular life thanks to her steely determination. She’s fairly independent and zips around the house in a motorised wheelchair. She baths and dresses herself. “And I can eat by myself,” she says. The only things she can’t do is drive and cook and these tasks are now her

LEFT: After sepsis set in, Shan was put in a medically induced coma. RIGHT: Months of rehab followed.

SHANINLEA IS AN INSPIRATION

Thank you for the article about Shaninlea Visser, the woman who developed sepsis after being bitten by a mongoose (YOU, 13 May). She’s an amazing woman who’s gone through incredible suffering and yet she’s made up her mind to get on with her life and show so much strength. I hope many people read this and learn how to deal with their problems large and small. Thank you for a great magazine. DEANNA, EMAIL

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had to face, experience or overcome adversity, in one form or another, in life and I can truly say I’ve had more than my fair share. It’s true however, that however badly off you may think you are, there’s always someone who’s worse off. My utmost sympathies lie with Shaninlea Visser, whose entire life changed so drastically in an instant. One unexpected bite from someone else’s pet resulted in multiple limb amputation and a ravaged face, yet this courageous woman continy

of utter surprise mixed with joy and intense love for my three children. Neither my husband nor I knew that for the past two months Ian had been planning this surprise, together with a holiday away for us. The moral of my story is don’t get caught up in all the negative stuﬀ. Life is for living and enjoying. Be thankful for every blessing each day. GRATEFUL, EMAIL

ues to be an inspiration to so many. FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE, EMAIL

THE ADOPTION STRUGGLE

While I understand Jeanette’s concern about overpopulation, hence her suggestion of an Earth Year in which there’s a moratorium on births (YOU Say 6 May), I have to wonder if she’s been blessed with children of her own. I’ve heard it being said often, “Why don’t people opt for adoption. It’s better for the Earth”. This is easier said than done. In my attempt at starting a family, I attended adoption workshops. The rigorous hoops one must jump through to prove you’re worthy are mind-boggling. I can’t fathom how it is that people who throw away their babies get away with it while couples who yearn to be parents must be scrutinised in every aspect. My desire to adopt didn’t come to fruition though. My husband wasn’t yet ready to stop trying for his own biological child first. After seeking medical treatment we were blessed with two children of our own. I’ve learned that you can plan, but God plans better. What’s meant for you will always find its way to you. QURAISHA, DURBAN

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THE CLASSY CAMBRIDGES The picture on your covS The picture of Prince er of Kate (YOU, 6 May) is William and Kate, in her absolutely gorgeous. stunning silver dress, is, She looks regal and in my opinion, one of ladylike no matter what your best cover photos. she wears – something The duchess can give Meghan, Duchess of Susmany a celebrity a run sex, hasn’t been able to for their money as she 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY accomplish. It’s clear epitomises grace and ‘THEY’RE THE William loves Kate and elegance. She exudes SUPERSTARS OF although not of royal THE ROYAL FAMILY’ confidence and one Kate and William stride ever birth you can’t fault her would never suspect her confidently into the future a decade after saying ‘I do’ for not looking the part. of having any self-doubt. It’s obvious she and Divorce is an everyday William have learned occurrence, and couples how to manage the who were expected to media and that’s why they don’t get bad live happily ever after often unexpectedpress. I think they’ll make a good king ly announce a separation. and queen and I think Kate is the closest Poor Princess Diana’s apparently fairylikeness to Diana by her beauty and the tale marriage ended in divorce and I ferway she dresses and carries herself. vently hope her eldest son’s union doesn’t I’m sure they would have become end in the same way. William and Kate great friends with mutual respect and look like a truly genuine couple and love for one another. deserve a long and happy life together. MY OCTOPUS TEACHER

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TikTok has received a bad reputation for promoting challenges that could negatively impact people. But I’ve seen that the platform has allowed women and girls to embrace and accept their bodies by imitating dance moves and taking on challenges they previously couldn’t participate in. Lovely women of all shapes and sizes, previously prejudiced against and body shamed because of their differences can now proudly TikTok away. The platform is a fun way of expression and allows creative juices to get moving. Challenge yourself and do a popular TikTok even if you don’t post it. If you can’t beat them, join them.

IN BRIEF To pulmonologist Dr Emmanuel Taban, your story is one of the most inspiring stories I have read (YOU, 25 March). You’ve been through so many hardships. But you’ve grown to become a dedicated doctor, husband, father, and a hero. Thank you for your perseverance and your incredible smile. MARION, EMAIL

How low can you go? Christall Kay and Gugu Khathi of The Real Housewives of Johannesburg punching each other and giving black eyes (YOU, 29 April)! That’s the behaviour of common street thugs. You have no class. DISGUSTED, SMS

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of Albert’s sister Princess Caroline (64); and a few minders to keep an eye on the kids. Gabriella and Jacques were also joined by their cousin Kaia-Rose Wittstock (7), daughter of Charlene’s brother Gareth (41), who’s the general secretary of her charity foundation, and the trio hammed it up and giggled together as they watched the race. Clearly the noise got a bit much for Jacques at one stage – the prince, cool in a pair of shades, put his fingers in his ears as the cars zoomed by. Gabriella, who’s looking more and more like her mom, was cute in a Daisy Duck-emblazoned denim dress by children’s fashion house Monnalisa that retails for €173 (R2 941). The twins are clearly close too – one especially adorable snap shows Jacques hugging his sister, who has her head

‘JACQUES IS QUIETER. GABRIELLA DEFINITELY HAS THE GIFT OF THE GAB’

thrown back in glee. Almost from day one, it’s been clear Gabriella is the more outgoing of the two – something her parents have conceded. “In broad terms, Jacques is a little more shy and a little quieter but he can also come up with some funny things,” Albert told People magazine recently. “He’s a great observer and loves to size up the situation. Then he’ll go for it. “Gabriella is more outgoing and she definitely has the gift of the gab. She’s just a character who loves to dance and sing. She has no qualms about being in front of people.”

HE twins may be fun-loving kids but they’re also royals and Albert (63) and Charlene (43) have been gently getting them used to the fact they’ll have more duties as they get older – Jacques in particular. The boy will succeed his father to the Monegasque throne, despite being born two minutes after his sister, as Monaco law dictates precedence is given to the male heir. “It’s basically just explaining to them in

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HEY may be the kids of a prince, pint-sized members of one of the highestprofile royal families in Europe and the son and daughter of one of South Africa’s most glamorous and intriguing exports. But when it comes to having fun, Princess Gabriella and Prince Jacques of Monaco are just like any other six-year-olds. Clowning about? Goofing around with a cousin? Going to Dad for a hug every now and then? Check, check, check. It was a delightful display of playfulness that showed, yes, the twins do often have to be on their best behaviour at important events – but at heart they’re happy, energetic youngsters who really just want to have fun. The occasion was the Monaco E-Prix, a biennial Formula E (electric) worldchampionship car race through the streets of Monte Carlo against the glittering backdrop of the Mediterranean Sea. Their mom, Princess Charlene, wasn’t present on the platform overlooking the track so it was up to their dad, Prince Albert; cousin Pierre Casiraghi (33), son

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ABOVE: The twins are clearly close – in one cute snap Jacques hugs his sister. LEFT: The noise seemed to get too much for the little boy at times.

spotlight too much. It’s a case-by-case opportunity for now, so it remains special for them.” Jacques and Gabriella’s personalities were also on display when their Princess Charlene shared this picture mother shared a cute candid snap of the family paintof her family to mark Easter last ing Easter eggs on month. Instagram in April. The twins looked straight into the camera, huge smiles on their faces, while Jacques wrapped his arms around his sister. After a rather trying 2020, things seem to have improved for Monaco’s first family. Albert battled Covid-19 last year and admitted to having lingering symptoms, including fatigue. He also opened up in a TV documentary about enduring loneliness and boredom as the head of the royal household, indicating that life wasn’t always a bed of roses. “There’s not enough room for spontaneous activities. Even spontaneity has to be scheduled,” he said. Then Charlene’s foundation, the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation, was in the spotlight after French magazine Paris

the simplest terms what royal duty is all about,” Albert says. “We’re not going to do a whole drilling process of explaining to them step by step what’s expected of them. We don’t want to put them in the

Match claimed, among other things, that it had been the subject of financial mismanagement. Charlene called it “a total fabrication” (YOU, 17 September 2020) and stressed she remained committed to her various charities. Drama erupted again at the end of the year when a woman claimed Albert was the father of her illegitimate child, who was born in 2005. Neither Albert nor Charlene commented on the claims and there appears to be no update on the court case the woman was bringing. The couple put on a united front in family pictures and Charlene recently hailed her husband as “loyal, determined and courageous”. “When my husband has problems, he tells me about it. I often tell him, ‘No matter what, no matter what, I’m 1 000 percent behind you. I’ll stand by you whatever you do, in good times or in bad’.” Charlene and Albert remain dedicated to each other and to their children, a palace insider says. They’re a unit, no matter what – and the obvious happiness of their children speaks to that. SOURCES: PEOPLE.COM, HOLA.COM, DAILYMAIL.CO.UK, POINTDECUE.FR, PARISMATCH.COM, TATLER.COM you.co.za 27 MAY 2021

Leo and colleague Lloyd Mtombeni in the dashcam video that went viral.

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T’S the stuff of action movies. Two guys in bullet-proof vests are in an armoured vehicle escorting a truck loaded with hundreds of cellphones on a busy highway. Suddenly, all hell breaks loose. A car tries to force them off the road and a hail of AK-47 bullets thud into their vehicle. A dashcam captures all the drama – and the guys under fire deliver a performance Tom Cruise would be proud of. But as many South Africans know, this is no fun flick. Behind the wheel is former police task force officer Leo Prinsloo (52). Next to him is colleague Lloyd Mtombeni (35), on only his fourth day on the job. Their mission is to make sure the transit truck safely delivers its valuable cargo – and the people attacking them want that loot badly. The men’s cool, calm and collected demeanour captured the country’s imagination and turned them into heroes when the video of the attempted heist went viral. “It was chaos,” Leo tells YOU. “When something like this happens, it’s not just an incident – it’s war. These guys don’t just fire one or two shots. It’s maximum violence. That robber isn’t there to warn or deter you. He’s there to kill you.” The only way to handle a situation like this is with precision, he adds.

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“It’s all about your fight-or-flight reflex. Time slows down. Your brain gives your muscle memory the time to kick in. “It was f*****g crazy – like a tsunami. You know, many of us in this business don’t like the attention. We just want to get the job done and move on.” Which is exactly Lloyd’s attitude. He’s a man of few words and won’t be drawn into giving a blow-by-blow account of what happened that day. In the video, Lloyd remains calm, hold-

ing his weapon as the van rattles under the rain of bullets. “The moment I heard that first bullet, all I could think of is that the robbers are here and now we need to take action,” he tells us. Lloyd, who used to work as an armed response officer, sprang into co-pilot mode. “My focus that day was to be of assistance to Leo so we could get out of there safely.”

FAR LEFT and LEFT: Now labelled SA’s Chuck Norris, Leo used his taskforce-oﬃcer skills during the attempted heist in Pretoria.

beside him, a rifle on his lap, his finger near the trigger, armed and ready. They set off on the N4 highway, the courier truck with the cellphones about 150m in front of them. “If we have space, we fall back, sometimes we get closer,” Leo says. “The tactic is to be close enough to react but not too close to draw unnecessary attention.” At 10.35am, the attackers struck. “They were in two vehicles – a white bakkie and an Audi,” he recalls. “You try to be as observant as possible. If you’re not, you’ll get caught with your pants down. From there, all you can do is enact your plans and training. We try to teach our students: observe, orientate, decide – then act.” The would-be robbers opened fire, lead thudding into the windows. Because the glass is bulletproof, they couldn’t shoot back. “Not without opening doors,” Leo LEFT and BELOW: Leo, who has his own shooting academy, keeps in shape with high-intensity workouts and by running marathons.

says. “I’d warned Lloyd beforehand if something happened, I’d have to use the vehicle as a weapon.” Altogether 13 bullets hit their vehicle. “But I wasn’t counting,” Leo says. He tried keeping the Audi behind his vehicle but the bakkie had already forced the courier off the road. Three men wielding AK-47s jumped out and the terrified couriers ran away. Leo charged the Land Cruiser towards the bakkie and knocked it but the driver got away. In the meantime, he was looking for the Audi. “I wasn’t letting him get away that easily.” That’s when Leo uttered his now infamous, “Come here, you c***!” “You’re not thinking of what you’re saying in the moment,” he says a little sheepishly. “You’re not thinking the [dashcam] video might get out.” Lloyd took some heat on the internet for not reacting more but Leo won’t hear a word against him. “There’s was nothing more Lloyd could do. He tried calling his managers but there were signal jammers. What else could he do?” The criticism of his colleague was unacceptable, he adds. “Put your soda down. Put your popcorn down. Get out from behind your screen, stop watching action movies and get in a car with us and see what you’re made of.” He and Lloyd behaved instinctively and their training kicked in. “Your first reaction is instinct and that action is cemented through experience, training, simulations, scenarios. Because when shots are fired, it’s too late to be thinking.”

T WAS a huge relief when everything was over and they were unscathed. Between the scene where the courier vehicle had been forced off the road and the chase after the Audi, the robbers had escaped. “Lloyd was a little shell-shocked, but he was okay,” Leo says. “He was great.” The only thing that annoys Leo is that the robbers got away. “It bothered me that those guys are free to commit another robbery and that I’d lost the chance to possibly save the next security guard’s life. That gives me sleepless nights. Not that I was shot at – that’s the least of my worries.” As for Lloyd, the harrowing experience has made him more determined than ever to fight crime. “I love my job,” he says. “Any day and at any time criminals can strike. There’s always someone who wants to do something bad.” you.co.za 27 MAY 2021

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HEN Leo left the police force, he opened his own academy, The Edge Shooting Academy, in Centurion. He trains members of the public and security guards in weapons handling and presents courses in advanced driving skills, self-defence and first-aid training. He also does contract and operational work every now and again. “It keeps me abreast of new equipment and vehicles and allows you to practise what you preach. There’s no point in trying to train people if you don’t have first-hand experience of being in that vehicle.” His work with security guards has opened his eyes to the reality of the work. “The guys fight for their lives from those vehicles,” he says. “Many are shot dead. The security business is brutal.” In his line of work he often sees how security companies expect guards to work with only the minimum amount of training. “You can’t put the guy you send to react to an alarm in a cash-in-transit truck and expect him to go and fight the war,” he adds angrily. And a war is what Leo and Lloyd got that day. Leo had started working for the client, a security company, the Tuesday before and it was Lloyd’s first week at the business. Thursday 22 April started like any other: Leo had just dropped his 18-year-old daughter at school and reported for duty along with Lloyd, who is unmarried and has no kids. Leo got behind the wheel of a Land Cruiser with bulletproof windows. Lloyd was

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Ntombikayise Tyhalisi is overjoyed she can finally hold her twins separately in her arms.

SEPARATED BUT BOUND FOREVER Siphosethu and Amahle were joined at the skull, but after a risky surgery they’re recovering – and now they love to look at each other BY LESEGO MKHIZE

LL she wanted to do when her twins were born was to cradle them one at a time and sing them to sleep while they breastfed together. But that wasn’t an option for Ntombikayise Tyhalisi. Her daughters, Siphosethu and Amahle, were born craniopagus twins, which means they were joined at the head with a merged skull and shared blood vessels. Now, after cutting-edge surgery, Ntombikayise has her wish. She can cuddle each baby in turn and no longer has to feed them separately. “I’m overjoyed,” Ntombikayise says. “I wasn’t expecting to leave the hospital holding my children in each arm.” The successful separation surgery was performed at Cape Town’s renowned Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. Craniopagus twins are the rarest form of conjoined twins, occurring in one in every 50 000 births. According to Professor Anthony Figaji, the head of paediatric neurosurgery at Red Cross, the birth defect occurs be12

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cause of the incomplete fusion of a fertilised egg. “Most craniopagus twins are stillborn or don’t survive long enough for surgery to be undertaken,” he says. Since their birth in January the twins have been in and out of hospital, undergoing a series of tests to see how surgeons could safely separate them. “In this case, the fact that the connection didn’t involve shared brain tissue or major blood vessels going from one twin to the other [was in their favour].” Still, Professor Figaji and his team had their work cut out for them. It took a team of eight paediatric neurosurgeons and several plastic surgeons, anaesthetists and nurses to perform the surgery. Thanks to new technology, the six-hour op was done in just one-and-a-half hours. The multidisciplinary medical team planned it using a 3D model of connected skulls. After the twins were placed under anaesthesia, the surgeons cut through the skin and soft tissue separating their skulls. Once the babies were successfully separated, the reconstruction of their skulls started. Their recovery period was quick, Professor Figaji says. “Almost immediately

after the surgery they were awake and feeding,” he says. “We expect them to develop normally, and they shouldn’t need any further treatment.” Being fused crown to crown meant the twins hadn’t seen each other’s faces – now they often turn and look at each other in their crib, Ntombikayise says. “From the delivery team to the nurses who helped me with clothes after labour, thank you so much.”

IKE most expectant mothers, she spent the months leading up to the birth eagerly awaiting her baby’s arrival. “I was two months along when I found out I was pregnant,” Ntombikayise tells us. “I was told I was expecting one child.” There was no indication anything was wrong. Ntombikayise, who is from the rural hamlet of Ngcingwane near Dutywa in the Eastern Cape, had ultrasound scans during her pregnancy and doctors told her everything seemed okay. This pregnancy, however, wasn’t as smooth as her previous ones but the 31-year-old mom simply put it down to

‘I THOUGHT I WOULD LEAVE WITH ONE OF THE TWINS – NOT BOTH’ RIGHT: Siphosethu and Amahle were separated at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital (ABOVE).

born she felt hopeless. For the first few days, her little girls were fed through tubes. “Seeing them lying there while other mothers breastfed freely really broke my heart. I just kept thinking, ‘What am I going to do?’” But the nurses at Madwaleni Hospital kept telling her she’d get the help she needed.

being older. She was 23 when she became pregnant with daughter Ethandwa (8) and five years later she welcomed son Bonke (3). But her belly really ballooned with her third pregnancy. “By the time I was eight months pregnant my stomach was very large and abnormally shaped, almost ELP came from Red Cross like an oversized rugby ball with green Hospital, which has a neuroveins,” she recalls. logy clinic dedicated to “When I went to my antenatal checkchildren with complex neuroups, the nurses told me I wasn’t expectlogical problems. When the ing twins, they said the baby was just twins were barely a week old really big.” they were transferred to the hospital When she went into labour at Mad- in Cape Town for treatment. waleni Provincial Hospital (near ElliotAt first Ntombikayise was terrified. dale in the Eastern Cape) on 30 January, She knew very little about conjoined everyone was taken aback. “I had a twins and worried the surgery wouldn’t C-section and during the surgery, the be successful. “When I arrived at the look on the doctor’s face made me real- hospital, I had prepared myself for the ise something was wrong.” worst,” she says. “I thought I would leave She was stunned when the doctor said with one of the twins – not both.” she’d given birth to twins. Siphosethu To make matters worse, she felt terriand Amahle made their way into the bly alone because her family was in the world joined at the head. “Everyone in that delivery room was shocked.” With no other women in the family to turn to, the single mom felt completely unprepared to take care of the twins and their special medical needs. Ntombikayise lost her job as a caretaker last year and didn’t know how she’d survive raising four chilIt took Professor Anthony Figaji (left) dren. She lives with her two and the team of older brothers, who she renurses and anaeslies on to make ends meet. thetists 90 minutes When the twins were to do the surgery.

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Eastern Cape. On her own and penniless, she couldn’t afford basics such as food and clothes but Ntombikayise was welcomed with open arms by the staff at Red Cross. They assured her the hospital was the best place for her daughters to have their separation surgery and brought clothes for the mom and babies. The kindness of strangers kept her going through those dark days. “I felt like everything was going to be okay because of all the support and reassurance I was being given,” she says. The twins spent four weeks in hospital while doctors conducted tests. During that time Ntombikayise fed her babies separately by expressing breast milk into a bottle for one and breastfeeding the other. After bathing them, she would dress them from the bottom upwards. Now the twins have been separated, getting them ready is so easy she can do it with her eyes shut. Siphosethu and Amahle have adjusted well since being discharged. They share a special bond and love to see and hear each other. The twins have overcome huge medical challenges but not everyone is thrilled they’re home because of the stigma surrounding conjoined twins. Ntombikayise says she’s had to put up with a lot of rumours in her village. “At first they really frustrated me but now I don’t care – what other people say doesn’t matter as long as I know my babies are okay.” As tough as it’s been, she says the hospital staff have given her hope for humanity. “I’ve truly seen the spirit of Ubuntu through everyone who supported me and my babies during this difficult time. “I’m grateful from the bottom of my heart.” you.co.za 27 MAY 2021

Due to the pandemic, Ellen’s show was ﬁlmed remotely with only four crew members.

Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show has been canned in the wake of scandals that revealed a culture of bullying and sexual abuse on set BY KIM ABRAHAMS

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LLEN DeGeneres is not as nice as you think. This was the headline in a New York Times article on Ellen three years ago – long before any of the drama she became embroiled in last year began to surface. The story suggested that the fun, friendly persona on her talk show was an act – not the woman she really was at heart, who was far more serious and complex than the jokey, everyone’s-bestfriend image she portrayed. Back then, Ellen hinted she’d had enough of the talk show that made her fabulously rich and famous – it was time to focus on something else, do something different. Even her wife, Portia de Rossi, encouraged her to move on but she was persuaded to stay by her brother Vance, a film producer and screenwriter who believed that “in the age of Donald Trump, the country needs her positive, unifying voice on television”. Yet after a scandal, plummeting 14

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After 18 years, The Ellen DeGeneres Show is ending next year.

ratings and worldwide humiliation, Ellen recently announced she’d be taking off her famous talk-show takkies. After 18 years on-air, the show will end after its 19th season next year. Ellen’s image, no matter how much she tries to defend it, has been seriously dented. In her first public interview since the news of the show’s axing, the 63-year-old star said her decision to quit was because it had stopped being exciting. “When you’re a creative person, you constantly need to be challenged,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “And as great as this show is, it’s just not a challenge anymore.” Ellen has called claims of a toxic work environment at her show “an outright lie”. “From the very first day I said, ‘The one thing I want is everyone here to be happy and proud of where they work and if not, don’t work here’. “No one is going to raise their voice or not be grateful. That’s the rule to this day.”

LLEN has dismissed some of the serious allegations she faced last year as “stupid” and says she doesn’t deserve the backlash she received. Staffers accused her of telling them not to look her in the eye, of cultivating a bullying culture on her show and treating underlings with disdain. “When it started, with that stupid ‘someone couldn’t look me in the eye’ or whatever the first thing was, it’s like a crest of a wave. And then it just keeps getting bigger and bigger until it was out of control.” Exacerbating matters were serious allegations of harassment, sexual misconduct and assault levelled at three top producers on the show. There were also claims of racism and bullying. Executives Ed Glavin, Kevin Leman and Jonathan Norman were fingered by 36 former staffers and their testimonies were revealed in a damaging 2020 BuzzFeed report. Ellen fired the three men but lashed out at media coverage she received.

RIGHT: Executive producers (from left) Ed Glavin, Kevin Leman and Jonathan Norman were ﬁred from Ellen’s talk show after allegations of sexual abuse were made against them by junior employers.

“I felt like I’d been cancelled by the negativity,” she said on the Today show. “I really didn’t understand it. I still don’t. It was too orchestrated, too coordinated. People get picked on, yes – but for four months straight for me? “All I ever heard from every guest that comes on the show is what a happy atmosphere this is and what a happy place this is.” It wasn’t the first time Ellen had taken flak. When she came out as gay in 1997 in her sitcom, The Ellen Show, and appeared on the cover of Time magazine she was heralded as brave in some quarters – but her show was cancelled the following year after straight viewers fled and gay audiences criticised her for not being political enough. Even Elton John weighed in, with a remark she said stung for years. “She should stop talking about her sexuality and be funny,” he said. Humour and kindness became Ellen’s mantras. Her talk-show motto is “be kind to one another”, but getting the show off the ground was far from easy. “It was the hardest show we’ve ever had to launch in the history of our company,” a Warner Bros. executive told The Hollywood Reporter. After her Time cover story, “Yep, I’m Gay”, Ellen went jobless for three years and eventually returned to stand-up comedy. “I was heartbroken. I thought, ‘I don’t want to be a part of this business. It’s shallow and superficial. I work my ass off and do something that I think is important and this is how I’m rewarded?’” Slowly, other work trickled back. She voiced the endearing Dory in Finding Nemo, was the face of the short-lived sitcom The Ellen Show and had a hosting gig at the 2001 Emmy Awards.

Then came Saturday Night Live’s Christmas Special and eventually The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The talk show was a hit with its mix of celebrity guests, dancing, games and giveaways – nearly $70 million (now R980m) in charity donations and more than $300m (now R4,2 billion) in audience giveaways. Ellen, who earns $84m (now R1,1bn) a year and is one of the highest-paid TV personalities, won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humour in 2012, the Presidential Medal of Freedom under Barack Obama in 2016 and 64 Daytime Emmys. Comedian Wanda Sykes says “she took the bullet for everyone else” when she came out. Celebrities such as Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon),

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Ellen says wife Portia de Rossi has been her pillar of strength.

Zachary Quinto (Star Trek, Heroes) and Matt Bomer (The Sinner, Doom Patrol) can identify as gay without the fear of tarni shin g th eir brands, Wanda says. “ When you come out now, it’s a celebration, not a ki ss of death,” she adds. “And we have her to thank for that.” And it’s a pity, her fans say, that a show that made her such a crossover star has ended in sadness and scandal.

HE ratings spoke loud and clear. Viewership tanked in major cities across the US – by 59% in San Francisco, 50% in Los Angeles and between 40% and 32% in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. At the height of the scandal, Ellen had the support of several celebrity friends such as Kevin Hart and Katy Perry who tried to get the hashtag #StandByEllen off the ground. They failed, and the public condemnation continued. Ellen later said she could never have got through that “horrible” time without the love and support of her wife. “It broke my heart,” she said. “Portia was my rock. She kept me going and tried to help me put things in perspective.” Ellen is planning to take “a little break” after her show ends but she still has plenty up her sleeve, including several shows on a number of US networks. Upcoming projects include several TV series – Ellen’s Next Great Designer, Little Funny, Little Ellen and Pixar Popcorn, where she will reprise her role as Dory. She’s also producing the movies Jekyll and Couple Time, and a TV comedy special for her friend, comedian and actress Tig Notaro. Portia says her wife is a brilliant actress and comedian. “There are other things she could tackle. There’s far more to life than her talk show.” SOURCES: NYTIMES.COM, WASHINGTONPOST.COM, INDEPENDENT.CO.UK, USMAGAZINE.COM, BUZZFEEDNEWS. COM, HOLLYWOODREPORTER.COM you.co.za 27 MAY 2021

As Mark Fish’s son Luke forges his own path he speaks about being physically and sexually abused during a childhood fuelled by drugs & wild parties BY NASIFA SULAIMAN

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E GREW up in the public eye, the eldest son of one of South Africa’s most celebrated footballers and a woman who personified glamour from the top of her glossy head to the tips of her Jimmy Choos. As a boy, Luke Fish was baby-faced and innocent-looking, all tousled hair and boyish grins. But the young man here today looks nothing like the former child model he once was. He has a ring in his nose, a cigarette in his hand, a beanie hiding his hair and tattoos all over his arms, hands and torso.

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What’s more, he isn’t even going by the name Luke Fish anymore. He’s completely reinvented himself and wants to be called by his alter-ego, Seth Omen. Now 23, he’s a rapper whose music revolves around his traumatic childhood and he wants nothing do with the family name anymore. His upcoming song, Fish Pt 1, packs quite a punch. “Sad to say I came from trauma/Daddy used to beat my mama/ Magazines would doc the drama.” And it’s all true, he says. He claims his father, Mark Fish – the former soccer star who helped Bafana Bafana clinch the African Cup of Nations in the heady

Luke Fish has distanced himself from his dad’s name and now goes by Seth Omen (LEFT).

days of 1996 and went on to play internationally – physically abused him. “I grew up in a traumatic environment where I suffered a lot of physical abuse from my father,” Seth tells YOU. He’d often get caught in the middle of the fights his dad had with his mom, Loui Fish, and “I fought him to protect my mom”, he says. He fell into hard drugs and other selfdestructive behaviour as a boy after being introduced to prescription drugs at wild parties hosted at his dad’s home. What’s more, he alleges he was sexually assaulted by guests at these boozeand drug-fuelled get-togethers and his experiences affected his own sex life. “When I was 14, I lost my virginity,” he says. “Even though I was so young, I wanted to lose my virginity.” Neither parent has disputed Seth’s claims. Mark admits he had a wild lifestyle. “I think everyone knows my story,” he tells YOU.

He won’t be drawn on Seth’s allegations of physical abuse – all he’s prepared to say is, “I disciplined my kids when they needed to be disciplined.” Loui says she fully supports her son breaking away and starting his music career. “Everybody knows about our past,” she says. “I mean, you had to live under a rock not to know what the Fish family went through. This is my son’s career and these are his experiences.”

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ETH may have been born into soccer celebrity but he says all that glitters isn’t gold. To the outside world, the Fishes looked like they were living the high life but flying close to the sun can be dangerous. They may have had flashy cars, glitzy mansions and all the mod cons, but Seth says “we weren’t financially stable”. Mark hung up his boots and retired from London-based football club Bolton Wanderers in 2005 and the family moved around so much while Mark tried his hand at different ventures that Seth went to about seven different schools. He was often bullied by his classmates for being a spoilt rich kid. “All these people thought I had it all, but that wasn’t the case,” he says. Then, in 2008, the family were targeted by a gang of robbers. Five armed men tied up Seth and Loui before making off with jewellery and handbags they loaded into the family’s car. Because of all the trauma he experienced as a child, Seth used to act His parents, Mark out a lot and regularly got into fights. and Loui Fish, lived a wild party life By the time he was 12, he was already when Seth was experimenting with drugs. young. “It was at one of those parties where there were lots of people and someone offered me Xanax.” a relationship with Mark and can’t reThis led to experimenting with harder member the last time they spoke. drugs, but he managed to pull himself “He sends messages every now and together and avoid going completely off then,” Seth says, “but I don’t really reply.” the rails. Until recently, Seth lived with his mom ESPITE their fractured relaand his younger brother, Zeke (20), in tionship, Mark tells us he Cape Town but he’s staying on his own hopes his son will make his now. mark in the music business. He’s always been close to Loui and “I wish Luke all the best,” confided in her about being sexually says the former soccer ace, abused and although he’s sought coun- who has two younger children from his selling and was on antidepressant second marriage to Salomé Janse van medication for a while, he prefers to Rensburg.

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Mark and Salomé famously wed in a nightclub in 2015, four years after he split from Loui. The pair had been together for 11 tumultuous years before going their separate ways. In 2012, a year after her drawn-out divorce, Loui published her autobiography, Walking in my Choos, in which she accuses Mark of being an abusive serial cheat. These days Loui has little to do with her ex and doesn’t want to focus on any ill feelings. Instead, she wants to shine a light on her son. “It’s about Luke/Seth breaking away and starting his career,” Loui tells us. Yes, she and Mark were party animals “but it comes with the territory”, she says. The single mom is getting back into modelling and will soon be part of a TV show but it’s all very hush-hush for now, she says. She’s happy to talk about her blue-eyed boys, though. “We’re very close. I’ve been mom and dad to the boys since we got divorced,” she says. Seth and Zeke share a keen interest in music and the boys talk often and bounce ideas off each other. “Growing up everyone wanted to know if they’ll be footballers like Mark. They’re both brilliant footballers, but they just chose the entertainment side of things,” Loui says. For Seth music is about more than entertainment. He’s spent the past few years focusing on his health and wellbeing and wants to raise awareness around mental health. “Nowadays more and more people are experiencing depression. One in every four people have a mental health disorder,” he says. “If you listen to my music, it’s an outlet for feelings you wouldn’t really share with people – it’s the stuff you can’t get off your chest because you fear you’ll be judged.” Seth, who’s also a part-time model, started focusing on his music career last year and plans to put out more music. Fish Pt 1 is out on 30 June and available on all major streaming platforms and it’s only the beginning, he says. “That’s why I called my single Fish Pt 1,” he says. “There’s still a lot more I have to say.” you.co.za 27 MAY 2021

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pour his pain into song. “Music is my therapy.” His mother has been very supportive of his music career, he says, and he refers to the pain she suffered while married to Mark in his new song. “Mommy crying doing dishes/Lukie be wishing for wishes/Never were granted though and that became my antidote.” He doesn’t know what his father will make of his music. He doesn’t really have

President Cyril Ramaphosa (LEFT) and the ANC’s secretary-general, Ace Magashule (RIGHT) have locked horns.

end of the road for the ANC’s suspended secretary-general but others warn he should not be underestimated

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HEN he became secretary-general of the ANC after a bruising factional battle to elect the party’s leadership in 2017, political analysts predicted that President Cyril Ramaphosa was going to have a hard time making good on many of his campaign promises. Ace Magashule carried a lot of clout in the ANC and his alliance with former president Jacob Zuma made him a direct opponent to the party’s new president. For some three years the two men have gone up against each other in battles big and small. But it was only in recent weeks that things really came to a head with Magashule being suspended – and trying to suspend Ramaphosa in turn. We take a closer look at the most significant political fight since the ANC elected Ramaphosa president over Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.

WHY MAGASHULE WAS SUSPENDED Late last year the secretary-general (SG) was arrested on corruption charges related to kickbacks he allegedly got from a R250-million asbestos eradication tender awarded in the Free State during his nine-year stint as premier of the prov18

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WHAT’S UP ACE’S SLEEVE? ince, which ended in 2018. He’s currently out on R200 000 bail and is expected to appear in the high court in Bloemfontein in August with 15 co-accused to face more than 70 charges including fraud, theft and money laundering. As a result, he’s one of the people who has to relinquish his position in line with the ANC’s step-aside policy – which says anyone charged with a crime or serious corruption should step aside until proven innocent or guilty. Affected people were given a month to voluntarily step down or face temporary suspension. Because Magashule refused to step aside, he was given a temporary suspension, with his deputy, Jessie Duarte, taking over his role until he’s had his day in court.

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Zuma supporter is trying to cast himself in the role of victim, says political analyst Dr Trust Matsilele. He’s trying to play the same card Zuma did back in 2005. Zuma, then deputy president, was forced to step aside because of corruption charges he faced relating to the controversial 1999 arms deal, Matsilele says. “But he’s making a fundamental mistake because Zuma had coalitions behind him – the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the South African Communist Party, the ANC Youth League and the ANC Women’s League. All those coalitions are not supporting Ace,” he adds. Ultimately, Matsilele says, Magashule is aiming to get Ramaphosa recalled – just as Zuma did in 2008 with Thabo Mbeki, but it’s clear Magashule has overestimated the clout he carries within

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LEFT: Deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte has said she isn’t acting SG while Magashule (RIGHT) is on suspension.

the upper ranks of the party. “He’s certainly observing his political life coming to an end,” Matsilele says. “Unfortunately he seems to be drunk with the love of power and the love of remaining in the secretary-general’s office, perhaps thinking that the political current will turn against Ramaphosa and he’ll find himself at the helm of the party.”

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at branch level, resulting in Ramaphosa also being kicked out. “Remember, he was elected to the national office. If you expel him you’re actually overturning a decision by the members of the ANC,” he says. “Where do you end? Exactly where Ace wants you – a special congress where people are angry and frustrated about the impact of anti-corruption on them, which could turn into an open revolt against Ramaphosa.” Mathekga says the ANC should let the suspension run its course and leave the courts to rule on the matter, which will leave Magashule in limbo. Breakfast agrees that ANC decisionmakers made the right call in demanding that he apologise rather than just expelling him. “They could’ve expelled him on the spot but they realised that he’s using psychological warfare to get sympathy,” Breakfast says. “The rationale behind the decision to make him apologise in public and not to dismiss him is basically to project him as a person who’s ill-disciplined if he doesn’t comply with that order.”

lyst Dr Ntsikelelo Breakfast says the lack of support Magashule got during a recent national executive committee (NEC) meeting – which saw him being kicked out when he showed up – was telling. “I think the support of the SG is shrinking. The mere fact that there was no province that spoke in his favour in the recent NEC meeting signifies that he’s losing ground,” Breakfast says. But political analyst Ralph Mathekga warns Magashule won’t just roll over and concede defeat. Magashule has turned to the courts to have his suspension declared unlawful. By going to court, the politician is buying time so he can appeal to the ANC branches, Mathekga says. While the NEC has backed Ramaphosa, Magashule remains a powerful force at branch level, Mathekga adds. The branches could side with Magashule and say that all party members facing corruption allegations – and not just formal charges – should be forced to step aside, which would mean that even Ramaphosa would have to vacate office while questions remain about how his 2017 presidential campaign was funded. It’s for this reason the ANC shouldn’t expel him, analysts say. Magashule issuing a suspension letter to Ramaphosa is enough grounds to expel him but instead the ANC has just insisted on an apology. Mathekga warns that axing the party’s secretary-general could lead to a mutiny 20

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WHAT IT MEANS FOR RAMAPHOSA The factionalism within his party often seemed to hobble Ramaphosa, but Magashule’s suspension shows things have swung in the president’s favour. “One of the challenges that has been causing the weakening of the ANC is their lacklustre approach in dealing with corruption,” Matsilele says.

“But if the ruling party suspends its SG because of allegations or court charges of corruption, that sends a positive message to the international markets and also to the ratings agencies.” Matsilele foresees the ANC performing well in the upcoming municipal elections, with a high possibility of them winning back the major metros they lost in the last election. The experts all agree that the internal bickering has done untold damage to the country – particularly when it comes to getting the economy back on track and the all-important Covid-19 vaccine rollout. “There’s no doubt there’s been gross incompetence in the vaccine rollout,” Matsilele says. “Even looking at countries that are poorly run like Zimbabwe, they seem to be doing a better job compared to South Africa.”

BREAKAWAY PARTY RUMOURS There’s been talk that Magashule could band together with allies to form a breakaway party but experts say this is unlikely. “They would need institutions of the state to fund the political party and they can’t do that without controlling the state,” Matsilele says. “That’s why there were threats that people were going to resign en masse in cabinet and the NEC, but that didn’t happen because people know that they wouldn’t survive outside of the state and the NEC.” Mathekga agrees. “For now it’s risky to go and form a breakaway party that will get 5% of the votes while the ANC is most likely to win the next elections.” Breakfast says even if a breakaway party could be looming, it will have to do a lot of groundwork in order to uproot the ANC. “The ANC is a liberation movement and the name ANC is a brand – it carries weight.”

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MIX IT UP WITH MUSHROOMS Gone are the days when all you could find in supermarkets were white mushrooms. Here’s how to make the most of the wide variety of shapes, sizes, colours and flavours at our fingertips BY ESTHER MALAN PICTURES: MISHA JORDAAN

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BUTTON MUSHROOM STROGANOFF

Whether whole, chopped or sliced, button mushrooms are versatile. We use them in a creamy stroganoff seasoned with mustard, white pepper and paprika. SERVES 4-6 PREPARATION: 15 MIN COOKING: 35-40 MIN

250g button mushrooms 300-350g beef or ostrich ﬁllet, sliced into strips salt and freshly ground pepper 30ml (2T) olive oil 15ml (1T) butter 2 onions, cut into quarters and the layers separated 60ml (¼c) white wine (optional) 15ml (1T) ﬂour 250ml (1c) cream or sour cream 15ml (1T) Dijon mustard 2,5ml (½t) each white pepper and paprika 1 green pepper, cut into chunks TO SERVE pasta of your choice, cooked al dente

fresh parsley

1 Cut the larger mushrooms into chunks and keep the smaller ones whole. Season the meat with salt and pepper. 2 Heat the oil in a deep pan and fry the meat in batches until done. Remove and set aside. 3 In the same pan, melt the butter and fry the onions until soft. Add the mushrooms and stir-fry for 2 minutes. Add the wine (if using) and stirfry until most of the liquid has evaporated. 4 Sprinkle the ﬂour over and stir through. Turn down the heat, then add the cream or sour cream, stirring continuously until it starts thickening. 5 Add the mustard, white pepper, paprika and green pepper and mix well. Simmer slowly for 5 minutes. Add the meat and season with more salt and pepper if needed. 6 To serve Serve the stroganoﬀ on the cooked pasta and garnish with fresh parsley.

FRAGRANT MUSHROOM BILTONG RAMEN

Dried mushrooms are flavoursome and can be used to make stock instead of chicken or beef. These days you’ll also find mixed dried wild mushrooms and even mushroom biltong in supermarkets. SERVES 4 PREPARATION: 15 MIN

STANDING: 1 HOUR COOKING: 20 MIN

25g mushroom biltong, plus extra to garnish 30g dried wild mushrooms (mixed) 1L (4c) hot water 6 spring onions, roughly chopped 5cm fresh ginger 4 garlic cloves, bruised 1-2 chillies, halved lengthways 2 star anise 5ml (1t) miso paste

(optional) 30ml (2T) light brown sugar 45ml (3T) soy sauce 15ml (1T) ﬁsh sauce 15ml (1T) sesame oil juice of 1 lime 300-350g dry egg noodles half a bunch kale or spinach, hard stems removed TO SERVE 4 spring onions, thinly sliced 4 boiled eggs, shelled and halved

1 Put the mushroom biltong and dried

mushrooms in a saucepan or pot with a lid. Cover in hot water, then secure the saucepan’s lid. Set aside for 1 hour or until the mushrooms are rehydrated and the liquid is the colour of strong tea. 2 Heat the mushroom water on the stove and add the spring onions, ginger, garlic, chilli, star anise and miso paste (if using). 3 Bring to the boil, then turn the heat down and

simmer slowly for 10 minutes. Add the sugar, soy and ﬁsh sauce, sesame oil and lime juice and mix well. 4 Add the noodles and cook for 5-10 minutes until soft. Add the kale or spinach and simmer until wilted. 5 To serve Divide the noodles and stock between four soup bowls. Finish with the spring onions, eggs and mushroom biltong.

For a healthier option omit the noodles and add grated cabbage and carrot instead.

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CHEDDAMELT MUSHROOM STEAK TOASTIES

Mushroom steaks have a similar flavour to beef and if cooked right, they’ll satisfy even the most devout carnivore’s taste buds. We cooked the steaks in the oven but for a smoky flavour, you can always braai them. 24

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SERVES 2 PREPARATION: 15 MIN COOKING: 30 MIN

4-6 large mushroom steaks 30ml (2T) barbecue sauce 15ml (1T) olive oil 100g mozzarella, grated 15ml (1T) mustard 2 garlic cloves, chopped freshly ground pepper handful fresh rocket 4 slices bread butter for spreading

TO SERVE sea salt

Preheat the oven to 200°C. Grease a baking sheet with non-stick spray. 1 Brush the mushrooms with the barbecue sauce. Then arrange on the baking sheet, bottoms up, and drizzle the oil over. 2 Roast for 10 minutes, then turn the mush-

rooms over and roast for another 5-10 minutes until cooked. 3 Mix the mozzarella, mustard and garlic together until well combined, then season with pepper. 4 Divide the rocket between two slices of bread and top with the cheese mixture. Add the mushrooms and ﬁnish with another

slice of bread to make a sandwich. 5 Spread butter on the outside of the sandwiches, then toast the sandwiches in a sandwich press, a pan on the stove or in the oven until the bread is golden brown and the cheese has melted. 6 To serve Sprinkle a little sea salt over, slice into portions and serve.

SHIITAKE-CRUSTED ROAST CHICKEN

PREPARATION: 20 MIN COOKING: 1 HOUR

Shiitake mushrooms have a stronger flavour than most. When cooked and browned, they taste a little like anchovy – an excellent seasoning for chicken, meat, stir-fry and sauces.

MUSHROOM CRUST 15ml (1T) olive oil 15ml (1T) butter 1 red onion, chopped 2 garlic cloves, chopped 150g shiitake mushrooms, chopped 15ml (1T) chopped fresh sage sprig fresh basil, chopped, plus extra for garnish

SERVES 4-6

handful parsley, chopped CHICKEN 4-6 chicken portions, skin on salt and freshly ground pepper baby potatoes, cooked extra shiitake mushrooms olive oil baby tomatoes TO SERVE fresh basil, chopped

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Grease an ovenproof dish with non-stick spray. 1 Mushroom crust Heat the oil and butter and fry the onion and garlic until fragrant. Add the mushrooms and sage and stirfry until golden brown and cooked. Mix in the basil and parsley. 2 Chicken Season the chicken on all sides with salt and pepper. Lightly loosen the skin on one

side of each chicken portion and stuﬀ with the mushroom mixture. 3 Arrange the chicken, potatoes and mushrooms in the ovenproof dish and drizzle the oil over. Roast for 40 minutes. 4 Add the tomatoes and roast for another 10 minutes or until the chicken is golden brown. 5 To serve Garnish with fresh basil and serve. you.co.za 27 MAY 2021

HEARTY PORTOBELLINI MUSHROOM PIES

Portobellini mushrooms are more flavourful than button mushrooms but not as strong in flavour as shiitake. These mushrooms can be used in virtually any dish and work especially well in stews or as a pie filling. As a budget-saving measure, we used marrow bones to add hearty flavour. SERVES 4-6 PREPARATION: 20 MIN COOKING: 3 HOURS

4 beef marrow bones, halved lengthways 30ml (2T) olive oil

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salt and freshly ground pepper 1 onion, chopped 2 carrots, cut into chunks 4 garlic cloves, bruised 2 bay leaves few sprigs each fresh thyme and rosemary 500g portobellini mushrooms, halved 100g tomato paste 1 can (410g) whole tomatoes 500ml (2c) veggie stock PIE(S) 1 roll (400g) puﬀ pastry 1 egg, beaten

Preheat the oven to 200°C. Grease a baking sheet and large pie dish or smaller pie dishes with non-stick spray. 1 Arrange the marrow bones, marrow facing upward, on the baking sheet. Drizzle 15ml (1T)

oil over and season with the salt and pepper. Roast for 15-20 minutes or until the marrow is soft and the bones start discolouring. 2 Heat the rest of the oil in a deep saucepan and fry the onion, carrots and garlic until soft. Add the bay leaves, thyme and rosemary and stir-fry until fragrant. 3 Add half the mushrooms and stir-fry for 5 minutes. Stir in the tomato paste, whole tomatoes and veggie stock, then bring to the boil. 4 Transfer the marrow bones to the saucepan with the veggies, turn the heat down, put the lid on and slowly simmer for 90 minutes, stirring

now and again and adding water if needed. 5 Add the rest of the mushrooms and simmer for another 30 minutes. Season with more salt and pepper if necessary. 6 Pie(s) Add spoonfuls of the pie filling to the prepared pie dish(es). For the smaller pies remove the marrow bones. Lightly roll out the puff pastry on a flour-sprinkled surface, then cut into shapes roughly 2cm bigger than the pie dish(es). 7 Cover the filling with the pastry, make a cut in the pastry and brush with egg. Bake the pie(s) for 20-25 minutes or until the pastry is golden brown and cooked.

BOEREWORSSTUFFED BROWN MUSHROOM BAKE

Brown mushrooms are versatile as they can be roasted, grilled or even stir-fried. This dish can be enjoyed as a light meal or a snack. SERVES 4 (AS LIGHT MEAL) OR 6-8 (AS A SNACK) PREPARATION: 10 MIN

COOKING: 20-25 MIN

8-10 large brown mushrooms 250g boerewors, removed from the casing 5ml (1t) cumin seeds, toasted 5ml (1t) coriander seeds, toasted grated zest of 1 lemon handful fresh parsley, chopped 125ml (½c) fresh breadcrumbs

15ml (1T) olive oil TO FINISH 125ml (½c) plain full-cream yoghurt 1 garlic clove, crushed juice of 1 lemon pinch of salt TO SERVE fresh herbs 2 large tomatoes, sliced

Preheat the oven to 200°C. Grease a baking sheet with non-stick spray. 1 Arrange the mushrooms,

bottoms up, on the baking sheet. Mix the boerewors mince, cumin and coriander seeds, lemon zest and parsley together. 2 Fill the mushrooms with generous amounts of the mince mixture. Sprinkle some of the breadcrumbs over, then drizzle olive oil over. 3 Roast the mushrooms for 20-25 minutes or

until the mince and mushrooms are cooked and tender. 4 To ﬁnish Put the yoghurt, garlic, lemon juice and salt in a food processor and pulse until smooth. 5 To serve Spread the herbs and tomato slices on a large serving plate and arrange the mushrooms on top. Serve with the yoghurt dressing.

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THE FUZZY COAT With this winter staple you can take loungewear to the streets. Keep warm while out and about in a trendy fuzzy coat and your fave co-ord set. Mix it up with a ribbed knit pencil skirt or a pants and top combo.

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CRAZY ABOUT CO-ORDS The pandemicdriven loungewear trend is heavily inspired by matching sets, like ribbed knits and sweatpants, and relaxed hoodie combos. Dress it up or down with trendy shoes and accessories.

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Check shirt R159,99, Exact

Tunic R420, Truworths

LAYERED LUXE Add dimension

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Match the dominant colour of your print with complementary tonal pieces.

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PRINT, PLEASE! Make the print the focus of your ensemble by layering a tonal combo of four or less contrasting shades that are made up of the print’s main colour.

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Dress from R459, Miladys. Leggings R129,99, MRP. Jacket R999 and boots R499, Woolworths. Bag R450, Foschini.

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A WAFT OF Choose your fragrance from our fabulous selection of seasonal scents BY NTHABISENG MAKHOKHA

INTER is here, and just as you swapped your summer clothes for warmer layers and light moisturisers for richer ones, consider switching your fragrance too. Choose a scent that will evoke warm and fuzzy feelings.

10 TOP TIPS TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR WINTER FRAGRANCE

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The air and your skin become dry in winter and this causes your fragrance not to last as long as it usually does. Fragrance lingers for longer when your skin is well-moisturised so do it as soon as you get out of the shower, while your skin is soft and permeable. Rub petroleum jelly into the areas where you intend apply36

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Eau de parfums are more concentrated than eau de toilettess, but the latter is slightly more aﬀordable. So, if you want something that will last, be prepared to cough up a bit more.

Most of your body is covered in winter so when you apply perfume to skin it’s almost impossible for it to permeate through all those layers of clothing. Apply perfume on areas that are mostly exposed, like your wrists, behind the ears and your neck. You may want to apply perfume to your clothes too but do so from about

25-30cm so that you don’t stain the fabric. If you’re wearing a scarf, you can apply your perfume on there too.

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Choose spicy and woody fragrances for winter. These have strong, exotic, warm notes that disperse gradually throughout the day.

Don’t rub your perfume in after you apply it on your skin as this will break down its composition and make it evaporate

faster. Just spray and let it settle.

Find a fragrance that’s designed for hair instead of your body. Your hair is almost always exposed, and it will diﬀuse the perfume as you move. Spraying normal perfume directly onto your hair may cause it to dry out because perfumes contain alcohol.

Layer your scent by using a deodorant spray that smells the same as your perfume. These are often sold as a set in store and online. This can help intensify your fragrance. Rather use a non-fragranced deodorant if the one you have doesn’t smell the same as your perfume. You don’t want competing scents.

Make sure you store your perfume away from direct sunlight, even in winter, as the sun can aﬀect the composition of your fragrance and make it weaker.

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1 Cane pendant lamp R699,99, Mr Price Home. 2 Tribal bowl R599, @home. 3 Bedside pedestal R2 500, 4 rug R899,99, 5 king-size white pillowcase R159,99, 6 waﬄe weave duvetcover set (king-size) R659,99 and 7 printed canvas R399,99, Mr Price Home. 8 Cotton blanket R649, Woolworths. 9 Waﬄe weave scatter cushions R399,99 each, 10 long fur scatter cushion R199,99 and 11 small scatter cushion R69,99, Mr Price Home. 12 Faux-fur blanket R1 699, @home.

A relaxing white palette sets the tone for rest and allows much-needed natural light to be reﬂected during the colder seasons. Various textures and the layering of blankets and scatter cushions bring a luxurious look and feel while the wooden accents pop against the white and add warmth.

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NIGHT LIGHT Pendant lights are great to use in a bedroom – they provide soft focal light that creates a calm ambience yet can also make a dramatic décor statement. If you use pendants as bedside lights, make sure the light switch is within reach from the bed.

Choose bedroom accessories that match the look and feel of your bedding and lighting so the room is calm and cohesive. Include items such as scented candles, fresh or faux ﬂowers and plants, mirrors and laundry baskets. A chair is also useful to have in the bedroom.

1 Cane pendant lamp R699,99, Mr Price Home. 2 Artificial magnolia R199 and 3 wooden vase R649, @home. 4 Clock by Country Road R649, Woolworths. 5 Tribal bowl R599, @home. 6 Bedside pedestal R2 500, Mr Price Home.

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Mix and match scatter cushions in various styles of ﬂoral prints to create a botanical burst of colour. Keep the style simple with symmetry and maximalist by including as many cushions as your couch will allow. 1 Throw R299, Woolworths. 2 Moody green scatter cushion R499, @home. 3 Printed scatter

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cushion cover R129, H&M. 4 Plain pink scatter cushion R99,99 and 5 ﬂoral embroidered cushion R199,99, Mr Price Home. 6 Black velvet printed cushion cover R229, H&M. 7 Peony printed scatter cushion R499, @home. 8 Sofa R16 998, Sofa Company. 9 Rug R3 999 and 10 side table R1 499, superbalist.com.

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Scatter cushions all in white (or any other one colour) work best in a cluster like this when each one has a diﬀerent texture. You can also play with sizes and shapes. This look goes well with shabby chic décor.

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EMOTIONAL TRIGGERS Knowing and understanding what causes you to feel a certain way will help you to respond better to the situation BY KIM ARENDSE

E’VE all had good days that turn bad in a split second. It could be anything – a comment from a friend that you think is snarky, fe ed b a ck from your boss that you see as criticism, a look from your mother that you perceive as disapproving. Irrespective of what the other person’s intention was, it throws you off balance and ends up making you feel angry, anxious, worthless or insecure. These negative feelings may linger and colour the rest of your day. Why does it happen? Because something about it sparks an intense emotional reaction in you. We all have personal emotional triggers – because we’ve all had intensely emotional experiences, often during childhood, that have shaped how we respond to things. It’s important for your emotional and mental health to know and understand your personal emotional triggers. Here’s how to identify them so you don’t end up being held hostage by them and how to make a conscious choice about how to respond instead.

WHERE DO TRIGGERS COME FROM? An emotional trigger can be an experience, an event or a memory that sparks an intense and negative emotional reaction. 46

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‘IF YOU DON’T RECOGNISE YOUR FEELINGS, YOU CAN’T CHANGE THEM – NEGATIVELY IMPACTING YOUR RELATIONSHIPS’ Since it’s rooted in our formative experiences, it differs from person to person. For some people negative feedback from their boss, while not pleasant, isn’t a reason to doubt their own worth. But for someone who was frequently criticised by a parent for not achieving good results at school, it could take them right back to what they felt like then – which was “never good enough”. Common situations that trigger intense emotions include feeling rejected, betrayed, unwanted, excluded, ignored or unjustly treated. These could come from a huge variety of experiences, often in childhood but sometimes not. It could be that you grew up with a parent who was emotionally distant, highly critical or angry a lot of the time. Perhaps you were bullied at school or ostracised because of your faith or cultural beliefs while growing up, says Kate Solomons, clinical director of the TraumaClinic Foundation in Cape Town. “Maybe you were often yelled at by an authority figure, for example a schoolteacher, for making small mistakes.” Events such as the loss of a loved one, life-threatening disasters or accidents, and even painful medical procedures, can also be triggers, she adds.

“When we are triggered, the reaction is so strong and happens so quickly and automatically that we never stop to question the negative path that got us there,” explains Nina Josefowitz, a clinical psychologist based in Canada and coauthor of the book CBT Made Simple. “Think back to the last time you were really upset. What were your feelings? Your thoughts? How did your body feel? Learn to recognise your pattern.” Josefowitz says the next time you’re triggered, take a deep breath and ask yourself, “What happened to trigger me?” “Once you have identified what triggered you, take a breath and hit the pause button. Take a hard look at the situation and find some compassion for yourself. Try saying to yourself: ‘This happened, and it’s hard. No wonder I am upset’. “Give yourself some time to figure out

The following experiences or situations are common emotional triggers. S Someone being too busy to make time for you

S Being blamed for something S Someone leaving or threatening to leave you S Someone being judgemental or critical of you S Being rejected S Someone ignoring you S Someone being unavailable to you S A disapproving look S Someone not appearing to be happy to see you S Someone trying to control you S Someone being needy or trying to smother you

how you want to handle the situation. Ask yourself what a really kind, compassionate friend would tell you,” Josefowitz says. Your emotional triggers are basically wounds that need to heal, says Judith Orloff in The Empath’s Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People. To heal them you need to compassionately examine and shift beliefs you’ve carried around that are based on fear rather than reality, such as, “I’m not smart enough” or “I’m too sensitive”. It requires some self-reflection and this may be hard, but once you’ve identified where your triggers come from you set yourself free emotionally, Orloff says.

YOU’RE TRIGGERED – NOW WHAT? When you identify what’s triggering how you feel in any given moment, you give yourself the chance to feel differently in future if you want to, says Marcia Reynolds, a US-based organisational psychologist and co-author of the book Outsmart Your Brain.

Accept responsibility If you’ve lashed out at someone or find yourself in a negative

emotions “If you don’t recognise your feelings, you can’t change them, negatively impacting your relationships, job performance and overall happiness,” Reynolds says. She says to determine what triggered an emotion you need to think about what you feel you lost or what you didn’t get that you expected to have. Common emotional triggers include not getting respect, not being accepted, not being in control and not being understood.

Shift your emotional state With practice you’ll quickly be able to identify when an emotion is triggered then choose what to say or do next. You can shift into the emotion that will help you achieve this by doing the following: Relax: breathe and release the tension in your body. Detach: clear your mind of all thoughts. Centre: drop your awareness to the centre of your body just below your navel. Focus: choose one keyword that represents how you want to feel in this moment. Breathe: concentrate on the word and allow yourself to feel the shift. “Stop trying to manage your emotions. Instead, choose to feel something different when an emotion arises. This is how you gain emotional freedom,” Reynolds adds.

YES, THERE ARE POSITIVE TRIGGERS TOO! Positive triggers exist too and elicit feelings of security, belonging, joy and support. “You can engage positive triggers by, for example, placing photographs of happy memo-

ries around your home, listening to music, exercising and doing a hobby you enjoy,” says

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IDENTIFYING YOUR SPECIFIC TRIGGERS

COMMON CAUSES

thought spiral once triggered, the first step is to accept responsibility, Reynolds suggests. “For example, you get very angry because you can’t find a report you were working on. You blame the company for giving you insufficient space, the cleaners for moving things around on your desk, or your boss for giving you a stupid task or deadline. “You ignore that you are tired and your patience is thin.” Reynolds says the first step is to accept that you are in control rather than seeing yourself as a victim.

ASK DR LOUISE Write to Dr Louise, PO Box 39410, Moreletapark 0044, or email info@drlouise.co.za.

MY PARENTS’ PROMISE TO ME MEANT NOTHING My mother and father promised me that when I complete Grade 12 they will pay for me to go to university. I’m due to matriculate at the end of this year. My parents told me yesterday that they don’t have the money to send me to university because my father was retrenched during lockdown. He hasn’t found another job and we’re now living on my mother’s salary. I’m so angry with them. Why didn’t they invest money for my studies long before this difficult time? Why wait until I’m about to go to university before trying to make a plan? Their promises meant nothing and I think they’re not very good parents for having done this to me. Other parents would have invested in a study plan as soon as I was born! What do I do now? I feel like leaving school and getting a job so I can get out of my parental home.

I’M HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE WITH MY OLDER BROTHER’S FRIEND I’m madly in love with my brother’s friend who is three years older than me. They’re at university together and I’m in Grade 12. The problem is this guy views me as a “little sister” and obviously doesn’t think of me in romantic terms. What can I do to make him see that I’m grown up now and am in fact a woman, not a little girl he can pat on the head and make jokes with? I’ve tried to persuade my brother to take me along with them on a night out so I can dress up and make him see I’m not a kid anymore but my parents won’t allow it and my brother also tells me I will spoil their fun. Lizette, email

Your brother’s friend might have already noticed that you’ve grown up but doesn’t want to make it obvious that he has so as not to offend your brother or your parents. Don’t get anxious about it. Focus on your studies and allow this year to pass, and you may find that next year when you’re at university or college he might view you in a different light – and your brother and parents may be less protective of you too. In the meantime, be nice and charming to him when he visits your brother but take care not to do anything that may harm your chances with him – such as telling him that you’re madly in love with him. That probably wouldn’t be a good idea right now.

‘ANY FOOL CAN KNOW. THE POINT IS TO UNDERSTAND’ – ALBERT EINSTEIN

Harry, email Yes, your parents could have taken out some sort of investment for your education when you were born, but perhaps they couldn’t afford it then with a new baby in the house and all the expenses that come with that. Obviously your parents bargained on the fact that once you finished school they would be in a financial position to pay for your studies. But nobody could have foreseen the Covid-19 pandemic and the devastation it would cause on an economic level. What you’re experiencing is one of the basic things life is about – having disappointments and learning to overcome them. It would be the wrong thing to leave school now as there’s very little work available for school-leavers. Rather complete your schooling – it would be shortsighted not to – and perhaps by the end of the year the economy will have improved somewhat and you can then look for a part-time job. You can study part-time and figure out how to finance it yourself. Many students have done so and learnt important life lessons along the way. Instead of being angry with your parents, try to support them during this difficult time – just as they’ve supported you throughout your life. 48

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HOW DO I GET MY MALE COLLEAGUES TO TREAT ME AS AN EQUAL? I’ve recently been promoted to the top-management level of my company. However, I’m the only woman in the boardroom and I feel as if the men don’t see or appreciate me for my skills. I think they just see my looks – people tell me I’m quite attractive – then assume I’m dumb. I want them to treat me as they do the other board members and not take what I say lightly. How do I get this to happen? Germaine, email It is most likely a new experience for the men to have a beautiful woman as a fellow board member who should be treated as a colleague and not just as eye-candy.

They also have to get used to that and you will have to help them do so. You won’t help them by being abrasive or oppositional towards them as this is unlikely to give them the impression that you’re competent – it is more likely to make them think you’re competitive. A better way is to show them how intelligent you are by preparing well for meetings, giving praise where it is deserved and sharing a diﬀerent point of view when you feel it really matters. Be prepared to make your argument and preferably oﬀer an alternative solution. Let your skills speak for themselves. As soon as they realise you’re bringing something to the table and see that your input is valuable, they’ll start treating you as a colleague and not just as a looker.

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ETIREMENT is around the corner for you and your life partner and now that you’ve taken a look at what that means financially you’ve discovered your partner’s retirement savings are way too little to take care of you during your so-called golden years. How do you make up the shortfall? This week we oﬀer some basic guidelines on how to make the best of this situation, and to safeguard your relationship against money stress.

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When you’re retired your expenses should ideally be around 75% of what they were before as some costs will come down or fall away. But if you know that during your retirement you’ll also have to support your partner, it makes sense to start cutting back on your lifestyle expenses now. If you still live in a big family home or drive a big car, you can scale down and use the money you free up to settle debts so you can retire without any debt obligations. If your debt has been paid off, or you don’t have any, consult a financial planner for advice on effectively investing the money you’ve freed up. You may think a small amount won’t make a difference but every bit helps and compound interest can make your 50

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Here are five things you need to do if your partner hasn’t saved sufficiently for your golden years savings grow a lot. Here’s an example of the difference a small amount can make: someone who saves R500 a month for five years at 7% interest, for example, can save about R35 800 (without fees). It will increase to R44 530 after 6 years. If you put away R1 500 a month for 5 years at 6% interest, your savings could grow to R104 000. You and your partner need to have an honest conversation about your finances. It can be a difficult subject to broach, and including a financial planner in the conversation to provide facts and figures about life expectancy and budget planning will mean the matter can be tackled from a practical planning point of view rather than an emotional one, says Annalise De Meillon Muller of Glacier by Sanlam. Even financial services professionals ask financial planners to help them plan their retirement.

RECONSIDER YOUR RETIREMENT DATES

These days it’s no longer odd to keep working into one’s 70s and 80s as people live longer and are healthier thanks to advances in healthcare. See if it might be possible to postpone retirement for you and your partner so you can save more money. Apart from helping you to save longer, postponing your retirement date also means the period during which you depend only on retirement money will be shorter. If you can’t stay on at work full time, consider working on a consultant basis, freelance

or half day. If you can’t both postpone retirement, consider the option of at least one of you continuing to work so you aren’t retiring at the same time.

PLAN ADDITIONAL INCOME

Start planning how you and your partner can supplement your income during retirement. It may surprise you to discover how much you can add to your income based on your experience and skills. Be careful not to start a new business willy nilly because you can’t aﬀord to lose money at this stage of your life. Also, beware of moneymaking scams, such as Ponzi and pyramid schemes – older people who are close to retirement are soft targets for scammers.

FIND OUT HOW MUCH IS AVAILABLE

Retirement fund money is regulated and it’s important to be aware of the amount you will be able to withdraw, how it will be taxed and how much you must reinvest. Everyone’s tax and retirement fund planning is unique, so talk to a financial planner about what will be most taxeﬀective for you. If you belong to your company’s retirement fund, your HR department can provide you with all the relevant information. You can also contact the investment company directly or, with your permission, your financial planner can do this on your behalf.

BE AWARE THAT INCOME NEEDS WILL CHANGE

Few people take this into account, but during retirement there could be signiﬁcant changes to your income needs. In the first 5 to 10 years retirees usually need a little more money because they’re still relatively healthy and can do the things they looked forward to doing, such as art classes or travelling, which cost money. Later on, expenses usually change as retirees become more likely to stay at home. At this stage they might use less money, and can possibly even save a bit. Once retirees start becoming frail their medical expenses increase and then they need a bigger monthly income from their retirement savings. You should discuss all of this with a ﬁnancial planner beforehand and consider investing your money in such a way that you have enough for each phase, Annelise says. What happens will depend on your health and life expectancy, and remember that the partner who lives longest will still need a retirement income.

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Always compare fees and returns on investment options and get advice from an expert such as a financial planner.

GET HELP HERE ▶ Financial advisers: www.fpi.co.za; www.ﬁa.org.za ▶ Retirement guides and investment information on the websites of investment companies like Sanlam, Old Mutual, 10X Investments, Allan Gray.

YOUR STARS

whom you know love you unconditionally and limit contact with those who tend to take instead of give.

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21 MAY – 20 JUNE

USE YOUR CHARM TO YOUR ADVANTAGE You’re in your element this week, thanks to the conjunction of your planet Mercury and gracious Venus currently being in your own sign. Your charm is lethal, so it’s the

perfect time to make it work for you. Your power of attraction is also irresistible, especially when it comes to matters of the heart. And your moneymaking abilities aren’t

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too shabby either. You’re bound to make a positive impression during a job interview now – go out and seize the day. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 18, 47, 15, 45, 4, 7

CANCER 21 JUNE – 21 JULY

IDINA MENZEL 30 MAY 1971

Love diva Venus moves into your sign this week, but you can hold court with both Venus and Mars, the relationship planets, in your domain. It’s only natural to want to prioritise matters of the heart – sort them out if you can, and build a new platform for love and relationships. Try to stay in the present instead of longing for the “good old days” when things were diﬀerent. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 5, 26, 38, 31, 29, 25

LEO 22 JULY – 22 AUG

ALANIS MORISSETTE 1 JUNE 1974

WAYNE BRADY 2 JUNE 1972

PETER DE VILLIERS 3 JUNE 1957

GEMINI AND FAMILY

It’s an excellent time in which to strengthen your bonds of friendship, especially if there’s confusion to be cleared up. Empathy is always a quality to cherish, so listen with an open mind and an open heart. It would be all too easy for your guilt buttons to be pushed, so ask yourself why you’d have reason to feel guilty. Shared ﬁnances might be tricky to negotiate right now. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 35, 13, 27, 11, 40, 46

VIRGO S They see themselves as the family’s entertainer S They want the latest phones and computers for everyone in the family S As a parent, they’re funny, mercurial and a friend S As a child, they’re a tease and a prankster S As an in-law, they provide the best gossip S Their family home should resemble a library and communication centre S Their home should have bicycles and more than one car.

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23 AUG – 22 SEPT

Provided that someone isn’t pulling at your heart strings by playing the victim, you can make great headway at work if you’re hoping to engage in discussions or negotiations. You may feel a need to connect with close friends, either physically or remotely. Prioritise those

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 42, 29, 6, 22, 8, 47

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 31, 5, 13, 17, 30, 40

AQUARIUS

LIBRA

This isn’t the best week to make big decisions as far as money and investments are concerned. Play for time if someone is trying to push you into a corner, even if you have to be a bit evasive about the issue. It’s a great time though for love and romance, provided you can keep it light and non-committal. You’ll agree that friendship comes ﬁrst.

21 JAN – 18 FEB

23 SEPT – 22 OCT

GEMINI

and live and let live for now.

This could be a stimulating week for you, especially if you have information from diﬀerent cultures. Being open minded will help your cause, so investigate to your heart’s content. Once Venus settles into your career horoscope on the 2nd, you need to ready yourself for new opportunities coming your way. As always, charm is your best tool.

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 8, 5, 22, 13, 10, 15

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 44, 2, 7, 3, 5, 12

PISCES

SCORPIO

Family relationships become a bit entangled this week and it appear difficult to untangle. You could just shrug your shoulders in an act of defiance, but that’s not going to help the situation at all. Don’t imagine a specific outcome – rather focus on getting people to talk to each other. Your inherent empathy may just save the day.

19 FEB – 20 MARCH

23 OCT – 21 NOV

You can’t be blamed for wanting a bit of escapism from the harsh reality of life right now. Ensure you do this in a healthy manner and not through self-destructive habits. Your partner is in the mood for a little romance, so go for a romantic dinner, a picnic outdoors or a weekend away for just the two of you. Satisfy your urge for travel abroad by watching foreign ﬁlms. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 5, 12, 30, 28, 42, 46

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 35, 7, 46, 27, 17, 22

ARIES 21 MARCH – 19 APRIL

SAGITTARIUS 22 NOV – 20 DEC

This is an excellent week for partnerships – whether business, romantic or otherwise. Exchanging ideas will lay the foundation for future developments and won’t feel like a waste of time. A family member triggers feelings of guilt in you, but hopefully you’re wise enough to sidestep such attacks. The topic of joint ﬁnancial responsibilities becomes unavoidable. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 35, 12, 21, 10, 4, 9

You’ll need to show your gentle side this week, especially with neighbourly relationships – reach out and help where you can. Being kind and helpful isn’t the same as being taken advantage of, but luckily your inner sensor for detecting this is ﬁnely tuned. Communication between yourself and loved ones is much improved, so maybe it’s time to forgive and forget. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 37, 44, 11, 13, 24, 43

TAURUS 20 APRIL – 20 MAY

CAPRICORN 21 DEC – 20 JAN

Nebulous Neptune seems to dominate the sky this week. This isn’t something you take to naturally as you’re more of a feet-onthe-ground type of person. Still, it’s good to daydream, provided you can make something of it. Don’t get too irritated with people, especially colleagues. Rather try to go with the ﬂow

A persuasive friend might be trying too hard to make you part with your cash. You’re by nature quite careful when it comes to money, preferring to accumulate rather than spend. It’s a good time in which to investigate new investment opportunities, so find out what’s on offer. Consider assisting a friend who’s experiencing genuine financial troubles. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 22, 44, 12, 40, 42, 36

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THIS IS US M-NET FRIDAY 22:30

27 MAY / THURSDAY / TV

Kevin (Justin Hartley) goes on a stressful road trip. The ﬂashback is a trip with his dad, Jack.

SABC1 06:00 KIDS’ NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS 06:30 D YO.TV 07:00 D TAKALANI SESAME 07:30 CHEEK, CHEEKA AND CHEEKY 08:00 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 08:30 D MUVHANGO 09:00 D UZALO 09:30 D SKEEM SAAM 10:00 D SES’ TOP LA 10:30 D DAILY THETHA 11:30 D IDENTITY 12:00 D SOCCERZONE 13:00 NEWS 13:30 D SELIMATHUNZI 14:00 D TEENAGERS ON A MISSION 14:30 D MAM’ SAKHILE’S STORY HOUSE 14:00 D SELIMATHUNZI 15:00 D SOUL BUDDYZ 15:30 YO.TV 16:30 D MAKING MOVES 17:30 NDEBELE/SWAZI NEWS 18:00 D INSTAPRENEURS 18:30 SKEEM SAAM 19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS 19:30 SELIMATHUNZI 20:00 GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 20:30 UZALO

The community turn their backs on Nkunzi. Mr Mbatha takes matters into his own hands. Sbu has given up on love.

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Drama series. Bull and Benny defend a man accused of stealing his own scientific research.

Action series. While Five-0 investigates a homicide related to a stolen transplant organ, McGarrett joins Catherine for a trip to Afghanistan so she can help a friend whose son has been kidnapped by the Taliban.

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Muzi’s love-life is more complicated than he realises. Zade is disappointed by his father. 18:30 AFRIKAANS NEWS 19:00 MUSIEK ROULETTE

Afrikaans music and variety game show 20:00 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS 20:30 MOTSWAKO 21:00 MUVHANGO

Mpho asks Tendamudzimu if he killed Hulisani. 21:30 AKSI’ SPAZA 22:00 WHEN DUTY CALLS 22:30 D ELDER SKELTER 23:00 D YUGIOH! ARCV 23:30 FULL VIEW

SABC1 06:00 KIDS’ NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS 06:30 D YO.TV 07:00 D TAKALANI SESAME 07:30 CHEEK, CHEEKA AND CHEEKY 08:00 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 08:30 D MUVHANGO 09:00 D UZALO 09:30 D SKEEM SAAM 10:00 D SES’TOP LA 10:30 D BIG UP 11:00 D IMIZWILILI 12:00 D SPORT 13:00 NEWS 13:30 D LIVE AMP 14:00 D TEENAGERS ON A MISSION 14:30 D MAM’ SAKHILE’S STORY HOUSE 15:00 SPORTSBUZZ 15:30 YO.TV 16:30 MY NIGHT 17:00 D INSTAPRENEURS 17:30 NEWS 18:00 D LIP SYNC BATTLE 18:30 SKEEM SAAM

Leeto reveals that he knows who Kwaito’s father is. Evelyn wants to find a way to reunite two good friends. 19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS 19:30 LIVE AMP 20:00 GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 20:30 UZALO 21:00 TIGER CAGE III 23:00 D GET2GETHER EXPERIENCE 02:00 KOZE KUSE

Comedy series. While they’re at a pretentious yacht club, Grace believes Karen is jealous of her romantic relationship with Ben but then later regrets taunting her. 12:30 WILL & GRACE

Comedy series. Grace’s delight in having a bright intern she can mentor turns into horror when the young woman remakes herself into a carbon copy of sassy, brassy Karen. 13:00 ON POINT 14:00 D UNPACKED WITH RELEBOGILE 14:30 D ON THE BRINK 15:00 MEL ROBBINS 16:00 HECTIC ON 3 16:30 XCELLERATE 17:00 UNPACKED WITH RELEBOGILE 17:30 AFTERNOON EXPRESS 18:30 ORPHANS OF A NATION 19:00 THE ESTATE 19:30 THE BAY 20:00 ENGLISH NEWS 20:30 SUNNYSIDE 21:00 MRS AMERICA 22:00 D SURVIVOR: GHOST ISLAND 23:00 D THE NIGHT MANAGER 00:00 D MEL ROBBINS 01:00 D WILL & GRACE

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SABC3

06:00 MORNING LIVE 08:00 INSIDE THE BAOBAB TREE 08:30 CASPER’S SCARE SCHOOL 09:00 BRITAIN’S NAUGHTIEST NURSERY 10:00 D MUSIEK ROULETTE 11:00 D 7DE LAAN 11:30 D MUVHANGO 12:00 D UZALO 12:30 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 13:00 D SKEEM SAAM 13:30 D SIDE BY SIDE 14:00 7TH HEAVEN 15:00 ANDY’S SAFARI ADVENTURES 15:30 RAGGS 16:00 SIGNAL HIGH 16:30 HECTIC NINE 9 17:00 YUGIOH! ARCV 17:30 TSONGA/VENDA NEWS 18:00 DIE SENTRUM

06:00 EXPRESSO 09:00 D MEL ROBBINS 10:00 D ORPHANS OF A NATION 10:30 D 7DE LAAN 11:00 D THE ESTATE 11:30 D THE BAY 12:00 WILL & GRACE

Kelly thinks Imaad is ready to take a call on his own, but things don’t turn out the way they expect. Kobus wants to meet Riri after the show. 18:30 AFRIKAANS NEWS 19:00 THE STORY AND THE SONG 19:30 POINT OF ORDER 20:00 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS 20:30 RELATE 21:00 MUVHANGO 21:30 D KELEBONE 22:00 D MOHLOLOHADI 22:30 BOXING WEEKLY 23:00 TKO BOXING MAGAZINE 23:30 D YUGIOH! ARCV

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Comedy series. Grace decides to break up with Ben because she’s convinced their relationship is going nowhere. 12:30 WILL & GRACE

Comedy series. Will tries to help a newly employed Jack meet a customer at a clothing store by prompting him with witty lines. 13:00 ON POINT 14:00 D UNPACKED WITH RELEBOGILE 14:30 D SCIENCE OF STUPID 15:00 MEL ROBBINS 16:00 HECTIC ON 3 16:30 HARDBALL 17:00 UNPACKED WITH RELEBOGILE 17:30 CELEBRITY WIFE SWAP USA 18:30 ORPHANS OF A NATION 19:00 THE ESTATE 19:30 THE BAY 20:00 ENGLISH NEWS 20:30 TALI’S WEDDING DIARY 21:00 WOKE 21:30 FAMOUS LAST WORDS 22:30 D THE GREATEST DANCER 23:30 D YOU ME HER 00:00 D UNFILTERED 00:30 D SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT

21:30 IMBEWU: THE SEED 22:00 DEVI 22:30 MBOBOZEBHESHU 23:00 DIE WIEL DRAAI 00:00 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION 03:00 FATAL RESCUE

E.TV 05:00 LIFE BY DESIGN

Local religious show hosted by Pastor André Olivier. 05:30 THE MORNING NEWS 06:00 THE MORNING SHOW 08:30 D DAYS OF OUR LIVES 09:30 ELIF 10:30 STILETTO VENDETTA 11:30 D RHYTHM CITY 12:00 D SCANDAL! 12:30 D IMBEWU: THE SEED 13:00 NEWS 13:30 D DURBAN GEN 14:00 D DEVI

Local investigative journalism show 14:30 DIVE OLLY DIVE AND THE OCTOPUS RESCUE 16:05 EINSERT 16:20 JUDGE JUDY 16:45 DAYS OF OUR LIVES 17:30 DOODSONDES 18:30 DURBAN GEN 19:00 RHYTHM CITY 19:30 SCANDAL! 20:00 ENEWS 20:30 MAGNUM PI

Action series. A man dying of lymphoma hires Magnum to find his estranged, bonemarrow-compatible brother, who also needs his help. 21:30 IMBEWU: THE SEED

Local drama series 22:00 MAX PAYNE 00:00 DERAILED 01:40 MAX PAYNE 04:10 D COLD BLOOD

M-NET 06:00 D THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN 07:00 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 08:00 D AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 09:00 D NCIS: NEW ORLEANS 10:00 D LEGACY 10:25 D THE AMAZING RACE 11:20 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 12:20 D AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 13:25 D STATION 19 14:20 D GREY’S ANATOMY 15:15 D HILLARY 16:30 D BROKE 17:00 THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 18:00 AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 19:00 LEGACY 19:30 THE BACHELORETTE SOUTH AFRICA 20:35 BULL

MZANSI 06:00 D DR. PHIL 07:00 D THE TALK 08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: NEVER SAY GOODBYE 09:30 D DIEPCITY 10:00 D THE QUEEN 10:30 D GOMORA 11:00 D DR. PHIL 12:00 D THE RIVER 12:30 D DIEPCITY 13:00 D THE QUEEN 13:30 D GOMORA 14:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: MAMA STOLE MY HUNK 15:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: A LIFETIME OF TEARS 17:00 THE TALK 18:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: PASTOR BAE 19:00 THE RIVER 19:30 GOMORA 20:00 PASTOR WANTS A WIFE 20:30 DIEPCITY 21:00 THE QUEEN

Hector gets a piece of mail that could unravel all his lies. Crime series. Clarice and Arde- Harriet resorts to blackmail to lia team up to investigate a get Kagiso to stay. deeply twisted cold case after 21:30 XOLA 22:30 D DR. PHIL the body of a missing teen is found entombed in concrete. 23:30 D ZABALAZA 21:30 CLARICE

22:30 BAGHDAD CENTRAL

23:30 THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN 00:35 D THE WATCH 01:40 D PRODIGAL SON 02:45 MISS VIRGINIA 04:35 ADVENTURES OF RUFUS: THE FANTASTIC PET

M-NET 06:00 D THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN 07:00 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 08:00 D AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 09:05 D THE AMAZING RACE 10:00 D LEGACY 10:30 D CARTE BLANCHE 11:30 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 12:30 D AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 13:40 D NCIS: NEW ORLEANS 14:30 D FBI: MOST WANTED 15:30 D ELLEN’S GAME OF GAMES 16:25 D BROKE 16:55 THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 17:50 AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 19:00 YOUNG ROCK

Comedy series 19:30 AMERICAN IDOL

Reality singing competition 22:30 THIS IS US 23:30 AVENUE 5

00:30 D MZANSI MAGIC MUSIC SPECIAL 01:00 D THE TALK 02:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: UMGCAGCO 03:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: MAMA STOLE MY HUNK 04:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: A LIFETIME OF TEARS

MZANSI 06:00 D DR. PHIL 07:00 D THE TALK 08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THE WEDDING DRESS 09:30 D DIEPCITY 10:00 D THE QUEEN 10:30 D GOMORA 11:00 D DR. PHIL 12:00 D THE RIVER 12:30 D DIEPCITY 13:00 D THE QUEEN 13:30 D GOMORA 14:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THE LEGEND 15:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: NEVER SAY GOODBYE 17:00 THE TALK 18:00 LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 19:00 THE RIVER 19:30 GOMORA 20:00 SENGKHATHELE 20:30 DIEPCITY 21:00 THE QUEEN

Comedy series. Ryan proposes Hector panics at the possibilian official position for Karen ty of losing the woman he amid growing passenger loves. complaints. Judd reveals a 21:30 D BOUNCE long-shot rescue plan, while Rav bears the weight of crisis 22:00 ROCKVILLE 23:00 WWE: RAW management on Earth. 00:05 D LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER 00:40 THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN 01:35 D BAGHDAD CENTRAL 02:30 D MARE OF EASTTOWN 03:25 D THE TWILIGHT ZONE 04:12 BLOODSHOT

00:00 D DR. PHIL 01:00 D ZABALAZA 02:00 D THE TALK 03:00 D MZANSI MAGIC MUSIC SPECIALS 03:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THE LEGEND 05:00 D DAILY SUNTV

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21:00 TOO HOT TO BE SINGLE 22:00 D AGENT 23:00 D SABC PHYSICAL SCIENCE 01:00 D KOZE KUSE

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YOUNG SHELDON M-NET SATURDAY 19:00

29 MAY / SATURDAY / TV

Sheldon (Iain Armitage) arrives at college and butts heads with philosophy teacher Prof Ericson.

SABC1 05:00 D GELEZA NATHI

Local edutainment show 06:00 SABC ACCOUNTING 07:00 SABC LIFE SCIENCE 08:00 YO.TV 09:00 SABC ACCOUNTING 10:00 MZANSI INSIDER

06:00 D ENCHANTED TALES 06:57 D OP PAD 07:00 MORNING LIVE 08:30 D MUVHANGO 11:00 D SIDE BY SIDE 12:30 D MOTSWAKO

SABC3 05:00 D MASSIVE MONSTER MAYHEM 05:30 D YUM.ME 06:00 D MADE IN SA 06:30 D XCELLERATE

The show follows exceptional Local talk show. A platform for and passionate little sports Magazine show. The show women to engage in conver- people who practise extreme covers a wide variety of topics, sation with one another. sports like g0-karting, BMXing 13:00 ACTIVATED including entertainment and horse riding as they prepare for competitive events. news, movie reviews, motiva- Magazine show featuring tional speakers and doctors’ inspirational and motivational 07:00 D HARDBALL 07:30 D SADHANA responses to viewers’ health stories of people living with Hindu magazine show. The questions. disabilities. 11:00 D GENERATIONS: 13:30 LIVING LAND programme explores the THE LEGACY 14:00 EACH ONE TEACH ONE vibrancy of Hinduism in SA. 13:30 SPORT MAGAZINE 14:00 LADUMA 15:00 SOCCER

14:30 TRENDZ TRAVEL 15:00 D TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL 16:00 TOP 14 RUGBY

Build-up

15:30 LADUMA 17:30 EMASISWENI

16:15 TOP 14 RUGBY LIVE 18:15 TOP 14 RUGBY

Double bill of this local reality series

Wrap up

18:00 THE RANAKAS

Local reality show. Actress Dineo Ranaka and her family give viewers a real glimpse into the life of an ordinary African family – only there’s nothing ordinary about this amazing group of people! 19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS 19:30 THE REAL GOBOZA

Lifestyle magazine show about South Africa’s hottest celebrities and events. 20:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 22:00 D GET2GETHER EXPERIENCE

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18:30 AFRIKAANS NEWS 18:45 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS 19:00 THE WEDDING RINGER

On the American football scene, the quarterback for the old guys is Joe Namath wearing his signature #12. He played for the New York Jets from 1965 to 1976. 20:57 LOTTO DRAW LIVE 21:00 D BASSLINE FEST: CELEBRATING AFRICA DAY 2020 23:00 D SIDE BY SIDE 00:00 FULL VIEW 02:30 D TRENDZ TRAVEL 03:00 THE GLOBE

SABC1 05:00 D GELEZA NATHI 06:00 D TEENAGERS ON A MISSION

Local youth-oriented science and technology show. 07:00 SABC PHYSICAL SCIENCE 08:00 D IMVELO

Local magazine show that focuses on African traditional practices.

SABC2 05:00 D POLLY POCKET 05:30 D RAGGS 06:00 D ENCHANTED TALES 06:57 MOTHEO 07:00 MORNING LIVE 08:30 D 7DE LAAN

Omnibus 10:00 D DIE SENTRUM

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08:30 D GOSPEL AVENUE

11:00 SIMCHA

Gospel music show. Celebs share their journeys in faith through gospel artists and the music they’ve selected.

Magazine show for South Africa’s Jewish community.

09:30 D SKEEM SAAM

Omnibus 12:00 D UZALO 14:30 SOCCER

Build-up 15:30 LADUMA 17:30 D GOSPEL UNPLUGGED

The show caters exclusively for various genres of urban gospel, such as hip-hop, House and R&B. 18:00 1’S AND 2’S 19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS 19:30 WOMEN YEAR 3: THORNS 20:00 GUILT 20:30 WOMEN YEAR 3 21:00 FENCES

Denzel Washington, who stars and directs this film, previously directed his co-star Viola Davis in Antwone Fisher (2002). 23:00 D GOSPEL AVENUE 00:00 KOZE KUSE

11:30 PSALTED 12:00 MUSIC AND THE SPOKEN WORD 12:30 RUGBY TOP 14

Highlights 13:00 REDBULL SPORTS SHOW 14:00 D BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT: THE CHAMPIONS 15:00 D TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL 16:00 ISSUES OF FAITH 17:00 SUNDAY BEST 18:00 AFRIKAANS NEWS 18:15 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS 18:30 BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT: THE CHAMPIONS 19:30 OUR WEDDING STORY 20:00 RSVP: DARE TO CHANGE 20:30 SPEAK OUT 21:00 THE 2000S 22:00 SUPERNATURAL

Fantasy series. Donna calls Dean and Sam for help after her niece goes missing. 23:00 D PSALTED 23:30 FULL VIEW 02:30 NETWORK

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08:00 D AN NUR, THE LIGHT 08:30 D AFTERNOON EXPRESS

Double bill 10:30 D THE ESTATE 13:00 D SPORT ARENA 17:00 D THE INSIDER SA 18:00 ENGLISH NEWS 18:30 THE GREATEST DANCER

Reality competition series. Alex and Jacqueline stun the dance captains with their ballroom routine during the final auditions. The callbacks follow, where the captains each pick two more contestants.

E.TV 05:55 FIREMAN SAM 06:25 DISNEY MICKEY MOUSE CLUBHOUSE 06:40 POSTMAN PAT DELIVERY SERVICE 06:55 THE BOSS BABY: BACK IN BUSINESS 07:25 DRAGONS: DEFENDERS OF BERK 08:00 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE PREVIEW 08:30 D SCANDAL!

M-NET 06:00 D THE ROOKIE 07:00 D BULL

Drama series 08:00 D THIS IS US 09:00 D LEGACY

Omnibus 11:00 D GREY’S ANATOMY 11:55 D THE BACHELORETTE SOUTH AFRICA 12:10 D AMERICAN IDOL 15:00 D THE AMAZING RACE

Reality competition show

10:20 D IMBEWU: THE SEED

16:00 TROLLS WORLD TOUR 17:30 D YOUNG ROCK

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Comedy series

12:30 LA LIGA HIGHLIGHTS 13:30 D SANLAM MOOLA MONEY FAMILY GAME SHOW 14:00 EINSERT 14:15 A MOVING ROMANCE 16:05 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED 18:00 SANLAM MOOLA MONEY FAMILY GAME SHOW 18:30 TAKEN 19:00 SOUTH AFRICA TONIGHT 19:30 GROWNISH

18:00 THE UNICORN

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Comedy series. When a new “enthusiastic sober consent” policy is introduced on campus, everyone has strong 19:30 THE NANNY DIARIES opinions about whether it’s in Chris Evans and Scarlett place for the students’ benefit Johansson both went on to be or the school’s. 20:00 TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST Marvel superheroes (Captain KNIGHT America and Black Widow 23:20 THE NUMBERS STATION respectively).

18:30 THE CONNERS

Comedy series. Darlene’s friendship with a manager at Wellman Plastics lands her in an awkward situation. 19:00 YOUNG SHELDON

Comedy series 19:30 ELLEN’S GAME OF GAMES

Game show hosted by Ellen DeGeneres 20:30 IN THE DARK

Double bill

21:30 BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD 23:30 DEUTSCHE WELLE NEWS

01:10 THE HUMANITY BUREAU 02:55 THE BLACK WIDOW KILLER 04:30 D FORENSIC FILES

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05:00 D HECTIC ON 3 07:00 A NEW DAY 07:30 D SADHANA 08:00 AN NUR, THE LIGHT 08:30 D PURE ACTION 09:00 D ORPHANS OF A NATION

Omnibus 11:30 D THE BAY

Omnibus 14:00 LIVE SPORT 17:00 AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER

Documentary. An Inconvenient Truth (2006) brought climate change to the heart of popular culture. This sequel shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. 18:00 ENGLISH NEWS 18:30 A NATURAL WORLD: SUDAN THE LAST OF THE RHINOS

Documentary. The remarkable story of Sudan, the very last male northern white rhino on Earth. 19:30 ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES

Alan Rickman turned down the role of the sheriff twice before he was told he had freedom with his interpretation of the character. 21:30 D WOKE 22:00 D FAMOUS LAST WORDS 23:00 D WEEKEND ROUND UP 00:00 SPORT ARENA 04:00 D A MILLION LITTLE THINGS

05:00 D UKUTHOMBA 05:30 JOSEPH PRINCE: NEW CREATION CHURCH TV 06:00 D I AM SOUL PRECIOUS 06:35 ELEVATION CHURCH 07:05 CARE BEARS WELCOME TO CAREALOT 07:30 EINSERT 07:35 GAME CHANGERS 08:00 D TAKEN 08:30 D RHYTHM CITY

Omnibus 10:20 D DURBAN GEN

Omnibus 12:25 JUST FOR LAUGHS GAGS 12:50 TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT 16:10 IMPACT 18:00 FAMILY FEUD SA 19:00 SOUTH AFRICA TONIGHT 19:30 MODERN FAMILY

Comedy series. Haley tries to figure out the best time to give the family a Christmas gift they’ll never forget. Phil borrows the family Christmas tree for a house-showing, and Jay, Gloria and Joe deal with unwelcome holiday visitors. 20:00 XXX: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE 22:10 JUDGE FOR YOURSELF 22:40 BETWEEN US 00:20 THE NUMBERS STATION 02:00 PETALS ON THE WIND 03:35 D COLD BLOOD 04:30 D FORENSIC FILES 04:55 EINSERT

06:00 D DR. PHIL 07:00 D DR. PHIL 08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: PSYCHO 09:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: VAN TOEKA LOVE 11:00 D THE QUEEN

Omnibus 13:30 D THE RIVER

Omnibus 16:00 D ACCUSED 16:30 D THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF DURBAN 17:30 D LOVE BACK

Reality show that gives people a chance to try everything in their power to Comedy series. After Forrest gifts a water gun to Noah, Ben get a former lover back. 18:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: and Michele quickly take it UTHANDIWE away. Meanwhile, the group have a frank discussion about 19:00 D PASTOR WANTS A WIFE 19:30 D CHEEKY PALATE racial injustice.

22:30 BABYLON BERLIN 23:30 D YOUR HONOR 00:40 D THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT 01:40 D CLARICE 02:50 HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL 04:25 FANTASTIC RETURN TO OZ

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MZANSI

06:00 D YOUNG ROCK 06:30 D YOUNG SHELDON 07:00 D THE UNICORN 07:30 D THE CONNERS 08:00 D STATION 19 08:55 D THIS IS US 09:50 D AMERICAN IDOL 12:50 FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD

Johnny Depp signed on without reading a script. He wanted to be a part of the film because he’s a self-proclaimed massive fan of the series. 14:50 D LEGACY

20:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: TANGO 21:30 KEEPING UP WITH THE KANDASAMYS 23:00 WWE SMACKDOWN

Professional wrestling show featuring World Wrestling Entertainment superstars. 23:30 D HOMEGROUND 00:30 D MASSIVE MUSIC 01:00 D MZANSI MAGIC MUSIC SPECIAL 01:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: IMBELEKO 02:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: PSYCHO 04:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: VAN TOEKA LOVE

MZANSI 06:00 D DR. PHIL 07:00 ICILONGO 08:00 D GOSPEL ALIVE 09:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: SISTERSISTER 10:00 D DIEPCITY

Omnibus 12:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: EZIBIWEYO 13:30 D VIP INVITE 14:30 D GOMORA

Omnibus 17:00 AMAZING VOICES 18:00 DATE MY FAMILY 19:00 THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF DURBAN

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Local reality show. It’s high fashion, lavish spending and savvy hustling with the six Ethekwini queens who are Reality competition series. inviting us to get a glimpse of Season 1 starts. A celebrity their glamorous lifestyles, panel guesses the identity of a gorgeous homes and successful businesses. celebrity dancer. Hosted by 20:00 ROCKVILLE Craig Robinson. 16:50 D THE BACHELORETTE SOUTH AFRICA 18:00 THE MASKED DANCER

19:00 CARTE BLANCHE 20:05 THE DOORMAN

21:00 D THE STATION 21:30 VIP INVITE

Initially entered pre-production in Canada with Katie Holmes set to star.

Gospel singer HLE gives viewers front-row seats to an inspirational festival of praise and worship.

21:45 D IN THE DARK

Double bill 23:45 D BABYLON BERLIN 00:40 D PRODIGAL SON 01:40 D THE WATCH 02:40 A CROOKED SOMEBODY 04:30 CROSSWORD MYSTERIES: A PUZZLE TO DIE FOR

22:30 D MZANSI MAGIC MUSIC SPECIAL 23:00 D ZABALAZA

Omnibus 03:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: NOMALANGA 05:00 D GOSPEL ALIVE

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SABC2

YOUR HONOR M-NET TUESDAY 21:30

31 MAY / MONDAY / TV

Adam (Hunter Doohan) is left reeling by shocking new information about his mother’s death.

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06:00 KIDS’ NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS 06:30 YO.TV 07:00 D TAKALANI SESAME 07:30 CHEEK, CHEEKA AND CHEEKY 08:00 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 08:30 D MUVHANGO 09:00 D UZALO 09:30 D SKEEM SAAM 10:00 D SES’ TOP LA 10:30 DAILY THETHA 11:30 D UBETTINA WETHU 12:00 D WOMEN YEAR 1: MY BUSINESS 13:00 NEWS 13:30 D RENO RACE 14:30 D MAM’ SAKHILE’S STORY HOUSE 15:00 D SOUL BUDDYZ 15:30 YO.TV 16:00 BLUE COUCH 16:30 D THE CHATROOM 17:00 EXPRESSIONS 17:30 NDEBELE/SWAZI NEWS 18:00 NOW OR NEVER 18:30 SKEEM SAAM

06:00 MORNING LIVE 08:00 INSIDE THE BAOBAB TREE 08:30 321 PENGUINS! 09:00 RAISING BABIES 101 09:30 GOING STRONG 10:00 D VOETSPORE 11:00 D DIE SENTRUM 11:30 D MUVHANGO 12:00 D UZALO 12:30 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 13:00 D SKEEM SAAM 13:30 D SIDE BY SIDE 14:00 7TH HEAVEN 15:00 KIT AND PUP 15:10 INSECTIBLES 15:30 RAGGS 16:00 THE EPIC HANGOUT 16:30 HECTIC NINE9

05:00 D POLLY POCKET 05:30 D HECTIC ON 3 06:00 EXPRESSO 09:00 D MEL ROBBINS 10:00 D ORPHANS OF A NATION 10:30 D DIE SENTRUM 11:00 D THE ESTATE 11:30 D THE BAY 12:00 JAG

06:00 THE MORNING SHOW 08:30 D DAYS OF OUR LIVES 09:30 ELIF 10:30 STILETTO VENDETTA 11:30 D RHYTHM CITY 12:00 D SCANDAL 12:30 D IMBEWU: THE SEED 13:00 ENEWS 13:30 D DURBAN GEN 14:00 PATERNITY COURT 14:30 CARE BEARS WELCOME TO CAREALOT 15:00 FIREMAN SAM 15:30 TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE 15:55 TROLLHUNTERS: TALES OF ARCADIA 16:20 JUDGE JUDY 16:45 DAYS OF OUR LIVES 17:30 DOODSONDES 18:30 DURBAN GEN 19:00 RHYTHM CITY 19:30 SCANDAL! 20:00 ENEWS 20:30 CHICAGO FIRE 21:30 IMBEWU: THE SEED 22:00 EMPIRE 23:00 DIE WIEL DRAAI 00:00 XXX: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE 01:55 CONCRETE EVIDENCE: A FIXER UPPER MYSTERY ***

Wallet is stunned by the arrival of a man who refers to Evelyn as his wife. 19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS 19:30 UBETTINA WETHU 20:00 GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 20:30 UZALO 21:00 YAKOKOTA 22:00 SOCCERZONE

Interactive soccer show

17:00 YUGIOH! ARCV 17:30 TSONGA/VENDA NEWS 18:00 7DE LAAN 18:30 NEWS 19:00 VOETSPORE 20:00 AFRIKAANS NEWS 20:30 LEIHLO LA SECHABA 21:00 MUVHANGO

13:00 ON POINT 14:00 D UNPACKED WITH RELEBOGILE

Local talk show 14:30 SPORT WRAP 15:00 MEL ROBBINS

Talk show 16:00 HECTIC ON 3 16:30 TAKALANI SESAME 17:00 UNPACKED WITH RELEBOGILE 17:30 THE INSIDER 18:30 ORPHANS OF A NATION 19:00 THE ESTATE 20:00 ENGLISH NEWS 20:30 UNFILTERED 21:00 SURVIVOR: GHOST ISLAND 22:00 YOU ME HER

Marang does the unthinkable. Will Muvhango and Shudu see their plan through? Itume- Comedy-drama series leng gets good news. 22:30 D MRS AMERICA 21:30 CHANGEOVER Drama series 00:00 D YUGIOH! ARCV 00:30 FULL VIEW 02:00 D UNFILTERED 03:00 THE GLOBE

23:30 D SUNNYSIDE 00:00 BUNDESLIGA REVIEW SHOW 01:00 D JAG 02:00 DEUTSCHE WELLE NEWS

2017, 90 min, PG. Crime drama. A home renovator finds a skull in a historic lighthouse. Jewel Kilcher. 03:30 DEADLY DEED: A FIXER UPPER MYSTERY ***

2018, 90 min, PG. Crime drama. Jewel Kilcher.

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05:00 D SWEET SUCCESS 05:30 THE MORNING NEWS 06:00 THE MORNING SHOW 08:30 D DAYS OF OUR LIVES 09:30 ELIF 10:30 STILETTO VENDETTA 11:30 D RHYTHM CITY 12:00 D SCANDAL! 12:30 D IMBEWU: THE SEED 13:00 ENEWS 13:30 D DURBAN GEN 14:00 PATERNITY COURT 14:30 CARE BEARS 15:00 MICKEY MOUSE CLUBHOUSE 15:30 WINX CLUB 15:55 POKÉMON JOURNEYS 16:20 JUDGE JUDY 16:45 DAYS OF OUR LIVES 17:30 DOODSONDES 18:30 DURBAN GEN 19:00 RHYTHM CITY 19:30 SCANDAL! 20:00 ENEWS 20:30 CHICAGO MED 21:30 IMBEWU: THE SEED 22:00 CASTLE 23:00 DIE WIEL DRAAI 00:00 REFLECTIONS **

1993, 101 min, 16V. Action. In ancient China an imperialguard instructor is framed for a crime he didn’t commit. Wai Lam, Ching Wan Lau.

Animation. When Zak visits his insect scientist grandfather, he accidentally activates the experimental Shrinkinator and wakes up insect-sized in a human-sized world. 15:30 RAGGS 16:00 EPIC HANGOUT 16:30 HECTIC NINE9 17:00 YUGIOH! ARCV 17:30 TSONGA/VENDA NEWS 18:00 7DE LAAN 18:30 NEWS 19:00 D GEURE UIT DIE VALLEI 19:30 SWARTWATER 20:00 NEWS 20:30 D I WISH I’D SAID 21:00 MUVHANGO 21:30 D AMERICAN SOUL 22:30 D SUNDAY BEST 23:30 D YUGIOH! ARCV 00:00 FULL VIEW

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Drama series. Harm and Mac travel to Moscow having confirmed that his father was taken to Russia after being shot down over Vietnam. 13:00 ON POINT 14:00 D UNPACKED WITH RELEBOGILE 14:30 D UNFILTERED 15:00 MEL ROBBINS 16:00 HECTIC ON 3 16:30 YUM.ME 17:00 UNPACKED WITH RELEBOGILE 17:30 AFTERNOON EXPRESS 18:30 ORPHANS OF A NATION 19:00 THE ESTATE 19:30 THE BAY 20:00 ENGLISH NEWS 20:30 SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT 21:00 THE NIGHT MANAGER 22:00 D CELEBRITY WIFE SWAP USA 23:00 BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD ****

2007, 117 min, 16. Crime drama. Two brothers desperate for money rob their parent’s jewellery store, but things don’t go according to plan. Philip Seymour Hoffman.

2008, 100 min, 16. Crime drama. A Europol agent travels to Barcelona, Spain, to track down a notorious serial killer. Timothy Hutton. 01:50 ALL THINGS FALL APART ***

06:00 D THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN 07:00 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 07:50 D AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 09:00 D YOUNG SHELDON 09:25 D THE BACHELORETTE SOUTH AFRICA 10:35 D FBI 11:30 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 12:30 D AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 13:35 D THE ROOKIE 14:30 D CARTE BLANCHE 15:30 D ELLEN’S GAME OF GAMES 16:25 THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 17:25 AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 19:00 LEGACY 19:30 STATION 19 20:30 GREY’S ANATOMY 21:30 THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT

Comedy series. Season 1 ends. 22:30 MARE OF EASTTOWN 23:35 THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN 00:30 D AVENUE 5 01:05 D BAGHDAD CENTRAL 02:10 D CLOSE UP WITH THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 03:05 DON’T LOOK BACK **

2020, 90 min, 16. Horror. A group of people who stood by while a stranger was fatally attacked are hunted down one by one. Kourtney Bell. 04:30 STUART LITTLE ***

1999, 84 min, PG13. Fantasy adventure. A human family adopt a super-intelligent mouse. Geena Davis.

M-NET 06:00 D JAMES CORDEN 07:00 D KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 08:00 D AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 09:00 D FBI: MOST WANTED 10:00 D LEGACY 10:30 D THIS IS US 11:30 D KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 12:30 D AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 13:30 D YOUNG ROCK 14:00 D THE UNICORN 14:30 D THE CONNERS 15:00 D YOUNG SHELDON 15:30 D ELLEN’S GAME OF GAMES 16:30 D BROKE 17:00 THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 18:00 MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA 19:00 LEGACY 19:30 NCIS: NEW ORLEANS

Series finale 20:30 FBI

Crime series. Season 3 ends. 21:30 YOUR HONOR

Crime series finale 22:35 THE TWILIGHT ZONE 23:35 JAMES CORDEN 00:30 D MARE OF EASTTOWN 01:40 D THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT 02:45 5 YEARS APART ***

2019, 76 min, 16SN. Comedy drama. Two estranged brothers who were born five years apart on the same day both decide to go to their family holiday home to celebrate their birthday. Chloe Bennet.

2011, 110 min, 16. Sport 04:15 THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR *** drama. An American football player battles a medical condi- 2019, 100 min, PG13. Romantion. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. tic drama. Yara Shahidi.

MZANSI 06:00 D DR. PHIL 07:00 D THE TALK 08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THE IMPOSTER 09:30 D DIEPCITY 10:00 D THE QUEEN 10:30 D GOMORA 11:00 D DR. PHIL 12:00 D THE RIVER 12:30 D DIEPCITY 13:30 D GOMORA 14:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THE IMPOSTER 15:30 D AMAZING VOICES 16:30 D MZANSI MAGIC MUSIC SPECIAL 17:00 THE TALK 18:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: NOMTHAWELANGA 19:00 THE RIVER 19:30 GOMORA 20:00 THE STATION 20:30 DIEPCITY

Local drama series 21:00 THE QUEEN

Vuyiswa connects the dots – with devastating consequences. Noma isn’t quite done with Brutus. 21:30 HOMEGROUND 22:00 MME MATSWALE 23:00 D DR. PHIL 00:00 D ZABALAZA 01:00 D THE TALK 02:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: INGODUSO 03:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THE IMPOSTER 04:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: MR RIGHT

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Drama series. On the night before his wedding, Bud, Harm and the admiral land in jail – thanks to Bud’s father, a retired Navy man with whom Bud has unresolved issues.

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06:00 EXPRESSO 09:00 D MEL ROBBINS 10:00 D ORPHANS OF A NATION 10:30 D 7DE LAAN 11:00 D THE ESTATE 11:30 D THE BAY 12:00 JAG

08:30 D DAYS OF OUR LIVES 09:30 ELIF 10:30 STILETTO VENDETTA 11:30 D RHYTHM CITY 12:00 D SCANDAL! 12:30 D IMBEWU: THE SEED 13:00 ENEWS 13:30 D DURBAN GEN 14:00 JUDGE FOR YOURSELF 14:30 CARE BEARS 15:00 44 CATS 15:15 RBUK 15:30 DENNIS & GNASHER 15:55 POWER RANGERS 16:20 JUDGE JUDY 16:45 DAYS OF OUR LIVES 17:30 DOODSONDES 18:30 DURBAN GEN 19:00 RHYTHM CITY 19:30 SCANDAL! 20:00 ENEWS 20:30 CHICAGO PD 21:30 IMBEWU: THE SEED 22:00 CHECKPOINT 22:30 JUDGE FOR YOUSELF 23:00 DIE WIEL DRAAI 00:00 ALL THINGS FALL APART ***

Drama series. Chegwidden goes to Russia after an air crash is reported to have killed Harm and Mac. 13:00 ON POINT 14:00 D UNPACKED WITH RELEBOGILE 14:30 D SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT 15:00 MEL ROBBINS

Talk show 16:00 HECTIC ON 3 16:30 MADE IN SA 17:00 UNPACKED WITH RELEBOGILE 17:30 PURE ACTION 18:00 SCIENCE OF STUPID 18:30 ORPHANS OF A NATION 19:00 THE ESTATE 19:30 THE BAY 20:00 ENGLISH NEWS 20:30 ON THE BRINK 21:00 SMALL AXE 22:00 D AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER 23:00 D A NATURAL WORLD: SUDAN, THE LAST OF THE RHINOS 00:00 D TALI’S WEDDING DIARY 00:30 D SPORT WRAP 01:00 D JAG

chuckles FIRST CREATION One day, Eve is walking in the garden with the Lord. She says, “Lord, the garden is wonderful, and the animals and birds provide such joy, but I am still lonely sometimes.” “No problem!” the Lord replies. “I will make you a man for a companion. He will desire to please you and to be with you. But I have to warn you, he won’t be perfect. He’ll have a diﬃcult time understanding your feelings, will tend to think only of himself and will stay out late with his soccer buddies.” “What’s soccer?” Eve asks. “Oh . . . never mind. I’m getting ahead of myself. That’s okay. I think I can handle this ‘man’,” Eve replies. “Great, I’ll get right to it!” God says. He takes some mud and starts shaping it into a ﬁgure. Suddenly, the Lord stops and says to Eve, “Oh, there’s one other thing about this man I’m making for you.” “What’s that, my Lord?” Eve asks. 60

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2011, 110 min, 16. Sport drama. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. 01:40 XXX: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE ***

2017, 107 min, PG13. Action. An extreme sports athleteturned-special agent returns to stop criminals from getting their hands on a dangerous weapon. Vin Diesel.

M-NET 06:00 D JAMES CORDEN 07:00 D KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 08:00 D MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA 09:00 D STATION 19 10:00 D LEGACY 10:30 D GREY’S ANATOMY 11:30 D KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 12:30 D MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA 13:30 D BULL 14:30 D FBI 15:30 D ELLEN’S GAME OF GAMES 16:30 D BROKE 17:00 THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 18:00 MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA 19:00 LEGACY 19:30 THE ROOKIE 20:30 FBI: MOST WANTED

Crime series. Season 2 ends. 21:30 PRODIGAL SON 22:30 THE WATCH

Fantasy series. Season 1 ends. 23:30 JAMES CORDEN 00:30 D YOUR HONOR 01:35 D THE TWILIGHT ZONE 02:30 FOLLOW ME **

2020, 91 min, 16. Horror. A thrill-seeking American social media star and his friends get more than they bargained for in Russia. Keegan Allen. 04:05 THE SONG OF NAMES ***

2019, 113 min. Drama. A British man haunted by the disappearance of his best friend, a Jewish virtuoso violinist, embarks on a search to find him. Tim Roth, Clive Owen.

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Local telenovela 14:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: CONFIDENCE 15:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THE PRICE OF NJABULO 17:00 THE TALK 18:00 THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF DURBAN 19:00 THE RIVER 19:30 GOMORA 20:00 BECOMING 20:30 DIEPCITY 21:00 THE QUEEN 21:30 LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 22:00 KUYAFIWA EZULWINI 23:00 D DR. PHIL 00:00 D ZABALAZA 01:00 D THE TALK 02:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: NOMALANGA 03:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: CONFIDENCE 04:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THE PRICE OF NJABULO

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“You’ll have to tell him he was here ﬁrst.”

CONSTANT GARDENER Tommy to his friend: “I’m so unlucky with my gardening – even my artiﬁcial ﬂowers wilt and die.”

THE KISS At the end of their first date, a young man takes the girl home. Emboldened by the successful evening, he decides to try for that important first kiss. With an air of confidence, he leans with his hand against the wall and, smiling, says, “Darling, how about a goodnight kiss?” Horrified, she replies, “Are you mad? My parents will see us!” “Oh, come on! Who’s going see us at this hour?” “No, really. Can you imagine if we get caught?” “Oh, come on, there’s nobody around, they’re all sleeping.” “No way. It’s just too risky!” “Oh, please, please, I like you so

much!” “No, no and no. I like you too, but I just can’t!” “Oh, yes you can. Please?” “No, really. I just can’t.” “Pleeeeease?” Suddenly the outside light goes on and the girl’s sister shows up in her pyjamas, her hair dishevelled. In a sleepy voice the sister says, “Dad says to go ahead and give him a kiss. Or I can do it. Or if necessary, he’ll come down himself and do it. But for goodness sake, just tell your boyfriend to take his ﬁnger oﬀ the intercom button!”

HEAVY TOPIC Two children go into their parents’ bathroom and notice the scale in the corner. “Whatever you do,” one youngster cautions the other, “Don’t step on it!” “Why not?” the sibling asks. “Because every time Mom does, she lets out an awful scream.”

SPECIAL ONE Sam, a rookie police officer, is out for his first ride in an official police van with an experienced partner. A call comes in telling them to disperse some people who are loitering. They drive to the street and observe a small crowd standing on a corner. Sam rolls down his window and says, “Let’s get off the corner in a nice and orderly fashion, people.” There are a few glances but no one moves so he barks again, “People, please, let’s get off that corner . . . now!” Intimidated, the people begin to leave, casting puzzled stares in his direction. Sam, now real proud of his first official act as a young policeman, turns to his smiling partner and asks, “Well, sir, how did I do?” “Pretty good,” chuckles his partner, “especially since this is a bus stop!”

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2014, 165 min, PG13, e.tv, 00:00. Sci-ﬁ action. The fourth ﬁlm in the series. A mechanic gets caught up in the battle between alien robots being hunted by the government and an alien bounty hunter. Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci. S MISS VIRGINIA ★★★ 2019, 102 min, PG13, M-Net, 02:45. True-life drama. In Washington, DC, single mom Virginia Walden takes on the government to get her son away from drug dealers at his public school and into a private academy. Uzo Aduba, Matthew Modine. S FATAL RESCUE ★★ 2009, 90 min, PG13VL, e.tv, 03:00. Thriller. Two enemies work together to save one of their sons, who’s fallen down a well. Steve Guttenberg, Aislinn Sands. S ADVENTURES OF RUFUS: THE FANTASTIC PET ★★ 2020, 82 min, PG. M-Net, 04:35. Fantasy adventure. A young boy and his friend meet a mysterious creature who needs their help using an ancient spell book to save his magical kingdom. Kyler Charles Beck, Cory Phillips.

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RESCUE ★★ 016, 80 min, A, e.tv, 14:30. Animated adventure. An octopus enters a star-search competition but ﬁnds that fame and fortune are overrated. S TIGER CAGE III ★★★ 1991, 98 min, PG, SABC1, 21:00. Action. Two Hong Kong detectives investigating a wealthy businessman for shady dealings get into trouble after one uses inside info from the case to play the stock market and the other’s girlfriend, who works for the suspect, gets kidnapped. Cheung Kwok-Leung. S MAX PAYNE ★★ 2008, 100 min, PG13, e.tv, 22:00 & 01:40. Action. A police detective seeking revenge for the murder of his family and an assassin out to avenge the death of her sister team up to solve a series of murders in New York. Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis. S DERAILED ★★ 2002, 89 min, 16VL, e.tv, 00:00. Action. An agent escorting a scientist and her bioweapon to safety goes up against terrorists who’ve hijacked the train they’re on. Jean-Claude Van Damme, Laura Elena Harring. S BLOODSHOT ★★★ 2020, 109 min, PG13, M-Net, 04:10. Sci-ﬁ action. A dead soldier resurrected through technology that gives him super strength and healing goes after his wife’s murderer. Vin Diesel, Sam Heughan.

SATURDAY S A MOVING ROMANCE ★★★ 2017, 90 min, PG, e.tv, 14:15. Romantic comedy. A woman inherits her family’s moving company and clashes with the manager who thought he was going to be in charge. Ambyr Childers, Keegan Allen. S TROLLS WORLD TOUR ★★★ 2020, 90 min, A, M-Net, 16:00. Animated fantasy. The sequel to Trolls. When the queen of the trolls ﬁnds out there are ﬁve other tribes and that another 62

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ruler wants to destroy the rival tribes’ music, she sets out to unite the other tribes to stop her. S MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED ★★★ 2012, 93 min, PG, e.tv, 16:05. Animated adventure. Four animal friends trying to get home to the New York Zoo find themselves hiding out in a travelling circus in Europe. S THE WEDDING RINGER ★★★ 2015, 101 min, 16, SABC2, 19:00. Comedy. An awkward introvert who’s about to get married hires a specialist who acts as a best man for hapless grooms. Kevin Hart, Josh Gad. S THE NANNY DIARIES ★★★ 2007, 106 min, PG13L, SABC3, 19:30. Comedy. A student moves in with a rich, troubled couple as nanny to their young son and struggles to cope with the mom’s unreasonable demands. Scarlett Johansson. S TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT ★★ 2017, 155 min, PG13V, e.tv, 20:00. Sci-fi action. The fifth film in the series. While a war between two factions of robots rages on, a group of humans try to discover a secret buried in the past that could save the world. Mark Wahlberg. S BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD ★★★★ 2007, 117 min, 16, SABC3, 21:30. Crime drama. Two brothers desperate for money rob their parent’s jewellery store, but things don’t go according to plan. Philip Seymour Hoffman. S THE NUMBERS STATION ★★★ 2013, 89 min, 16, e.tv, 23:20. Thriller. A disgraced special agent is given one last chance and sent to protect a code expert at a remote CIA station. Then they’re suddenly attacked by an elite military team. John Cusack, Malin Akerman. S THE HUMANITY BUREAU ★★ 2017, 95 min, 16, e.tv, 01:10. Sci-fi action. In 2030 America has been decimated by climate change and an agency determines which unproductive members of society are exiled. When an agent of the organisation is sent to escort a woman and her child to the exile colony, he uncovers a sinister truth. Nicolas Cage, Sarah Lind. S HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL ★★★ 2018, 78 min, PG, M-Net, 02:50. Comedy drama. When she finds out her cancer is in remission, a teen decides not to tell anyone at school as she’s scared they won’t care about her anymore. Mia Rose Frampton, Stony Blyden. S THE BLACK WIDOW KILLER ★★ 2018, 90 min, 13VL, e.tv, 02:55. Thriller. A single mother and her daughter become the targets of a serial killer. Erin Karpluk, Ryan Robbins. S FANTASTIC RETURN TO OZ ★★ 2019, 77 min, A, M-Net, 04:25. Animated fantasy. The sequel to Fantastic Journey to Oz. A group of friends must stop a joiner and his army of wooden soldiers from conquering a city.

SUNDAY S FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD ★★★ 2018, 134 min, PG13, M-Net, 12:50. Fantasy adventure. The sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. In ’20s London a powerful wizard enlists the help of a former student to stop his nemesis’

plans to rule the world. Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston. S TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT ★★ e.tv, 12:50. See Saturday. S ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES ★★★ 1991, 142 min, PG13, SABC3, 19:30. Action adventure. In the 12th century an English nobleman returns from the Crusades to find the corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham has killed his father and taken his lands. He becomes the leader of a band of outlaws and vows to end the sheriff’s tyranny. Kevin Costner. S XXX: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE ★★★ 2017, 107 min, PG13, e.tv, 20:00. Action. The third film in the series. An extreme sports athlete-turned-special agent who was left for dead on a failed mission returns to stop criminals from getting their hands on a dangerous weapon. Vin Diesel, Donnie Yen. S THE DOORMAN ★★ 2020, 97 min, 16VL, M-Net, 20:05. Action. A former soldier working as a doorman at a luxury apartment building goes up against armed thieves planning to steal priceless art from the flat where her late sister’s family live. Ruby Rose, Jean Reno. S FENCES ★★★★ 2016, 139 min, PG13, SABC1, 21:00. Drama. In ’50s Pittsburgh, USA, a working-class African-American man takes his frustrations out on his family. Denzel Washington. S BETWEEN US ★★★ 2012, 90 min, 16L, e.tv, 22:40. Drama. When a newlywed couple visit their university friends, simmering resentments are brought to the boil. Taye Diggs. S THE NUMBERS STATION ★★★ e.tv, 00:20. See Saturday. S PETALS ON THE WIND ★★★ 2017, 85 min, PG13, e.tv, 02:00. Horror. The sequel to Flowers in the Attic. A decade after escaping their grandmother’s attic where they were imprisoned, a ballerina becomes involved in an abusive relationship with a fellow dancer while trying to deal with her brother’s incestuous love for her. Heather Graham, Ellen Burstyn. S CROOKED SOMEBODY ★★★ 2017, 102 min, 16, M-Net, 02:40. Thriller. A fake psychic bluffs his way into becoming famous after being kidnapped by a killer who thinks the psychic knows his secret. Rich Sommer, Clifton Collins Jnr. S CROSSWORD MYSTERIES: A PUZZLE TO DIE FOR ★★★ 2019, 120 min, PG, M-Net, 04:30. Crime drama. A crossword editor is drawn into the investigation of a murder after several of the clues in her puzzles are linked to the death of an art-gallery owner. Lacey Chabert.

MONDAY S CHANGEOVER ★★★ 2016, 90 min, PG, SABC2, 21:30. Drama. A teenage girl moves in with her uncle and nephew after her parents die in a car crash. Madeline Taylor, Estes Tarver S XXX: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE ★★★ e.tv, 00:00. See Sunday. S For the rest of the week’s movies please see the TV pages.

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Emily Blunt & John Krasinski The couple team up again in the spine-chilling A Quiet Place 2 COMPILED BY LESEGO MKHIZE

SHHH! The silent-but-deadly nightmare world of A Quiet Place (2018) sees the surviving members of the Abbott family – mom Evelyn (Emily Blunt) and her children, Regan (Millicent Simmonds), Marcus (Noah Jupe), and a newborn – travelling through a post-apocalyptic America, hoping to the blind, bloodthirsty ken over the planet. unt by sound, and noise can attract their attention.

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success of the first film Emily didn’t hesitate to sign up for the second chapter. “I was just really excited to see what John could do with this second one because he had all the wings of confidence from the first one. It’s a much bigger film, the world expands, and I just can’t wait for people to see what he can do as a filmmaker.” A MASTERCLASS The film’s release was delayed by the coronavirus, but screenings for critics, before cinemas were closed in the US, produced rave reviews. “It’s a worthy, world-expanding followup that builds on the original and finds its own thrills, chills and emotions in the process,” wrote IndieWire’s Kate Erbland. “Audiences should still be banned from eating crunchy snacks during any and all screenings.” Fa is ju one f film AH Emily and John, who mar Haz met am yea Geo “H bec Em w u very vital anchor for me.” T SOURCES: DAILYMAIL.CO.UK, DEADLINE.COM , IMDB.COM, PEOPLE.COM, JOE.IE, CINEMABLEND.COM

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Daniel Kaluuya won an Oscar for his portrayal of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah.

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True-life drama. With Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanﬁeld and Jesse Plemons. Director: Shaka King. 16LPV.

In the ’60s, thief-turned-FBI informant William O’Neal (Stanﬁeld) is tasked with inﬁltrating the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, an African-American revolutionary movement, and gaining the trust of their charismatic young leader, Fred Hampton (Get Out’s Kaluuya). O’Neal walks a precarious line, manipulating both his comrades and handler, FBI agent Roy Mitchell (Fargo’s Plemons). As Hampton’s political influence grows, he falls in love with fellow activist Deborah Johnson

(Dominique Fishback), while the political plans of FBI director J Edgar Hoover (Martin Sheen) to quash the Panthers’ operations intensify. O’Neal reaches an ethical juncture – align with the activists or subdue Hampton by any means necessary. Told from O’Neal’s perspective, this biographical drama was nominated for six Oscars and won two, including best supporting actor for Kaluuya. With excellent storytelling and outstanding performances, it highlights the sacrifices and compromises activists must make and pays tribute to the Panthers’ social justice work. The filmmakers skilfully navigate outdated misconceptions about the Panthers

and demonstrate Hampton’s integral role and collaborative approach through his rainbow coalition in which he united civil rights movements across all racial lines. The acclaimed team behind the film –including producer Ryan Coogler, who directed Black Panther (2018), and Oscar-nominated cinematographer Sean Bobbitt (Widows) – add gravitas and depth. The film’s contemporary relevance is inescapable as it expertly demonstrates how institutionalised racism enables the corruption of power, racial injustice, police brutality and prejudice towards the oppressed. – CAMILLA THOROGOOD ALSO AVAILABLE ON GOOGLE PLAY AND APPLE TV+.

WAR OF THE WORLDS SEASON 2 Starts Monday 24 May at 8.45pm on Fox (channel 125). This British-French co-production is a reimagining of HG Wells’ classic novel. Set in the present day, season 1 followed groups of people in Britain and France who survived a signal from space that killed everyone except those who were underground, underwater or encased in metal. The survivors tried to find food and shelter in the empty streets of London and Paris while being hunted by terrifying alien robotic dogs. This atmospheric show has been described as a “survival horror” and focuses more on creating a sense of dread and the connections between people than action, although the few encounters with the robots were nail-biting and visceral. At the end of season 1, astronomer Catherine Durand (Léa Drucker), who first picked up the signal at an observatory in the French Alps, managed to create a frequency that cut the robots off from whoever is controlling them. And in London, blind teenager Emily (Normal People’s Daisy EdgarJones) could see again when she heard the alien signal, leading her to feel a connection to the invaders. It all sound deliciously intriguing.

NETFLIX COME SUNDAY Biopic. This inspiring ﬁlm is based on the life of Bishop Carlton Pearson (12 Years a Slave’s Chiwetel Ejiofor). In 1998 the charismatic preacher led a hugely successful Pentecostal megachurch in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when one sermon led to his downfall and being branded a heretic. “There is no hell,” he told a stunned congregation whose fervent amens and hallelujahs froze in the air with those four words. Ejiofor, a Brit, does an excellent job as the American pastor – from the intonation and cadence of his

rousing Pentecostal preaching style to his surprisingly good singing voice. He’s mesmerising to watch. The real Pearson has praised the ﬁlm for magnifying the message he thought the church was trying to mute. And it indeed does so, tugging tightly at your heartstrings as the star-studded cast (which includes Danny Glover, Martin Sheen, Jason Segel and LaKeith Stanﬁeld) take us back to the ’90s, when famine, war and the Aids epidemic made many question the fundamental tenets of every belief that had shaped them. – THANDO NDABEZITHA 2018. 95 MIN. 10-12PG LV. A All ages D Drugs H Horror L Language N Nudity P Prejudice PG Parental guidance S Sex V Violence

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Gabrielle de Gama The multitalented teen chats to us about her debut single, Nasty

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Gabrielle is working on her second single and wants to release her album by September.

NASTY INSPIRATION Gabrielle de Gama (14) released her debut single Nasty last month. The catchy pop song is about bullying and was written by her and produced by Gino Lee. The Joburg teen, who started high school last year, decided to pen the track after being cyberbullied by her classmates during lockdown. “I’d just joined a new school and I hadn’t met any of my classmates face to face,” Gabrielle says. Her fellow students went through her social media pages, added her to a WhatsApp group and called her names. She also experienced bullying in Grade 4 after joining a new school, when she was body-shamed and mocked for having natural hair. All these experiences inspired her to write her song. “At the time I could never really win, and that’s what Nasty is about. It’s about sending out the message that bullying is not okay.” It took her two hours to write the lyrics, and two months to arrange the song to record it. “I felt like I was releasing how I was feeling on the inside. [Writing Nasty] made me feel very peaceful.” SEVVEN

TRIPLE THREAT Gabrielle isn’t only a talented singer, she’s also an actress and a model. Next month she’ll be on the small screen in the M-Net series Reyka. Her acting career began in 2018 when she was cast as the lead in Annie the Musical at the Peoples Theatre in Johannesburg. During her audition for the part she discovered she had a talent for singing. “My aunt told my mother about the auditions for Annie and she thought I’d be great for the role. I told my mom I really wanted to audition. She asked if I could sing, and I told her I hope so!” Her audition song was Scars to Your Beautiful by Alessia Cara. “I got the role, and I was like, ‘Yay!’” This was also when she decided to pursue a music career. “Music made me feel something I hadn’t felt before. It made me feel like I’m at the right place and at the right time and like I was meant to do this.” Theatre, she says, taught her discipline, “to always be on time, to be respectful and to follow instructions”. Gabrielle works with a vocal coach, June Kraus, who discovered that she could sing opera, which she incorporates in her music. “Just a little snippet of me hitting those high notes.” DEBUT ALBUM Gabrielle has penned 35 tracks and is hard at work on her second single. She hopes to drop her debut

album in September. “The next song might be about an experience I had with a boy. He used my pen to write another girl’s name on my hand and I want to write about how it made me feel.” The teenager also wants to write about diversity, family life and her journey in music. “In my next songs I’d like to add more high notes and more classical beats so I can also showcase my opera side, but for Nasty I thought pop would be most appropriate because it’s supposed to be a catchy song.” Gabrielle doesn’t want to be labelled a pop artist as she’d like to branch into other genres. “I really like rock, acoustic and country music. I want to write as many different types of songs as possible so I can reach a wider variety of people.” TAKING FLIGHT Gabrielle has no plans to slow down her showbiz career. In July she’ll be jetting off to New York to audition at the International Modeling and Talent Association convention, but her first love will always be singing, she says. “Acting has gotten me a lot of international jobs but singing is my passion. I love modelling because it shows my brand. With singing, I can write about my experiences. With acting, I can express the emotions I feel by doing monologues and writing scripts.” you.co.za 27 MAY 2021

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New on the shelf

JOBURG NOIR

We review four fiction releases COMPILED BY JANE VORSTER

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BOOK OF THE WEEK PROJECT HAIL MARY By ANDY WEIR Penguin Random House After the huge success of his ﬁrst book, The Martian, about an astronaut stranded on Mars, Weir delivered Artemis, a heist set on the moon which was clunky and not particularly memorable. For his third book he’s back to survival in space and it’s a thrilling read. Dr Ryland Grace, a school science teacher and microbiologist, wakes up with amnesia on a spaceship, the Hail Mary, next to the mummiﬁed corpses of two crewmates. He slowly regains his memory and the book moves between the present in space and the past on Earth as he pieces everything together. The sun is dimming which will destroy life on Earth. The culprit is a type of space algae and Ryland is the sole survivor on a mission to sort out the problem. And to say any more would spoil the book. There’s plenty of science information, which at times gets a bit overwhelming, and lots of nailbiting danger-in-space moments. As a character Ryland is a little too similar to the wise-cracking main character in The Martian but the story is riveting, and also funny and touching. – NATALIE CAVERNELIS Read a sample of Andy Weir’s new book here: tinyurl.com/ you-hailmary 66

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By PETER JAMES MacMillan Dr Marcus Valentine seems to have it all: a loving wife, three kids and a great job as a respected gynaecologist. But something has been missing since he was a teen and the alluring Lynette dumped him – he’s never been able to get her out of his mind. Then one morning driving to work in his Porsche he almost runs down a female jogger. When he takes a good look at her, Marcus gets a shock because she’s the spitting image of Lynette. Marcus is consumed by his obsession with this woman. He can’t stop himself – he must have her whatever the consequences. Peter James is best known for his Detective Superintendent Roy Grace novels mostly set in and around Brighton but this is a stand-alone thriller set on the Channel Island of Jersey. The suspense starts to build from the very beginning and keeps ramping up all the time. Towards the end it got so nerve-racking that I could not turn the pages fast enough. I have seldom come across a more calculating and evil person in any thriller than Marcus Valentine. There’s only one word to accurately describe I Follow You: brilliant! – ANDRÉ J BRINK

THE ARTIST VANISHES By TERRY WESTBY-NUNN Penguin This very disturbing book is about two people, one in the present and one in the past. After a messy divorce, filmmaker James Dempster finds himself in a pokey flat, which once belonged to Sophie Tugiers, a controversial Cape Town artist who disappeared several years earlier. James is drawn to Sophie’s story and decides to use it as a project to kickstart his stalled career. As he interviews her family, friends and business associates, he discovers a sinister thread, beginning with Sophie winning the Blue Vista Pharmaceutical company art grant. Despite realising that he might actually not survive finding out the truth, James keeps going with his research and filmmaking. I enjoyed recognising the famous Cape Town landmarks and places mentioned in the book, however the way-out art projects, dubious drug company ethics, money-oriented people, as well as the drink and drug scene, weren’t to my taste at all. This is a very strange read. But as the librarian who runs our book club tell us: it’s good to read outside of your comfort zone from time to time. I think this is the furthest I’d like to venture out of that zone. – GERRY WALDEN

Edited by NIQ MHLONGO Jacana Chancers, charlatans, izinkabi (hired hitmen) and other kinds of shysters… This marvellous short story collection has them all – just as Joburg has all the dark characters one would expect to find in a city where “you live among people who have all come from somewhere to pursue a dream”, as contributor Khanyi Magubane notes. Written in the noir genre, the stories and essays alternate between rueful and hopeful mirth as they capture the experience of living (and surviving!) in this fast-paced city. The main characters, most of them shifty and driven by questionable motives, are also oddly relatable. There’s the hit man who takes out the wrong target, the street collector who befriends a lonely woman living in one of the houses from whose garbage he regularly collects recyclables, the woman who finds herself in the bed of a man who is a fugitive from justice, and the story about young men from very different backgrounds who discover they have more in common than they could’ve imagined after landing up in the same prison cell – editor Niq Mhlongo’s own contribution. A splendid, tender and zingy collection. – THANDO NDABEZITHA

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Keyword clue: WHERE THERE IS A GATE These number puzzles are quite simple. Place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that the same number appears only once in each row, each column and each 3x3 box.

Starting with clue No 1, fill in the grid in a clockwise direction with four-letter words, working your way to the centre of the spiral puzzle. The last letter of each word becomes the first letter of the next. If you’ve correctly filled in the grid, there should be a seven-letter keyword reading across from clue No 8. Flip a coin Horse farm Refuse to accept Grounds surrounding a house Doe or stag Coral chain Canine tooth Teeth setting

9 Elitist 10 Wine bottle made of leather 11 Uncle’s other half 12 Waiter’s income, partially 13 Break suddenly 14 Clothes pins 15 Enjoy the pool 16 Incapable of speech

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The words in the list appear on the grid – horizontally, vertically or diagonally, backwards or forwards. Find and circle them.

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See how much of an eagle eye you have and ﬁnd the 7 diﬀerences between these two pictures of actor Robert De Niro and his estranged wife, Grace Hightower, at an event in 2011.

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ladder (4) 15 Pen, perhaps, whose song is her last (4) 19 Bar to be played by a small drum (5) 21 The best dairy product (5) 22 Will get out in the way of ﬂat building (5) 23 Grumble at nothing when a fellow is around (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1 Be pompous; perform office of high-priest (11) 8 Quarrel-firing weapon (8) 9 Sound as a lion (4) 10 Barren open country (5) 13 Legal, formal document (4) 16 Tailed amphibian (4) 17 Sheltered, comfortable (4) 18 Female relative (4) 20 Scoundrels, blacklegs (5) 24 Wild apple (4) 25 Seemly, decent (8) 26 Festival, merry entertainment (11) DOWN 2 Woodwind instrument (4) 3 Flavour (5) 4 Be buoyed up (5) 5 A pointer (5) 6 Profession of auditor (11) 7 Chief actor, character, participant (11) 11 An assumed name (5) 12 Reddish-orange nail-, hair-dye (5) 14 Ladder step (4) 15 Aquatic bird (4) 19 Small drum played accompanying pipe (5) 21 Off-white (5) 22 Building component (5) 23 Lament; grumble (4)

1 Automobile (early name) (9,8) 9 Agreements (11) 15 Dawn (7) 16 Year after year (9) 19 Beauty contest (7) 20 Shall B (past tense) (6) 21 Pieces of fabric (6) 22 Title for a nun (6) 26 . . . Grey tea (4) 28 . . . and crafts (4) 30 Crooked (6) 32 Not lower (5) 34 Biceps, eg (7) 35 Steals (4) 37 Series of yacht races (7) 40 Cavities (7) 42 Predicted (5) 44 Worked at (5) 45 Greenhouses (9) 49 The Cape, eg (9) 52 Compulsory payment (6) 54 Counsel (6) 56 Countrywide (8) 57 Terminate (5) 58 Financial considerations (9) 60 Neither (literary) (3) 61 . . . your heart out! (3) 62 Pleased (9) 65 Find the total (3,2) 68 Olympic participants (8) 71 Looping yarn with needles (4) 72 Personal assistant (abbr) (2) 73 Agenda (4) 74 Sea eagle (literary) (4) 76 Physicians (7) 78 Foggy (5) 79 Attack (3,4) 81 Main axis of a plant (4) 82 Astatine (symbol) (2) 83 Female title (2) 85 Discourage (5) 87 . . . Eliot (poet) (2) 88 Large town (4) 91 Lewd (7) 92 Esculent (6) 94 Title for an unmarried female (4) 96 Fashion sense (5) 97 Headwear (5) 98 Decorative case (4) 99 Scramble (3) 101 Fiddlestick (3) 102 Boat propellers (4) 104 One-piece undergarment (5) 109 Wept (5) 112 Achievement (4) 113 Congregation (6) 114 Of the sea (7) 116 Verbal (4) 117 For example (2) 118 Invalidate (5) 121 Standard play (abbr) (2) 123 Right (abbr) (2) 124 Domed recess in a church (4) 126 Commuter carrier (7) 127 Grain towers (5) 129 Fleshy ear part (7) 130 More (4) 131 Strokes (4)

132 15th-century Japanese drama (2) 133 Molten rock (4) 134 Wizard (8) 137 Hint at (5) 138 Luggage (9) 142 Spot (3) 143 Twitch (3) 144 Mix at a party (9) 145 Movie and book genre (inf ) (3-2) 148 Sales (8) 149 Few and far between (6) 150 Antenna (6) 152 Citizens of Washington, eg (9) 154 Clearly (9) 156 At . . . (if nothing else) (5) 158 Iron alloy (5) 160 Endearing (7) 163 Wrinkled (7) 166 Sterilise (4) 167 Ties the knot (7) 171 Embankment (5) 172 Glues (6) 175 Cloak (4) 176 11 cricket players (4) 178 Goes by (6) 182 A tropical fruit (6) 183 Foreboding atmosphere (6) 185 Underground stem (7) 186 Gave authority (9) 187 Sautéed and simmered (7) 188 Offspring (11) 189 Autonomy (4-13)

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53 Fragments (6) 55 Profoundly (6) 59 Humiliate (4,7,4,5) 63 Element of nuclear energy (4) 64 Discern by instinct (6) 66 Linen fabric (6) 67 Maintenance (6) 69 Trifles (6) 70 Agree out of court (6) 75 Flower-shaped decoration (7) 77 Beams (4) 80 Region (4) 84 Hence (2) 85 Audition tape (4) 86 Young child (3) 89 Records (5) 90 With reference to (2) 93 Household appliance (5) 95 Outdo (7) 100 Worshipped object (4) 103 Belts (6) 104 Self-conscious laugh (6) 105 Indian lentil dish (4) 106 Japanese monetary unit (3) 107 Downfall (6) 108 Whichever person (6) 109 Copper (symbol) (2) 110 Bit (4) 111 Type of flower (6) 115 Caesium (symbol) (2) 119 Closeness (8) 120 Not ready (10) 122 Ordered (10) 123 Dependable (8) 124 Capable (4) 125 Agricultural farmer (8) 127 Emphasise (6) 128 Sudden attack (6) 135 Giraffe-like animal (5) 136 Weather conditions (8) 139 Thick hard shield (8) 140 Extra (5) 141 Skin condition (4) 146 Monetary unit (4) 147 Enthusiasts (4) 151 Coloured (hair) (4) 153 Cook by dry heat (5) 155 Extends over (5) 157 A . . . on the wrist (4) 159 Bark up the wrong . . . (4) 161 Time zone (7) 162 Not as tidy (7) 164 Republic (abbr) (3) 165 Enlarge (archaic) (3) 167 Mutilate (4) 168 Take away (6) 169 It (reflexive form) (6) 170 Alike (4) 172 Trimmed (5) 173 Jokes (5) 174 Grind down (5) 175 A board game (5) 177 In the middle of (archaic) (5) 179 Plant related to the banana (5) 180 Dish of rice and fish (5) 181 Type of car (5) 182 Heavy toxic metal (4) 184 Shelter (4)

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QUESTION WHAT IS THE WORD SPELT OUT BY THE LETTERS IN THE COLOURED BLOCKS?

Including everything (4,5,3,6)

Ultimo (abbr)

Be inseparable

Secular

Cold

Female title

More simple

Fitness hub

Heavy weight

Mob disturbance

S Amer Indian

Asian desert

Against

Prices

Oxalis tuber Having wings

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Cap of Norway

Almemar Thallium (symb)

From Yemen

Georgia capital

Spicy Snow runner

School (abbr)

Weight (abbr)

Egypt (www)

A great deal

A little

Approximately, (2,2)

Express

Lament for the dead

On the internet

Oh the times! Oh the customs! (Lat)

Trial balance

City in Japan

Sixth sense

Distinctive spirit

Account (abbr)

Enclose in a case

Tehran is there

Survive

Blood sucker

Refuses politely

Existed Beer barrel

Root vegetable

Lean

Pulling

Rules

Hide A lot

Unit of area

Geek Dept of France

Frozen Admire

Babble

Dept of France

Festivity

Animal's nose

Sonar

Neuters Droops

From that time

As though (2,2)

Game park worker

Bottom Morse sound

Greek fabler Tarnish

Literal Young ladies

Limited company

Genetic code

Slight wave on water

Starts

Pudding starch

In a light manner

Reddish

Junior (abbr)

Enclose in a cyst

Zone

One that nests

Dirt

CD Island in Hawaii

Study of the earth

Bit Coiled

Greek muse

Smile

Grip with the teeth

Beer Fencing stance

Not present

Dish of stomach

Imposing buildings

Sweet bay

Stationary 'wires'

Data units

Near Feather barb

Defence Shivering fit

Low cart

Chenin ...

Stone

Add

Type of weave

Not genuine (inf)

Leu (pl) Long ton

Mild

Lower limbs Swallowtailed club flag (naut)

US lemon squeezer

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Dog breed

Myth

Rising agent

Glares

Artificial

Decree

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Middle Ages drum

Tricky

Voting site (7,7)

NO 1 Recipient of goods (3,4)

Bundles (abbr)

Equal in rank

Lamp servant

Beads

Failure (2-5)

Wax pencils

First Fleet Air Arm

Large in scope

American Air Force

Livelong

Fall heavily

Wind instrument

Vindictive

Haul

Raw fish dish

War Office (abbr)

Organs of smell

Spot

Everyday

NZ ratites

Shape metal

Coypu fur

Grasped

Rigid

Potion

Depart

Used

Small flower

Biting insect Once more

Door fastener

Synthetic resin

Gear

Maxim

Banal

Primp

Shouts

Applied (abbr)

Pilot Finish (4,3)

Eastern rice dish

Golf averages

Sick

Praised

Holy holiday

Took Install

Maths expression

Mayonnaise (short)

Re the ilium

Not yet firm

Gilded metal

Surpass

English poet, John ...

Aviators

Corner

Wrongdoing

In addition

A pair

Wild goat

Restless during delay

Once ... Servile a time workers (3,3)

Stand in line

Jump

Not return (3-3)

Catch

Grain (abbr)

Faultless

Fall over

Ratio

Expert marksman (inf) Delicate fabric

Upset

Cigar residue

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Sneer at

Vicious

Take heed

Large meal

Single article

Awake Flyer

Rolls about

Court performance

Paper packs

Use a loom Seed coat

Oyster gem Vowel mark

Furniture wood

Inactive

Peak

Annual general meeting (abbr) Spinster (3,4)

Swaps Chew the ...

Cursed

Cambodian money

City in SA

State of NE India Inclined

Taro

Name

Windmill part

Savoury pie

Practical joke

Divine Leafy green

Mormon state

Asian republic

Anguilla (www)

Share equally

Golf player Fidei Defensor (abbr)

Unjust Strong cotton

Cure

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Commotion (2-2)

Ton (abbr)

Gran turismo injection (abbr)

Towards Positive electhe Arctic trode

Popularly visited (2-2)

Port of London Authority (abbr)

Building At that time Fear greatly

Not gradual

Code word for the letter H To the ... degree

Crazy about (inf)

Realm Stratagem Join the army

Having wings

Affluent (4-2-2)

Poetry Kiln

Moist

Swedish money

Settings

Keep score Oak fruit

. . . rope (secures tent)

Lyric poem Breakfast food

Greenyellow Rod (abbr)

Mature Bravery DeliTall tale cious! (slang)

A coal mine Stones for paths

Medicine quantities

Spa treat (inf) Worth

1st vowel Images

Not geniune (inf) Dog Intertwines Malarial fever

Vanish Afghan money Donations Fossil resin

Zoroastrian sacred writings

Soon (lit) Snare

Cake ingredient Stage show

Yes (It) Small dining area

Hatred Drain

European dung beetle

Relax Showy trinket Attendant Rabbit cousin

Tree Consent with cones Attribute

Reverse Resulted

African perissodactyls (short)

Not any Hoses Brink

Wide road

Wary Approximately (2,2)

We had (contr)

Burdens (with)

Least well You and I

Unfasten Δ SA river

Coniferous tree Slow mo

ICU worker

Headland (arch) Weep

Pupil of Socrates

Farewell (lit) Bell sound

Broadest Make different Serene joy

Having knowledge Above

Label flap Only

Turrets Revs per minute (abbr) Christmas Unblock

Review (abbr) Aetatis (abbr)

Agave plant Lane (abbr)

Baby horse Serbia (www) Burrowing mammals

Sensory organs

Beer barrel Holds in high regard

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Market Amplifier (inf)

Destroy Overdraft (abbr)

Blush

Run . . . (go wild)

Bother

Except if 12 inches Japanese currency

Fasten Catchy song part

Dull pain

Presses dough Black Sea port

Argentina (www) Inner

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Government offices

Slice

Overshadows Sharp

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NO 1 Coffee cup

Tense, (2,4)

Semblance

Evergreen Mediterranean tree

Telegram (abbr)

Not drunk War office

Belize (www)

One that guards

Small island

Ever (poetic)

Affirms Blusher

Timber tool Lean

Spanish dance

Remitted Ireland (www)

Awake

Rising agent

Locality

Sugar suffix

Cause to be beloved

Spread

Al ...

That's My Boy star (4,7)

Female deer

Venezuela (www) Farm bird

Overtime

Polished

Re passage aboard

Cuttlefish Small pit (anat)

Science room

Quality checker

Carnage Florida (abbr)

Community of monks

Speckles

Grin Bewilder

Remove from rank

Indian dresses Celebrity packed (3-4)

Stunt Frozen

Carlin Each (abbr)

Coral reef

Ideal society

Refuse

... and Yang

3rd note (music)

Make poisonous

Norman French

Valley (poetic)

Highly strung

Soviet lang

Lust City in Japan

Escape

Wine store

Dutch cheese

Belch Before ... tide

Causing gloom

The alphabet

Weaving tool Stupid person (slang)

Ringworm

Feline

US intelligence

Citrus colour

Sneer at

Bones

Condiment

Water plant

Mountain lion

Suffix Dicotyledon

Rugby position Internet post

Poker stake

US university

Narrow road

Chair

Peter Rabbit actress (5,6)

Earth Computer part Be a traitor

GuineaBissau (www)

United Kingdom Unit of mass

Allot a task

Hornstone

Specific gravity

Change to suit Parted with Faithful

Sudden inward flow

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Attack with words

Eight

Ream (abbr)

Money (slang)

Steady in character

Female title

Barely cooked

Scented dried petals

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Lighterthan-air craft

Stables

Three blind ...

Rush actor (6,5)

Untamed

Vomit

Football

Excessive conceit

Alright

Informal talk

Maori amulet We are

16th Greek letter

Crescentshaped figures

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Waste pipe

NO 2 Dip food in liquid

Carved image

Desktop

Grating

Love affair

Little Women actor (8,8)

The above

Payment option (3-2)

Every day

Metal pin

Burst Globelike flower head

Judo suit

16th Gk letter

Scope

Quechua

Offering of regret

Fitness centre Sponge pore

Heroic

Late Latin

Mineshaft

Kibibyte

Talking to God

Slacken (3-2)

Eye part

Settle a debt

Metropolitan

Logging on name Upon Mira Ceti constellation

7th Gk letter

Raccoon cousin

City in W Germany

Lesotho (www)

Heap

Washed over by the waves

Exists Delegates

The Great Gatsby star (5,8)

Ever (poetic) Body of water

Fertile spot

Retch

Oil tankers

Deserved

Of time passed

Font

Earth Buddy

Butterfly genus

Not false

Aircraft

Refuge

Ocean

'Creepy' plant

Capital of Tibet

Talent

Plot

Harvest

Thespians

Current units

Mayonnaise (short)

Suds

Beautiful

Copper (symb)

Pigeon pea

Body of poetry

Looser Terminate

Dispute

Large weighty book

Personality

Colder Greeting

Reabstinence from alcohol

Flax-like fibre

Sunrises

Vicar's residence

The (French)

Aperture

Too much (music)

Dad

Pork meat

Transportation of people by air

One with a degree

Hickory tree

Enclosure

Queen (abbr)

Rouse from sleep

Disinclination to move

Unit of power

Radiant energy

Woody climbing plant

Narrow lateenrigged vessel

Unsubscribe (3,3)

Hungary (www)

Trade union

Acer

Yelps Stranger Things actor (5,10)

Jests Mouth liquid

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Website location For the purpose of

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Insane (US slang)

Ireland (poetic)

Specific taste

Gunk

Rhinal

Revised version

Surgery

Drop into water

Crude Sicilian volcano

Starting price (abbr)

Direction finder (abbr)

Shinprotecting piece of armour

Shed skin Dash

Cloister courtyard

Tragedy by Shakespeare

Bird's claws Ontario

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M Z

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5 6

19 25

B I N

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U D N E O N T L I R C A L I E R V I V E L S E R I E T E O R D S E P E D G E V E A E Y E R N E R S R C F O R F O R E O L S D I T S D O E E E V R U M

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A P P L E C O M P E N D I U M

U N P R E P A R E D C H E S S

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D E N Y A R D

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WORDLINK 1 Shoe (lace) work 2 Wood (grain) ﬁeld 3 News (letter) head

CRYPTOQUOTE You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it. – Oprah Winfrey

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S I D B E C R O T F E H B E

L Q U C A P U

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T E F Q T R C S T S Y M O

H G I Y X E H C D T E X L P P A H Y R G N H A U R T I O I A N U E B G Y L T R A T

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C A B A R E T S

ANAGRAM CROSSWORD

A C E R B A T E

A B O O A M E M L A E N T Y T E L A A G U G D A I R E D N C E E L O E N A G R A T L E

L E S S T P A O T T E S R M O I C S K S R M H D Y O P E L A R D E D C H O C T

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Adam’s death reveals his secrets, but it’s a gesture from someone close to him that steals Lucy’s heart BY SARAH SWATRIDGE ILLUSTRATION BY MICHAEL DE LUCCHI

HE washing basket was full. Lucy had run out of mourning clothes and she’d need something appropriate for Adam’s funeral. Last year Lucy had been full of hope and optimism. She’d got a pay rise, passed her driving test and Adam had hinted at buying her a ring. But that was last year. Lucy had been so happy then. Adam had been promoted and, although it meant more money, it also meant longer hours and trips abroad to secure foreign deals. Then, one Sunday afternoon, they were out for a walk, a car lost control, mounted the pavement and pinned Adam to a 84

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tree. The paramedic said it was so quick he would have felt nothing. Ironically the driver walked away with nothing but a hangover. Lucy sighed and reached for a tissue. The box was empty. How many had she got through this week? Her boss had been very understanding but sooner or later she’d have to face everyone – and return to work. Her phone buzzed. She glanced at the screen . . . Adam’s mom . . . again. What did Lucy care if he had this song or that piece of music at his funeral? None of it would bring him back. Eventually her phone stopped, but almost immediately it rang again. “Yes, Jane, what is it?” Lucy snapped.

It was Adam’s mother, once more. “Just to say Phil will pick you up on Thursday at 11. We’ll see you at the crematorium. Unless you’d rather he came earlier and brought you here?” “Whatever,” Lucy said. “Eleven is fine.” Phil was Adam’s brother. He’d emigrated years ago. She’d only met him once before when Adam’s father died.

DAM’S funeral was a blur, but at least it was over. It had been an awful shock to lose the man she loved, but even worse to discover, at his graveside, that he’d been living a double life. Another woman stood there, claiming to be his girlfriend. Phil had called her a gold-digger who was just after Adam’s money. She did admit to knowing about Lucy. Eventually Lucy returned to work, but without her smile. She felt she had little to show for her 30 years. She’d not excelled at school but she’d never been unemployed. She’d never earned a fortune, but she was happy, and had friends. Adam always worked long and unso-

ciable hours, so Lucy had taken a second job, caring for the elderly. The additional money meant she could pay for driving lessons, not that she could afford a car. One step at a time, she’d told herself. Of course, buying a car was the least of her worries now. She didn’t think she’d ever be the same again. How could she ever trust anyone, or let them get close? And where was she going to live once the flat was sold? She wasn’t able to afford the repayments on her own. Only today her boss, kind though he was, had suggested she either pull herself together or make a doctor’s appointment. For six years she and Adam had been dating. In the early days she’d worked shifts and they could only see each other at weekends. But then her hours changed and Adam bought a flat. He’d asked Lucy to move in with him, not that he was there much. “Oh, Adam,” she cried as she patiently waited to get through to the surgery. The piped music, which presumably was meant to calm her, had also been playing as they welcomed guests at the funeral. Lucy could feel her blood pressure rising as she threw the phone across the room. It rang again, catching her unawares. She answered it before she realised it was Adam’s mother, Jane. This was the last thing she needed. Adam had died without making a will. This meant the flat and all his possessions would automatically go to his next of kin – his mother. Surely she wouldn’t expect her to pack up and leave immediately? “May I pop over this evening?” Jane asked. “I won’t stay long, I promise.” They’d never been close. Jane had always been polite, but she saved her warmth and love for Adam. Under different circumstances Lucy could have accepted this, but coming from an orphanage, she desperately wanted a mother.

UCY was shocked at Jane’s appearance. She looked awful, as if she’d aged 10 years. Lucy didn’t remember her looking so ill at the funeral, but then Lucy had kept her head down for most of it. For the first time Lucy realised she wasn’t the only person who was grieving for Adam. His mom’s heart was broken too. Somehow, his mother had found the

strength to hold it together until he was buried. Perhaps she’d been in shock? Clearly now the loss was sinking in. Jane wobbled and reached out to steady herself. “I feel so strange, so weak and light-headed.” Jane collapsed into a nearby chair and Lucy rushed to fetch a glass of water. When she returned Jane was struggling to breathe. Lucy wondered if it was an asthma attack. She knew her sort-of-mother-in-law carried an inhaler, but never used it. It had been a family joke that she was never able to find it in her bag, and it was probably long out of date. Lucy rushed to the hallway where Jane had left her bag. She always chose large holdalls that carried everything but the kitchen sink. Jane was always searching around in her bag, unable to find what she was looking for. Lucy noticed a letter in the bag, a large, official-looking envelope. Perhaps there had been a will after all? Maybe everything had been left to the stranger by the graveside? It made her feel sick, but now she had to be strong and keep her head. She had to help Jane, to get her to breathe. Lucy found the inhaler and passed it to Jane, speaking calmly and reassuringly. It made no difference. Jane was really struggling. Lucy helped to loosen her clothing, but Jane’s arms were flying around. Her eyes were wide with panic. It dawned on Lucy that something serious was going on here, and that she ought to call an ambulance. Maybe Jane was having a stroke or a heart attack? Could that be brought on by grief? Or by shock? From the reaction at the funeral, no one knew of Adam’s other life. Often, at work, Lucy had attended first-aid courses and she’d once wanted to be a nurse. Now she remembered the importance of acting quickly, especially if it was a stroke, and immediately called for an ambulance.

stroke. You did well, acting so quickly,” Phil said. “We don’t know the outcome yet, but I know she’s strong.” Phil was standing near the drinks machine and fed in some coins. Soon he handed Lucy some hot, sweet tea. “Was it before, or after?” he asked. Lucy nearly choked on the hot drink. All she could think about was the will in Jane’s bag. It would still be there when she returned to the flat. Surely his will would leave everything to Jane. Or maybe he’d left it to Phil or to the other woman? Lucy was confused. She wiped away a tear, buying time and trying to work out what was going on. “I’m sorry,” she said. “I just can’t think straight. First Adam and now your mom . . . it’s a shock. My head’s in a muddle.” “But at least you know the flat’s yours, so there’s no need to worry. You’ll have a roof over your head. Mom was adamant about that.” “She was?” “Mom wanted to give you all the paperwork as soon as possible,” Phil continued. He smiled sympathetically and finished his drink. “She’s already spoken to the lawyer to get them to transfer the deed to you.” “Are you sure?” “Mom was horrified to learn how Adam’s treated you. Looking back, he often acted strangely, but none of us questioned him. We trusted him, and he’s let us all down. Mom says this is something she can put right.” Lucy went pale and sank down into the waiting room chair. “She thought the world of you, you know,” Phil continued. “I rang her every Sunday and without fail she’d sing your praises, saying you’d cooked this, or arranged that.” “I had no idea.” A doctor in a white coat approached them and asked Phil to step into a side room. Lucy paced up and down but she’d already made her decision. Regardless of Jane’s prognosis, she’d care for her sort-of-mother-in-law. They would grieve together, and gradually get to know each other, as they should have done years ago when Adam was still alive. Maybe it wasn’t too late to find a mother figure.

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HIL, Adam’s brother, was still in the country, and met her at the hospital. The doctors would only speak to him because he was family. “Will she die?” Lucy asked. “She’s not out of danger yet. It was a

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ANCIENT EGYPT

ABOVE: This mural from an Ancient Egyptian tomb shows a farmer and his wife harvesting. BELOW: This mural depicts a farmer in Ancient Egypt ploughing his ﬁeld with cattle in a yoke.

Farmers of the Nile It’s doubtful Ancient Egyptian civilisation would have ﬂourished without the life-giving waters of this great river In this picture of the narrow Nile River Valley you can clearly see the rich agricultural lands along the river contrasted with the desert on its edges.

HOUGH the Ancient Egyptians lived in a desert area, the mighty Nile River provided enough water and fertile soil for them to prosper. Every year, the river would flood, leaving fertile silt (a fine deposit of mud) behind. This enabled farmers to cultivate enough crops – including wheat and barley – to feed everyone in the pharaoh’s domain. Most Egyptians

who lived in small settlements were farmers. There were farmers in the cities d other workers and their families.

PLOUGHING AND SOWING Ancient Egyptian farmers didn’t need heavy equipment to plough. The fertile silt left behind after the annual floods was soft and only needed to be lightly tilled using a wooden plough ﬁxed to the horns of an ox. Often, the farmer would pull the plough himself or use a hoe to till the soil. Seed was sown in the tilled soil. Once the crops started to grow, tax collectors showed up to calculate the value of the harvest and how much would go to the pharaoh (king) as taxes.

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Harvest time was from March to May. Long-stemmed plants such as wheat, barley and ﬂax were cut with a scythe (a curved blade) and tied in bundles so they could be carried from the fields. Women and children followed behind the harvesters, picking up any fallen ears of wheat from the ground. The farmers used oxen to trample the harvested wheat to free the grain from the ears. Then, the wheat was winnowed – thrown up in the air so the wind could separate the grain seeds from the chaﬀ (husk), which was lighter and would be blown away. Then the grain was ground by women using an oblong stone called a saddle quern and a smaller hand stone to make flour for bread.

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Barley was used to brew beer The Egyptians used the fibre of the flax plant to ope or linen for clothing. Other crops included onions, leeks, cauliflower, cucumber, beans, lentils, lettuce, melons, figs, pomegranate, dates and grapes. Fruit trees and flowers were planted in gardens. The olive tree was important because apart from eating the olives, oil could be produced for cooking and to light lamps. Plants were also used as medicine and in religious rituals. The papyrus plant was valuable to the Ancient Egyptians. Though it grew wild on the banks of the Nile, papyrus was also cultivated. The roots of the plant could be eaten, while the bark was used in making boats, sandals, rope, carpets and most importantly, paper. The Ancient Egyptian farmers kept animals such as oxen, goats, pigs, ducks and geese. In the Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BC), the Egyptians learnt from the Greeks to add chicken to their diet. The Egyptians kept bees for their honey (because they didn’t have cane sugar) and for beeswax, which had a variety of uses, such as face cream, adhesive for bandages and waterproofing for boats.

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BELOW: Today the size of fertile ﬁelds, such as here in the Al Bayadiyah region near Luxor, has been greatly expanded through year-round irrigation from the Aswan High Dam, which also provides electricity.

This satellite photo shows the fertile green areas of the Nile River Valley and Delta surrounded by desert.

The hydroelectric plant at the Aswan High Dam generates large amounts of power for the country

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Farmers dug canals and built levees to keep the ﬂood waters away from settlements and redirect them to the ﬁelds. An ancient implement that was useful for irrigation was the shadoof. The crane-like tool consisted of an upright frame with a long pole or beam suspended on it. A bucket was suspended on one end of the pole and a counterweight on the other end. The Egyptians could use the shadoof to scoop water from the river or a well and transfer it to the canals and irrigation trenches to water their crops.

SEASONS OF THE NILE In Ancient Egypt, agricultural activities were structured around the annual ﬂooding of the Nile. The three seasons were:

tember) arrived after heavy summer rains in the Ethiopian Highlands. The Nile flooded its banks, covering the fields in 1 to 2m of water. During this time, no farming took place. Instead, farmers would work for the pharaoh building temples and pyramids. They also repaired their tools, tended to animals, fished or hunted in the desert to supplement their diet. S Peret: The growing season (October to February) followed when the water had receded, leaving behind the fertile black silt. That’s when farmers could plough the fields and sow crops. S Shemu: The harvesting season (March to May) was when crops were harvested and seeds were collected for the next year’s planting. During this time, grain was stored in large silos and farmers prepared their canals and levees for the next flood.

Only about 3% of Egypt’s surface area is suitable for agriculture. These areas are still limited to the Nile River Valley and Delta, as well as a few oases. Despite this, agriculture is an important sector of the Egyptian economy, employing a quarter of the workforce. Egypt’s main modern agricultural products are cotton, sugar cane, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, fruit and vegetables. Due to a lack of natural grazing, livestock farming is dependent on imported feed. Oxen and water buffaloes serve as working animals, while sheep and goats provide milk and meat. The Toshka Project is aimed at creating another river valley by making areas of the Western Desert (part of the Sahara) suitable for agriculture by building irrigation canals. Two feluccas (traditional boats) on the Nile. By controlling the ﬂow of water, the Aswan Dam has made the river easier to navigate.

ASWAN HIGH DAM The Egyptian government built the Aswan High Dam in the Nile, about 800km south of the capital city of Cairo, to provide year-round irrigation and so increase crop production. The dam was completed in 1970 and has controlled the annual ﬂooding ever since. The dam’s hydroelectric power plant generates a huge amount of electricity for the country. Unfortunately the fertility of the soil has declined because there are no annual silt deposits anymore, so farmers have to use artiﬁcial fertiliser. The Nile River Valley and Delta aren’t receiving more silt, so they’re slowly eroding.

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The rise and fall of cryptocurrency Dogecoin

HE cryptocurrency Dogecoin made the news recently after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk poked fun at it on popular American comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL). Musk ﬁrst started taking an interest in Dogecoin in 2019 when he tweeted about it and called it “pretty cool”, and since then he’s mentioned it several times on social media. With such support from one of the most successful people in technology, Dogecoin almost immediately gained international attention and doubled in value as people started buying it. But when Musk referred to it as a “hustle” – meaning it’s not a real job – during his SNL appearance, the value dropped instantly. Before his appearance on the show, one Dogecoin cost 74 American cents, but after investors heard Musk mock it, its price dropped to 52 cents.

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online market. To sign up, the Dogecoin was started as a joke money need not first be prouser needs to submit personal by Americans Billy Markus and cessed by a bank. documents, such as a copy of their Jackson Palmer in 2013. At the time, cryptocurrency was just beWHAT IS CRYPTOCURRENCY? driver’s licence or the details of the company they work for. coming popular and the two men It’s a form of payment that can They will then add a payment wanted to make fun of people who be exchanged online for goods option, like a credit card, with were excited about it. and services. For example, which to buy and sell the cryptoBack then there were many Burger King in the Netherlands currency. questions around whether cryptoannounced last year that people Whatever they buy is stored in a currencies truly held any value. can buy burgers using the crypto“wallet”, which is an app with which The Dogecoin logo features currency Bitcoin when ordering a users access their cryptocurrency. the face of the Japanese Shiba meal online. However, users can only buy Inu dog, which went viral when While a funeral parlour in things with cryptocurrency, such numerous “doge” memes were America is also accepting payas Bitcoin, if a company has that created about it. It also inspired ment in Bitcoin. as an option for paying for goods. Dogecoin’s name. Its rapid rise and fall is an exHOW DO PEOPLE BUY AND PAY They copy the company’s Bitcoin address and paste it into their ample of how unstable the digital USING CRYPTOCURRENCIES? wallet, then type the amount of exchange market is. Even just the To buy a cryptocurrency, peoBitcoins in the payment box and disapproval from an influential ple need to sign up on a crypto simply click “send”. tech entrepreneur can cause a exchange, which is basically an major drop in value. Some people, however, firmly believe cryptocurrency is the There are Ranked second and Bitcoin, the most popcurrency of the future. third are Ethereum ular virtual unit, was They argue it makes than 6 700 and Binance, with created in 2009 by a sending and receiving cryptocurrencies person whose identity money faster as the in the world. placed fourth. is still unknown.

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ROMANIA DRACULA’S CASTLE OFFERS FREE VACCINES

UNITED KINGDOM RESCUERS ATTEMPT TO HELP STRANDED WHALE A young minke whale was freed after it became trapped in a lock on the River Thames in London. A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats on canals. Rescue crews, including firefighters, spent hours removing the young whale, which had become stuck in the lock’s boat rollers after entering the river. A vet who examined the animal found it was underweight, undernourished and had damage to its pectoral fins. Sadly after being released it got stuck again and because its condition had deteriorated, the distressed whale had to be put down to end its suffering.

GUINEA 15 PEOPLE DEAD AFTER GOLD MINE COLLAPSES A secret mine in Guinea’s north-eastern Siguiri region recently collapsed on people digging illegally for gold. Some of the victims were rescued by emergency workers but others couldn’t be reached in time. The bodies of at least 15 men, aged between 14 to 40, were re-

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trieved but oﬃcials expect more casualties. It’s believed the illegal miners had dug too far in, which disturbed loose rocks and caused the earth to collapse. Extreme poverty is rife in the west African country, forcing people to risk their lives to earn of an income.

Medical staff at the 14th century Bran Castle – which styles itself as the lair of author Bram Stoker’s famous character Dracula – are offering Pfizer jabs against Covid-19 to anyone who visits. This is part of the Romanian government’s efforts to encourage citizens to get the vaccine. The country is aiming to have 10 million people vaccinated by September but nearly half its citizens are hesitant. It’s hoped the castle initiative will make more people change their minds. In May, people could get vaccinated there without making an appointment. Also thrown in is free entry to the castle’s display of 52 instruments that were used to torture people in medieval (see word of the week) times.

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DE-MINING THE LARGEST WILDLIFE AREA IN THE WORLD Thanks to funding aid from the US government, landmines in Zimbabwe are due to be cleared. A landmine is an explosive device set underground to destroy enemy targets as they pass over it. Removing the devices, which were planted 40 years ago, will protect animals like elephants, pangolins and lions in a wildlife corridor that spans South Africa, Mozambique and Zim. The devices were set by the former Rhodesian army during the country’s independence war.

HUNDREDS WOUNDED IN NEW CLASHES BETWEEN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE More than 200 people were wounded in violent clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians outside Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The Palestinians were protesting against the Flag March of the annual Jerusalem Day, which celebrates Israel’s capture of east Jerusalem. It usually sees hundreds of Israeli youth marching through Muslim areas, chanting slogans. Palestinians consider it oﬀensive, especially since this year’s march took place during Islam’s holy month, Ramadan.

SCIENTISTS DEVELOP A ROBOT TO BRUSH YOUR HAIR Leading scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University in the US have developed a robotic arm to brush tangled hair. Called RoboWig, it comes with a sensorised soft brush and a camera to help it “see” and assess curliness. This way the robot determines how gently to brush and for how long. you.co.za 27 MAY 2021

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MEDIEVAL HOW TO SAY IT: medi-ee-vil

The word dates back to a period of time in Europe also known as the Middle Ages. It lasted from the 5th to the late 15th century. The medieval age saw a decline in population because of famine, plagues and war. This is why it’s also referred to as the Dark Ages.

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HILE conducting ﬁeld work in Kenya, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a child laid to rest in a grave nearly 80 000 years ago (ABOVE). The discovery is the oldest known human burial in Africa. Researchers came across the bones (RIGHT) while excavating the ﬂoor beneath the Panga ya Saidi cave in the tropical uplands of Kenya. The arrangement of the bones shows that the child, named Mtoto after the Swahili word for child, was placed with legs tucked to the chest and tightly wrapped in cloth made of plants or animal skin. The head was placed on a pillow. Archaeologists believe the remains were preserved after all these years because of the way Mtoto was buried. Two small teeth found in the 90

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grave matched human teeth and indicated Mtoto was two-and-ahalf to three years old. Also found were teeth rooted in the lower jaw and bones from the spine, ribs, shoulder and limbs. The team uncovered the remains in 2013 and spent the past eight years closely studying the bones. Their ﬁndings were published recently in the journal Nature.

The percentage of the world’s greenhouse gases emitted by China in 2019. A new report lists the country as the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, which causes air pollution and climate change.

R11 million The value of the gold carried by man recently apprehended at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg. The 35-year-old had 23 pieces of the precious metal in his luggage on his arrival from Harare, Zimbabwe. He was arrested as he didn’t have a licence to travel with or transport gold.

R17 million The amount the South African Revenue Services (Sars) recently announced it had deducted from the ANC’s election allocation funds for taxes owed. According to reports, the ruling party owes the taxman R80 million, dating back to when Jacob Zuma was still its president.

T JOE LIGON, c longest-held juvenile offender, was sentenced to life without parole. He and a group of friends were convicted on two counts of first-degree murder after a stabbing spree that left two people dead and six injured. Now 83, Ligon has finally been released from prison after 68 years.

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QUESTIONS On which continent is Bulgaria located?

Thousands of worshippers Saudi Arabia to perform late-

night prayers during Ramadan. The country is organising the pilgrimage to Mecca under special

Which animal’s female is called an ewe?

How many languages feature in our national anthem?

What mythical creature has a human head and a lion’s body?

How many consonants are there in the English alphabet?

Covid-19 conditions. In past years, up to two million Muslims would gather in the holy city.

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY 20 MAY 1932 – AMELIA EARHART BECOMES THE FIRST WOMAN TO FLY SOLO ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

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On this day, American aviator AMELIA EARHART flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean from Canada to Northern Ireland. The non-stop flight took her about a day to complete. Earhart was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, a military award for “heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight”. She was the first woman to receive the honour. That wasn’t the only record Earhart broke. She later became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to the US and was the first woman to fly non-stop across the US from Los Angeles to New Jersey. However, in 1937 the twin-engine plane she was flying disappeared over the Pacific Ocean after losing radio contact. She and her navigator, Fred Noonan, had attempted to fly around the equator. Then-US president Franklin D Roosevelt authorised a massive

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It’s amazing to think that the people of Ancient Egypt managed to shape and transport giant limestone blocks to create the pyramids. Some took longer than 20 years to be built!

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HE giant pyramids of Ancient Egypt are among the most impressive structures ever built. Thousands of years later today, experts are still baffled about how exactly the pyramids managed to be built – it seems an almost impossible feat with the primitive technology of the time. WHAT ARE PYRAMIDS? Pyramids are colossal stone structures that rise 100m or higher in the sky. They are square at the base with four triangular sides that taper oﬀ to form a pointy tip at the top.

WHY WERE THEY BUILT? Most pyramids were created as tombs for the pharaohs (kings) and their families. They were apparently designed that way so the souls of the pharaohs, who were considered to be gods, could ascend directly to the other gods in heaven. The bodies of the pharaohs were also preserved by embalming and wrapping them in cloth (mummiﬁed) because it was believed a pharoah would need his body in the afterlife.

HOW THEY DID IT TERRAIN The massive pyramids needed to rest on solid rock, not sand. They had to be close to the Nile River, on its western bank, to facilitate the transportation of sandstone blocks and because the Egyptians believed the afterlife was where the sun sets (in the west). But they also had to be far enough from the river not to get ﬂooded.

WORKERS Engineers planned and supervised the building. Paid labour, not slaves as earlier thought, were responsible for the construction. It’s estimated that between 10 000 and 20 000 workers were on site at any time during the building of a pyramid.

Paid workers

LIMESTONE BLOCKS To source the gigantic limestone blocks large sections of quarries were dislodged using just hammers and copper chisels. Some experts speculate that wedges made of wood were stuﬀed into grooves in the quarries and made wet to swell and expand. This would then help to break oﬀ large stone blocks on the side. Workers transported the blocks by pulling it on poles

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AMAZING NUMBERS The height of the Great Pyramid at Giza.

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number of limestone blocks used in the construction, weighing 6 million tons in total.

current workforce needed to build it over ﬁve years using bulldozers, cranes and even helicopters.

What it would cost today to build it.

INSIDE THE PYRAMID The pharoah’s tomb room was deep inside the pyramid. It was ﬁlled with treasures, food and other objects the pharoah was thought to need in the afterlife. His relatives and servants were buried in separate rooms. The walls were adorned with artworks.

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FINISHES THE STONES WERE FINISHED WITH POLISHED WHITE LIMESTONE AND THE TIP OF THE PYRAMID SET IN GOLD. THE WHITE AND GOLD GLEAMED IN THE STRONG EGYPTIAN SUNLIGHT.

THEORIES ABOUT SLOPES

B Some experts believe a vertical ramp was created against the pyramid and it had holes in which wooden posts ﬁtted. Steps on either sides went all the way to the top. One group of workers pulled up the sleigh

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from the top and another group from the bottom on ropes tied around the wooden posts. B Some believe the ramp was inside the pyramid itself. B Others believe the ramps wrapped around the pyramid.

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A STRAIGHT RAMP AGAINST THE PYRAMID The soil ramp grew taller with the pyramid

RAMPS Mud-and-stone ramps were erected against the pyramid and the sleighs pulled up with ropes. The ramps were raised as the building progressed.

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Wooden poles used as pulleys

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The ramps were steep, with a gradient of about 20%.

Foremen Worker wetting the soil Workers pulling the sandstone

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TRANSPORT The stone blocks were transported to the building site on the Nile in boats. The blocks were then pulled across the sand on wooden sleighs after the sand was ﬁrst made wet to get it slippery.

BUILDING After the limestone blocks, which weighed a few tons each, were pulled up along a ramp, they were placed in the correct position and secured by clay cement. The blocks had to be just the right size to perfectly ﬁt into their place.

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Think talk off UFOs and d aliens is a load of nonsense? A Harvard boffin insists the truth really is out there . . . and d thatt it’s follly to assume we’rre the only life force in the universe. In this tract rom his new book Professor A i Loeb ides idence that we’re not alone

Harvard Professor Avi Loeb says there are more habitable planets in our galaxy than there are grains of sand on any beach.

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FAR LEFT and LEFT: ‘Oumuamua, a ﬂying object discovered in 2017, baﬄed scientists because of the strange way in which it moved.

But there has been n w j H – i f s m QUARTER f ll k stars in the universe are thought to host a “perfect planet” – one the same size and temperature as Earth. There are approximately a “zetta” of them . . . that’s a trillion billion – a one with 21 zeroes after it. So it’s presumptuous for us to assume w this vast cosmos. In fact, to imagine we humans are alone in space isn’t merely arrogant, it is scientific nonsense. On 19 October 2017, a telescope in Maui, Hawaii’s second-largest island, glimpsed the first known interstellar v Without question, this object came from a distant solar system. Was this a natural phenomenon, or one engineered by an intelligent life form? The simplest explanation is the latter: that it was created by a civilisation not of this Earth. Earth cannot possibly be the only p galaxy, the Milky Way, about a quarter of the 200 billion stars are orbited by p liquid water and, thus, the chemistry of life as we know it. Given so many worlds – 50 billion in our own galaxy – it’s very likely that intelligent organisms have evolved elsewhere. GALLO

k ‘O moo-ah moo-ah, meaning “scout” or “messenger from afar, arriving first”) – is so significant. Among Hawaii’s state-of-the-art telescopes are those that make up the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System [Pan-Starrs]. Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk was the first at the observatory to spot the object in the Pan-Starrs data, as a point of light speeding across the sky. Immediately, scientists wanted to know more about its appearance. We didn’t have a crisp photograph and, in the 11 days during which it was visible, we couldn’t obtain one. But we could tell two important facts: it wasn’t a sphere, and it was rotating – tumbling through space, in fact. When an object spins, the amount of sunlight it reflects will vary, unless it is perfectly round like a ball. The more irregular its shape, the greater the variation. And ‘Oumuamua varied immensely as it rotated about once every eight hours, increasing and decreasing in brightness by a factor of 10. That is, it was 10 times brighter at midnight (for example) than it had been four hours earlier. At its brightest, it seemed to be a round

pancake. At its dimmest, it took the shape of an elongated cigar, about 90m long. Theories to explain this bubbled up straight away. Perhaps its strange features were caused by exposure to cosmic radiation over hundreds of thousands of years. Or perhaps it had been violently expelled from a planet and stretched by gravity. But neither of these explanations took into account ‘Oumuamua’s strangest anomaly. As it sped away from the sun, its path deviated from what might be expected under the sun’s gravitational force. It went off at a tangent, an odd angle. There was no obvious reason for this. It couldn’t be a comet. It had no tail (the trail of gas, called outgassing, and debris disintegration a comet leaves). To explain this, some scientists suggested it might be an icicle of frozen hydrogen whose tail was invisible. But in a detailed paper, my Korean collaborator Thiem Hoang and I were able to dismiss that too: a hydrogen iceberg travelling through interstellar space would evaporate long before it reached our solar system. As the lightest element in the universe, hydrogen easily boils off an icy surface. In any case, the idea that a comet could propel itself by the evaporation of hydrogen ice, emitted only from its tail, was nonsense – about as likely as the natural erosion of a boulder creating a fully functioning space shuttle. However, something was powering ‘Oumuamua. The only logical explanation was solar energy. This object was propelled by sunlight bouncing off its surface, like wind off a sail.

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HE idea is centuries old. It was first proposed in 1610, when Shakespeare was alive, by the astronomer Johannes Kepler. And I’ve long been fascinated by this concept. Working with a brilliant Russian-born entrepreneur from Silicon Valley, Yuri Milner (named by his parents in honour of the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin), and with the help of my students and postgraduate researchers, I set to work developing the idea. In a paper published in 2018, we calculated that a 100-gigawatt laser beam hitting a sail about the size of a human being could send it through space at almost unimaginable speeds – accelerating so fast from the edge of Earth’s atmosphere that, by the time it was five times farther away than the Moon, it would be travelling at about one fifth the speed of light, or around 61 000km per second. At that rate, it would be going fast enough to reach the nearest star within our lifetimes. Everything we proposed was within existing technological bounds. Difficult? Yes. Expensive? Somewhat – the cost would be similar to that of the biggest science projects, such as the Large Hadron Collider at Cern, though cheaper than the Apollo programme. Once built, a launch system could be used to send thousands of such craft into space. We called them “StarChips”. And if humans could imagine this light-driven spacecraft, no doubt other technological civilisations might do the same. They could be launching sails into space right now . . . or have done so millions of years ago. If just a minute fraction of those 50 billion potentially habitable planets hosted intelligent life during the history of the Milky Way, then there might be plenty of their relics remaining. 98

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If we could visit these planets, maybe we would see abandoned megastructures or find merely the faintest atmospheric or geological traces. But even more intriguing is the possibility that we will find, flying through our solar system, relics with no detectable function: space junk. Some scientists have accused me of being fanciful. But there is nothing outlandish about the idea. Evidence of it mounts up every day, on beaches around the world. Take a walk along any seashore and you will find two sorts of things washed up. One is natural, such as driftwood, seaweed and seashells. The other is manmade, particularly plastic pollution. There is a growing amount of plastic waste because we dump about eight million tons of it into the oceans every year. Either ‘Oumuamua is a natural phenomenon, a sort of interstellar driftwood, or it is manufactured, like plastic. Now consider how many aspects of the object were unnatural: its shape, its invisible power source, its regular rate of rotation, the smoothness of its propulsion, its sheer speed and that it Revered astrophysicist Stephen Hawking (far left) with Avi (third from left) at a 2016 event aimed at promoting further space exploration.

appeared from another star system. For this to be a series of accidents and coincidences is a mathematical impossibility. Now add one further, vital observation: as ‘Oumuamua receded from the sun, its deviation from a gravitational trajectory diminished. In other words, although it was still travelling at extraordinary speed, its power source appeared to be fading. That’s exactly what you’d expect to happen, if its power source was the sun. But there’s another possibility, one that points even more strongly to the idea that ‘Oumuamua was a piece of constructed technology. Ask yourself this: what if this object didn’t cross the void to our solar system? What if it happened the other way around: ‘Oumuamua was sitting still in space and our solar system slammed into it? Because the universe is expanding and our galaxy is spinning, stars don’t remain at a fixed distance from each other. The sun is hurtling through space, taking Earth and all its planets with it. It’s not beyond the realms of imagination that a highly advanced extraterrestrial civilisation could place a network

LEFT: ‘Oumuamua, was roughly the length of a football pitch. BELOW and RIGHT: Avi is convinced that it’s a sign of other g y

fb i h di l a little like the fleets of satellites that humans have fired into orbit around Earth over the past 64 years. These could act as a communications grid, or an alert system, or lighthouses, or navigation devices, or stop signs – there is a wealth of possible explanations. The point is that all of these must be the technology of an intelligent organism.

VEN if ‘Oumuamua has been defunct for millennia, it once served a purpose, just like a plastic bottle washed up on a beach also once served a purpose. So what happened to the civilisation that designed and built this technology? That echoes the famous question of the brilliant physicist Enrico Fermi, one of the architects of the atomic bomb, who died in 1954. Over a lunch with colleagues, Fermi pointed out a paradox. Given the vastness of the universe (and at that time, no one realised how many billions of habitable planets existed), the probability of alien life seemed overwhelming. But we had seen no evidence of it. “Where is everybody?” Fermi asked. His own career might partly answer that question: Fermi’s theories enabled engineers to build bombs that could wipe out all life on Earth. In other words, humans achieved the dubious distinction, in the 20th century, of being smart enough to obliterate their own civilisation. In cosmic terms, that problem might be far from unique. The point when a civilisation reaches our stage of technological advancement – the window where it can signal its existence to the rest of

th o it fo c a The civilisation that built and launched ‘O long before human history began. That makes it all the more important that we learn everything we can from it. Fermi’s question has often been used by scientists as a convenient excuse to avoid thinking about the biggest issue in cosmology, the probability of extraterrestrial life. Among astronomers, Seti (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) has long faced hostility. I find that bizarre. Mainstream theoretical physicists now widely accept the study of extra-spatial dimensions: we are all familiar with the 3D of height, width and depth, plus the fourth dimension of time, but “string theory” now posits the existence of ten, 11 or even 26 dimensions. This is despite the absence of any physical, laboratory evidence for the extra, invisible dimensions. The theories rely on maths – just like my arguments for the extraterrestrial origin of ‘Oumuamua. In the same way, many of the most brilliant minds in science accept the hypothesis of the multiverse – an infinite number of universes existing simultaneously. But it’s far rarer to find astronomers and astrophysicists who encourage theories of extraterrestrial life. Science is too conservative, too concerned with reputations and funding, and not enough with exploration and adventurous thinking. Too many scientists are like the priests 400 years ago who put Galileo on trial for heresy for his contention that the Earth goes around the sun, rather than the orthodox notion of our planet

as the centre of the universe. The clerics refused even to look through Galileo’s telescope. In the same way, many leading scientists shut their eyes rather than consider the evidence for alien civilisations. But imagine our planet the day after we get irrefutable confirmation of life elsewhere in the universe – if, for instance, a photograph revealed close-up details of another object like ‘Oumuamua. Finding that evidence would, I believe, change every branch of science – not just astronomy but psychology, philosophy, religion, education. Every child would be taught differently because humanity would see itself differently. All over the world, people would have a much greater sense that we are all part of a unified team and would stop worrying and warring over issues such as geographical borders and separate economies. And if we made contact, the changes would be greater still. As the science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke said, any sufficiently advanced alien technology would appear almost magical to us, perhaps even godlike. But we should remember that the extraterrestrials might be equally awed to discover us. They, too, would very likely have stared out into the abyss of space for countless generations. They, too, would understand that the galaxy teems with planets capable of supporting life, yet life elsewhere in the universe seems exceptionally rare. Quite possibly, they would worry about their reception from our species, and their information about life on Earth might be hopelessly out of date – humans have only been around for a couple of hundred thousand years, after all. Science has to shed its blinkers and open itself up to the new, the controversial, the unexpected. There are more habitable planets in our galaxy than there are grains of sand on any beach. I believe the galaxy is rich with undiscovered life. And that is where I find the most cause for hope.

REMEMBER, THE EXTRATERRESTRIALS MIGHT BE EQUALLY AWED TO DISCOVER US

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Ross’ company, Dying Art, decorated this coﬀin with piano notes for a music lover.

the only person he knew who wanted an over-the-top box to house his body and he seized the gap in the funeral market. The name of his business? Dying Art – a company that celebrates life, love and humour, making unconventional coffins that tell far more about the person who’s passed away than a mahogany or pine casket COMPILED BY ROBYN LUCAS ever could. “There are people who are happy with a brown mahogany box and that’s great,” says Ross, who’s from Auckland, New Zealand. “But if people want to shout it out, I’m here to do it for them.” Phil McClean’s family wanted to shout it out when he died of bowel cancer earlier this year. Phil is Ross’ cousin and when he got sick he and his wife, Debra, asked Ross to do something that For his cousin Phil’s funeral Ross created really spoke of his life. And this cream-doughnut what spoke of it more than coﬀin out of foam. anything was doughnuts. So Ross and his team got HERE there’s a to work. “We used shaping foam and will, there’s a way glued it to the side of the standard cas– that’s this guy’s ket and then we spent about two days actually shaping the foam into a cream motto. In his case, that doughnut. “Once we had a decent-looking form, will is the thing you sign to say we painted it all with acrylic paints,” what should hap- Ross says. And when the showstopper of a coffin pen to your assets when you die. And the one thing he didn’t want was a boring arrived at the church in Auckland, a brown coffin in which to have his last wave of laughter rippled through the send-off on Earth. He wanted something crowd. “It overshadowed the sadness and flamboyant – a red casket with flames the hard times we’d had in Phil’s last few on it, please. And that is how his business all start- weeks,” Debra says. “The final memory ed, Ross Hall says. Turns out he wasn’t in everyone’s mind was of that doughnut

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HEN the idea for Dying Art first started taking shape, Ross went to a few funeral homes with his concept hoping people would be as passionate about the project as he was. “I did up to 20 different designs and got a little brochure made up and went, ‘Hey, how about this, you guys?’ and they all thought I was mad.” Undeterred, he persisted and slowly but surely his business took off. Ross now employs a team of 15 people and receives up to five orders a week. The price of the custom-made coffins

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and Phil’s sense of humour.” Some of Ross’ amazing coffin creations include a sailboat, a chocolate bar, Lego blocks, a fire truck and even a casket inspired by the movie The Matrix. “With the yacht coffin, we built a full sail jib, keel and rudder and everything,” Ross says. But the doughnut is probably the one he’s proudest of. “It was pretty spectacular,” he says.

HE way funerals are perceived has changed over the years, Ross says. “People think of them as a celebration of life rather than a mourning of death. And they’ve been willing to throw out stuffy conventions in favour of getting something unique. “I like to see people get what they want,” Ross says. And cousin Phil got just that. Debra says her husband, who was 68 when he died, loved eating doughnuts and trying different ones while touring the country in their camper truck. When he was diagnosed with cancer he told Debra that not only did he want to be buried in a doughnut coffin, he wanted doughnuts served at his wake too. Debra obliged, ordering 150 of the sugary treats from his favourite bakery. Ross is passionate about the environment and ensures his coffins are all biodegradable and suitable for burial or cremation. But for the Other creations doughnut coffin Ross had to use include these Lego, polystyrene and shaping foam, fire truck and Star which is harmful to the planet. Trek coﬀins. So Phil was switched to a plain coffin for his cremation and the varies from R30 000 to R75 000, depend- doughnut casket will live on at Ross’ business premises as a memento to his ing on the intricacy of the design. But Ross insists he’s not in it for the cousin and his dream funeral. As for Ross, he’s changed his mind money. “I get so much enjoyment out of making a tragic day a little bit lighter about the coffin he wants to be buried in when his time comes. Instead of a casket for families. “We get a fantastic response about decorated with flames, he wants a clear what a difference the casket made. When box so everyone can see what he’s wearthey looked at it, they saw their loved ing: a leopard print G-string. Understandably, his children aren’t one because it’s symbolic of what they keen on the idea. “They say were all about. It puts a they won’t come,” he says, whole different spin on a chuckling. sad occasion.” Ross loves what he does Simpler coffins take and says he’s grateful for about four hours to make the opportunities he’s had. but more complex designs “You’ve got to be a certain can take a few days. sort of person to be a funer“As you can imagine, al director, there’s no two when we get an order we ways about it. But it’s defihave to drop everything nitely changed my outlook and get straight onto it on life – every day I’m debecause it’s a fairly quick termined to live my life to the full. We see turnaround,” he says. “We have custom-designed handles so many people pass away and when the made of clear acrylic to put on the cas- lid of the coffin goes on, that’s it. It’s over. “This process has made me thankful kets so they don’t block any of the for waking up every morning.” graphics.”

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IVORCE among people approaching retirement tends to be more amicable because relationships have become more like friendships, says divorce lawyer Amanda McAlister. Colin and Livia’s split certainly looked like a model of friendliness, as the couple reportedly enjoyed nights out after the separation. But Dawn isn’t sure how genuine this could be. “I have to say the happy divorce is a bit of misnomer,” she says. “The dynamics are always more complex than people think, not least those involving older children. “Sometimes the children are in their thirties or even forties. You’d think they’re adults, they’ve got their own lives, and they’ll deal with it. But actually the majority of issues I see with silver splitters is they never realise the impact of their

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HEY seemed to have it all: a solid marriage, three kids, enough money to get whatever they wanted and a philanthropic foundation that gave them purpose and brought them respect. So when Bill and Melinda Gates announced they couldn’t go the distance, the world was stunned. What, not even them? Yet the Gateses aren’t alone. Their divorce may have taken everyone by surprise but the pair are conforming to a growing trend of later-life separation. In fact, the trend has taken off to such an extent a phrase has been coined to describe them: the silver splitters. A “grey revolution” is underway with people in their fifties and sixties increasingly leaving marriages just when they’re expected to be at their most settled. Bill is 65 and Melinda is 56 so they fall solidly within that demographic. So too do Amazon boss Jeff Bezos (57) and MacKenzie Scott (51), who sensationally announced they were splitting in 2019 after 26 years of marriage and four kids. Then there’s actor Colin Firth (60) and Livia Giuggioli (51), who split two years ago following a 22-year marriage and two children. A number of factors can lead to silversplitter syndrome but two in particular

stand out. The first is children going off to college or leaving home. The emptynest syndrome may prompt melancholy in parents, but it can also end the need to “stay together for the children”. It’s no coincidence the Gateses’ youngest child, Phoebe, is 18. The second divorce-driver is the prospect of a long retirement. People are living longer and longer – often deep into their eighties – and that’s an awful lot of potential time to spend with a partner you may have nagging reservations about. The Gateses’ statement explaining their decision – they no longer “believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives” – suggests the reservations won out. It’s a cultural shift Dawn Kaffel has witnessed up close in her position as a relationship counsellor. She estimates she’s seeing two or three times the number of over-sixties compared with 20 years ago. “I think it’s something about getting towards another stage in life and people thinking it’s their last chance to find happiness,” she says. The various lockdowns of the past 14 months have only added to the desire to seize hold of life, she adds. “People are going to want to get re - e n e rg i s e d a n d move on and I believe there’ll be a major

decisions on grown-up children.” Maya* is 56. She’s been with her husband for 30 years, but she says it hasn’t been a real marriage for a long time. Four years ago, she asked for a divorce and he refused. Her youngest daughter is now 18 and Maya is planning to leave when she goes to college. All her children, she says, support her decision. “There are a lot of women my age who are dissatisfied in their marriages,” Maya says. “A lot of women come into their own in their fifties.” Sam Harrington-Lowe, publisher of Silver magazine aimed at the 50-plus market, says her readers are a generation

UT it’s not only women who are thinking about leaving their marriages. Men, Kaffel says, are just as often the instigators – and statistics show men are more likely to remarry later on in life. Who are they marrying? Younger women: 56% of men aged 65 and over who wed in 2014 married a woman under 65. For women the figure was much lower.

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of women who’ve gone through feminism, the workplace, the struggle to gain control of their sexuality and having been sandwiched between looking after children and ageing or dying parents. And many don’t want to spend their later years in a below-par relationship. “I wouldn’t be surprised if women look at their husbands and think, ‘I’d be happier on my own’,” Harrington-Lowe says.

In the case of Martin*, a retired academic, he’s undaunted by the thought of being single as he goes through his second divorce. When he split from his first wife, he had three children who were between seven and 11. “ That was much tougher,” he says. “And also my first wife was a very different sort of person who wasn’t prepared to make it amicable, even though I wanted it to be.” This time his daughter with his second wife is nearly 18, and she’s been consulted in the way it’s not really possible to do with younger children. “She wasn’t positive about it but she certainly thought it was the best thing,” he says. He also has a generous pension and his wife has always earned more than him, so there isn’t any money pressure. However, financial security can often prove less secure than it appears when people first think about breaking up. “They think they can afford it,” Kaffel says, “until the process really starts, then what they thought they were going to have to fork out is usually very different.” Harrington-Lowe, who went through her divorce two years ago, says what looks like a comfortable retirement when a couple are together can suddenly seem more precarious when the assets are divided. But more than anything it’s the emotional cost that’s most often underestimated. Even with the best will in the world, it’s not easy to leave a multidecade marriage and many people struggle to escape the gravitational pull exerted by a long-established relationship. “There are lots of people who come to therapy who think they’re going to split up and they don’t,” Kaffel says. “They just need to spend some time working on their relationship.” It doesn’t look like counselling is going to save the Gateses from the solicitous embrace of divorce lawyers, though. In the end some people aren’t meant to stay the course, Kaffel says. And perhaps it’s better to come to terms with that sad reality later in life than never at all. * Not their real names

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HE couple thought they were well prepared for the arrival of their bumper brood. They had seven of everything – cots, bottles, dummies, prams, tiny clothes and fleecy blankets – and although it seemed daunting at times, they were ready. On 4 May, Halima Cissé was wheeled into the operating theatre to deliver her septuplets via C-section – but what happened next made world news and stunned Halima, her husband, Kader

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and if her nine babies all survive, she’ll become the only woman in the world to have nonuplets. Two other women have delivered nonuplets – one in Australia in 1971 and the other in Malaysia in 1999 – but both lost all nine babies shortly after birth. Halima’s infants – four boys and five girls – were all doing as well as could be expected at the time of going to print. The children will remain in incubators for three months in the Ain Borja Clinic in Casablanca, Morocco, when hopefully they’ll be strong enough to go home. Two of the babies are on ventilators to help them to breathe but their proud dad is hopeful about the future of all nine. “I can’t wait to see my new children,” says Kader (35), a military official who stayed home in Timbuktu, Mali,

Arby, and the team of medical professionals. Halima had been receving specialist care during her pregnancy when it became obvious she was carrying multiple babies. Two ultrasounds – one in her homeland of Mali and another in Morocco where she’d been admitted to a private clinic – clearly showed seven little souls in her womb. But as doctors lifted out baby after baby, they discovered two more had been hiding in her uterus, which was so crowded it was comes to multiple births. impossible to S America’s Nadya detect all nine Suleman – dubbed foetuses. And Octomom – gave birth to eight babies in 2009 and so Halima (25) is the current Guinness became one of World Record-holder of only a few live babies birthed. known women NADYA SULEMAN most All eight of her babies to give birth to – which were the result of in vitro Halima Cissé is now part of an nonuplets. fertilisation – survived and her exclusive club of women who have She became six sons and two daughters are given birth to more than six babies an instant ce12 years old now. The babies were at a time. born nine weeks early via C-seclebrity in Mali If her babies all survive, she’ll be tion. In total, she has 14 children. the world record-holder when it and Morocco –

Halima’s babies were delivered by 10 doctors with 25 paramedics on standby.

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to c and-a-half-year-old, Souda. The little girl can’t wait to meet her nine siblings, Kader says, and keeps asking about them. “God gave us these children. He’s the one to decide what will happen to them. I’m not worried about that. When the Almighty does something, He knows why.”

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HEN Halima discovered she was having what she thought were seven babies, her story made the local news and there was so much attention surrounding her pregnancy in the West African state that the health minister arranged for her to travel to Morocco for specialist care.

Halima was 25 weeks pregnant when she was admitted to the Casablanca clinic. Doctors wanted to extend her pregnancy to 30 weeks to give the babies a better chance. Dr Yazid Mouraid, one of the specialists, says the babies’ chances of survival were around 80% if they were born at 30 weeks and received proper medical care. And so, at 30 weeks, Halima went into surgery – and the big nine-babies reveal was made. The infants weighed between 500g and 1kg each and were delivered by a team of 10 doctors while 25 paramedics were on standby in case something went wrong. As it turned out, Halima had a close call. The pressure caused by the weight of her uterus and the amniotic fluid – a total of 40kg – ruptured the artery in her womb and she suffered heavy blood loss. However, after a blood transfusion she was on the mend and is now doing

well, the clinic’s medical director, Professor Youssef Alaoui, says. “She’s not in danger anymore.” Tw o of th e boy babies have been namedMohamm ed and Bah, after Morocco’s King Mohammed VI and Mali’s President Bah Ndaw, as a token of gratitude for the help the two countries provided. The other two boys are Elhadji and Oumar, while the girls are Hawa, Adama, Fatouma, Oumou and Kadidia. There’s no information on whether the babies were conceived as a result of fertility drugs or IVF treatment. Professor Alaoui says as far as the clinic knows, no intervention was used. Kader, who married Halima in 2017 when she was studying human resources management, says the support and encouragement they’ve been receiving has been overwhelming. “Everybody called me! Everybody called! The Malian authorities called expressing their joy. I thank them. Even the president called me.” The couple are taking the two extra babies in their stride. “It was a surprise,” Kader admits, “but we were delighted anyway. It was a blessing from God.” Halima is recovering but needs to rest now, he says. And with nine newborns, she’s going to need all the strength she can get.

HE’S always been known for her unflappable attitude – come what may, no matter what life throws at her, Queen Elizabeth just soldiers on. But after what’s h a p p e n e d i n re c e n t months, many are wondering how much more the 95-year-old British monarch can be expected to shoulder. The death of her beloved husband, Prince Philip, was a traumatic blow but instead of being able to get on with mourning her loss she’s having to wade in to try to sort out all kinds of dramas. If it’s not her grandson Prince Harry ruffling feathers as he continues his public feud with the family, it’s her son, Prince Andrew, giving her even more grey hairs with the embarrassing fallout from his friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. And now there’s another scandal brewing: her cousin Prince Michael of Kent was caught red-handed trying to cash in on his royal status for personal gain and offering to use his clout to seek favours from Russian president Vladimir Putin. Michael, whose father, Prince George, was the brother of the queen’s father, King George VI, was caught out when undercover reporters set up a fake South Korean gold firm and approached five members of the royal family with an offer of work. While his relatives wisely steered clear of the dodgy deal, Michael (78), who speaks fluent Russian and is known to have strong ties with the country, jumped at the chance. In a recorded Zoom call he explained that he could be hired for £10 000 a day (R200 000) to help the fictitious firm make inroads in Russia. He also revealed that for the princely sum of £143 000 (R2,8 million) he’d be willing to allow them to record him at his home in Kensington Palace, where Prince William and Kate also live, offering his royal endorsement of their endeavours. But it was made clear in the negotiations by the prince and his friend and business partner Simon Isaacs, the Marquess of Reading – that although Michael was willing to pull strings in Russia, this part of the deal should be kept under wraps. “We’re talking relatively discreetly here because we wouldn’t want the world to know that he’s seeing Putin purely for 106

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business reasons, if you follow me,” Simon told the undercover reporters. He went on to describe Prince Michael as “Her Majesty’s unofficial ambassador to Russia”, adding that recent tension between the two countries hadn’t affected his relationship with Putin. But now that the conversation has been aired for all the world to hear, Michael has been frantically trying to backpedal. A spokesman says that while the prince has “long-established business, charitable and cultural connections” with Russia, he last met Putin in 2003 and has “had no contact with him or his office since then”. So then why make the offer? This is the part that Michael is having a hard time explaining.

HIS is hardly the first time Prince Michael and his wife, Princess Michael of Kent (76), have brought the Windsor name into disrepute. The princess, who was born a baroness of German, Austrian, and Hungarian descent, is a member of the noble Reibnitz family and can trace her ancestry way back to 1288. She’s hardly modest about her blueblooded connections and once declared to that she has “more royal blood in her veins than any person to marry into the royal family since Prince Philip”. She has a track record of statements and actions that have been a source of deep embarrassment for the family. In 2004, she was accused of racially insulting black diners at a restaurant in

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New York. A spokesperson ac- meaning it operated at a small loss. knowledged that the princess In 2002 there was a public outcry after had been angry at the group, it was revealed that the couple had been who were seated near her, but living at Kensington Palace rent-free. denied that she’d told them to Eventually, to avoid further embarrass“go back to the colonies”. ment, it was agreed that they’d pay a In December 2017, she was rental of £10 000 (R200 000) a month for criticised for wearing a their luxurious accommodation but the brooch with an offensive couple clearly weren’t happy about it. figure of a black man to a “I’m in very austere economic times,” Christmas banquet at Buck- Princess Michael complained in a 2013 ingham Palace at which interview with British newspaper The Meghan was present. Independent. And a few months later her “We’ve cut back dramatically. I mean, daughter’s former partner revealed that we never go out to dinner unless we go she’d owned a pair of black sheep that to somebody’s house. We never go to she named after tennis stars Venus and restaurants. That’s too extravagant. We Serena Williams. invite people here. I cook.” Despite their privileged positions, the But you definitely wouldn’t guess that Kents, who have a son Lord Frederick they’re struggling from the designer Windsor (42) and daughter Lady Gabriella Kingston (40), claim to be perennially short of cash. Prince Michael isn’t a working royal and doesn’t receive income from the sovereign grant, a status that effectively forces him to work as a “business consultant”. Although his personal consulting company, Cantium Services, has recorded income of more than £2,2m (R44m) in the past five years, he claims that most of the Queen Elizabeth and Prince Michael money was paid out in salaries, at the Ascot Racecourse in 2010.

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clothes Princess Michael wears. She’s said to have one of the most extensive wardrobes of any royal, as well as a love of driving around in luxury cars. You can see why it would be tempting for her husband to draw on his Russian connections to keep her in the style to which she’s accustomed. A former Russian diplomat has revealed that the prince, whose grandmother Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna was a first cousin of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, is referred to as “Kentski” in Moscow and “has significant connections among influential businesspeople”. British journalist David Smith recalls how he witnessed the prince being treated like a “cult hero” during a 2004 tour of the country – apparently people are enthralled by his uncanny resemblance to Tsar Nicholas. “In Russia he’s feted by tycoons, flown in private jets – the closest thing they have to a king,” Smith says. Michael has made no secret of the fact that he feels a strong connection to the country. “I identify with Russians without any effort. I feel on the same wavelength,” he says. But this love affair may end up costing him dearly. Some say at the very least the queen should ban him from attending royal banquets and other formal functions. An insider says these events offer Michael the chance to hobnob with the rich and powerful and make valuable business contacts. The source adds that the way the queen saw it, these were some “breadcrumbs” she was able to throw to her cousin to “allow him to maintain his lifestyle”. But it wasn’t enough. Michael got greedy – and now it seems those so-called “crumbs” might be taken away.

E’S one of South Africa’s most recognisable stars yet his wedding had none of the razzmatazz usually associated with celeb nuptials. There were no fans clamouring to get a glimpse of the bride and groom, no Instagramworthy selfies and no wedding hashtags on social media. In fact, few people outside Tumisho Masha and Chantal Wagner’s tight-knit inner circle knew anything about it at all. After four years of dating, the actor wed his sweetheart in a low-key gift-giving ceremony at a romantic wedding venue on the slopes of the Magaliesberg mountains. A gift-giving ceremony is held after the completion of lobolo negotiations and the day was a celebration of Tumisho’s Pedi culture and the coming together of his and Chantal’s families. It was a traditional wedding with all the trimmings and the Masha clan brought gifts to exchange with the Wagners. There were luxurious blankets, sturdy pots and warm winter coats but the day was about a lot more than swopping presents. In the presence of preacher Innocent Sadiki, who’s also an actress in soapie Skeem Saam, and their loved ones, Tumisho (45) and Chantal (37) exchanged their wedding vows. The former Top Billing presenter, who’s starred in numerous shows, including The Wild and Isidingo, looked dapper in a bold blue suit. The bride was svelte and sophisticated in a strapless pink sweetheart gown, the flower embellishment on her shoulder a match of the design on her groom’s lapel, which is a nod to Pedi culture. “It was an amazing day, one of the best days of my life,” Tumisho tells YOU. The pandemic put paid to their plans of having a big wedding but in the end they still married in style. Their 30 guests feasted on roast lamb and grilled salmon, tucked into crème brûlée and Pavlova for dessert and sipped on a steady supply of bubbly and gin. Tumisho wanted to tie the knot under the radar, far from the prying eyes of the public. “We didn’t want any bad vibes,” he says. “I don’t think everyone is happy for us – as a man it’s my duty to protect Chantal from the public and those who don’t wish us well.” 108

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ROM the start Tumisho knew she was the one he wanted to spend the rest of his life with. The couple met in 2017 after he reached out to Chantal, who works for the Limpopo legislature, on social media. They grabbed drinks for their first date and conversation flowed as they discovered just how much they had in common. “What I really liked about her was how much she valued family,” Tumisho says. “She was always looking for ways to add value to people’s lives.” The couple wanted to wait at least three months before introducing each other to their parents but fate had other plans. On their way to a date at Fourways

Farmer’s Market in Rustenburg, North West province, Tumisho had to call his parents to help them with a flat tyre. It was a seamless meeting, he says. His folks, Rodney (73) and Maureen (65), took an instant liking to Chantal. Her parents, Bernie and Claude Wagner (both 64), hit it off with Tumisho too and they were happy to give their blessing when he asked for her hand in marriage. Both moms and dads booked into the four-star Red Ivory game reserve near Hartbeespoort for the weekend so the newlyweds could enjoy their first breakfast as husband and wife with their folks. Family is important to the actor. “When someone gets married, they also marry their family,” he says. “I’m more

The happy couple with Chantal’s parents, Claude (far left) and Bernie.

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The 30 guests tucked into delicious canapés before the main meal.

His parents, Rodney and Maureen, received a blanket from Chantal’s family as part of Pedi tradition.

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grown so close Zinathi referred to Chantal as her second mom during an impromptu speech she gave at their wedding. Chantal’s relationship with his daughter is just one of the many things Tumisho loves about her. No matter what she’s going through she always shows up with a big smile on her face, he says.

than happy to marry Chantal’s family. They’re the most amazing people.” He waited six months before introducing Chantal to his daughter, Zinathi (5), because he wanted to make sure their relationship was the real deal. Zinathi’s mom is Zozibini Mtongana (36), Tumisho’s second wife. At first, he worried his little princess wouldn’t like his new love, but Zinathi and Chantal got on like a house on fire when they met at Zinathi’s second birthday party. “I was quite sure of my feelings for her when I introduced her to my daughter,” Tumisho says. “I knew she was the one because of the way she wholeheartedly loves my child.” The pair love baking together and have

UMISHO has been through challenges in the past. His first marriage to businesswoman Angel ended in 2008 and she passed away in 2017 after apparently dying in her sleep. Then Tumisho met Zozibini, who now works as a deal originator for a large bank, and the pair tied the knot in 2010. For a while they were a golden couple, looking loved up on the red carpet – but the marriage ended in disaster when Tumisho was arrested for assault. The case exposed details of a tumultuous marriage and the matter dragged on, with Zozibini dropping and reinstating the charges until Tumisho was finally acquitted in 2018.

By then, he and Chantal were already an item and she was at every court appearance. “She showed up and offered her support, even though it was hard having to sit there and listen to me admit to breaking my ex’s phone,” he says. Knowing he could end up behind bars was like something out of a horror movie, he says. “There were accusations and allegations made about me and I lost my reputation and ability to work.” When the magistrate found him not guilty, Tumisho started the legal process of separating from Zozibini. He sees his daughter every second weekend. He hopes he’s found his happily ever after. “You can’t go into a marriage trying to protect your heart,” he says. “I’ve learnt marriage is about being vulnerable.” Tumisho and Chantal divide their time between Pretoria and Polokwane, where she works, but she plans to relocate to Gauteng to be with him. Things seem to be looking up on the work front too. Having had a role in the recently released Netflix series Dead Places, his next project is a horror film and he wants to try his hand at producing. His life has changed since he met Chantal. “When my parents accepted her into our family, they named her Naledi, which means ‘light’,” Tumisho says. “They said she came at a time when it was very dark. She brought light to the family.” you.co.za 27 MAY 2021

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good-looking? Actress LEA VIVIER is as comfortable in the kitchen as she is in front of the camera. The Dam actress tells us she loves cooking up a storm for guests.

“Cooking should always be a social activity,“ she says. Her go-to meal is “anything slow cooked and indulgent”. Lea loves cooking oxtail in red

ingredients you cook with often? Olive oil, greens such as broccoli, zucchini or cucumber, smoked Spanish paprika, peanut butter and banana.

5 Can you believe singer and radio personality UNATHI NKAYI and TV presenter MINNIE DLAMINI-JONES have been friends for a decade? The besties met at Urban Brew studios when Minnie was just starting out her TV career. We ﬁnd out how well Unathi (42) and Minnie (30) really know each other.

What were your ﬁrst impressions of each other? Unathi: Her humility struck me and her love of being Zulu resonated in me because I share the same pride in being Xhosa. Minnie: I was in awe of her talent and her ability to engage an audience. She’s unapologetically herself and I believe she thrives because of her authenticity.

What’s your favourite memory together? Unathi: We have so many but I’d say the year 2017, which I call The Year of Minnie’s Weddings. Minnie was one of few people who knew I was going through a divorce that year. She was planning her nuptials and called me to say I didn’t have to attend any of them [her various ceremonies] if it was too much for me. I ended up going to all of them. I always tell her she saved my life and that she and her husband were the pillar of love I needed to get through that tough year. Minnie: My favourite memory is when she arrived at my traditional

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people you follow on social media you’d like to work with? Local actress Thuso Mbedu, Canadian actor Elliot Page and American actress Zoë Kravitz. things on your bucket list? Visit New York or Los Angeles, and direct my own ﬁlm. life lesson your mom taught you? Live life to the fullest!

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wedding. There were waterworks, makeup smudged. It wasn’t pretty, but it was one of my most beautiful moments with her.

What’s her preferred drink? Unathi: We like our bubbly, hey. It’s cute and keeps one giddy and silly. Minnie: Champagne – we both love our bubbles and good food at home with our families.

What’s her guilty pleasure? Unathi: Shoes . . . world-class, one-of-a-kind shoes. Minnie: It’s the same for both of us: red bottoms [Christian Louboutins]!

Who’s the clingier parent? Unathi: Minnie is far more conﬁdent as a new mom than I ever was with both my kids. I think we both understand that our work commitments don’t allow us to be too clingy. Minnie: I’d say I’m more protective because I have a newborn.

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wine or Moroccan lamb tagine. When she isn’t entertaining she simply tucks into rye bread and peanut butter. “I rarely cook for myself only.”

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Sun, sea and cocktails was all part of the fun.

ABOVE: Jason Goliath certainly has much to celebrate. The comedian and his beautiful wife, Sian, enjoyed a seven-day break in the Maldives to celebrate their second anniversary. BELOW: The couple stayed in a romantic beach bungalow.

To mark their second anni ersar JASON GOLIATH and his wife, SIAN he magical Maldives for a romantic holiday. on to celebrate our second honeymoon,” Jason tells YOU. The couple spent seven days soaking up ey have the glow to prove it. ur s. The highlight of the trip was swimming with dolphins. The love birds enjoyed it so much the comedian says they’re going to . er camera too.” It’s not the ﬁrst time the Goliaths have experienced the Maldives. Jason and Sian headed to the tiny Indian Ocean island nation in 2019 where they enjoyed a low-key, laid-back destination wedding.

Jason and Sian celebrated their second anniversary with a luxury break and cheeky pics.

“He makes me feel like a supermodel,” Sian captioned this Insta pic.

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REVOR NOAH’s luxury mansion is bound to feel a lot more spacious now that he and MINKA KELLY have called it quits. The pair have reportedly broken up mere months after he dropped $27,5 million (now R385m) on a massive Bel Air love nest, sources claim. The 37-year-old Daily Show host and 40-year-old Friday Night Lights actress were ﬁrst romantically linked in September last year when sources claimed they’d been dating for several months and lived together in New York for a while. According to an insider “their work commitments and careers are very diﬀerent and they both felt they should take time apart”.

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TURNS 23 Friends fans will remember when e LISA KUDROW e ets y ve he’s just celebrated his 23rd birthday. el Stern (63), whom Lisa married in May 1995. While recently discussing the highly anticipated Friends reunion, Lisa (57) revealed that Julian used to visit her on the set of the hit sitcom, and mistakenly thought Jennifer Aniston (52) was his mother. “He really was obsessed with Jen,” she told television host Conan O’Brien. “He’d ﬂy into her lap. Well, she’s a love bug, and that made sense. And I was always glad for anyone that Julian felt love for. Lisa Kudrow’s son, Julian Stern, “But then at home, graduated from she’d be on TV, and the University he’d go, ‘Mommy!’ He of Southern Caligot a little confused,” fornia recently. she said. 112

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Seve dump CHRISSY TEIGEN’s Cravings kitchen line of cookware after a slew of mean tweets she penned years ago recently resurfaced. Non-binary model COURTNEY STODDEN claims that Chrissy sent shocking tweets and direct messages to the then 16-year-old singer, even telling Courtney to take their own life. In response Chrissy (35), who has kids, Luna (5) and Miles (3), with singer John Legend (42), has apologised, claiming that she’s “ashamed and completely embarrassed” about her actions a decade ago.

But it seems the damage has been done. Netizens dug deeper into Chrissy’s past on the social media platform, only to discover she’s also cyber-bullied a nine-year-old child actress and a teen mother in the past. In 2013, Chrissy called Quvenzhané Wallis (then nine) “cocky”, and she called Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham a “wh**e”. In 2011 she took aim at Lindsay Lohan, saying the actress “adds a few more slits to her wrists when she sees emma stone [sic]”. Singers Mariah Carey, Avril Lavigne and actress Tamera Mowry have also been the subjects of Chrissy’s trolling.

RED HOT Voluptuous breasts: check. Skimpy costume: check. Flowing mane: check. British actress. LILY JAMES has pulled oﬀ a stunning transformation into PAMELA ANDERSON for the Baywatch-inspired scenes in the new biopic series Pam and Tommy – and everyone’s talking about it. The 32-year-old Brit donned a pair of fake 34DD breasts and long platinum blonde wig while shooting for the upcoming series – and she’s a dead ringer for the blonde bombshell. But one person is decidedly unimpressed by the uncanny resemblance, and that’s Pamela herself. The 53-year-old actress has been scathing about the new series and told friends she has no plans to watch it. “Pamela has no intention of watching this God-awful show; absolutely not,” a friend of the star says. “She’s never heard of the actors playing her or Tommy, and doesn’t care to know them. She and her family think the show is a cheap knockoﬀ. The whole thing is a joke to them.” fte en tle ey arv rv vell y knew each other for 96 hours before getting married.

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The trio (from left), Leigh-Anne Pinnock (in Maison Margiela), Jade Thirlwall (in Vivienne Westwood) and Perrie Edwards (in David Koma), took home best British group.

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ARA HAHIDI e Grown-ish ar donned a cksuit from r Adidas lection.