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My mom was my greatest Scrabble companion but she’s gone to play board games in the sky and is probably letting my dad win now that they’re reunited again – he always was a terrible loser.

Being such a game fan is why I enjoyed our story about loadshedding on page 10 so much. I know that “enjoy” and “loadshedding” usually don’t belong in the same sentence.

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When my turn came she told me I was dating a boy whom I’d eventually marry.

She said his initials comprised double letters of the alphabet, that he was in uniform and that we’d one day have three children – two girls and a boy. My boyfriend’s initials were LL and at the time he was doing his national service.

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LEFT and BELOW: Nienaber is a familiar face on the sidelines during games. ABOVE: He’s taking over the reins from long-time friend Erasmus

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New Springbok head coach Jacques Nienaber has big boots to fill but experts say he’ll continue the success the squad enjoyed under Rassie Erasmus. Here’s why BY MARELIZE GBRICH

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OLITICALLY charged results driven brutal that s the name of the game when it comes to taking on the job of Spr ng bok coach Just ask any of Rassie Erasmus long line of predecessors But the latest man in the hot seat has a few serious advantages Not only is Jacques Nienaber inherit ng a world cup winning squad, he’s also worked with this team as defence coach since 2018 and knows the Springbok setup nside out.

Plus Erasmus, who coached the team to world cup glory is firmly n his corner the two men (both 47) have been close friends for years Bald bespectacled Nienaber was often spotted on the sidel nes convey ng mes sages to the team from Erasmus in the coaching box But now that chair be longs to h m

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It’s been a long time since there’s been such continuity with the appointment of a new Bok coach, experts say. Erasmus is now full-time director of rugby, while Nienaber becomes head coach.

“This [stability] is what the Springboks need now more than anything,” says Brendan Venter, former Bok playerturned-coach.

“Is everything counting in Jacques’ favour? No – he’s never coached a team like this. But he’s been working with Rassie for years. Although Rassie won’t be dealing with the day-to-day things, he’s not going anywhere.

“Jacques and Rassie are like an old married couple Each knows what the other is thinking They have an equally good understanding of rugby they know why you win a game and why you lose Nienaber a former phys otherapist was in high demand worldwide as a de fence coach Under his guidance the

Boks conceded only four tries during the entire 2019 Rugby World Cup. But th s is his first stint as head coach.

“I’d never have accepted the position f I didn’t believe I could make a success of it,” Nienaber says of his new challenge Nervous Bok fans needn’t worry be cause Erasmus – who was named World Rugby’s coach of the year in 2019 will still be involved.

“I’ll be with the team most of the time and during matches I’ll join Jacques in the coaching box,” he says. “I’ll still be re sponsible for the strategy and the resu ts while Jacques will take over operational control.”

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Always for fun never compet tively he says His wife Elmarie is also a physio therapist and she too studied at UFS The couple live in Cape Town with their two teenage children Carlo and Lila Nienaber and Erasmus friendship really took off during their varsity days As a student Nienaber became physio therapist to the residence teams and later worked w th the UFS rugby team the Shimlas Once again he crossed paths with Erasmus who was playing for the senior Cheetahs team at the time In 1999 when coach Andre Markgraaff hysio asked Nienaber to be the ph therapist for the now defunct Super Rugby team the Cats Erasmus was captain of the team As a player he spent many hours on Nienaber s therapy table and the two ta ked rugby Even then

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In 2008 when Erasmus became Stormers coach Nienaber went with him. In 2013 he worked as the Springboks’ highperformance coach and in 2016 he once more followed Erasmus – this time to Ireland where Erasmus coached the provincial team Munster. Once again Nienaber was the defence coach.

Then in 2018 when his friend was handed the daunting task of getting the Boks ready for the Rugby World Cup in Japan in less than two years, Nienaber was by h s side.

Its a healthy, balanced friendship, the new Bok coach says about his relationsh p with Erasmus.

Weve been friends for a long time,” he says Weve been known to d sagree and get angry at each other But its never per sonal it s always to the betterment of the team S

WHA AT EXPERTS SAY N Nienaber grew up in Welkom in the Free State and ma triculated at Grey College in Bloem fo ntein where he played rugby for the school s sevventh team I adored rug by but I wasn t go od at it he told The Irish Times newspaper I was w a skinny small flank A school he was conscript After ed into the army in 1991 where he first met Erasmus H went on to study physio He therapy at the Un vers ty of the Free State (UFS) And yes he played rugby for his varsity res but only in the second and third teams

Fans should be excited about the new appointment those in the know say By promot ng to head coach someone who’s al ready part of the coaching team the Boks are following a proven example set by teams such as the A l Blacks former Springbok w ng Breyton Paulse says “In the past if the team performed badly the coach was summarily fired It’s all just chaos then someone new s brought in who tries all k nds of un fam liar things” Former Bok lock Bakkies Botha says it helps a lot that the coaching styles of Nienaber and Erasmus are so sim lar “I don t think there’ l be too many changes to what we saw at the world cup The most important thing is to keep the momentum going A few players have retired but there are definitely players good enough to replace them”

The new Bok coach is an ntelligent, hard working guy coach and former Spr ngbok centre Brendan Venter says.

I think there’s stuff Rassie probably learnt from him He has an ncred ble energy And he’s never negat ve” The only downside to the appointment s that the Bok team are losing Nienaber on the sidel ne Venter adds “He was almost l ke a 16th player on the field who helped organise the defence” Kobus Wiese another former Springbok lock says N enaber needs to be prepared for challenges that come w th the position.

“South Africa s unique in the sense that there’s ncred ble polit cal pressure n sport Everyone wants to inte fere and dictate “Also we’re the world champions now That means every team we play will be extra mot vated to beat us” He’s hopeful that w th the comb nation of Erasmus and Nienaber the team w ll cont nue its trajectory of success espe c a ly now the world has seen what the Boks are capable of | 23

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Your article about the new Bok coach (YOU, 6 February) refers to politicians interfering in sport. Why is South Africa allowed to get away with this? Isn’t that why we were booted out of all world sport years ago? No wonder so many of our good sportsmen have left this country. I wish they’d fix up the shameful mess they’ve made of everything they’ve touched instead of bleating about things they know nothing about.

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THE TRAUMA OF A COMA

I’d like to comment on the article about Michael Schumacher being “very different” today (YOU, 6 February). Yes, he is different because of his three-monthlong coma. So would you be if you’d been in a coma!

I recently marked the 34th anniversary of my accident. I was in a deep coma for five months in my matric year (1986). To put it another way: the 34th anniversary of my injury was the date that marked the fact that two-thirds of my life have been spent in rehabilitation.

Every traumatic brain injury affects each person differently for a variety of reasons. I agree with what Corinna Schumacher said: “Big things start with small steps.”

It took many years of continual therapies for me to get where I am.

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It was with a heavy heart and great sadness that I read Joe’s winning letter (YOU, 30 January). Your wife expressed our feelings so well.

The loss of our beloved pet was summed up beautifully in her words.

We parted with our Heidi last Monday and are still grieving – it’s going to take a very long time to recover from this heartache.

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Parents, why are you too lazy to take the time to discipline your children? You know it takes daily effort to teach children manners, right and wrong, respect and discipline.

When these children become teenagers then adults, they have relationship problems – with their teachers, partners,

At least a thousand men, women and children died on South African roads again in January as President Cyril Ramaphosa ignored demands to introduce the same lifesaving measures now in place in countries that protect the lives of road users. When will South Africans demand action to end the daily bloodshed as other countries have done?

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If the photo of Meghan in the park in Canada (YOU, 6 February) was taken without her knowledge, why is she smiling like a film star for the camera?

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It’s so wonderful to see such natural beauty in a mini pageant queen. Olwethu Mhlongo (YOU, 23 January), you’re going to shine. I think you’re just gorgeous!

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sist (YOU Say, 30 January). How cruel and unnecessary. I too come from a broken family, I also chose to turn and walk away. Am I a narcissist too?

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employers and colleagues. They never feel accountable for their actions or words because their parents never taught them. They end up on the wrong side of the law and everyone owes them something. They’re never wrong.

It’s so unfortunate. My family and I are presently having to tolerate a family member’s boyfriend living for free with us, when his parents should be handling him. He’s their problem.

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Poor little Archie, clinging on for dear life while going for a walk. Has Meghan not heard of a pushchair, a stroller, a pram so that the child can see around him and be comfortable? As far as being ticked off about not having privacy, the broad grin on her face indicates she was willing to have the photo taken. It’s double standards.

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With all this loadshedding I hope Eskom will at least pay part of every person’s TV licence. By the way Eskom, who won the cricket?

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S It seems the negativity surrounding Meghan, especially in the British media, has escalated. It must be traumatic to face such a continuous barrage and I applaud Prince Harry for taking a stand on behalf of his wife.

I feel sure that there are many people who wish Prince Harry and Meghan success in their future.

out of royal duties (YOU Say, 30 January). As she was a TV celebrity, she and Harry probably thought she’d cope with media pressure. Not surprisingly, they weren’t prepared for the vicious attacks on her by the media.

When Archie was born, the couple were criticised for not sharing photos with UK citizens “who paid their salaries”. They were brutally slammed on their trips abroad.

Harry grew up knowing his mother’s death was a direct result of a media frenzy, and here it was back again when he married his sweetheart.

Perhaps look up the definition of a narcissist before accusing her of being one and try to see how their lives might just be enriched by being ordinary people, albeit with money.

We all have family issues and no doubt these two have them as well.

Royals have feelings too and we need to respect their right to be happy.

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In defence of the Sussexes The comments about Harry and Meghan are obviously coming from people who’ve never been discriminated against (YOU Say, 6 February). It’s emotionally draining to feel constantly that you’re an outsider and never good enough and don’t know where you really belong.

I’m surprised Meghan hasn’t been diagnosed with severe depression. Put yourself in a situation where you aren’t accepted and let’s see how you handle it. It puts severe pressure on your marriage and family.

Let’s give them a chance to build their lives. It might even improve their relationship with the royal family.

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SK anyone who’s ever got married or planned a wedding and they’ll tell you one thing: it can be a pretty stressful time.

Who to invite, what to eat, what to wear, the music, the flowers, the seating arrangements – it’s enough to make any bride or organiser want to take to their bed in a swoon sometimes.

But pity poor Princess Beatrice of York.

She has so much more on her plate than worrying about whether the cake should be chocolate or vanilla, who to put next to Great-aunt So-and-so at the reception, or whether Mummy will dip a little too deeply into the wedding punch and get someone’s back up.

Her wedding has been shrouded in controversy – and it’s no fault of her own.

Everything from the venue to the reception to the TV coverage has been picked apart and subjected to scrutiny.

And it’s all because of her dad, Prince Andrew, whose involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal is tainting the biggest day of his eldest daughter’s life.

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FAR LEFT: Princess Beatrice at the Royal Ascot horse race in June 2018. LEFT: Edoaardo Mapelli Mozzi and Beatrice announced their engagement last September. ABOVE: Beatrice with her father, Prince Andrew, in 2017.

Edoardo “Edo” Map pelli Mo ozzi (37), were at pains to make it known hey wanted a simple, unfussy affair.

But thanks to Andrew, th heir big day has been thrust into thee spotlight – with the princess painted on nce agaain as the poor little rich girl who caan’t cattch a break.

The beginning of Bea’ss relationship with Edo was also tthe sub bject of headlines after it emerged d he waas still involved with Dara Huang, hiis ex-fiancée and the mother of his two-year-old d son, Christopher W Woolf – or Wolfie, as everryone calls him – wheen it staarted. Bea was portrayed as a homewrrecker and a Dara’s parents wen nt public with theeir furyy. But it seems thatt, at leaast, has calmed

dow wn. Dara is apparently on thee guest list and little Wolfie w will reportedly be in the wedding party.

Then, Andrew went on T BB BC TV and gave a train smash of an inteerview about his involvement with paedophile Epstein that made him a national embarrassment.

As the scandal hogged headlines day after day, the Duke of York found himself stripped of his official royal duties by his mother, Queen Elizabeth, and brother Prince Charles (YOU, 5 December 2019).

And Beatrice was reportedly “left heartbroken” after being forced to delay her nuptials as the palace continued to deal with the fallout.

Then her cousin Prince Harry announced he and wife Meghan were quitting as working royals – and Bea was pushed down the pecking order again as the senior royals dealt with that matter.

But now, thankfully, Buckingham Palace has confirmed a date and venue, which should put a smile back on her face. “The wedding of HRH Princess

Beatrice of York and Mr Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi will take place on Friday 29th May 2020,” a statement read. “Her Majesty the Queen has kindly given permission for the ceremony to take place at The Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace. It will be followed by a private reception, given by the Queen, in the gardens of Buckingham Palace.”

A source told The Sun the decision had been delayed repeatedly “because of all the issues”. “But finally they have something that seems to work and, barring any problems, that should be when it goes ahead.” ((Turn over))

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‘Beatrice would never dream of not having her father give her away at her wedding’

AB BOVE: Beatrice with her grandmother Queen Elizabeth at the Quipco Champions Stake at Royal Asscot in 2012, when the queen’s horse, Frankel, won. It’s reported the queen intends to give Be eatrice and her sister, Eugenie, more prominent royal roles. LEFT: Beatrice giving a speech durin ng a Women4Tech event, entitled Scaling Your Business for Success, in Barcelona early last year.

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The prince didn’t go to Beatrice’s swanky December engagement party at celeb hot spot Chiltern Firehouse in London. The bride-to-be’s mother, Sarah Ferguson, and sister, Princess Eugenie, were there but Andrew stayed away “out of consideration” for his daughter.

“He didn’t want the focus to be on him,” a source says. “There was just too much heat on him and he wanted Bea to enjoy herself.”

Andrew will, however, walk his daughter down the aisle. Both Beatrice and Eugenie (29) are said to remain close to their dad despite his recent fall from grace.

The scandal shows little sign of abating.

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operation” o to the FBI in its investigation into i the Epstein sex-trafficking and prostitution t ring – despite pledging to help.

He hit back, however, saying he was 100% keen to cooperate “but they haven’t contacted c me yet”.

“Andrew’s girls are greatly distressed by the t Epstein case. But they love their father t and will stand by him,” a source says.

“These are obviously very hard times.

But B Beatrice would never dream of not having h her father give her away at her wedding. w She’d never do anything hurtful to him. He’s going to be by her side and she by his.”

HIGH HOPES FOR THIS WEDDING

Beatrice and Edoardo were originally set to marry in London’s Royal Military Chapel – also known as the Guards’ Chapel – but it’s believed that fell through after Andrew announced he’d be suspending his ties with various military associations following his demotion.

The Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace, where the wedding will now take place, is an intimate setting that can seat around 150 guests. It’s been used for royal weddings and christenings for centuries and has special significance for Beatrice as she was baptised there in 1988.

According to sources, the palace is punting the wedding as something of a

unifier after months of mayhem dominated by the Epstein scandal and Megxit, as the Harry and Meghan drama has been dubbed.

“The queen has asked everyone to come together to put on a united front,” a royal insider says. “Press officers hope to portray the Beatrice wedding as the big event that brings the family back together again.”

In another sign the queen is in a forgiving mood, she’s offered to host the couple’s reception at Buckingham Palace – something Beatrice was “delighted and nd very grateful to accept”.

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ABOVE LEFT: A general view i o off the rear and garden of Buckingham Palace, where Beatrice and Edoardo’s wedding reception will be held. ABOVE: Beatrice’s sister, Princess Eugenie, and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, on their wedding day in 2018.

LEFT: A photo from one of Beatrice’s engagement shoots last year, taken by her sister, Eugenie.

THE QUEEN WANTS MORE

But there’s another reason Her Majesty is spoiling her granddaughter, those in the know say. Speculation is building she wants Beatrice and Eugenie to take on bigger roles within The Firm now that Harry and Meghan are no longer working royals and have decamped to Canada.

Royal biographer Robert Lacey, who’s also the historical consultant for Netflix series The Crown, believes this is definitely the case. “It’s quite clear that one of the consequences is that Beatrice and Euge-

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nie will now be brought forward,” he told Hello! Magazine.

“If two go out, two have got to come in, and those two have got to be Beatrice and Eugenie. I’m sure they’ll step forward and be greatly welcomed. It’s what the family needs as it’s another 15 years before Prince George’s generation steps up.”

Beatrice has a career independent of the royal family – she works in finance and consulting. She’s vice-president of partnerships and strategy at Afiniti, an American software company, where she focuses on client development. focus Euggenie works full time at an art gal-

Famous friends The T h Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s kids, Geo orge, Charlotte and Prince Louis (FAR LEF FT), and Edo’s son, Wolfie (LEFT), are expected to be in the wedding party, as are Beaa’s celebrity friends Cressida Bonas, Ellie e Goulding and Karlie Kloss (ABOVE).

Unlike her sister Eugenie’s wedding to Jack Brooksbank (34) in Occtober 2018, which was criticised in some quarters for being too costly and grand for a “lesser” royal, Bea and Edo’s wedding is unlikely to be beamed live to the world.

Eugenie’s Eugen wedding was broadcast on ITV but both that network and the BBC have reportedly turned down offers to cover Beatrice’s nuptials in light of her father’s scandal.

But a friend of the Yorks insists there have never been any plans to televise Beatrice’s wedding and any suggestion she’d been snubbed or shunned because of her father’s friendship with Epstein was “plain wrong”.

“She just doesn’t want anything grand,” the friend says.

A ROYAL WEDDING NEVERTHELESS

While it may be a small affair, there’s no doubt Beatrice’s wedding will be sprinkled with A-list glamour, thanks to her friends in high society and showbiz.

Eugenie will almost certainly be her matron of honour, while famous faces in the congregation could well include model Karlie Kloss, singer Ellie Goulding and actress and socialite Cressida Bonas, one of Harry’s former flames.

Wolfie is expected to play a prominent role amongg Beatrice’s retinue, as are William and Kate’s children, Prince George (6), Princess Charlotte (4) – and perhaps even little Priince Louis, who turns two in April.

Whateverr’s going down, few can dispute that Beatrice and Edo, who were friend ds for years before things turn ned romantic, are smitten witth each other.

In their own words they “can’t wait to embark on this life adventure and be married”.

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RIGHT: Kelly and Bruce van der Vent say power cuts have led to rediscovering quality time with their kids, Sage and Adam.

THE LIGHTS ARE OUT, SO NOW WHAT? Loadshedding is a fact of life – here’s how you can turn it into

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ET used to it – it’s the new normal. We’ve been told this before and it’s being drummed home again: loadshedding is here to stay.

Eskom’s new CEO, André de Ruyter, recently announced that rolling blackouts would continue for at least the next 18 months as the embattled power utility completely overhauls and repairs its current system – a system brought to the brink of disaster after decades of neglect, corruption, greed and mismanagement.

It’s either this or the national grid collapses, which would mean darkness for up to three weeks, sending our already ailing economy down an abyss of ruin.

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have made a point of “looking on the bright side of loadshedding”.

“At first, things became chaotic when we had blackouts at night,” she says. “But after a while it was as if a feeling of calm washed over the kids. I quickly realised a w hours without electricity as the best way for us to end our day.

“Sometimes we switch off e lights even when we have wer just so we can all take reather and connect with e another. It makes a big erence.” elly and Bruce make a int of spending quality Newly appointed e with their kids Sage (12) Eskom CEO André d Adam (6). “We play

Dark days indeed. We have little choice but to knuckle down and do what South Africans so often do: find a light at the end of the tunnel. Some families have already found ways not only to adapt to rolling blackouts but to embrace them.

Kelly van der Vent, 33-year-old mom fro Zeekoevlei in Ca Town, says she and h husband, Bruce (35

‘I used to get annoyed but my husband and I almost welcome it’

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Cape Town couple Evan and Stacey Sedres have found that less screen time means more time with each other.

games and chat and when it’s time for the kids to go to bed, we read with them.

Sometimes, if the lights come back on a little earlier than expected, it ruins the whole mood.”

Cape Town couple Stacey and Evan Sedres also sometimes find themselves simulating a power outage and “settle on the couch without phones or the TV blaring”, Stacey says. “We started doing it whenever there was loadshedding of course but we quickly realised we were talking more, fighting less and even getting more sleep because neither of us was watching series or scrolling through social media into the wee hours.”

Turning loadshedding into quality time has changed the way she views blackouts.

“I used to get so annoyed by it but now my husband and I almost welcome it.”

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OADSHEDDING can indeed be a great opportunity for families and couples to reconnect without distractions, says Tamara Sosa, a Johannesburg-based counselling psychologist.

“We live in such a [digitised] society that a cellphone, laptop or television is likely to be in the background and serve as a ‘third person’ in the home almost constantly. It all serves to form a wedge between people, which results in disconnection.”

Cape Town-based child psychologist Nicolette Liddell says that after the initial frustration about the Wi-Fi being down passes children also benefit from the downtime. “Funnily enough, more than anything else I get children telling me they’re so happy their parents aren’t on their phones because there’s loadshedding; that they finally have their mom and dad’s undivided attention.”

Sosa agrees, adding that loadshedding can be a golden opportunity to spend one-on-one time with kids. “How many

parents say they wish they had more time for their children and yet they’re always on their phones and iPads?”

But while Durban-based psychologist Rakhi Beekrum agrees loadshedding can improve family bonding, she adds that “we can’t ignore the stress loadshedding often causes”. “Micro-stressors – missing your morning cup of coffee, getting to work late due to traffic lights not working, power cuts interrupting meal preparation – all this can lead to people feeling overwhelmed,” she explains.

“When we’re stressed as individuals, we’re less emotionally available for our partners and families, which can easily create distance between everyone.”

Beekrum stresses that dealing with loadshedding must be “a team effort”.

“If one partner has to bear the burden of planning so the family is minimally affected and that person feels unsup-

he powers that be at the power utility re constantly beseeching the public to se electricity sparingly. Here are some imple ways to cut down on power sage – and save yourself some money the process.

Turn the thermostat in your geyser own to 55-60ºC. If a 150-litre geyser heated to this temperature, the ater’s temperature drops by just 10ºC. ave money by installing a timer switch o it can be switched on and off at set times rather than keeping it on constantly.

S Use your stove as little as possible.

Smaller appliances, such as electric frying pans or slow cookers, use up to half the energy of ovens. If you do have to use your stove, switch it off five to 10 minutes before the end of the cooking time – the trapped heat will still do the job.

S Set your fridge to 3-4ºC and your freezer to -15 to -18ºC. These appliances use minimum electricity at these temperatures.

ported, resentment begins to grow.”

She suggests everyone take some responsibility. “Ask for help, instead of bottling up frustration, and brainstorm ideas with the family. Pre-cooking meals together or getting older kids to fill hotwater flasks so everyone can have their nightly cuppa will go a long way to make everyone feel they’re in the same boat.” S

TIPS FOR KEEPING KIDS BUSY When it comes to putting a positive spin on loadshedding, the onus is on parents to take the lead, say Colleen Wilson and Candice Dick of Durban-based organisations Contemporary Parenting and EQ Evolution.

“We lead, and they’ll follow. If parents can turn the frustration of power cuts into something that’s to be tackled together as a team, then bonding may begin.”

GAME TIME! “It’s no secret kids are struggling more and more with reading and writing in this era of technology,” says Cape Townbased child psychologist Nicolette Liddell.

“Invest in board games that will improve their literacy or general knowledge, such as Scrabble or Trivial Pursuit, and will also be tons of fun for everyone,” she suggests.

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TALK, TALK, TALK Make a conversation jar. Each member of the family can write down a question on a piece of paper, such as, “If you were in a circus, what would you be?” Or, “If you could store only one type of food in your pocket, what would it be?”

Anything goes, Dick says, as long as the questions are fun and stimulating. Create games around storytelling – one person opens with the first line of a story and the next person builds on it, and so on.

GO EASY ON TEENS “Don’t expect a teenager who’s suddenly cut off from their devices to be delighted by a game of charades,” Wilson says.

“They’ll be on a dopamine come-down and it may be an adjustment. Study your loadshedding schedule and chat to them about what you’re planning on doing before the lights go out. If they’re mentally prepared, it will smooth the path a lot.” you.co.za 20 DECEMBER 2020

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E’S 1,85m of pure beefcake, takes his dog with him wherever he goes and is an unapologetic mommy’s boy.

Meet Marc Buckner, the hunk whose heart contestants will vie for in the second season of The Bachelor South Africa. And really, what’s not to love? The kind eyes, the designer beard, the gasp-worthy biceps, the six-pack you could bounce a R5 coin off . . . Pure dish with a capital D. South Africans were introduced to the 37-year-old model and property entrepreneur on 13 February – just in time for Valentine’s Day. And the scene was set for 16 weeks of dates and drama as 22 contestants try to be the last woman to receive a rose from the country’s most eligible on-screen bachelor.

But how on earth is he still single? Surely women have been falling over their feet to become this hottie’s one and only?

“I’m quite picky,” he says. “I think everyone should be. I’m not just going to settle.

I don’t want to divorce and remarry – I’d rather do it once.”

We’re chatting to the man of the moment at Green Point Park in Cape Town and he hasn’t come alone. Luna, his beloved rescue hound, and Jenny, his mom and best friend, are here too.

Jenny (62) admits she was sceptical when she first heard her boy was going on the show. “He’s very brave, putting himself out there like that,” she says.

If he does find his true love, she’ll be one lucky woman, Jenny adds. “There’s far more to Marc than meets the eye. He’s kind, adventurous and spontaneous – just an all-round good guy.

“He cares about animals and people, and he’s true to himself. He’s also a gentleman and an old soul.”

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ONEST, career-driven, motivated and well-groomed – that’s the kind of partner Marc is looking for. In other words, he admits, someone like his mom.

“And she must be independent – I love it when someone is independent,” he says.

Mother and son have always had a close bond.

“I’ll always remember how on wintry days we’d close the blinds and eat NikNaks, Rolos and pizza while watching a horror movie,” Marc says of his child-

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Th scary movies were more than h his dad, Marcel (65), could take, so he’d usually go off to do something else.

Marcel and Jenny divorced five years ago after a 40-year marriage but they remain close. They battled to conceive and tried for eight years to have kids before Marc, an only child, came along.

Marc was 11 when the family moved from Durban to Hout Bay, Cape Town, and although girls started noticing him he “wanted nothing to do with them”, Jenny says.

“He was a very shy child, up to the age of 12 or 13. He was more into climbing mountains, riding his bike, being in the ocean and spending time with animals.”

To conquer his shyness, Marc read selfhelp books. He believes neurolinguistic programming, a type of behavioural communication therapy, helped him develop his communication skills.

When he was 16 and at Camps Bay High School, a talent agent spotted him and he started working internationally as a model. His portfolio grew quickly to include jobs in Germany, Russia, Japan, America and China. By the time he was 18, he’d made enough money from modelling to buy his first home on Cape INSTAGRAM/@MARCBUCKNER

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As his career flourished, fl h he bought more propm erties, and to oday he reents out several through Airbnb.

Ai b b H He also l earns an income i from stock market trading.

“He’s always been an entrepreneur,” Jenny says. “When he was a kid his grandfather had a motorbike with a sidecar and Marc would offer his friends a ride around the block at a price.”

She recalls a family trip to Thailand during Marc’s high school years when he took over the holiday budget. “His poor dad was limited to one beer,” Jenny says with a chuckle.

His father, an electrical engineer, taught him to be chivalrous, Marc tells us. “It’s something I’ve taken on board. He’d always open the door for a woman.”

His toned torso suggests he lives and breathes the gym. Not so, Marc says. He stays in shape by eating healthily and running in the Cape mountains with his precious Luna. “I sometimes go to the gym but then it’ll be for only 30 minutes.

I prefer outdoor activities.”

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ARC had only one condition before agreeing to do The Bachelor: Luna had to come along.

“She travels everywhere with me,” Marc says of his furbaby, who’s having a dognap at his feet.

Marc had to move to Johannesburg from Cape Town for the six weeks of filming, and there was no way he was going to be away from his pal that long.

“She was my emotional support,” he says, adding that a pet-sitter looked after Luna when he went on dates.

Being in the show was pretty intense, he says. “Viewers see only 55 minutes per episode but there’s a lot going on behind the scenes – people crying, emotions running high, and you have to get used to being in front of the cameras for hours every day.”

Marc and his mother, Jenny, have always been close. She says he’s brave for putting himself out there and looking for love in a reality show.

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Why did he agree to do it? “I like saying yes to something different and I felt if I met someone, it would make for an incredible story.”

Discussing his decisions on camera was almost like chatting to a psychologist, he says. It gave him a better insight into what exactly he’s looking for in a partner.

But he says the rose ceremonies, in which one contestant is eliminated each week, were hard. “It’s not nice knowing you might be hurting someone’s feelings.”

The biggest challenge of the series was dividing his attention equally among the contestants.

“It was a fine balance to be fully focused on one woman and to get to know her without upsetting anyone else,” he says.

There were also many times when he struggled with self-doubt, wondering if he’d made the right choice and whether all the women were there for the right reasons.

Filming has ended but Marc isn’t allowed to reveal whether he did indeed find true love – although he does say there was “a spark” between him and several contestants.

As for Jenny, all she wants is for her son to find a “kind, happy girl who’s true to herself and allows Marc to be Marc. And I’d hope he does the same for her.”

Marc believes it’s important to travel with a romantic partner. “If you travel, you live together and learn a lot about each other.”

And yes, he’d like to get married and become a dad. “I’ve always wanted to have kids and it would be nice if it could happen before I turn 40.”

We’ll just have to wait and see if he finds his Ms Right – right before our eyes. S S The Bachelor South Africa is on M-Net, Thursdays at 7pm.

ABOVE: Lipolelo Thabane, prime minister Thomas Thabane’s estranged wife, was shot and killed execution style two days before he took office for a second term in June 2017.

ABOVE: Thabane and current first lady Maesaiah Thabane at Lipolelo’s funeral. They tied the knot two months after the service. ABOVE RIGHT: Maesaiah at Thabane’s side at his inauguration.

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YOUNG woman marries an African leader nearly twice her age and becomes the apparent power behind the throne.

She’s accused of committing a crime so audacious and outrageous it makes headlines around the world.

You’d be forgiven for thinking we’re talking about Grace Mugabe, flamboyant former first lady of Zimbabwe – but the woman in question is Lesotho’s Maesaiah Thabane (42). And she’s at the heart of a gripping murder mystery that has flabbergasted the tiny mountain kingdom and puzzled the globe.

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MURDER IN HIGH PLACES The world watches as the drama involving Lesotho’s prime minister and his wife unfolds COMPILED BY LAVERN DE VRIES home country in connection with the death of her love rival.

She was escorted back across the border to Lesotho’s capital, Maseru, where she’s expected to stand trial eventually.

The first lady, who’s married to Lesotho prime minister Thomas Thabane (80), is accused of ordering a hit on his estranged wife, Lipolelo Thabane.

Lipolelo was shot execution style two days before Thabane took office in 2017.

One evening, while returning home with a friend, she was ambushed, shot several times at close range and died on the side of a dirt road in Maseru.

Her friend was shot too but survived, although she’s been left paralysed.

Lipolelo (58) had at that point been locked in a drawn-out divorce from the prime minister, who described it as “a senseless killing” at the time.

Although there was no evidence linking the politician or his younger lover to the crime, in the hallowed halls of Lesotho’s parliament there were whispers that Maesaiah was the mastermind behind the murder.

“In December, speculation turned into allegations,” The Economist reports.

Police issued an arrest warrant after

YOU Maesaiah could not be traced for questioning. Investigators wanted her and her octogenarian husband to explain why there’d been a phone call from the crime scene to a number linked to the prime minister.

Thabane responded by trying to suspend the police chief but was blocked by the courts, and Maesaiah went into hiding.

After being accused by senior members of his ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC) party of hampering investigations into the killing, Thabane agreed in January to step down as prime minister – although he has yet to do so.

Meanwhile, Maesaiah was taken into custody and charged with murder alongside eight others who are alleged to be her accomplices.

to award a multimillion-rand catering and laundry contract to her preferred candidates, SowetanLive reports.

Her fiery temper has earned her comparisons to Grace Mugabe. Last year Maesaiah was accused of assault when she allegedly attacked a foreign doctor on call at Queen Mamohato Memorial Hospital in Maseru for taking too long to attend to a patient. The patient had been brought in by her bodyguards, who’d hit him in a road accident.

Those who knew Lipolelo say the two women are polar opposites. Mme Lipolelo, as she was known, was a traditional housewife who preferred staying in the background, taking care of her family.

“She accommodated the Thabane clan and family and adopted the four children from the prime minister’s first marriage,”

Maesaiah during her recent court appearance at which she was formally charged with murder. She had fled to SA, where she later turned herself in to police who returned her to Lesotho.

said a friend, who spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity.

“One child was autistic. She raised all of them and gave them the best schooling.”

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“She was prepared to accept he had another woman, but divorce was out of the question because she didn’t want to lose the benefits that come with being a first lady,” the friend added.

In 2015 she won a court battle to retain her privileges as Lesotho’s first lady after the prime minister instructed officials to cancel her spousal benefits and instead offer them to Maesaiah, who’d been living with him as his wife.

It was a humiliating loss for Thabane, who relentlessly pursued divorce proceedings up until Lipolelo’s death.

His supporters say the prime minister is the victim of a smear campaign led by a faction in the governing ABC. Why else would the information tying the first couple to the murder emerge now?

Thabane, who’s also been accused of corruption, claims his daughter, advocate Nkoya Thabane-Hlaele, is trying to orchestrate his downfall.

Nkoya is married to Thabane’s biggest rival, ABC secretary-general Lebohang Hlaele, who’s been challenging him on the appointment of acting chief justice Maseforo Mahase – the same judge who granted Maesaiah bail, despite police opposing it because they regard her as a flight risk.

The main witness in the murder case says she’s living in fear. Thato Sibolla, who was paralysed in the shooting that killed Lipolelo, says she’s losing faith in the justice system.

“If you flee the country and you come back, how are you given bail – even when you’ve fled the country? Other highprofile people haven’t been given bail,” she told TimesLive.

Thato, who’s seeking safety in SA, says she hopes justice will be served for her and her friend.

“I would love to see it go to court and everybody charged with what they ought to be charged with, and for some of the witnesses to feel safe to come forth with information.” S S Maesaiah’s murder trial is set to start on 18 February. you.co.za 20 FEBRUARY 2020

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AESAIAH met her future husband in Maseru after leaving her rural village behind in search of a better life.

The two began seeing each other and when Thabane separated from his wife in 2012, Maesaiah moved into the politician’s stately property overlooking Maseru and started taking on the official duties of the first lady.

Two days after Lipolelo was gunned down, Maesaiah accompanied Thabane to his inauguration for a second term as prime minister, dressed to the nines in a bright yellow outfit. Two months later she became his wife, marrying him in a Catholic ceremony held at a packed stadium in Maseru.

Maesaiah, real name Liabiloe Ramoholi, has always been ambitious, and after tying the knot with the country’s top politician she became even more power-hungry. She’s been accused of interfering in political appointments, according to media reports.

In September 2018 the prime minister fired Motlohi Maliehe – minister of tourism, environment and culture, and chairman of his ruling party – after Maliehe claimed Maesaiah was corrupt.

She was “torpedoing government by seeking to control ministers and how they performed their duties” and “instigating the removal of ministers who refused to comply with her demands”, Maliehe said.

The controversial first lady also allegedly ordered the sacking of former health minister Nyapane Kaya after he refused

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The nightmare will haunt her for years, Hesmarie van Loggerenberg says. “But I’m okay now – I just stay away from the river.”

You can’t blame her after what happened. The Elands River may be a pretty sight, a lazy ribbon of water flanked by waving grassland and green acacia trees after recent rains – but beneath the surface lurks danger and potential death.

Hesmarie knows she’s lucky to have survived to tell the tale – the slight 15-year-old might not have been here if her screams hadn’t brought help. She’ll have scars on her left leg for the rest of her life – but what a story she’ll have to go with them.

The teenager and her dad, who prefers not to be named, live on her grandparents’ farm close to the Elands River near Swartruggens in North West. Her mom, Hester, died of cancer three years ago.

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Hesmarie, seated on the stoep of her grandparents’ farmhouse, her crutches nearby, tells us of the day she was plucked from the jaws of death.

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EDNESDAY 15 January was a hellishly hot and windless day. All the puddles the rain had created had dried up under the unforgiving sun and goats huddled in what little shade there was.

Hesmarie says she and nine-year-old twins Christopher and JP, sons of neighbour Nelson Harmse, decided to walk down to the river about 50m from the house to cool off.

“We swim there often,” says Nelson, who works as a handyman in Hesmarie’s grandfather Loggies’ construction business.

The Harmses live down the road from the Van Loggerenbergs and the river runs past the back of their properties.

Hesmarie says she and d her h friends fi d spotted a dark lump in the water but thought it was a rock. She rolled up her jeans and walked into the shallow water to cool down.

“I didn’t want my jeans to get wet so I rolled them up further and then I felt something pressing against my leg. I thought it was probably a fish or something. Then I realised it was a crocodile.”

Before she could do anything, the predator’s jaws had snapped shut around her left leg and it started tugging her deeper into the river.

The croc rolled a few times then pulled Hesmarie under the water.

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over. This was how I was going to die,” she recalls.

Hesmarie screamed blue murder every time she came up for air. “Help, help, I’m going to die!” she yelled.

She kept her eyes open, even when the crocodile had her underwater, Hesmarie says. The teen does judo as an extra­ mural activity and instinctively applied her skills to the beast.

“I kept fighting. I punched and kicked him. I even tried to bite him.”

Nelson heard her screams and raced down to the river where he was greeted by the sight of Hesmarie in the jaws of the reptile.

“He rolled her once or twice more and then she came up for air,” Nelson says.

He and two other local men, Leon van Niekerk and Gert Botes, who’d also been alerted by the screams, started hurling rocks at the crocodile. Neville then held out a stick to Hesmarie and she grabbed hold of it, the crocodile still firmly clamped to her leg.

The rocks kept raining down on the croc and it must have realised this meal was more trouble than it was worth, so it released its iron grip.

arie ashore and cut open the leg of her jeans with a knife.

“There was a lot of blood. Chunks of loose skin were hanging off her leg,” Nel­ son recalls.

By this time more people had arrived to help, among them Marius Vermeulen, who has first­aid training. He brought a first­aid kit and bandaged her wounds.

“She was upset and kept saying she didn’t want to die,” Nelson says.

The men carried her to a bakkie some­ one had brought to the scene and Nelson accompanied her to the local clinic.

There her wounds were treated and she received more than 50 stitches before she was taken by ambulance to the Job Shimankana Tabane Provincial Hospital

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in Rustenburg.

Hesmarie was sent home five days after the attack.

“Actually, I didn’t want to be dis­ charged,” she says. “The nurses were all so friendly. I got lots of sweets, biltong, flowers, chocolates and a fruit basket.

They bathed me and fed me – it was very nice.”

The teen has been told she’ll make a full recovery.

“We got a big fright. I’m just grateful she’s still with us,” says Hesmarie’s grand­ mother Susan (64), a retired nurse.

“She has a lot of stitches and doctors say the leg where she had the chunk torn out will heal in time. She has the feeling back in her leg and is starting to walk on it again.”

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E FOLLOW Hesmarie down the footpath that leads through the long grass to the river. She shows us the spot where the crocodile struck.

There was social media speculation that a croc local authorities had shot and killed was the one that had attacked Hes­ marie, but locals say the dead creature was too small. “The one they shot is just 1m long. The one that attacked Hesmarie was a stout fellow of 2m,” Nelson says.

Hesmarie suddenly loses her nerve.

“I’m not going to get too close – I’ve heard crocodiles can run fast on land.”

All seems peaceful now, the river flow­ ing by slowly, a kingfisher calling in a treetop.

But Hesmarie keeps a wary distance, sitting on a rock, eyes scouring the water for any sign of movement.

“I’m not swimming here ever again,” she declares.

And if she ever does come across that croc again?

She gestures defiantly with her crutch.

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A South Korean movie has made history by winning the best picture Oscar – and its director, Bong Joon-ho, is ecstatic COMPILED BY JANE VORSTER

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HERE were so many highlights at this year’s Academy Awards – Brad Pitt winning his first Oscar for acting, Laura Dern’s emotional speech as she bagged best supporting actress, Martin Scorsese nodding off during Eminem’s performance . . . But it was a man who only recently burst onto the mainstream scene who upstaged them all.

The expression on director Bong Joonho’s face as he scooped not one but four Oscars, including the big one for best picture, was priceless.

“I want someone to look at me like Bong Joon-ho looks at his Oscar,” a film buff joked on Twitter.

The South Korean director had good reason to look astonished. Before the event even he had to admit that Parasite, his dark anti-capitalist satire with a cast unknown to American audiences, was a long shot to win.

But as the low-key arthouse movie reeled in one award after the other, leaving blockbuster offerings from the likes of Scorsese, Sam Mendes and Quentin Tarantino in the dust, Bong (50) looked like a kid in a candy store.

With Oscars for best international feature film, best original screenplay and best director, there could be little doubt the night belonged to him. But the biggest triumph came right at the end of the ceremony when his movie won best picture – and with that history was made.

It’s taken 92 years but finally for the first time a non-English-language film has won what’s considered to be the highest accolade in the movie business.

To date only 11 foreign movies have been nominated in this category, including the Italian war drama Life Is Beautiful (1997), but Parasite, which is almost entirely in Korean, is the first to have final-

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For years the Academy Awards has drawn criticism for its lack of diversity – and this year was no exception – so this string of wins for a foreign film was hailed as a positive sign at an event otherwise criticised for its lack of acting nominees from a diverse background.

In another refreshing twist, when Bong walked on stage for the fourth time to receive the most prestigious award in showbiz, he did the unthinkable: feeling he’d said enough for one night, he handed the microphone to fellow producers Kwak Sin-ae and Miky Lee so they could do the honours.

For actors of Asian descent around the world it was an incredible moment.

“Congratulations @ParasiteMovie,” tweeted Killing Eve star and a presenter on the night Sandra Oh, who was born in Canada to South Korean immigrants.

“So, so proud to be Korean.”

“The game has changed,” wrote Into the Badlands actor Lewis Tan, who has a British mother and a Singaporean father. “I’m in tears. This is historic.”

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ONG has never shied away from pushing the envelope, crossing genres from monster movies (The Host) and murder mysteries (Memories of Murder) to dystopian sci-fi (Snowpiercer) and just plain weird offerings such as Okja, a film about a girl who raises a genetically modified superpig.

While these movies were warmly received in South Korea and well-loved among English-speaking arthouse film buffs, they were generally overlooked at awards time. But with Parasite raking in more than $35 million (R507 million) in the US to date, making it the most successful foreign-language film released in

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America in 2019, Bong is finally getting the recognition he deserves.

The movie focuses on a dirt-poor family, the Kims, who hatch a plan to inveigle their way into the privileged lives and home of the wealthy Parks. All they want is a chance to better their lot in life – so after one of their sons, Ki-woo, bluffs his way into a tutoring job at the Park mansion, he successfully cooks up a way to bring the rest of his family into the fold in other servant roles. But as class resentment cranks up to boiling point, it leads to tragedy.

Frank Kermode, a reviewer for Britain’s The Guardian newspaper, describes Parasite as “a gasp-inducing masterpiece”.

“It’s the kind of remarkable experience that makes modern movie-going such a joy. I saw it for the fourth time last week,” he writes.

Alissa Wilkinson, a movie critic for American website Vox.com, believes the reason it’s hitting such a nerve with audiences is because it delivers a message that people need to hear.

“Parasite is a pitch-perfect thrill ride with a dark social conscience that tapped into a prevailing theme in world cinema: that rampant inequality all over the world was building to some kind of inevitable breaking point,” she writes.

Winning the coveted Palme d’Or award at the Cannes Film Festival last year helped spread the word about the breathtaking movie. And during this year’s awards season it’s continued to rake in the gongs – including a Golden Globe and Critics Choice award for best foreign-language movie plus a Bafta for best original screenplay.

Accepting his Golden Globe, Bong acknowledged how difficult it is to persuade English-speaking mainstream audiences to spend money to see foreign movies.

“Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles you’ll be introduced to so many more amazing films,” he said.

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EADING towards the Oscars, Parasite was the favourite to win best international feature film, but few expected it would take three other gongs to emerge as the biggest winner of the night.

Bong is only the second director of a foreign-language film to win best director after Mexico’s Alfonso Cuarón for Roma (2018), and only the second director of Asian descent to win after Taiwanese Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain

(2005) and Life of Pi (2012). And he seemed delighted and a little bemused by his success.

Speaking with the aid of a translator, he almost broke the internet with some of the remarks he made in his Oscar acceptance speeches.

“Thank you. I’ll drink until next morning,” Bong joked while collecting his trophy for best director.

His wife, Jung Sun-young, could be seen wiping away tears as he sang her praises when receiving his first award of the evening for best original screenplay.

“It’s a lonely job to write a film script,” he said. “I thank my wife, who always inspired me.”

The couple have a son, Bong Hyo-min (24), an aspiring director who’s already produced a successful short film.

Bong also paid heartfelt tribute to his fellow nominees, Scorsese (The Irishman), Todd Phillips ( Joker), Mendes (1917) and Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood).

“If the Academy allows, I’d like to get a Texas chainsaw, split the Academy Award into five, and share it with all of you,” he joked.

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LOCUSTS, LOCUSTS, EVERYWHERE

Swarms of these insect pests are sweeping East Africa threatening to trigger a food crisis COMPILED BY JANE VORSTER

T’S a plague of biblical proportions.

Locusts are everywhere – on the ground, in trees, on roofs, crawling on window panes. And when they take off in a ravenous cloud they block out the sun, devouring everything in their path.

Locust swarms aren’t an unusual occurrence but the invasion currently raging through East Africa and bringing countries such as Ethiopia Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya to their knees is the worst to have hit the region in 25 years.

That’s because these are

desert locusts – the most destructive of all the locust species – and civil war and freak weather patterns have provided the perfect conditions for the pests to thrive.

A single swarm can stretch for around 1 200km2 – roughly three times the size of Cape Town – and contain up to 150 million locusts per square kilometre.

Capable of flying about 150km a day, the insects eat their own weight in food daily so it’s easy to see why a plague could quickly spell disaster.

“A locust plague is much like a wildfire,” says Keith Cressman, senior locust forecasting officer with the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation.

“If you can find it when it’s just a tiny

The length of one of the largest swarms in Kenya.

campfire and put it out, you’re good. No problem. If not, the swarm will only stop growing when it runs out of food.”

With the African plague already well beyond the point where it’s possible to contain, experts are warning it’s likely to trigger a food crisis in the region, which is home to some of the poorest nations in the world.

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HE current plague is believed to have first reared its ugly head in the arid desert along Saudi Arabia’s southern border with Yemen and Oman.

But because this area is so inhospitable it went unnoticed – and when two cyclones hit the area it created unusually rainy conditions which

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allowed the locusts to multiply.

“They were increasing about 8 000-fold for nine months, with no disturbance and no control,” Cressman says.

In the spring of 2019 the locusts took flight, with one group heading north through Saudi Arabia and Iran, while others zeroed in on the fertile ground of Yemen where the civil war provided opportunity for them to breed unchecked.

The insects then crossed the Red Sea and moved onto the Horn of Africa which had just experienced one of the wettest periods on record.

“They found a green, verdant Somalia where they could really just go to town,” says Chris Funk, who researches precipitation in the region at the Climate Hazards Centre at the University of California in the US. By the end of last year the pests had wiped out more than 700km² of crops and grazing in the country.

At the time of going to print, war-torn Somalia had become the first country to declare the plague a national emergency, saying the infestation “poses a major threat to Somalia’s fragile food security situation”.

Meanwhile in Ethiopia the plague

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only effective means to combat the pests. forced planes to be diverted.

An Ethiopian Airlines plane landed in But with $80 million (R1,16 billion) in the capital Addis Ababa with damaged emergency aid needed and only $10m engines and its windscreen splattered (R145m) forthcoming so far, it’s unlikely the plague will be eradicated any time after flying through a swarm.

But this is nothing compared to soon.

In fact, experts predict that with more the risk the hungry creatures pose in Ethiopia’s Rift Valley, which is the bread- rains expected to arrive in March, the basket for Africa’s second-most populous plague could grow 500 times bigger.

Scientists are pointing the finger of country.

The UN is already warning that eight blame at humans, saying our consumpmillion people may need food aid as tion habits have caused the climate change that triggered the conditions ala result of the invasion.

Over in Kenya, where an estimated lowing the locusts to go forth and multi70 000 hectares are infested, experts are ply.

“The larger story here is that this is the also lost for answers.

“This is huge,” says Kipkoech Tale, new normal,” says Rachel Cleetus, policy a migratory pest control specialist with director of the Union of Concerned Scithe country’s agriculture ministry. “I’m entists.

“The same ocean-warming trends in talking about more than 20 swarms that the Indian Ocean that created the hot, we’ve sprayed. And more are coming.”

At their wits’ end, people in the region dry conditions that fuelled Australia’s have taken to frying locusts and serving bush fires are also bringing rainfall to them with rice. According to those East Africa. We’re all connected.” S who’ve eaten them, they’re tastier than SOURCES: WIRED COM BBC CO UK BUSINESSINSIDER COM fish and can make a delicious dish wh cooked with chopped onion and curry powder.

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GIVE THEM PRESENCE

What children need most from their parents is just for them to show up and be there for them, a new book argues COMPILED BY JANE VORSTER

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OW do you raise healthy, happy kids who feel at home in the world?

Read all the parenting bestsellers, spend hours ferrying them from one extramural to the next, buy them the latest educational toys and gadgets?

None of the above. Child experts Daniel J Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson say all you have to do is be there for them.

In this extract from their new book, The Power of Showing Up, they tell you why.

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AKE a moment and imagine a day in the future when your child, now an adult, looks back and talks about what it was like having you as a parent.

Maybe he’s talking to a spouse, or a friend, or a therapist – someone he can be brutally honest with.

Perhaps he’s holding a cup of coffee,

saying, “My mom, she wasn’t perfect, but I always knew she loved me just as I was.”

Or, “My dad was always in my corner, even when I got in trouble.”

Would he say something like that? Or would he end up talking about how his parents always wanted him to be something he wasn’t or didn’t take the time to really understand him?

We all know the cliché of the dad who wants his nonsporty son to be an athlete, or the mom who expects her child to get straight A’s, regardless of whether the child has the aptitude or inclination to do so.

These are examples of parents who fail to see who their kids really are.

So how do you avoid being that kind of parent?

You don’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to read all the parenting books or sign your kids up for all the right enrichment activities. All you have to do is show up for your kids.

We’re not just talking about taking

time out from work to attend school concerts or reading with them or helping them with their homework – those are all important, but showing up entails much more.

It means really being there for your kids, providing a quality of presence when you’re meeting their needs by being physically, mentally and emotionally present, and seeing and accepting them for who they are in all behavioural situations, good and bad.

Research on child development clearly demonstrates that one of the very best predictors for how any child turns out – in terms of happiness, social and emotional development, leadership skills, meaningful relationships, and even academic and career success – is whether they developed security from having at least one person who they can really count on.

Do you want to be that person in your child’s life? Then you have to know what it means to show up.

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WHAT SHOWING UP LOOKS LIKE: THE FOUR S’s

Feeling safe

This is the first step toward a secure attachment, since a parent’s first job is to keep his or her kids safe. Kids need to feel and know that they’re safe. They have to believe that their parents are going to protect them – not only from physical harm but also keep them safe emotionally.

Make a commitment that you won’t be the source of fear in your home. Even when parents don’t commit physical violence against their children, they can humiliate, shame or yell at them, or use strategies to deliberately frighten them for the sake of discipline or eliciting cooperation. In all these cases, parents may be unintentionally chipping away at their child’s and safe.

This doesn’t mean adults can’t ever make a mistake or say or do something that leads to hurt feelings, but when we mess up we must repair the damage as soon as we can. This is how kids learn that even when harsh words are spoken, we still love each other and want to make things right again. That message, when consistently delivered, leads to a feeling of safety.

Feeling soothed

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When a child is in distress that negative state can be shifted by an interaction with a caregiver who shows up for her. She might still suffer, but at least she won’t be alone in her pain. One of the most powerful ways to soothe someone – child or adult – is to help that person feel absolutely loved.

And as she learns, through experience, that someone will always show up for her when she’s hurting, she’ll develop the ability to soothe herself and regulate her own emotions.

When we talk about soothing children who are having a hard time, even when that manifests as a challenging behaviour, it’s sometimes assumed we’re encouraging permissive parenting. This is not what we’re saying.

Of course set limits; you can’t just let it slide when she hits her baby brother, or speaks disrespectfully to you. Setting boundaries is part of loving our children. But we can do so in a way that communicates love and acceptance, of the child if not the behaviour.

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Feeling seen

Some kids live most of their childhood not being seen. Never feeling understood. And if we can’t see our kids, then what do we really mean when we say we love them?

Sometimes, it’s because parents see the child through a “lens” that has more to do with their own desires, fears and issues. That fixed filter can make it difficult for us to perceive, make sense of and then respond in an attuned manner.

Maybe we become fixated on a label and say, “He’s the baby,” or “She’s the athletic (or shy or artistic) one.” Or “She’s stubborn, just like her dad.”

When we define our kids in ways such as this we prevent ourselves from really seeing them.

One of the worst ways we can fail to see our children is to ignore their feelings.

With a toddler that might mean telling him, as he cries after a fall, “Don’t cry. You’re not hurt.” Or an older child might feel anxious about attending the first meeting of a dance class. It’s unlikely that she’ll feel more at ease if you tell her, “Don’t worry about it – there’s no reason to be nervous.”

Yes, we want to reassure our kids, but that’s far different from denying what they’re feeling.

Instead it’s better to go with something like, “You’re going to be okay,” or “Lots of people feel nervous on the first day. I’ll be there until you feel comfortable.”

That kind of response is much more compassionate. When your child feels felt, it can create a sense of belonging and a real connection as he feels authentically known by you.

Feeling secure

It’s about predictability – letting your kids know they can count on you to show up.

Their security will come when they believe that you’ll do all you can to keep them safe, that you’ll work hard to help them feel seen when they come to you, and that when things don’t go their way, you’ll be there to soothe them.

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A WINNING SMILE Azina has been chosen as SA’s cutest Grade 1 learner

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OR Cape Town reader Nazreen Parker, seeing her six-year-old daughter, Miriam, being voted YOU’s first-prize winner of the I’m A First Grader competition felt like an affirmation.

“We applied to eight schools last year for her for Grade 1 and she was rejected by all eight,” Nazreen says. This led to severe stress for Nazreen (37) and her husband, Ishaamodien (48).

“She wasn’t accepted anywhere, and

First-prize winner Miriam Parker.

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Ih had d to t appeall tto sseverall sschools h ls ffor h her to get a place somewhere. Luckily, Vredelust Primary looked at my appeal letter and that’s how she got in,” Nazreen says.

When readers saw the cute picture her mom submitted for the contest, they also gave Miriam a very clear thumbs-up.

The youngster won R5 000 – plus R2 000 for her school. Her mom says the money will be saved for her education.

“When she was very young, we started a fund so that when she starts university we have money for fees and books.”

Miriam has her sights set on becoming a doctor.

“She’s not squeamish when it comes to blood,” Nazreen says. “Her dad had carpal tunnel syndrome and when he had an operation on his hand last year Miriam was the one who helped him clean his wound.”

Her little brother, Mubasheer (5), is her best friend and most loyal supporter, and was there cheering his big sister on when w she began her first day at school, Nazreeen says.

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Many kids are a bundle of nerves on their first day of school – but not Azina Mamane. Kitted out in her new dress and shiny new shoes, little pink backpack slung over her shoulders, the five-year-old couldn’t wait to get to class on her first day of Grade 1.

And this can-do attitude is already earning big rewards for the plucky schoolgirl, from Lawley in Johannesburg.

Adorable Azina was chosen as SA’s cutest Grade 1 learner in a competition run by Pep in conjunction with YOU and our sister magazines, Move! and Drum.

Last month, as little ones across South Africa took their first excited – and sometimes tentative – steps into “big school”, readers were invited to choose the cutest Grade 1s from the crop of delightful photos submitted by proud parents. And much to the delight of Azina’s mom, Unathi (34), it was her daughter who was crowned the grand winner, which means her family will receive R10 000 in prize money while her school, Glenanda Primary, will get a R6 000 windfall.

For Unathi and her husband, Wilfred Dube (34), it was a proud moment to accompany Azina to school on her first day and see her taking such a major step with confidence. And winning the competition was the cherry on top. Unathi says it couldn’t have come at better time for the family. “I was struggling a bit financially, so this money will help a lot towards the school fees.”

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New cookbook Share is a compilation from years’ worth of community recipe booklets. Relive the flavours of yesteryear with these delicious old favourites

OOKERY writer and TV personality Errieda du Toit pays tribute to those humble recipe booklets that over the years have formed the heart of count­ less community fundraisers. She went through 150 of them, published over the past 100 years. The recipes in Share are flop­proof and tell the story of SA food.

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Instead of frying individual steaks, stuff a whole fillet with the onion mixture, oysters and blue cheese.

Wrap in the bacon, secure with string or cocktail sticks and braai over hot coals.

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This dish is still as popular as when it was included in 1987’s Uit die Haard van Citrusdal (“from the hearth of Citrusdal”). The fund­ raising effort was so successful that the profits from each reprint could be ploughed back into a new worthy project.

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PARSLEY BUTTER 60g butter 30ml (2T) chopped fresh parsley lemon juice

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Worcester sauce STEAK 15g butter, at room temperature 1 small onion, finely chopped 12 button mushrooms, finely chopped 1 crustless slice of slightly stale white bread, crumbled

salt and pepper 6 steaks (±200g each, fillet, sirloin, rump or ribeye) 1 can (85g) smoked oysters or mussels, divided into 6 portions 125g blue cheese, divided into 6 portions 1 packet (200-250g) streaky bacon oil for rubbing chips to serve

1 Parsley butter Combine the ingredients for the butter well. Form 6 balls

and wrap in clingfilm.

Chill in the fridge until cold and hard.

2 Steak Heat the butter in a pan and fry the onion and mushrooms until soft and browned. Add the breadcrumbs, salt and pepper. Set aside to cool.

3 Cut a pocket into the side of each steak.

Divide the onion mixture into 6 portions and press one into each pocket along with the

oysters or mussels and blue cheese. Season the meat with salt and pepper to taste.

4 Wrap the bacon rashers around each steak and secure with cocktail sticks or tie with string.

5 Lightly rub oil over each steak. Heat a griddle pan until very hot and fry the steaks for 4-6 minutes on each side. Remove the cocktail sticks or string and serve with the parsley butter and chips.

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I chose this recipe from 1940 for its name because curry deserves to be celebrated with a good party. Curry binds us together.

SERVES 8-10 PREPARATION: 20 MIN STANDING: 1 HOUR COOKING: 1½ HOURS

250ml (1c) desiccated coconut 500ml (2c) boiling water oil for frying 1,8kg lamb chops, or cubed leg of lamb 3 large onions, chopped 35-40ml (7-8t) medium curry powder 1 large apple, peeled, cored and chopped 250ml (1c) chopped sultanas 250ml (1c) chopped dried apricots juice of ½ lemon 10ml (2t) sugar salt and freshly ground pepper 140ml water 3 potatoes, peeled and quartered rice, chutney and tomato and onion sambal to serve

LETTIE’S SEVEN-LAYER SALAD

Moulded salads of the ’70s have lost their jelly corsets. Fresh veggies are displayed in all their crispy glory. The WAA (Women’s Agricultural Association) Kuils River branch are so enthusiastic about the salad renaissance it inspired their book Laat Waai met Slaai (“let rip with salad”).

SERVES 8-10 PREPARATION: 15 MIN CHILLING: OVERNIGHT

DRESSING 500ml (2c) mayonnaise (or half mayonnaise, half yoghurt) 15-30ml (1-2T) sugar 125ml (½c) sour cream 10ml (2t) prepared mustard SALAD 1 large iceberg lettuce head, coarsely shredded 1 large brown or red onion, halved and thinly sliced 1 green pepper, seeds removed and sliced

1 packet (1kg) frozen petit pois 2 packets (200-250g each) streaky bacon, diced and fried until crispy 4 hard-boiled eggs, cut into thick slices 170g cheddar cheese, grated

1 Dressing Mix the ingredients well and set aside.

2 Salad Arrange half the ingredients in layers in a large glass salad bowl with vertical sides. Pour half the dressing over.

3 Set aside a few of the remaining ingredients for

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the garnish. Add the remaining salad ingredients to the bowl in layers. Pour the remaining dressing over.

4 Garnish the salad with the ingredients you set aside.

5 Chill in the fridge overnight.

Use your best glass bowl to show off the layers, or follow the trend of serving the salad in canning jars.

1 Soak the coconut in the boiling water. Set aside for 1 hour, pour through a sieve and retain the coconut milk.

2 Heat oil in a large saucepan and fry the meat in batches until browned on all sides. Set aside.

3 Fry the onions in the same saucepan over medium heat until soft.

Add the curry powder and stir for 1 minute.

4 Add the meat, coconut milk and the rest of the ingredients except the potatoes and side dishes and cook over low heat for 1 hour.

5 Add the potatoes and cook for 30 minutes.

Add salt and pepper and serve with the rice, chutney and sambal.

SAWAS (SA Women’s Auxiliary Services) Cookery Book, Paarl branch, 1940 (Turn over)

YOU LIFESTYLE SUNSHINE BROWN RICE SALAD

A retro salad that’s very much at home on the modern table.

SERVES 8 PREPARATION: 20 MIN

DRESSING 125ml (½c) olive oil 30ml (2T) lemon juice 5ml (1t) curry powder 5ml (1t) soy sauce 15ml (1T) honey 1 garlic clove, bruised (optional) SALAD 750ml (3c) cooked brown rice or brown basmati rice 750ml (3c) finely chopped fresh pineapple 250ml (1c) finely chopped celery 125ml (½c) finely chopped green pepper 1 red onion, finely chopped 45ml (3T) finely chopped fresh parsley 60ml (¼c) sultanas 50g finely chopped dried apricots 125ml (½c) sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and flaked almonds (or a mixture of these)

1 Dressing Shake the ingredients in a jar and set aside.

2 Salad In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients except the seeds and/or almonds. Pour the dressing over, mix through and chill until ready to serve.

3 Scatter the seeds or nuts over just before serving.

Marj Atkins, Peace Meals Ethnic Recipes, Church on the Rock, Edenvale, 1994

Crushed wheat (stampkoring), couscous and heritage grains such as barley and spelt can be used instead of rice.

BLITZTORTE

This easy cake, with its sponge base and meringue topping, appears in so many books for a good reason. When served at teatime, the cake immediately elevates the standing of the hostess. The name of the cake, with its German origin, differs from book to book – blitz cake, blitzkuchen, even lightning cake. It’s traditionally filled with confectioner’s custard.

MAKES A 22CM DOUBLE-LAYER CAKE PREPARATION: 40 MIN BAKING: 30 MIN

25g butter 250g sugar 3 eggs, separated 5ml (1t) vanilla essence 45ml (3T) milk 120g cake flour 1,25ml (¼t) salt 5ml (1t) baking powder 125ml (½c) flaked almonds or chopped walnuts 15ml (1T) castor sugar 2,5ml (½t) ground cinnamon whipped cream or confectioner’s custard sliced strawberries for filling and topping

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease two 22cm cake tins.

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together the egg yolks, vanilla essence and milk.

Sift together the flour, salt and baking powder.

Alternately mix the yolk mixture and flour mixture into the butter mixture. Pour the batter into the prepared cake tins – it will be a very thin layer.

Beat the egg whites until frothy, then add the remaining sugar a spoonful at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat until the meringue is shiny and smooth and forms soft peaks.

Spread the meringue over the cake batter in the tins. Sprinkle the nuts over.

Mix the castor sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over.

Bake for about 30 minutes or until lightly browned. Transfer to cooling racks and allow to cool in the tins for

15 minutes. Loosen the sides with a knife and carefully remove from the tins. Set aside on wire racks until completely cooled.

9 Place one of the cake layers, meringue side up, on a cake plate. Spread some of the whipped cream or confectioner’s custard over and add some strawberries. Top with the second cake layer, meringue side up, and add the remaining cream or custard and strawberries.

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Chocolate heaven

Impress your loved ones with these deceptively simple treats

BY CARMEN PETERSEN PICTURES: JACQUES STANDER STYLING: CARMEN NIEHAUS

CHOCOLATE MOUSSE CAKE SERVES 20 PREPARATION: 25 MIN COOKING: ABOUT 40 MIN

440g butter 500ml (2c) castor sugar 8 eggs 500ml (2c) self-raising our 10ml (2t) baking powder 80ml (š⠄₃c) cocoa powder 160ml (Â˛â „â‚ƒc) milk ICING 240g milk chocolate 240g dark chocolate 500ml (2c) long-life cream 120g butter CHOCOLATE BARK 450g white chocolate 100g dried cranberries 30ml (2T) black sesame seeds 60ml (Âźc) pumpkin seeds

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Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line two 20cm cake tins, a

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15cm cake tin and a baking sheet with baking paper.

Grease with nonstick spray.

1 Beat the butter and sugar in a bowl until pale and creamy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating each in until combined.

2 Sift the our, baking powder and cocoa powder into a separate bowl.

Add to the butter mixture. Pour in the milk and beat until just combined.

3 Divide the batter among the prepared tins. Bake the large cakes for 35 minutes and the small one for 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tins for 5 minutes then turn out and cool completely.

4 Icing Add the chocolate, cream and butter to an ovenproof glass bowl.

Microwave for 30 seconds, stir well, then microwave for another 30 seconds. Repeat until the mixture is smooth.

Chill in the fridge to cool completely and thicken, then beat until uy.

5 Using the icing, sandwich the large cakes together.

Halve the smaller cake horizontally and sandwich the halves together with icing. Cover the cakes with icing and leave to harden slightly.

Put the small cake on top of the large ones.

6 Chocolate bark Melt the chocolate in the microwave, stirring every 15 seconds until smooth.

Spread evenly on the baking sheet. Scatter the cranberries and seeds over and press into the chocolate.

7 Leave to harden. Break into large shards and attach to the cake.

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YOU LIFESTYLE CHOCOLATE ROULADE SERVES 12 PREPARATION: 10 MIN COOKING: 20 MIN

ROULADE 6 large eggs, separated 150g castor sugar 50g cocoa powder pinch of salt 125ml (½c) ground almonds FILLING zest of 1 orange 375ml (1½c) plain double-cream yoghurt GANACHE 80g dark chocolate, broken into pieces 80ml (¹⁄₃c) cream orange slices to garnish

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a Swiss roll tin with baking paper and grease with nonstick spray.

1 Roulade In a bowl, beat the egg yolks and the sugar until thick and pale.

2 Fold in the cocoa powder, salt and ground almonds.

3 Using a clean whisk, whisk the egg whites

CHOCOLATE CUPS WITH BERRYMOUSSE MAKES 8-10 CUPS PREPARATION: 20 MIN CHILLING: 4½-5½ HOURS

CUPS 8-10 balloons 150g dark chocolate MOUSSE 12g powdered gelatin 60ml (¼c) hot water 200g mixed frozen berries 300g plain double-cream yoghurt 30ml (2T) honey fresh berries to serve

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diameter and set aside.

Temper the chocolate (see tip box on opposite page) and leave to cool slightly.

2 Line a baking sheet with baking paper and grease well with nonstick spray.

Dip the balloons in the melted chocolate and put on the baking sheet.

Chill in the fridge for about 1 hour or until hardened.

3 Mousse Put the gelatin powder in a small bowl and add the hot water.

Stir until dissolved.

4 Blitz the frozen berries, yoghurt and honey in a food processor until smooth.

5 Add the dissolved gelatin and blend until well combined. Pour the mousse mixture into a piping bag and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Carefully prick the balloons at the top, leave to pull away from the chocolate, then discard. Pipe in the mousse. Chill in the fridge for 3-4 hours or until set. Serve with the fresh berries.

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in a clean bowl until stiff peaks form. Mix a little of the yolk mixture with the egg whites, then fold in the rest.

Spoon into the tin, spreading evenly. Bake for 20 minutes or until springy in the middle.

Turn out onto a tea towel, carefully peel off the paper and roll the cake up, using the towel to help you. Leave to cool.

Filling Stir the zest into the yoghurt. Unroll the cake, spread the filling over then roll up again.

Ganache Put the chocolate and cream in an ovenproof glass bowl.

Microwave for 30 seconds, stir well then microwave for another 30 seconds. Stir until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth. Cool for about 10-15 minutes then pour over the cake. Arrange the orange slices on top and serve.

CHOCOLATE TIPS

WHITE CHOCOLATE RASPBERRYTART SERVES ABOUT 20 PREPARATION: 30 MIN COOKING: 3 MIN CHILLING: 3½-4½ HOURS

CRUST 300g chocolate digestive biscuits 120g butter, melted FILLING 320g white chocolate, chopped 125ml (½c) heavy cream 50g unsalted butter

300g fresh raspberries TOPPING 80g dark chocolate fresh raspberries to garnish 30ml (2T) icing sugar

Grease a 19x27cm tart tin with nonstick spray.

1 Crust Blitz the biscuits in a food processor. Add the butter and blitz until well combined. Press the biscuit mixture onto the

bottom and up the sides of the tart tin. Chill in the fridge for 20 minutes.

2 Filling Add the chocolate, cream and butter to an ovenproof glass bowl.

Microwave for 30 seconds, stir well then microwave for another 30 seconds. Repeat until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth.

3 Pack the raspberries in a single layer on the biscuit base. Pour the melt-

ed chocolate over and spread evenly over the berries. Chill in the fridge for 3-4 hours.

4 Topping Grease a large piece of baking paper well with nonstick spray.

Temper the chocolate (see right) and pour into a piping bag. Snip the tip off the bag and pipe swirls onto the baking paper. Leave to harden.

Garnish the tart with the swirls and berries. Dust with the icing sugar and serve. S

KNOW THE TYPES 1 "Good-quality chocolate" in a recipe means it contains more than 35% cocoa butter.

2 Bitter or unsweetened cooking chocolate is best for baking and contains 50% cocoa butter.

3 Bitter- and semisweet dark chocolate can also be used in baking.

4 Milk or flavoured chocolate isn’t recommended for chocolate work such as curls or collars.

5 White chocolate contains cocoa butter but not solids. It scorches and burns easily.

TEMPERING Tempering chocolate makes it shinier and more spreadable.

Method 1: Melt the chocolate in a bowl, then put the bowl in another one filled with cold (not ice) water. Carefully stir the chocolate while it’s cooling. Just before it sets, melt again at 32°C or until the chocolate is smooth and shiny.

Method 2: Pour ²⁄₃ of the melted chocolate onto a marble slab, spread and scrape back and forth for three minutes until almost set. Scrape back into the bowl and melt again until smooth.

MELTING Always break chocolate into smaller pieces before melting as it melts more easily. Chocolate should be heated over low heat in a double boiler or in the microwave (30%) as it scorches easily and becomes unusable. Make sure the bowl is dry. Never cover chocolate that’s being melted – just one drop of water sets the chocolate in a crumbly form that can’t be melted again. If adding liquid, make sure it’s the same temperature as the chocolate. Too hot and the cocoa butter will separate.

Too cold and lumps will form.

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Model Raissa Santana’s New York Fashion Week dress is bang on trend.

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YOU LIFESTYLE

Light up YOUR L

Here’s the lowdown on goin ng lighter and how to take caree of your new mane

BY NTHABISENG MAKHOKHA

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1 From red to blond There are various shades of red, so deciding which shade of b blonde to asy, unless you want to go platinum. num The go to from there may not be easy best way to know what will suit you is to check out celebritiess with a er of sesskin tone similar to yours and ssee what they’ve tried. A numbe sions will be required for you to achieve your look. The lighterr you want to go, the more your hair will have to be bleached. mage, consider starting with If you’re worried about dam out going that route is that highlights. What’s exciting abo you’ll get some of the trendiesst colours such as blorange or strawberry blonde. After that, a blonde o help you transition to balayage may be necessary to hnique of highlighting full-on blonde. This is the tech nd natural gradation the hair, and creating a soft an of lightness towards the endss. It can be done gradually over a few months.

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damaged, you’ll have to get it healthy before colouring it, advises Peter Matlala from Lucy’s Hair Salon in Sandton. If you colour your hair while it’s in a poor state, it’ll break and fall out.

S Box colours bought from the shops won’t work if you want to go lighter because the process may be a bit complicated depending on your natural hair colour. Rather visit the salon.

S Don’t wash your hair before a dyeing session. The natural oils and products on your hair act as a buffer between your scalp and the chemicals applied.

S “Use colour-preserving products to maintain your hair and avoid heat as much as possible,” Matlala advises.

S If you must apply heat, do so at a low setting.

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2 Blonde with highlights Highlights are great as they look natural. Going blonde using this method warms you up to the idea of being completely blonde. Because it’s a gradual process it gives you time to test and see which shade of blonde works for you.

OPTIONS S You can leave the roots and a few strands darker and bleach the tips. This doesn’t require many visits to the salon for touch ups.

S Framing the face with blonde strands is trendy. Since the strands in the front are closer to the face, it gives you a sense of how you’d look if you were fully blonde.

S For much darker hair, adding thin and scattered platinum highlights gives the hair an illusion of being shiny. Scattered highlights with any shade of blonde also adds contrast and dimension to darker hair, making it appear to be fuller uller.

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You don’t have to dye your brows blonde just because you changed your hair to blonde. Dark brown and black brows work just fine if they’re filled in lightly. If you’ve got full brows, you can make them dark brown if you want them softer. But then dye them rather than fill them in with an eyebrow pencil as pencil can look too harsh.

1 Colour Wow Root Cover Up Blonde R550 2 Label.m Blonde Highlighting Toner R354 for 150ml

YOUR SKIN TONE & BLONDE HAIR Here’s hair expert Peter Matlala’s quick guide on the different shades of blonde for different skin tones.

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and golden blondes work well on people with medium and dark skin tones because the hair colour isn’t too harsh against their skin tone.

S Ash blonde with dark undertones works for dark and medium skin tones as well. The dark undertones help the skin and hair to blend.

Ash blonde with pink, yellow and orange undertones works for lighter skin tones as they add warmth.

S Strawberry blonde works for lighter skin tones because the undertones add warmth to the skin.

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From brunette to blonde 1

You can go straight from brunette to blonde onde if you want to make a dram matic statement. If you’ve never coloured your hair before, this will makke the process easier. But if you’ve coloured it before, the previous colour needs to be lifted – which me eans removing pigment from m the hair before any other colour caan be added.

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FROM DARK TO BLONDE Darker hair colours can be more stubborn to change, meaning more appointments will be need ded to get your look.

Brown hair that’s gone blonde is prone to looking brassy. Purple (also known n as silver) shampoo takes care of that as it neutralises yellow and orange tones and hydrates the hair.

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BUILD STRONG MUSCLE

Strong is the new skinny – but it’s also the new healthy, brainy and long-living. Here’s why building muscle is vital for your health BY HELEN FOSTER

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OU probably already know once we pass age 30 the amount of muscle we have starts to decline – it drops by roughly 3-8% a decade.

You probably also know muscle burns kilojoules and so as the levels decline, so does your metabolic rate. This is what accounts for the weight gain many of us find starts in middle age. But muscle decline also has other internal consequences which have a major impact on health.

“As the level of muscle in your body falls, so does your strength and power, and this affects your functional ability – how well you move – and in time, your balance,” says Australian exercise physiologist Luke Michael. “Loss of

BUILD IT While you can start strength training under the correct supervision at any age, for optimum ageing you need to build up muscle – and it’s better to do it in your twenties, thirties, forties and fifties than to wait until you’re 60 plus.

“As you get older your ability to synthesise muscle falls and it’s tricky to build the same amount, even with a very intensive workout programme,” Michael says.

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muscle strength is one of the main causes of falls as we get older.”

Building muscle, on the other hand, is associated with stronger bones and a lower risk of type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s. In fact, strength training can actually help reverse cognitive decline that’s occurred with age.

“Parts of people’s brains actually get bigger as they train,” says the University of Sydney’s Dr Yorgi Mavros.

Also, the greater your muscle mass, the lower your risk of early death. Dr Arun Karlamangla from University of California, Los Angeles in the US has found a link between the amount of muscle people have as they age and how long they live. So the bottom line is: the stronger you are, the better.

If you’re female and pre-menopausal you’ll also have a hormonal helper – oestrogen. This is a muscle-building hormone, so training while it’s still circulating in your system will produce better results than you can achieve after menopause.

“What you’re aiming to do is build the biggest reserve of muscle possible so that when that natural decline begins, you’ve got a healthy buffer,” Michael says.

BOOST YOUR RESULTS When it comes to actually building muscle you need to lift weights.

Every time you lift and lower a weight you put force on the muscle and it gently tears. When your body rebuilds this, it tries to prevent further damage by thickening the fibres, creating stronger, bigger muscles. Pretty much any kind of strength training gets this result but working with a trainer who can formulate a programme for your body will help you to achieve the best results.

LIFT HEAVY WEIGHTS “The right weight is one you can lift no more than eight to 10 times,” Dr Mavros says. “Those pictures you see of smilingg women lifting 1kg weights – that doesn’t make any real difference to strength or health.”

YOU LIFESTYLE | ADVICE DON’T YO-YO DIET “It’s one of the fastest ways to lose muscle as you age,” Dr Mavros says. “If you do try to lose weight make sure you’re strength training during your diet. That can help protect your muscle mass and ensure more of the weight you lose is fat.”

You should also worrk as many different areas of the body aas possible durin ng at s a week.

TRAIN DURING YOUR PERIOD A woman’s oestrogen levels are high during her period, which means you build the most muscle for your efforts, say researchers at Sweden’s Umeå University.

The hormone boost lasts from the day your period starts to ovulation roughly two weeks later.

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LOWER WEIGHTS SLOWLY It doesn’t matter what speed you lift the weight, but for maximum muscle growth ensure you lower the weight back down slowly, Dr Mavros says. “The added stress this causes in this part of the movement is fundamental in helping muscle grow.”

EAT ENOUGH PROTEIN Protein is the building block of muscle. “But as you get older your ability to use protein to make muscle starts to decline so you need to consume more to give your body the raw materials it needs,” Michael says.

The recommended daily intake for women is 1,2-1,5g of protein per kilogram of body weight, ideally with a portion at each meal. For a 65kg woman this means eating 7897,5g , g of protein p daily. y A 100g chicken breast contains roughly 31g of protein, an egg has 6g, 100g of canned tuna has 26g and 100g of yoghurt has 10g.

ADD A FEW GREEN TOMATOES OR APPLES Both contain substances that help prevent age-related muscle wasting. It’s unclear exactly how much gets results, but eating a portion of each daily will help.

WATCH OUT FOR STRESS The stress hormone cortisol is a catabolic hormone, which means it breaks down muscle when it’s released. This can make a big difference to your results – in one trial, calm exercisers ended up much stronger and with greater muscle mass after a 12-week training programme than stressed ones.

“It’s also important to get good sleep,” Michael says. “Sleep is when your muscles build and grow.”

WALK ON THE BEACH “Increase the amount of muscle you build doing cardio workouts by adding the load you put on the muscle while you move,” physiotherapist Ryan Ebert says.

“Walking or running up hills or walking on soft sand will do the trick.”

USE YOUR BODY WEIGHT “Moving muscles in ways that create resistance can build some muscle,” physiotherapist Kusal Goonewardena says.

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WHAT IF I CAN’TWORK OUT? Sometimes it’s not possible to exercise.

Perhaps you’re injured or stuck in bed after an illness or surgery. This is a peak danger time for losing muscle mass as muscles need stimulation daily to maintain their size, but there are still things you can do.

Use isometric moves “These are small contractions of the musccle that work it in isolation, which is important if you can’t put pressure on a joint or move about much,” physiotherapist Kusal m Goonewardena says.

G Try moves such as simply tightening your bicep without moving the rest of your arm, or the muscles at the top of your thigh. Repeat for 30-60 seconds, working as many muscles as you can safely use daily. m Visualise the muscle working V “T This is a technique we regularly use T

with elite athletes who can’t move after surgery but who need to get back into training quickly – it actually does help keep the muscle strong,” Goonewardena says.

In one US study where people were asked to imagine moving their bicep, strength improved by 13,5%. Try three to five minutes daily.

Work what you can move “If you’ve had a leg operation, you might not be able to move your leg, but you could do free weight moves like bicep curls or shoulder raises in bed,” physiotherapist Ryan Ebert says.

Ask your doctor when you can start “We know that getting on your feet as soon as possible after recuperation is the key to maintaining muscle, so move as soon as your doctor says it’s okay,” Ebert says. you.co.za 20 FEBRUARY 2020

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I’M IN PAIN WITHOUT ANY HOPE OF RELIEF I started experiencing extreme pain in my mouth in 2006. It felt like a burning sensation in my mouth and on my tongue. I sought professional help and was prescribed medication to help me relax, to treat my depression and to help me sleep at night as I was battling insomnia.

I’m still experiencing the pain in my mouth but my family think I’m just being dramatic and trying to get attention, which isn’t true. The pain is real and often has me in tears. I feel like killing myself as I can no longer live with the pain.

I’ve had a very traumatic life – the men I married left me and my own children have rejected me too. So I feel as if I have nothing to live for.

Mandy, email

There’s something called burning mouth syndrome which often manifests for the first time between the ages of 38 and 50. It’s often connected with climacterium – the stage in a woman’s life before she goes into menopause when her periods become irregular as the reproductive hormones decline.

Burning mouth syndrome is characterised by a burning pain in the mouth and on the tongue and it’s extremely painful. It can be coupled with depression because of the extreme pain and an associated decrease in quality of life.

It’s not uncommon for family members of someone suffering from this syndrome to view it as psychological in nature and to think the person is being overly dramatic. The fact is it’s a complicated syndrome that does have a psychological aspect and treatment does require a multiprofessional approach.

Often people who’ve experienced extreme trauma develop burning mouth syndrome later in their lives.

The treatment regime should consist of medication as well as psychotherapy, and hypnosis could be used to assist with pain control.

It’s important to get the right combination of medication so you need to consult with a psychiatrist rather than a GP. Some antidepressants also alleviate pain, and you need a medical practitioner who’s familiar with these. Also consult with a psychologist so you can address and process the trauma you’ve been through.

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MY GOOD INTENTIONS ARE GONE I was incredibly positive about the year ahead and made some New Year’s resolutions, but since returning from holiday everything has been going wrong. It seems this is going to be a year from hell.

I feel as if I want to go back in time and start the year all over again. I’m in an extremely negative mindset again and feel I’ve lost the resolve and motivation I had at the beginning of the year. What do I do now?

Peter, email

It seems you’re experiencing Murphy’s Law, as it’s called – the idea that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Sometimes bad things do happen one after the other, but just because you’ve had a bad start to the year doesn’t mean the rest of it will be one continuous uphill struggle.

You need to remember that life isn’t just made up of bad experiences.

Make a list of the good ones you’ve had in life and remind yourself of these from time to time.

It might help to consult with a psychologist to figure out why you tend to become negative quickly when bad things happen. They can help you to address how you react to bad or challenging experiences and figure out how to develop more resilience. It may also help to give some attention to your spiritual life. Spiritual guidance gives hope and perseverance.

A psychologist can also refer you to a psychiatrist if necessary, if you’ve become depressed and need an antidepressant to help you through this time or on a long-term basis. Feeling depressed affects motivation, which makes it more difficult to deal with life’s challenges. So if you’re depressed you need to get it treated.

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I GET NO SUPPORT FOR MY AMBITIONS For some time now I’ve wanted to resign from my job and start my own business. However my family is very much against it. I feel they don’t have enough trust in my abilities.

How should I handle this?

Raymond, email

There might be more to it than your family not having faith in you. South Africa’s struggling economy makes this a challenging time for small business owners. So you do need to think very carefully about it as it will be difficult to start a new business during a recession.

It’s important that you do the following before resigning from your job and starting your own business. First-

ly, find a mentor – someone with a lot of business experience who can help you figure out the nitty gritty.

You could even consider consulting a business coach, someone with more experience who can advise you stepby-step about getting a business off the ground.

Secondly, don’t just go with your gut feelings. You might be very excited about your idea, but many small business owners are struggling at the moment. It might be wise to wait for a few years if you’re still relatively young. Whether you find a mentor or a business coach, listen to the advice.

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T WAS music to cash-strapped consumers’ ears: another interest rate cut. Now, with rates at the lowest they’ve been in years many people are wondering whether it wouldn’t be a good time to fix the interest rate on their home loans so they’re protected if the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) decides to hike rates again. But before you head to the bank, there are a few things to consider.

WHAT ARE FIXED AND VARIABLE INTEREST RATES?

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● When you first take out a home loan, the interest rate is usually by default a variable rate. This rate is linked to the repo rate of the SARB – the rate at which it lends money to commercial banks.

In January the SARB announced it was decreasing the repo rate to 6,25% and banks immediately informed their clients that the interest on their loans had come down accordingly.

Banks, for their part, link their prime lending rate to the repo rate – for their most creditworthy clients, the prime lending rate currently stands at 9,75% (so it’s 3,5% higher than the repo rate).

When the repo rate changes, the variable interest rate on your home loan changes too, but it should be higher than the repo rate. ● A fixed interest rate ensures the interest on your home loan stays the same for a set period.

It doesn’t matter if the repo rate increases or decreases, your interest rate won’t change. When the fixed-rate contract term ends (more on that later), your interest rate automatically returns to a variable rate and you’ll be given the option of fixing it for another set term.

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WHAT’S THE RATE AND TERM OF THE LOA LOAN?

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The duration of your fixed-rate term can vary slightly among the various banks but in general you can set a fixed rate for 12, 24, 36, 48 or 60 months. The fixed interest rate will probably be higher than the varying rate – for example 2% more – but ask your bank what its fixed rate is. Banks charge this higher rate to protect themselves in case interest rates increase steeply.

If you opt for a fixed-rate term longer than 12 months, enquire about the possibility of revision if the repo rate significantly declines. Some contracts prohibit early cancellation of the fixedrate contract – unless you sell the property. So before deciding to fix your rate, be sure to ask if you’re allowed to terminate the agreement before the end of the fixed term. Check if there’s a notice period and whether you’ll be hit with a penalty for early termination.

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WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?

If there’s h ’ an expectation that interest rates will go up in the next year or so, and more than your fixed rate, you’ll end up paying less interest. People who choose fixed interests are usually not fond of taking risks. They don’t want to be caught off-guard by a sudden increase in their monthly repayment.

Choosing a fixed interest rate helps them plan their monthly budgets and have better control of their cash flow. They know it’s the one fixed monthly expense, even when other costs such as petrol and electricity increase.

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WILL I REALLY BE SAVING?

ate is set at a higher percentage than a variable interest rate, the repo rate will have to climb significantly for you to save.

The total repayment period of the loan plays just as significant a role in what the loan eventually ends up costing you.

For instance, a 30-year loan will cost you a lot more than a 20-year one so you can save by repaying the loan in a shorter time, regardless of the interest rate. You can do this by electing to pay larger monthly instalments or making one-off lump-sum payments.

WHAT ABOUT YOUR CAR LOAN? You can also set the interest rate on vehicle finance, electing to pay a slightly higher interest rate to avoid nasty surprises. But car financiers don’t usually allow clients to switch back to a variable rate later down the line. So once you sign on the dotted line, you’re committed to paying the higher rate for the duration of the loan.

ARE INTEREST RATES EXPECTED TO CLIMB?

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Before deciding on a fixed rate, consider long-term interest-rate forecasts. Your bank should be able to advise you on what its economist expects. Momentum Investments economists Herman van Papendorp, Sanisha Packirisamy and Roberta Noise expect one more interest-rate cut this year. Rhys Dyer, head of loan originator Ooba, is in agreement.

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The prime lending rate of SA commercial banks in January this year. In May 2003 it stood at a dizzying high of 17% and 10 years later, in December 2013, it hit an all-time low of 8,5%.

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Comedy series.

17:00 THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 18:00 MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA 19:00 THE VOICE 21:00 THIS IS US

Drama series. Kate and Toby try to make time for their marriage while Randall struggles to find his place with the other councilmen.

Jack tries to prove himself to Rebecca’s father.

22:00 LOUDERMILK 22:35 WRECKED

Comedy series, season 3 ends.

The survivors try to escape Declan’s island.

23:05 THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN 00:00 D GLASTONBURY 2019 01:10 D ABSENTIA 02:00 D STUMPTOWN 02:50 INSTAKILLER 04:20 NOT CINDERELLA’S TYPE

06:00 D THE DOCTORS 07:00 D THE TALK 08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: ZOLILE 09:30 D ISIBAYA 10:00 D THE QUEEN 10:30 D ISITHEMBISO 11:00 D THE DOCTORS 12:00 D THE RIVER 12:30 D ISIBAYA 13:00 D THE QUEEN 13:30 D ISITHEMBISO 14:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: RANDS & FAMILY

Two cash-strapped best friends rob a grocery store, but things don’t go smoothly for them.

15:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: ZOLILE 17:00 THE TALK 18:00 WWE RAW 19:00 THE RIVER 19:30 ISITHEMBISO 20:00 I AM 20:30 ISIBAYA 21:00 THE QUEEN 21:30 MASSIVE MUSIC 22:00 D THE OMEN 23:00 D THE DOCTORS 00:00 D JACOB’S CROSS 01:00 D THE TALK 02:00 D 1MAGIC: ZONE IN 02:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: RANDS & FAMILY 04:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: ZOLILE 05:30 D DAILYSUNTV

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21:00 NEWS 21:30 D THE DOCKET 22:00 D HIGH ROLLERS

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Sphe is shocked when Zitha makes a startling discovery in her car.

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SABC2

05:00 D GELEZA NATHI 06:00 BONISANANI 06:30 D THE LION GUARD

Animated series.

07:00 D NTUNJAMBILI: TWIN CAVES 07:30 D JABU’S JUNGLE

South African animated series based on African culture. Follow the adventures of Jabu and his magical talking drum as they explore the jungle and help animals in need.

08:00 BIG BREAKFAST 09:00 D IMIZWILILI

Choral music show.

10:00 MZANSI INSIDER

Local breakfast show featuring South Africans from all walks of life doing extraordinary things.

11:00 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY

Omnibus.

13:30 SPORT MAGAZINE 14:00 SOCCER

Build-up.

14:30 LADUMA 17:00 D ROOTS 18:00 D FRIENDS LIKE THESE

Local game show.

19:30 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS 20:00 REAL GOBOZA

Magazine show.

20:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 23:30 D SELIMATHUNZI 00:00 D KOZE KUSE

Omnibus.

11:00 D LITHAPO

Omnibus.

12:30 DISNEY COOKABOUT 13:00 D RESTYLE MY STYLE 13:30 TALK ABILITY 14:00 D LIVING LAND 14:30 D SA INC. 15:00 D #KAREKTAS 16:00 BRIDE WARS

One shot during the reception includes a complicated series of dance steps. After many failed attempts, an extra who happened to be a dance instructor asked to teach the actors how to perform the steps correctly.

18:00 FUNDIS 18:30 AFRIKAANS NEWS 19:00 THE CUBE

Game show presented

by Phillip Schofield.

20:00 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS 20:30 D SKWIZAS 20:57 LIVE LOTTO DRAW 21:00 PUMPKIN PIE WARS 23:00 D AFRO CAFÉ 00:00 FULL VIEW 02:30 NETWORK 03:00 THE GLOBE

SABC1 05:00 D GELEZA NATHI

SABC2 05:00 D NINA AND THE NEURONS

Educational programme.

Animated series.

06:00 D TOMZ

05:30 THE MAGICAL WORLD OF LUNA BELLE

Teen science and technology programme.

07:00 D SIYAKHOLWA: WE BELIEVE 07:30 D BONISANANI

Children’s religious show.

08:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 08:30 D GOSPEL AVENUE

Local gospel music show hosted by Khaya Mthethwa.

09:30 D SKEEM SAAM

Omnibus.

12:00 D UZALO

Omnibus.

14:30 SOCCER

Build-up.

15:00 LADUMA 17:30 D GOSPEL UNPLUGGED 18:00 D FRIENDS LIKE THESE

Local game show.

19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS 19:30 D NGEMPELA 20:00 D DIAMOND CITY

Drama series. A prosecutor is framed for murder and sent to the very prison she’s sent many women to. Now she must prove her innocence with no resources, no help and no hope.

21:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 23:00 D FRIENDS LIKE THESE

Local game show.

00:00 KOZE KUSE

Music show.

Children’s educational programme.

06:00 SIMCHA 06:30 MUSIC AND THE SPOKEN WORD 06:57 MOTHEO 07:00 MORNING LIVE 08:30 D 7DE LAAN

Omnibus.

11:00 LIFE 24/7 11:30 ISSUES OF FAITH

Documentary series.

12:30 OMW 13:30 SPORT ON 2 14:00 THE LADIES CLUB 14:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 15:00 THE CUBE

Game show.

16:00 SAVING FLORA 18:00 FOKUS

Current affairs programme.

18:30 AFRIKAANS NEWS 19:00 AFRO CAFÉ

Music talk show hosted

by Stoan Seate.

20:00 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS 20:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 22:15 D THE BANTU HOUR

Variety show hosted by comedian Kagiso Lediga.

23:15 D HOSANNA 00:15 FULL VIEW 02:30 UNFILTERED 03:00 THE GLOBE

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Tarzan goes back home to investigate brutal mining activity in the jungle.

SABC3 05:30 D SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT 06:00 D PSALTED 06:30 D AN NUR, THE LIGHT 07:00 D SADHANA: THE INWARD PATH 07:30 D RESTYLE MY STYLE 08:00 D FANGBONE!

Animated series. Double bill.

When Drool falls into the Nightlands, he and Fangbone think they’ve defeated the wizard forever.

08:30 D I AM A WORK OF ART 09:00 D TALENT ON TRACK 09:30 D JUDGE FAITH

Omnibus.

11:00 THE GRAND PAVILION 12:00 D SURVIVOR: GAME CHANGERS 13:00 D MARRIED IN A FLASH 14:00 D THE PROFIT 15:00 D MELA 16:00 JOHN LEGEND: LIVE AT ROUNDHOUSE 17:00 CHRISTINA MILIAN TURNED UP 18:00 D TOP BILLING 19:00 WORLD OF DANCE 20:00 FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK

Game show. Double bill.

21:00 NEWS 21:30 G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA

Ray Park was nervous about wearing the ninja suit on set and asked to practice with it at home so he could be comfortable while filming.

23:30 KOZE KUSE

SABC3 05:00 D SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT 05:30 PSALTED 06:00 NEW DAY 06:30 AN NUR, THE LIGHT 07:00 SADHANA: THE INWARD PATH 07:30 CHUCK’S CHOICE

Animated series.

08:00 MADE IN SA 08:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 09:00 D LIFE WITH BOYS

Teen comedy series.

09:30 D ISIDINGO

E.TV 05:30 PJ MASKS 06:10 FRIENDS: GIRLS ON A MISSION 06:25 HANAZUKI 06:40 MISS MOON 06:55 DAWN OF THE CROODS 07:25 VOLTRON FORCE 08:00 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE 08:30 D SCANDAL!

Omnibus.

10:20 D IMBEWU: THE SEED

Omnibus.

12:15 INFOMERCIALS 12:30 D CHECKPOINT 13:00 XPLOSION 14:00 INFOMERCIALS 14:10 THE SANDLOT: HEADING HOME 16:10 REBOUND 18:00 BEAT SHAZAM 19:00 ENCA NEWSNIGHT 19:30 MARLON 20:00 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN

A CGI Tarzan was created for the swinging-through-thetrees and diving-off-cliffs scenes. A Cirque du Soleil trapeze artist was brought in to model the proper form and motion for the animators.

22:20 NBA DAILY 22:30 BASKETBALL NBA: Sacramento Kings vs

LA Clippers, Staples Centre, Los Angeles.

01:00 HARD TARGET 2 02:50 THE PERFECT ASSISTANT 04:35 D FORENSIC FILES

Wildlife documentary. The team uncover the hidden lives of three animals. In the Kalahari Desert they put cameras on meerkats. In Cameroon a camera is fitted to an orphaned chimp, and in Argentina tiny cameras are fitted to penguins.

19:30 D CELEBRATED LOVE 20:30 DRIVE 21:00 NEWS 21:30 JUST LIKE HEAVEN 23:30 KOZE KUSE

19:00 THE VOICE 20:00 STUMPTOWN 21:00 NANCY DREW 22:00 AMERICAN GODS

Fantasy series. Shadow and Mr Wednesday want Dvalin to repair the Gungnir spear.

23:00 D LOUDERMILK 23:35 D WRECKED 00:05 D WHY WOMEN KILL 01:10 D PRODIGAL SON 02:05 D ABSENTIA 03:00 D HOWARDS END 04:00 D VICE 04:30 THE WRONG PATIENT

06:00 D AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE 06:30 D THE UNICORN 07:00 D SPLITTING UP TOGETHER

11:00 PREMIER LEAGUE WORLD 11:30 INFOMERCIALS 11:40 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 14:00 AMERICA’S GOT TALENT 16:00 IMPACT 18:00 SHOWTIME AT THE APOLLO 19:00 ENCA NEWSNIGHT 19:30 THE CARMICHAEL SHOW

18:30 ANIMALS WITH CAMERAS

Comedy series. Sheldon is forced to take a break from science when his new obsession with The Lord of the Rings leads to an unhealthy habit.

05:30 JOSEPH PRINCE: NEW CREATION CHURCH TV 06:00 I AM SOUL PRECIOUS 06:25 E-INSERT 06:30 HILLSONG 06:55 PEPPA PIG 07:00 CARE BEARS: WELCOME TO CARE-A-LOT 07:25 ELENA OF AVALOR 07:55 TROLLS: THE BEAT GOES ON! 08:25 NINJAGO: MASTERS OF SPINJITSU 09:00 D RHYTHM CITY

Omnibus.

2nd T20: South Africa vs Australia, St George’s Park, Port Elizabeth.

08:00 GET A ROOM WITH CARSON & THOM 08:55 D MASTERCHEF JUNIOR USA 09:50 D THE BACHELOR SA 11:00 D YOUNG SHELDON 12:00 D MADAM SECRETARY 13:00 D THIS IS US 14:00 D THE AMAZING RACE 14:55 D ARTHUR AND THE MINIMOYS 15:25 A DOG’S WAY HOME 17:00 AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE 17:30 THE UNICORN 18:00 SPLITTING UP TOGETHER 18:30 YOUNG SHELDON

M-NET

12:00 D TOP BILLING 13:00 D TYRES AND BRAAIERS 13:30 FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK 14:00 CRICKET 14:30 CRICKET

06:00 D MOM

Omnibus.

E.TV

Omnibus.

Build-up.

M-NET

Comedy series. Joe decides to vote for Trump after meeting him, much to the dismay of Maxine.

20:00 FAST & FURIOUS

Ron Yuan suffers from vertigo.

For a scene where his character David Park hangs out of a window, the reactions on his face are real.

22:05 EKASI: OUR STORIES 23:05 CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER 01:10 D JUDGE JUDY

Omnibus.

02:50 FAST &FURIOUS

Comedy series. Lena tries to figure out if Mae is romantically involved with her new friend.

07:30 D YOUNG SHELDON 08:00 D 9-1-1: LONE STAR 09:00 D 9-1-1 10:00 D THE VOICE

Singing competition series.

Double bill.

MZANSI 07:00 D THE DOCTORS 08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: KWAITO OR NOTHING 09:30 MZANSI MAGIC MUSIC SPECIAL 10:00 D FOR BETTER OR WORSE WITH MO AND PHINDI

Local reality series.

10:30 D STYLE SQUAD 11:00 D THE QUEEN

Omnibus.

13:30 D THE RIVER

Omnibus.

16:00 MZANSI MAGIC MUSIC SPECIAL 16:30 D OUR PERFECT WEDDING

Local reality series. Couples try to pull off the perfect wedding while avoiding various pitfalls along the way.

17:30 D MNAKWETHU 18:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: USIKO NO THANDO 19:00 KWA MAM’MKHIZE 19:30 THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF JOHANNESBURG 20:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: KUMNYAMA 21:30 WWE SMACKDOWN

Professional wrestling show.

22:30 THE LAKE HOUSE

Drama. 2006. PG. 99 min.

00:30 D HOMEGROUND 01:00 D MASSIVE MUSIC 01:30 D 1MAGIC: HITS 03:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: TROUBLE WITH MY FATHER 04:30 D 1MAGIC: HITS

MZANSI 06:00 D THE DOCTORS 07:00 ICILONGO 08:00 D SOUL SESSIONS 08:30 D A FORCE FOR GOOD 09:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: SENATLA 10:00 D ISIBAYA

Omnibus.

12:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: KUMNYAMA 13:30 D HOMEGROUND 14:00 D MZANSI MAGIC MUSIC SPECIAL 14:30 D ISITHEMBISO

13:00 D FINDING THE ONE 14:00 D THIS IS US

Omnibus.

14:50 D THE BACHELOR SA 16:00 ROOTED

17:00 OLD MUTUAL’S AMAZING VOICES 18:00 DATE MY FAMILY

Drama series.

Documentary series.

17:00 MASTERCHEF JUNIOR USA

Cooking competition series.

18:00 THE AMAZING RACE 19:00 CARTE BLANCHE 20:05 FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY

While the film portrays the NXT crowd as somewhat against Paige, in reality a lot of people actually cheered for her when they recognised her from her family’s independent wrestling promotion.

22:00 GRANDFATHERS 23:45 D NANCY DREW 00:50 D STUMPTOWN 01:55 D LOUDERMILK 02:30 D WRECKED 03:00 JOURNEY TO OZ 04:35 THE PETAL PUSHERS

Local dating show. Singletons try to find love by going on dates with their potential partner’s family.

19:00 OUR PERFECT WEDDING

Local reality series. Couples try to pull off the perfect wedding while avoiding various pitfalls along the way.

20:00 THE OMEN 21:00 D GRASSROOTS 21:30 IGUGU 22:30 D JACOB’S CROSS

Omnibus.

02:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: TROUBLE WITH MY FATHER

A father loses his will to live after his son is killed while protecting his lesbian sister.

05:00 D GOSPEL ALIVE

Movies are highlighted in red – see movie guide for details D Repeat

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Music programme.

05:00 D NINA AND THE NEURONS 05:30 D THE MAGICAL WORLD OF LUNA BELLE 06:00 D INSIDE THE BAOBAB TREE 06:57 D OP PAD 07:00 MORNING LIVE 08:30 D MUVHANGO

THE LEGEND OF TARZAN

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Chief Boden is pressured by McLeod as he continues to resist retiring as planned.

05:02 GELEZI NATHI 06:00 KIDS’NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS 06:30 BEN 10 07:00 YO.TV 07:30 TAKALANI SESAME 08:00 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 08:30 D MUVHANGO 09:00 D UZALO 09:30 D SKEEM SAAM 10:00 D VELAPHI 10:30 DAILY THETHA 11:30 D REAL GOBOZA 12:00 D YILUNGELO LAKHO 13:00 NEWS 13:30 MAM’SAKHILE’S STORY HOUSE 14:00 MAKING MOVES 15:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 15:30 YO.TV 16:30 D CHATROOM 17:00 BREAKING THE SILENCE 17:28 AUM 17:30 NDEBELE/SWATI NEWS 18:00 NOW OR NEVER 18:30 SKEEM SAAM 19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS 19:30 D SGUDI’SNAYSI 20:00 GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY

Cosmo is too proud to admit he’s out of his depth.

20:30 UZALO 21:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 22:00 SOCCERZONE 23:00 D MAKING MOVES 00:00 KOZE KUSE

PROGRAMME INFORMATION IS SUPPLIED BY THE BROADCASTERS AND CORRECT AT TIME OF GOING TO PRINT

05:00 IZWI LABANTU 05:02 GELEZA NATHI 06:00 KIDS’NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS 07:00 YO.TV 07:30 TAKALANI SESAME 08:00 D ISIDINGO 08:30 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 09:00 D MUVHANGO 09:30 D SKEEM SAAM 10:00 D VELAPHI 10:30 DAILY THETHA 11:00 D INSTAPRENEURS 12:00 D SOCCERZONE 13:00 NEWS 13:30 MAM’SAKHILE’S STORY HOUSE 14:00 D FRIENDS LIKE THESE 15:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 15:30 YO.TV 16:30 D DAILY THETHA 17:28 D IZWI LABANTU 17:30 NDEBELE/SWATI NEWS 18:00 NYAN’NYAN 18:30 SKEEM SAAM 19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS 19:30 SELIMATHUNZI 20:00 GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 20:30 UZALO 21:00 EXPRESSIONS

Current affairs show.

21:30 CUTTING EDGE 22:00 D NYAN’NYAN 22:30 D CHATROOM 23:00 D ISPANI 00:00 D KOZE KUSE

05:30 D THABANG THABONG 05:57 D MOTHEO 06:00 MORNING LIVE 09:00 THABANG THABONG 09:30 D VETKOEKPALEIS 10:00 D SHORELINE 11:00 INSIDE THE BAOBAB TREE 11:30 D BABY TV 12:00 NUMTUMS 12:30 D 7DE LAAN 13:00 JIKULUMESSU 13:30 D UZALO 14:00 D SKEEM SAAM 14:30 D MUVHANGO 15:00 RAVEN, THE LITTLE RASCAL 15:30 YOTV LAND 16:00 EPIC HANGOUT

Kids’educational series.

16:30 HECTIC NINE-9 17:00 DRAGON BALL Z KAI: THE FINAL CHAPTER 17:30 TSONGA/VENDA NEWS 18:00 7DE LAAN 18:30 AFRIKAANS NEWS 19:00 VOETSPORE 20:00 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS 20:30 LEIHLO LA SECHABA 21:00 MUVHANGO

Everyone feels cornered in the royal house.

21:30 LITHAPO 22:00 EACH ONE TEACH ONE 22:30 D ISSUES OF FAITH 23:30 D JIKULUMESSU 00:00 D DRAGON BALL Z KAI: THE FINAL CHAPTER 00:30 FULL VIEW 03:00 THE GLOBE

SABC2 05:00 D BABY TV 05:30 D THABANG THABONG 05:57 D MOTHEO 06:00 MORNING LIVE 09:00 THABANG THABONG 09:30 D FOREVER YOUNG

Magazine show.

10:00 D PASELLA 10:30 D THE LADIES CLUB 11:00 D INSIDE THE BAOBAB TREE 11:30 D BABY TV 12:00 D NUMTUMS 12:30 D 7DE LAAN 13:00 JIKULUMESSU 13:30 D UZALO 14:00 D SKEEM SAAM 14:30 D MUVHANGO 15:00 RAVEN, THE LITTLE RASCAL 15:30 YOTV LAND 17:00 DRAGON BALL Z KAI: THE FINAL CHAPTER 17:30 TSONGA/VENDA NEWS 18:00 7DE LAAN 18:30 AFRIKAANS NEWS 19:00 D MEEULANDERS 20:00 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS 20:30 NHLALALA YA RIXAKA 21:00 MUVHANGO

Warona’s financial woes propel her to do things she never imagined she’d do.

21:30 LITHAPO 22:00 D IT’S GOSPEL TIME 23:00 D JIKULUMESSU 23:30 D DRAGON BALL Z KAI: THE FINAL CHAPTER 00:00 FULL VIEW 03:00 THE GLOBE

Movies are highlighted in red – see movie guide for details D Repeat

SABC3 05:00 D FANGBONE! 05:30 D I AM A WORK OF ART 06:00 EXPRESSO

Breakfast show.

09:00 D HARRY 10:00 D JUDGE FAITH 10:30 D 7DE LAAN 11:00 D ISIDINGO 11:30 D GENERATIONS 12:00 MAGNUM P.I. 13:00 ON POINT 14:30 D THE MINDY PROJECT 15:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 16:00 HECTIC ON 3 16:30 JUDGE FAITH 17:00 AFTERNOON EXPRESS 18:00 D HARRY 19:00 ISIDINGO

Ayivor agrees to lure Mayekiso to HD. Patience forgives her husband for being unfaithful.

Marius makes a move on Lalage that leaves her feeling uncomfortable.

19:30 SURVIVOR: GAME CHANGER

Reality competition series. The merge brings another twist in the game that leaves two castaways out of the celebratory feast.

20:30 UNFILTERED

Current affairs show.

21:00 NEWS 21:30 BILLIONS 22:30 D HIGH ROLLERS

Local drama series double bill.

23:30 KOZE KUSE

Music programme.

SABC3 05:00 D CHUCK’S CHOICE

Animated series.

05:30 D MADE IN SA

Documentary series.

06:00 EXPRESSO 09:00 D HARRY

Talk show hosted by musician Harry Connick Jnr featuring musical numbers and comedy segments.

10:00 D JUDGE FAITH

Courtroom reality series.

10:30 D 7DE LAAN 11:00 D ISIDINGO 11:30 D GENERATIONS 12:00 THE A-TEAM

Action series.

13:00 ON POINT 14:30 UNFILTERED 15:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 16:00 HECTIC ON 3 16:30 JUDGE FAITH 17:00 AFTERNOON EXPRESS 18:00 HARRY 19:00 ISIDINGO

Lincoln sets his revenge plan in motion. The love triangle between Sibiya, Cebisa and Patience intensifies.

19:30 D MAKING A MODEL WITH YOLANDA HADID 20:30 SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT 21:00 NEWS 21:30 BILLIONS

Drama series.

22:30 D HIGH ROLLERS

Local drama series double bill.

23:30 KOZE KUSE

E.TV

M-NET

06:00 THE MORNING SHOW 08:00 THE MORNING NEWS 08:30 LABOUR OF LOVE 09:30 D DAYS OF OUR LIVES 10:15 INFOMERCIALS 10:30 GEBROKE HARTE 11:30 D RHYTHM CITY 12:00 D SCANDAL! 12:30 D IMBEWU: THE SEED 13:00 ENEWS 1PM 13:30 D THE WILD 14:00 D PREMIER LEAGUE WORLD 14:30 PEPPA PIG 14:35 CARE BEARS: WELCOME TO CARE-A-LOT 15:00 PJ MASKS 15:15 MISS MOON 15:30 TURBO FAST 15:55 GGO FOOTBALL 2: INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT 16:20 JUDGE JUDY 16:45 DAYS OF OUR LIVES 17:30 BITTERSOET 18:30 PATERNITY COURT 19:00 RHYTHM CITY 19:30 SCANDAL! 20:00 ENEWS 8PM 20:30 CHICAGO FIRE 21:30 IMBEWU: THE SEED 22:00 QUEEN SUGAR

06:00 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 07:00 D MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA 08:00 D ROOTED 09:00 D MASTERCHEF JUNIOR USA 10:00 D THE BACHELOR SA 11:30 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 12:30 D MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA 13:30 D THE AMAZING RACE 14:30 D CARTE BLANCHE 15:30 D THE GOOD DOCTOR 16:30 D MOM 17:00 THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 18:00 MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA

Drama series. Ralph Angel’s confession continues to cause unrest among his family.

23:00 THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT 00:00 GET OUT ALIVE 01:45 D GEBROKE HARTE

MZANSI

Cooking competition series.

Contestants are joined by special guest chef Maggie Beer.

19:00 STATION 19 20:00 GREY’S ANATOMY 21:00 WHY WOMEN KILL

Comedy series. Beth Ann and Rob throw a housewarming party. Some secrets come to light when Simone and Karl have dinner with Amy’s conservative future in-laws.

22:05 HOWARDS END

Mini-series.

23:05 THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN 00:00 D AMERICAN GODS 01:00 D JETT 02:10 D LOUDERMILK 02:45 FAST COLOR 04:30 PUPPY SWAP LOVE UNLEASHED

E.TV

M-NET

06:00 THE MORNING SHOW 08:00 THE MORNING NEWS 08:30 LABOUR OF LOVE 09:30 D DAYS OF OUR LIVES 10:15 INFOMERCIALS 10:30 GEBROKE HARTE 11:30 D RHYTHM CITY 12:00 D SCANDAL! 12:30 D IMBEWU: THE SEED 13:00 ENEWS 1PM 13:30 D THE WILD 14:00 D PATERNITY COURT 14:30 PEPPA PIG 14:35 CARE BEARS: WELCOME TO CARE-A-LOT 15:00 ELENA OF AVALOR 15:30 DRAGONS: RIDERS OF BERK 15:55 POKÉMON THE SERIES: SUN AND MOON – ULTRA LEGENDS 16:20 JUDGE JUDY 16:45 DAYS OF OUR LIVES 17:30 BITTERSOET 18:30 COUPLES COURT WITH THE CUTLERS 19:00 RHYTHM CITY 19:30 SCANDAL! 20:00 ENEWS 8PM 20:30 CHICAGO FIRE

06:00 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 07:00 D MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA 08:00 D THE UNICORN 08:30 D NCIS 09:30 D MADAM SECRETARY 10:30 D S.W.A.T. 11:30 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 12:30 D MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA 13:30 D THE VOICE 15:30 D THE GOOD DOCTOR 16:30 D THE GOLDBERGS 17:00 THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 18:00 MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA 19:00 CHICAGO FIRE

A friendship is put to the test when two friends discover they’re both dating the same man.

09:30 D ISIBAYA 10:00 D THE QUEEN 10:30 D ISITHEMBISO 11:00 D THE DOCTORS 12:00 D THE RIVER 12:30 D ISIBAYA 13:00 D THE QUEEN 13:30 D ISITHEMBISO 14:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: FORGET ABOUT IT 15:30 D OLD MUTUAL’S AMAZING VOICES 16:30 D SOUL SESSIONS 17:00 THE TALK 18:00 UMDLALO WEMPILO 19:00 THE RIVER 19:30 ISITHEMBISO 20:00 GRASSROOTS 20:30 ISIBAYA 21:00 THE QUEEN 21:30 HOMEGROUND 22:00 A FORCE FOR GOOD 22:30 NOMTHANDAZO 23:30 D THE DOCTORS 00:30 D JACOB’S CROSS 01:30 D THE TALK 02:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: FORGET ABOUT IT 04:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THE BOY IS MINE 05:30 D DAILY SUNTV

MZANSI

Action series season 8 starts.

The mattress factory fire spirals out of control and leaves the team in serious danger.

20:00 CHICAGO MED

Medical drama series season 5 starts.

21:00 CHICAGO PD

07:00 D THE TALK 08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THE BOY IS MINE

Action series.

Crime drama series season 7 starts. When Kelton is found murdered, Voight’s grudge against the mayor-elect makes him a suspect.

21:30 IMBEWU: THE SEED 22:00 CHECKPOINT 22:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 23:00 THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT 00:00 THE KINGDOM 02:00 D GEBROKE HARTE 02:50 D CHICAGO FIRE

22:00 ABSENTIA 23:00 THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN 23:55 D WHY WOMEN KILL 00:55 D HOWARDS END 01:55 D VICE 02:35 COME AND FIND ME 04:30 SHOCK AND AWE

06:00 D THE DOCTORS 07:00 D THE TALK 08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: A LIFETIME OF TEARS 09:30 D ISIBAYA 10:00 D THE QUEEN 10:30 D ISITHEMBISO 11:00 D THE DOCTORS 12:00 D THE RIVER 12:30 D ISIBAYA 13:00 D THE QUEEN 13:30 D ISITHEMBISO 14:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: MGOSI

An alcoholic mother struggles to raise her teenage son and work towards managing her own beauty salon.

15:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: A LIFETIME OF TEARS 17:00 THE TALK 18:00 D DATE MY FAMILY 19:00 THE RIVER 19:30 ISITHEMBISO 20:00 MNAKWETHU 20:30 ISIBAYA 21:00 THE QUEEN 21:30 FOR BETTER OR WORSE WITH MO AND PHINDI 22:00 THE LAKE HOUSE

Drama. 2006. PG. 99 min.

23:45 D THE DOCTORS 01:00 D JACOB’S CROSS 02:00 THE TALK 03:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: MGOSI 04:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: A LIFETIME OF TEARS

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SABC2 06:00 MORNING LIVE 09:00 THABANG THABONG 09:30 D KOSKASKENADES 10:00 D HEALTH TALK 11:00 INSIDE THE BAOBAB TREE 11:30 BABY TV 12:00 D SID THE SCIENCE KID 12:30 D 7DE LAAN 13:00 D LITHAPO 13:30 D UZALO 14:00 D SKEEM SAAM 14:30 D MUVHANGO 15:00 AKILI AND ME 16:00 D DISNEY COOKABOUT

Kids’ cooking game show.

16:30 HECTIC NINE-9 17:00 DRAGON BALL Z KAI: THE FINAL CHAPTER 17:30 TSONGA/VENDA NEWS 18:00 7DE LAAN 18:30 AFRIKAANS NEWS 19:00 GEURE VAN DIE VALLEI 19:30 DEKATV 20:00 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS 20:30 NGULA YA VUTIVI/ ZWA MARAMANI 20:57 LIVE LOTTO DRAW 21:00 MUVHANGO 21:30 LITHAPO 22:00 OUR MOMENTS 23:00 D RED CAKE: NOT THE COOKING SHOW 00:00 D DRAGON BALL Z KAI: THE FINAL CHAPTER 00:30 FULL VIEW 03:00 THE GLOBE

SABC3 05:30 D RESTYLE MY STYLE 06:00 EXPRESSO 09:00 D HARRY 10:00 D JUDGE FAITH 10:30 D 7DE LAAN 11:00 D ISIDINGO 11:30 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 12:00 KNIGHT RIDER

Action series. Michael and RC meet with Nick O’Brien, an old friend of Devon’s, and end up protecting Nick’s adopted son from harm.

13:00 ON POINT 14:30 D SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT 15:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 16:00 HECTIC ON 3 16:30 JUDGE FAITH 17:00 AFTERNOON EXPRESS 18:00 CRICKET

3rd T20: South Africa vs Australia, Newlands, Cape Town.

21:00 CRICKET

Wrap-up.

21:15 NEWS 21:30 ISIDINGO

Sibiya’s worst nightmare comes to pass and one couple take thing to the next level.

22:00 NARCOS 23:00 D HIGH ROLLERS

Drama series. Double bill.

00:00 KOZE KUSE

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M-NET

MZANSI

06:00 THE MORNING SHOW 08:00 THE MORNING NEWS 08:30 LABOUR OF LOVE 09:30 D DAYS OF OUR LIVES 10:15 INFOMERCIALS 10:30 GEBROKE HARTE 11:30 D RHYTHM CITY 12:00 D SCANDAL! 12:30 D IMBEWU: THE SEED 13:00 ENEWS 1PM 13:30 D THE WILD 14:00 D COUPLES COURT WITH THE CUTLERS 14:25 INFOMERCIALS 14:30 PEPPA PIG 14:35 CARE BEARS: WELCOME TO CARE-A-LOT 15:00 BARBIE DREAMTOPIA 15:15 LITTLEST PET SHOP: A WORLD OF OUR OWN 15:30 SUPA STRIKAS 15:55 POWER RANGERS: NINJA STEEL 16:20 JUDGE JUDY 16:45 DAYS OF OUR LIVES 17:30 BITTERSOET 18:30 PATERNITY COURT 19:00 RHYTHM CITY 19:30 SCANDAL! 20:00 ENEWS 8PM 20:30 CHICAGO FIRE 21:30 IMBEWU: THE SEED 22:00 POWER 23:10 THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT 00:10 TODAY’S SPECIAL

06:00 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 07:00 D MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA 08:00 D SPLITTING UP TOGETHER 08:30 D STATION 19 09:30 D GREY’S ANATOMY 10:30 D GET A ROOM WITH CARSON & THOM 11:30 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 12:30 D MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA 13:30 D MASTERCHEF JUNIOR USA 14:30 D THE VOICE 15:30 D THE GOOD DOCTOR 16:30 D THE GOLDBERGS

06:00 D THE DOCTORS 07:00 D THE TALK 08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: CURSED 09:30 D ISIBAYA 10:00 D THE QUEEN 10:30 D ISITHEMBISO 11:00 D THE DOCTORS 12:00 D THE RIVER 12:30 D ISIBAYA 13:00 D THE QUEEN 13:30 D ISITHEMBISO 14:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: SKHOTI BOY

19:00 9-1-1: LONE STAR 20:00 9-1-1

15:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: CURSED 17:00 THE TALK 18:00 D OUR PERFECT WEDDING 19:00 THE RIVER 19:30 ISITHEMBISO 20:00 BEING BONANG

On a mission to impress a girl and be cool, a nerdy matric 17:00 THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW student ends up on the 18:00 MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA wrong side of the law.

Comedy series.

Drama series. Eddie’s afterhours fight club gets out of control, and Hen struggles in her relationship with Karen.

21:00 PRODIGAL SON

Drama series. Malcolm helps the NYPD investigate the murder of a rich family.

22:00 JETT 23:10 THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN 00:00 D CHICAGO PD 00:45 D ABSENTIA 01:35 D AMERICAN GODS 02:35 GRANDFATHERS 04:15 TIME FREAK

Local reality series.

21:00 THE QUEEN 21:30 D THE REPUBLIC 22:30 D THE DOCTORS 23:30 D JACOB’S CROSS 00:30 D THE TALK 01:30 THOLABORETHE 02:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: SKHOTI BOY 04:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: CURSED

TV MOVIES: THURS 20 FEB – WED 26 FEB IF YOU MUST SO-SO / WORTHWHILE / EXCELLENT / BRILLIANT /

A All ages D Drugs H Horror L Language N Nudity P Prejudice PG Parental guidance S Sex V Violence

THURSDAY S THE INCREDIBLE HULK ★★★ 112 min, 13VL, e.tv, 00:00. Sci-fi action. Based on the comics.

A scientist who turns into an indestructible green giant when angered goes on the run from the US army. Edward Norton, Liv Tyler.

S BLACK BUTTERFLY ★★★ 2017, 93 min, 16VL,

M-Net, 03:00. Thriller. A lonely screenwriter living in a secluded cabin in the woods to try to get over his writer’s block takes in a drifter with a dark secret. Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

S SHOCK AND AWE ★★★ 2017, 90 min, 16,

M-Net, 04:30. True-life drama. In 2003 a group of journalists try to uncover the real reason behind US President George W Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Woody Harrelson, Rob Reiner.

FRIDAY S K9 ADVENTURES: LEGEND OF THE LOST

GOLD ★★★ 2014, 90 min, PG13, e.tv, 14:30.

Adventure. When a girl stumbles upon an old broken pocket watch, it leads to an adventure involving lost treasure. Luke Perry, Ariana Bagley.

S HEART OF DRAGON ★★★ 1985, 91 min, 16,

SABC1, 21:00. Action comedy. A cop sets out to rescue his mentally challenged brother, who’s been kidnapped by gangsters. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung.

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S DRIVE ANGRY ★★★ 2011, 104 min, 16VL, e.tv, 22:00 & 02:50. Horror thriller.

A man escapes from hell to seek revenge on those who killed his daughter and kidnapped his granddaughter. Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard.

S THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH ★★★ 2015, 81 min, PG13, SABC3, 22:00.

Drama. A teacher’s life is turned upside down when her journalist husband loses his job and then disappears. Jennifer Faith Ward, Tom Kemnitz Jnr. S DO NO HARM ★★ 2012, 88 min, 13VSL, e.tv, 01:10. Thriller. A psychiatrist becomes fixated on his suicidal patient who reminds him of his daughter. Deanna Russo, Lauren Holly.

S INSTAKILLER ★★ 2018, 90 min, 13V, M-Net,

02:50. Thriller. A mother’s fears about her daughter’s internet fame are justified when she discovers someone is stalking her child.

Kelly Sullivan, Lizze Broadway.

S NOT CINDERELLA’S TYPE ★★★ 2018, 97 min, PG13, M-Net, 04:20. Romantic comedy.

Based on the book by Jenni James. A teenage girl who lives with her mean aunt and stepsisters is befriended by the most popular guy in school when he tries to make amends for running over her cat. Paris Warner, Tim Flynn.

A Dog’s Way Home, Saturday on M-Net at 15:25.

SATURDAY S THE SANDLOT: HEADING HOME ★★★ 2007, 96 min, PG, e.tv, 14:10. Fantasy comedy. The third film in the series. A successful but conceited baseball player travels back in time to his childhood where he enjoyed playing the game with his friends. Danny Nucci, Luke Perry.

S A DOG’S WAY HOME ★★★ 2019, 96 min, PG13V, M-Net, 15:25. Adventure. Based on the book by W Bruce Cameron. A dog journeys through the Colorado wilderness in search of her owner. Ashley Judd, Jonah Hauer-King.

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05:02 GELEZA NATHI 06:00 KIDS’ NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS 06:30 JABU’S JUNGLE 07:00 D YO.TV 08:00 D ISIDINGO 08:30 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 09:00 D MUVHANGO 09:30 D SKEEM SAAM 10:00 D VELAPHI 10:30 DAILY THETHA 11:30 D GOSPEL UNPLUGGED 12:00 D THE CHATROOM 12:30 IDENTITY 13:00 NEWS 13:30 MAM’ SAKHILE’S STORY HOUSE 14:00 D KHUMBUL’EKHAYA 15:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 15:30 YO.TV 16:30 D DAILY THETHA 17:28 LISTEN FOR A MOMENT 17:30 NDEBELE/SWATI NEWS 18:00 D EMASISWENI 18:30 SKEEM SAAM 19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS 19:30 D MINA NAWE 20:00 GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 20:30 UZALO 21:00 KHUMBUL’EKHAYA 22:00 SPORTS@10 23:00 SOCCER (DELAYED) 01:00 SOCCER (DELAYED) 03:00 SOCCER (DELAYED)

E.TV, 19:00

Rene holds onto a secret and pretends she’s still pregnant.

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RHYTHM CITY

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Saturday on SABC3 at 21:30.

S BRIDE WARS ★★ 2009, 89 min, PG13,

SABC2, 16:00. Comedy. Two best friends become rivals when they schedule their weddings on the same day. Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway.

S REBOUND ★★ 2005, 86 min, PG, e.tv, 16:10.

Sport comedy. A college basketball coach suffers a breakdown and is demoted to the position of coach to a junior university team. Martin Lawrence, Megan Mullally.

S THE LEGEND OF TARZAN ★★★ 2016,

Just like Heaven, Sunday on SABC3 at 21:30.

S FAST & FURIOUS ★★★ 2009, 107 min, PG13,

e.tv, 20:00 & 02:50. Action. The fourth film in the series. An FBI agent and his old enemy must work together to infiltrate and bring down a heroin dealer in Los Angeles. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker.

S FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY ★★★★ 2019, 108 min, PG13, M-Net, 20:05. Biopic. A look at the career of English professional wrestler Paige. Florence Pugh, Lena Headey.

110 min, PG13VL, e.tv, 20:00. Adventure. Based on the books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. An English aristocrat raised by apes in the African jungle returns to investigate mining activity in the region. Alexander Skarsgård, Samuel L Jackson.

S JUST LIKE HEAVEN ★★★ 2005, 95 min, PG13, SABC3, 21:30. Fantasy comedy. A workaholic doctor gets into a car accident and starts appearing in spirit form to the new tenant of her flat. Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo.

S PUMPKIN PIE WARS ★★★ 2016, 84 min, PG, SABC2, 21:00. Romantic comedy. The children of two rival bakers fall in love while competing in a pie-making contest. Julie Gonzalo, Eric Aragon.

S GRANDFATHERS ★★★ 2019, 90 min, PG, M-Net, 22:00. Comedy drama. Three elderly Spanish men try to prove they’re still useful.

Carlos Iglesias, Ramón Barea.

S G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA ★★★ 2009, 118 min, PG13, SABC3, 21:30. Sci-fi action.

Based on the toys. An elite military unit must stop a terrorist organisation. Channing Tatum, Dennis Quaid.

S CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER ★★★ 2006, 114 min, 16V, e.tv, 23:05. Romantic drama.

In third-century China a power struggle erupts in the emperor’s household after a scandal emerges. Chow Yun-fat, Gong Li.

S HARD TARGET 2 ★★ 2016, 104 min, 16VL, e.tv, 01:00. Action. An American retired mixed martial artist accepts $1 million for one final fight in Myanmar, but upon arrival learns he’s the target of a hunt. Scott Adkins, Robert Knepper.

S JOURNEY TO OZ ★★ 2017, 91 min, A, M-Net, 03:00. Animated fantasy. Based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum. A young girl and her friends must defeat a villain who’s seized power with the help of his army of wooden soldiers. Voices: Kate Bristol, Haven Paschall.

S THE PERFECT ASSISTANT ★★ 2008, 91 min, PG13VL, e.tv, 02:50. Thriller. A personal assistant obsessed with her boss tries to seduce him when his wife becomes ill. Josie Davis, Chris Potter.

S THE WRONG PATIENT ★★★ 2018, 90 min, PG13, M-Net, 04:30. Thriller. A plastic surgeon is stalked by a dangerous patient in search of perfection. Sunny Mabrey, Lindsay Maxwell.

S THE PETAL PUSHERS ★★ 2019, 75 min, 13VSL, M-Net, 04:35. Crime comedy. After their mom’s death, two sisters suspect their stepfather is up to no good and employ a local detective to investigate. Isidora Goreshter, Bridey Elliott.

are discovered. ugu batha- aw, Lorraine Toussaint.

S PUPPY SWAP LOVE UNLEASHED ★★★ 2019, 90 min, A, M-Net, 04:30. Comedy. Two dogs try to get their owners, who’ve just split up, back together again. Rib Hillis, Sara Fletcher.

TUESDAY S THE KINGDOM ★★★ 2007, 110 min, 16VL,

e.tv, 00:00. Action. A team of government agents are sent to investigate the bombing of a US military facility in the Middle East.

Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper.

S COME AND FIND ME ★★★ 2016, 112 min, 16, M-Net, 02:35. Thriller. A man searching for his missing girlfriend realises she isn’t who she says she is. Aaron Paul, Annabelle Wallis.

S SHOCK AND AWE ★★★ M-Net, 04:30.

See Thursday.

WEDNESDAY S TODAY’S SPECIAL ★★★ 2009, 99 min, 16, e.tv, 00:10. Comedy. A Manhattan chef rediscovers his heritage and lust for life when he has to run his family’s Indian restaurant. Aasif Mandvi, Jess Weixler.

S TIME FREAK ★★★ 2018, 104 min, 13L, M-Net, 04:15. Sci-fi comedy. After his girlfriend breaks up with him, a teenage boy creates a time machine to go back to fix things.

Asa Butterfield, Sophie Turner. S

MONDAY

S THE LEGEND OF TARZAN ★★★ e.tv, 11:40.

See Saturday.

S GET OUT ALIVE ★★ 2015, 90 min, 13VL, e.tv, 00:00. Thriller. An estranged couple lured to a remote retreat must work together when they discover their lives are in danger. Beverley Mitchell, Ryan S Williams.

S SAVING FLORA ★★★ 2018, 95 min, PG13, SABC2, 16:00. Adventure. An old circus elephant is set free by the owner’s teenage daughter, who sets off on a journey with the pachyderm to a nature reserve. Jenna Ortega.

S FAST COLOR ★★★ 2018, 100 min, 13VL, M-Net, 02:45. Sci-fi thriller. A woman with superhuman abilities who’s been in hiding for years is forced to return home to the family she abandoned when her powers

SUNDAY

Fast Color, Monday on M-Net at 02:45.

Curse of the Golden Flower, Sunday on e.tv at 23:05. you.co.za 20

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YOUR STARS

By PETRA DU PREEZ

For daily horoscopes go to you.co.za.

ARIES

21 MARCH – 19 APRIL

It’s a week in which to make your words count – and also count your words. This makes it an appropriate time to voice your opinions, enter debates and apply your mind to both written and verbal assignments.

However, with Mercury currently in retrograde motion, misunderstandings are rife and glitches the norm. So be sure to dot your i’s and cross your t’s to avoid any disagreements, especially if you’re a hasty Aries.

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 40, 18, 36, 24, 1, 52

TAURUS

PISCES 19 FEBRUARY – 20 MARCH

TREVOR NOAH 20 FEBRUARY 1984

JORDAN PEELE 21 FEBRUARY 1979

SOPHIE TURNER 21 FEBRUARY 1996

HERSCHELLE GIBBS 23 FEBRUARY 1974

RASHIDA JONES 25 FEBRUARY 1976

MINKI VD WESTHUIZEN 26 FEBRUARY 1984

Focus on your dreams, goals and desires

The Sun moves into your sign, which means you’ll soon celebrate your birthday and start a new year.

Whether you want to have a birthday bash with your buddies or opt for a romantic escape with your lover, make the most of your special day. It’s also a good time to set clear intentions and formulate goals for the year ahead. Chances are you’ve got several wishes, dreams and plans you’d like to see bear fruit.

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 10, 25, 21, 42, 51, 15

CANCER

PISCES AT WORK S As a boss, they’re gentle and understanding.

S As an employee, they need guidelines and a clear plan.

S As a colleague, they have a sympathetic ear for your woes.

S Their management style is easy-going, with no laying down of the law.

S Their workspace could be chaotic and in need of order.

S At the office party, they’re easily led astray by their peers.

S Their paycheque is drained by charities and donations.

VIRGO

SCORPIO

CAPRICORN

20 APRIL – 20 MAY

21 JUNE – 21 JULY

23 AUG – 22 SEPT

23 OCT – 21 NOV

21 DEC – 20 JAN

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 49, 19, 6, 43, 23, 50

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 48, 6, 39, 30, 9, 51

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 39, 49, 37, 8, 44, 11

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 18, 27, 2, 12, 38, 35

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 14, 35, 7, 20, 41, 17

It’s a week in which to share experiences and outings with friends. Go out for a culinary delight, spend time in nature or shop around for works of art. Even if your friends suggest activities that may be out of your comfort zone, try not to be a stick-in-the-mud. Your hands-on approach and practical mindset could be of help to a buddy in need.

GEMINI

If you’re a true Cancer, you may be quite a homebody and somewhat reluctant to pack your bags. But whether it’s for boosting your professional life or providing a pleasurable respite, it’s a week in which travelling can be beneficial for your mind, body and soul. Mercury is currently in reverse gear, so be on your guard and allow for the odd change or two.

LEO

The Sun is on its yearly visit to your love horoscope, warming the chambers of your heart. It brings opportunities for romance as it’s a time when love affairs abound. While it’s good to separate the wheat from the chaff and play hard to get, don’t be too picky lest you miss the boat. Remember, Miss and Mister Perfect don’t exist.

LIBRA

It’s a week in which to put down your tools, relax your focus on the job and have a bit of fun. With Mercury in reverse gear, it’s the perfect time to take a breather.

Hang out with your buddies, bury yourself in a romance or detective novel or rekindle your interest in a hobby.

Playtime is a great way to rejuvenate your body, mind and soul.

SAGITTARIUS

It’s a good week in which exercise the brain, so play word games for your leisure, do literary research for a project, or study towards a qualification. With mental Mercury in retrograde motion, rev up the mind with refreshing ideas and rejuvenating concepts, rather than letting regressive thoughts pull you into a place of despair.

AQUARIUS

21 MAY – 20 JUNE

22 JULY – 22 AUG

23 SEPT – 22 OCT

22 NOV – 20 DEC

21 JAN – 18 FEB

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 24, 50, 4, 33, 15, 48

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 45, 31, 40, 1, 22, 27

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 4, 33, 28, 14, 47, 29

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 2, 45, 26, 16, 3, 46

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 9, 47, 5, 13, 32, 34

As the Sun moves into your professional horoscope, make the most of opportunities. If you have to follow a different route or change direction regarding your goals, don’t let the backward motion of your planet, Mercury, be a deterrent. Prevention is better than cure so don’t skimp on planning, back up your work and allow ample time to meet deadlines.

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Work comes with ample opportunities, including chances to be more successful, to empower yourself and to achieve your goals. There may also be prospects of a more personal nature.

A work assignment might open the door to travelling, a new client could become the love of your life or you could meet a creative soulmate at your next business lunch.

You may sometimes fail at balancing the scales – a stressful occurrence for a Libra. Whether bending over backwards disturbs your balance, over-indulging causes discomfort or procrastinating turns on the pressure, you need to know when enough is enough.

Exercise moderation whether you give or take, offer or decline, or work or play.

Mercury, master of the tongue, is in reverse gear – which could pose problems, especially for a Sagittarius who often puts their foot in it. Chew things over, rather than spitting them out.

Count your words, lest slipups hurt feelings, cause embarrassment or burn bridges. You could also blow new life into a project that’s been neglected.

Mercury is reversing through your financial horoscope, signalling a warning for financial matters. Make time to get your money house in order by either revising your budget, reducing your expenses or increasing or revitalising your income streams. Money may not be your main aim, but cash can buy independence and pay for must-haves.

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FOR THE KIDS S QUESTION: What has four legs but can’t

walk?

ANSWER: A table!

S QUESTION: Which country has the largest appetite?

ANSWER: Hungary!

HOLEY MOLY!

A worker earns the company’s Mr Ingenious title for his quick thinking in a competition and wins a holiday to Switzerland for himself and his family.

After a long and tiring flight, the family sits down at a restaurant in Switzerland to have dinner, which includes some Swiss cheese.

The worker’s disgruntled four-year-old son says, “Dad, I don’t like the holes in the cheese!”

“Well son, be a good boy and eat the cheese – just leave the holes on the side of the plate.”

THE BIGGER MAN

A lawyer had a bit too much to drink and on his way home he rear-ends the car in front of him.

He gets out of his car, walks over to the driver of the other car and says, “Boy, are you in trouble! I’m a lawyer!”

The driver looks out of his window and says, “No sir, you’re in trouble. I’m a judge.”

YOUNG BUT WISE

A boy, who’s a witness in court, is asked by a lawyer: “Did anyone tell you what to say in court?”

“Yes, sir.”

“I thought so! Who was it?”

“My father, sir.”

“And what did he tell you?”

“He said the lawyers would try to get me all tangled up, but if I stuck to the truth, I’d be all right.”

OVERDUE BILL

A lawyer sends an overdue bill to a client.

A note is attached that states: “This bill is one year old.”

By return mail the lawyer gets his bill back.

Attached to it is a card which reads: “Happy birthday.”

WHAT’S THIS?

A local paediatrician always plays a game with his young patients to put them at ease and test their knowledge of body parts.

One day, while pointing to a little boy’s ear, the doctor asks him, “Is this your nose?”

Immediately the little boy turns to his

“I don’t worry about Leroy unless he goes looking for extramarital arguments.” mother and says, “Mom, I think we’d better find a new doctor!”

WRONG NUMBER

Yesterday I dialled the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) and got the South African Revenue Service (Sars) in error.

So the Sars operator asks me what number I dialled.

“The National Blood Service, you know, where they take the blood.”

She says, “Well, you aren’t too far off, are you?”

JUST IN CASE

A counsellor is helping children unpack their suitcases and put their holiday gear away on their first morning at a summer school camp.

He’s surprised to see one of the youngsters unpack thick, warm socks, a heavy woollen jersey, fur-lined boots, a raincoat and an umbrella.

The counsellor asks, “Why did you bring cold-weather attire to summer camp?”

The kid answers, “Did you ever have a mom?”

ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE

Joseph, a trucker, is often caught in commuter rush-hour traffic.

One morning as everything comes to a standstill, he sits high up in his 18-wheeler, singing and whistling.

A passenger in a nearby car, frustrated by the delay, shouts up at him, “What are you so happy about?”

“I’m already at work!” he cheerfully replies.

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

A man scolds his son for being unruly and the boy rebels against him.

The youngster gets some of his clothes, his teddy bear and his piggy bank and announces, “I’m running away from home!”

The father calmly decides to look at the matter logically. “What if you get hungry?” he asks.

“Then I’ll come home and eat,” declares the child, bravely.

“And what if you run out of money?”

“I’ll come home and get some!” replies the child.

The man then makes a final attempt, “What if your clothes get dirty?”

“Then I’ll come home and let mommy wash them,” is the reply.

The man shakes his head and exclaims, “This kid isn’t running away from home; he’s going off to university!”

A KID’S LOGIC

My sister hasn’t been feeling well, so I call to see how she’s doing. My 10-year-old niece answers the phone.

“Hello,” she whispers.

“Hi, honey. How’s your mother doing?” I ask.

“She’s sleeping,” she answers, again in a whisper.

“Did she go to the doctor?” I ask.

“Yes. She got some medicine,” my niece says softly.

“Well, don’t wake her. Just tell her I called.

What are you doing, by the way?”

Again in a soft whisper, she answers, “Practising my trumpet.” S you.co.za 20 FEBRUARY 2020

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MIDDLE: Jamie plays Walter “Johnny D” McMillian, who was arrested in 1986 for a murder he didn’t commit.

CHILL OUT | SPOTLIGHT

Just Mercy opens in SA cinemas on 21 February

Jamie Foxx

The award winner talks about his role as a wrongfully accused man COMPILED BY DENNIS CAVERNELIS

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IMPORTANT FILM The 52-year-old Oscar winner puts in another stellar performance in this gripping true-life legal drama based on the memoir of the same name. Jamie plays Walter “Johnny D” McMillian, a man who was arrested in 1986 for a murder he didn’t commit and subsequently sentenced to death. His case hit the spotlight when lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Michael B Jordan) took on his appeal, which became the subject of Walter’s book.

Jamie describes the film as “a human story that people can connect with” and “one of the most important films I’ve ever been a part of ”. The film was also a chance for him to work with longtime friend Michael for the first time.

CONNECTING WITH THE STORY Jamie’s portrayal won him the spotlight award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January and in his acceptance speech he spoke about how his father was jailed for seven years for having 25 dollars’ worth of an illegal substance.

“To have him taken away from me, I could easily sort of tap into what this story is about,” he said.

Growing up in a small Texan town, which was still segregated when he was

a boy Jamie says his dad taught g him how to swim, play tenn nis and “be able to get across th he tracks and do whatever you want to do”.

After his dad’s release Jamie took him to the US Open Tennis Championships where theyy watched Venus Williams play.

“We had tears rolling down n our cheeks. Because of him m teaching me not to have limits, here I am in this room with alll of you,” he said.

WITH SOUL In a first for Pixarr, the animated film studio is reeleasing a movie with a black lead actor – and yes, it’s Jamie. The movie, called Soul, ul is about a school band teacher whose real passion is playing jazz. After falling into a manhole, he ends up in a mystical place where he’s just a soul. His co-stars include Tina Fey and Phylicia Rashad.

Jamie is a singer who’s won a Grammy – for best R&B performance by a duo or group for his hit song Blame It – as well as an Oscar for his portrayal of musician Ray Charles in the biopic Ray. SOURCES: DESERTSUN.COM, HARPERSBAZAAR.COM, IMDB.COM, VARIETY.COM, ETONLINE.COM, WASHINGTONPOST.COM, NYTIMES. COM, BLACKENTERPRISE.COM, THEWRAP.COM

MOVIE FACTS

S Just Mercy is the first film to adopt an inclusion rider – a contractual provision mandating that underrepresented groups such as women, people of colour and the LGBTQ community be considered for key on-

screen and behind-thescenes jobs.

S Michael B Jordan is one of the movie’s executive producers.

S The movie is directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, best known for his collaborations

with Brie Larson (Short Term 12 and The Glass Castle). The Oscar winner also stars in the movie.

S Rapper Ice Cube’s oldest son, O’Shea Jackson Jnr (28), has a role as a prisoner on death row. you.co.za 20 FEBRUARY 2020

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Martin Lawrence (left) and Will Smith return for the second time as cops Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey in Bad Boys for Life.

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NETFLIX, LIONSGATE, LANTERN ENTERTAINMENT, SONY PICTURES RELEASING

Bad Boys for Life

Action comedy. With Will Smith, Martin Lawrence and Vanessa Hudgens. Directors: Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah.

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They’re back! And boy, did they bring out the big guns. Bad Boys for Life is jam-packed with action, pizazz and zingy one-liners just like its two predecessors, but it’s the enduring chemistry between co-stars Smith and Lawrence that makes their onscreen bromance one of the most iconic of the past 25 years. It’s also the reason why the third instalment will please fans of the franchise as well as appeal to a new generation of viewers.

The pair reprise their roles as detectives in the

Miami police department. The suave Mike Lowrey (Smith) is having a midlife crisis and has the Porsche to prove it while his ride-or-die, Marcus Burnett (Lawrence), is a proud new grandpa and quite comfortable with his older self. The dynamic duo team up with the newly minted AMMO – an elite task force specialising in hightech tactics – to take on a vengeful drug cartel leader (Kate del Castillo) and her son (Jacob Scipio).

El Arbi and Fallah replace Michael Bay as directors but their homage to him is apparent from the get-go, such as the opening scene with Mike and Marcus speeding through the streets of Miami, the 360° camera shots and even a cameo by the Transformers filmmaker himself.

Though some jokes are milked, it’s still a pleasing addition to the franchise and also has the legs to stand on its own. The movie’s success is largely due to the lead actors – theirs is a bond it seems that (much like Smith) will never get old. – LAURI KING

SEE YOU YESTERDAY Sci-fi thriller. Director Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing, BlacKkKlansman) produced this entertaining and thoughtful teen adventure with a grim edge.

It’s basically a version of Back to the Future (1985) – Michael J Fox even puts in a cameo appearance – with Eden Duncan-Smith (Annie) and Danté Crichlow as CJ and Sebastian, the brainy best friends who invent time-travelling backpacks for their high school science expo.

When CJ’s brother is gunned down by the police, who mistake him for a robber, the pair travel back in time to prevent his death but wreak havoc with the timeline in the process.

– DENNIS CAVERNELIS

2019. 80 MIN. PG13.

DStv Box Office THE CURRENT WAR

True-life drama. In 1880 brilliant but extremely competitive inventorThomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) unveils his latest invention, the light bulb, plus the method he’s chosen to use to deliver power to it – direct current (DC).

Businessman GeorgeWestinghouse (Michael Shannon fromThe Shape ofWater) wants to work with Edison, but he believes alternating current (AC) is the way forward as it’s cheaper to transmit and can be done over longer distances.

But Edison feels high-voltage DC is too dangerous and the two become rivals.

When electrical engineer NikolaTesla (Nicholas Hoult) arrives on the scene, the race to light up America and, ultimately, the world is on.

This strong lead trio – ably supported byTom Holland, Katherine Waterston (the Fantastic Beasts movies) and Matthew Macfadyen (Pride & Prejudice) – deliver solid performances in this interesting history lesson.Though the pace is somewhat slow, it’s well worth sticking it out to the end. – LYNN ELY 2017. 105 MIN. 13V.

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RAMBO: LAST BLOOD

Action. Human killing machine John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is enjoying a semblance of a normal life in the US with his adoptive family, housekeeper Maria (Babel’s Adriana Barraza) and her teenage niece Gabrielle (Yvette Monreal), who help run his horse ranch.

Apparently not having learnt anything from theTaken movies, Gabrielle ignores Rambo’s advice not to look for her deadbeat dad when she finds out he’s living in Mexico.

Across the border she’s promptly snatched by sex traffickers, and Rambo must saddle up once more.

This fifth instalment in the Rambo franchise blends the plot ofTaken (2008) with the gore of the Saw flicks, and the result is a bloody disappointment. If this is indeed the final Rambo film, it’s a disappointing send-off.

– DENNIS CAVERNELIS

2019. 96 MIN. 18DLPV SV. ALSO AVAILABLE ON DVD.

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“We all grew up together and y can tell . . . on my music there was re ae, there was Indian music. You have us from Brazil. From everywhere. My m ’s Arab. My dad’s French. So I’m a mix d my sound is just like the city of Paris. It’s a big mashup.”

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though he’s quick say he’s no diva, he does admit ways making one special request when signing up to perform at shows. “They have to make sure I have a socce ll. I play everywhere, so need to always have a ball.”

GIVING BACK The 33-year-old mus start in the music industry came after he quit school at 16 and got a job at e Paris’ most iconic record stores. There e me popular French DJs such as David Gue a, Bob Sinclar and Daft Punk and fell in love ith idea of being behind the turntables.

But it wasn’t easy, he says as he cam close to quitting music before his 2013 hit Bi Ma chine caught the attention of fellow DJ plo, and took off. Nowadays, he says, he ways makes sure to listen to the music of you pro ducers waiting at the back doors of club “You never know, the next DJ Snake, the next Skrillex, the next big DJs might wait outs e of the club. You’ve got to give back and lis to the next generation and show some love CLEAN LIVING The party scene might be how he makes a living, but DJ Snake insists he the furthest thing from being a party animal. never had a drink in my life. I don’t sm e; I don’t do anything.”

He cites the alcohol and drug abuse he nessed as a child as the reason behind hi so ber habits. “I’ve just seen so many people in my family fall apart because of drugs and alco ol.

I’ve had friends who died driving drunk, an uncle hooked on crack cocaine. Growin I just knew I didn’t want that for myself.” S

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He’s one of the most famou s in the world, but there’s one person in his life who’s not crazy about his icon electronic sound. “My little brother likes hip-hop, so he’s not into my stuff a l,” he says. “The last time I The Ultra Sou th Africa nt hom 2020 festival takes he told me, place at the Ca pe Town ’m sorry Ostrich Ranch on o, your 28 February a nd music the Johannesb at urg sucks!’ ”

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CHILL OUT | BOOKS

Sea of dreams We chat to bestselling author Erin Morgenstern about her long-awaited new novel

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BY JANE VORSTER

T’S the kind of success story most aspiring writers can only dream of.

Nine years ago few people had ever heard of Erin Morgenstern but with the release of her debut novel, The Night Circus, she became an overnight publishing sensation.

How do you follow on from that?

Surely the pressure to deliver another smash hit must be unbearable. Back in 2011 when we chatted to the American author she said she had a few ideas for another book but that she was trying to “ignore outside noise and expectations and let it be the novel it wants to be”.

Sadly for fans that meant an eight-year wait. But last year their patience was rewarded when her second novel, The Starless Sea, finally hit shelves.

We caught up with Erin (41) to find out about her labour of love.

What was the inspiration behind your new book, the driving force that made you want to write it?

I set out wanting to write a book about books because I was having a difficult time trying to figure out what to write after The Night Circus and I started asking myself why I was writing another book at all and why do we tell stories.

I started writing, trying to find answers to those questions and mostly ended up with more questions. What began as a book about books slowly became a book about stories.

Erin Morgenstern spent eight years writing her latest novel.

It’s a really hard book to sum up. Can you describe it in a few sentences?

I sometimes say that The Starless Sea is about fate and time and videogames, or that it’s about a guy named Zachary Ezra Rawlins who found a painted door when he was 11 that would’ve taken him somewhere magical had he opened it, but he didn’t and when he’s almost 25 that story catches up with him.

But it’s a 500-page novel with multiple books-within-the-book and I still haven’t managed to figure out a way to distil that into just a few sentences, and I don’t think I ever will.

Was it a fun book to write?

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bling them into a whole got frustrating and difficult at certain stages. I probably had the most fun writing the fairytales since they felt like their own unique micro-universes.

but the Circus took five years to write. With Starless Sea I had to get to a point where I could try to ignore all the expectations and just sit down and tell a story again.

After the success of The Night Circus, was it daunting to get to work on a second book?

When did you start work on The Starless Sea and how long did it take you to write it?

It was daunting mostly because people were waiting for it. No one was waiting for The Night Circus. I started getting asked when my next book was coming out almost immediately,

I had bits and pieces and ideas that found their way into The Starless Sea in notebooks and documents going back 15 years or more but I only really started working on it properly more

recently. The majority of the writing process took about four years and involved a lot of rewriting.

What would readers be surprised to know about your writing process?

I write far more than I use. I probably rewrote the latter half of the book entirely three or four times.

There’s a backstory character who’s mentioned twice and I wrote 10 000 words of her diary because I thought at one point it might be one of the books within the book but then decided not to use it. The Night Circus was similar, so I think it’s just part of my process to write lots, then sort through to find the bits that end up suiting the story.

The worlds you create are so elaborate. How do you work? Do you plot everything meticulously or does it just unfold on its own?

work but I think I have more faith that I’ll get the story right eventually now.

What kind of a writer are you? Are you super focused or do you tend to procrastinate and play lots of videogames?

I’m a binge writer mostly. I’m not a write-everyday writer. I go back and forth between output mode when I’m actually writing and input mode when I do more reading or research or pondering without necessarily putting words down on paper, but both modes are part of the process.

Especially for The Starless Sea the videogame playing usually ends up being research.

If I spent that time reading it wouldn’t be considered procrastinating and it’s really not that different.

With the types of games I tend to play it’s just another way to consume stories.

‘What began as a book about books slowly became a book about stories’

WHAT IT’S ABOUT THE STARLESS SEA

By ERIN MORGENSTERN Doubleday Zachary Ezra Rawlins is bewildered to find a story from his own childhood amid other strange tales in a mysterious book he borrows from his varsity library.

By following clues on the cover – a bee, key and sword – he finds this way through a secret doorway to an ancient library hidden far beneath Earth.

When this magical realm comes under threat the pressure is on for Zachary to navigate his way through crowded ballrooms and twisting tunnels to find the end of his story – in so doing he’ll not only resolve the plot of the intriguing book but also find his own life’s purpose.

Starless Sea is a celebration of books and stories – what’s the first book you can remember reading as a child?

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I’m not a plotter at all. I always start with setting but – ERIN MORGENSTERN then I have to take my time My mom actually found it not and explore that setting and that long ago tucked away meet the people who inhabit it and learn what with the old picture books and I recognised its stories are and then I can start figuring out every page: Oh What a Busy Day by Gyo Fujikahow to thread all of those stories together into wa. It’s many different things in one book ratha narrative. er than a single story and it has beautiful illustrations.

What’s your daily writing routine?

I don’t really have a set daily routine. I’m not a morning person so if I’m drafting something I save it for afternoon or evening, but if I’m revising or editing I can sometimes manage that first thing with my coffee.

I like to write at night for those early-tomiddle stages of a book when I’m still trying to figure it out because my inner critic tends to fall asleep sooner than the rest of my brain.

Where do you write best?

I’m an at-home writer. I can’t write in coffee shops and places like that because I get distracted and have a tendency to eavesdrop.

At home I write in different places, usually at my desk in my office that overlooks the woods (sometimes there are foxes out there and often there are wild turkeys) but I also write on the couch with my laptop or outside on the back deck if the weather is warm.

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How have you evolved as a writer since The Night Circus?

I think I have a better sense of what I’m doing and how my messy process works. I still need to write and rewrite and try things that don’t

If you were about to be put into solitary confinement for a year and were allowed to take only three books, which would you choose?

Erm, let’s see . . . My single-volume version of Patricia A McKillip’s Riddle-Master Trilogy, which I haven’t yet read and it will take me a while since it’s three books in one. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson because it’s one of those books I’d very much like to read over and over to dissect how perfect it is and learn from it. And some long, dense nonfiction book on a topic I’d like to spend time studying, such as Egyptian mythology or tarot or the history of the cocktail.

Which party from literature would you most like to have attended?

Oh, I’d love to attend a Jay Gatsby party. Even just for the people-watching and the champagne.

Do you believe in magic? If so, why?

Yes. A belief in magic is a belief that extraordinary things are possible, and I certainly believe that. S

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she hadn’t had the time to bake. Nick Rosie said with a smile.

When they finished their assessment, emerged with a box and they walked Rosie opened the door. “Sorry, Scratch. back in silence.

Rosie sat at their newly installed bar Time to go.”

The cat didn’t budge. Rosie didn’t with her head in her hands. “What did blame him. It was rainy and grey out you get?”

“A Toffee Dream and a Vanilla Beanthere. “Poor thing,” she said. “He won’t do any harm. Let’s leave that tiny back win- Pear,” Nick said, opening the box.

“Wow.” The pear one had fluffy swirls dow open, so he can come and go as he of vanilla icing topped with a miniature pleases.”

When they returned in the morning, marzipan pear; the other cake was drizScratch was curled on the sofa. He eyed zled with amber toffee.

“Want some?” Nick said. them warily.

“No, thanks.”

“He’s beautiful,” Rosie said. “He’s not He cut them in half and lifted a piece just a common old tabby. Look at those markings. He might be part Bengal. Ex- to his lips.

“How is it?” she asked. cept Bengals are supposed to be friendly.”

“You don’t want to know.”

“His friendly gene’s missing,” Nick said.

She gave in and reached for a piece.

“I wonder if he likes tuna?” Rosie Nick grinned. “I knew you couldn’t reopened the tin she’d brought along.

Keeping one eye on her, Scratch wolfed sist. Good, hey?”

She nodded. The icing was the lot, before retreating beShe pushed a creamy, and the sponge had hind the sofa. box across the a touch of salt that gave it just the right balance.

HE the branddesk, hoping “What now?” she said. new kitchen he wouldn’t “We’re supposed to open in and bar were in see it as two weeks and we don’t have place at last. a unique selling point anyRosie wielded bribery more. Penworth’s too small a roller. “Let the painting commence!” She’d found the for two cupcake cafés.”

“We can still do your beautiful cupperfect shade of lilac for the walls. cakes,” Nick said. “We just need a differ“Rosie, come see this!” Nick called.

Scratch was in his favourite spot be- ent theme. . . How about the Organic hind the sofa. Snuggled along his spotted Café? Everyone’s going organic these belly were four tiny kittens, each at- days.”

“People who like organic won’t want tached to a teat.

“Argh, Scratch is a girl!” Rosie cried. sugary cupcakes.”

“An internet café?”

“And no wonder she was so hungry.”

Rosie shook her head. “We’d get sticky She’d been feeding the animal morning cake crumbs over all the computers.” and night.

Nick gestured across the room. “Look “We’d better phone the vet,” Nick said.

“She’s letting me stroke her now,” Rosie on the bright side. We’ve got great premsaid, thrilled. “She must have been too ises.”

Scratch lay in a patch of sunshine near broody before.” the window with her kittens in a heap The painting was finally complete.

“Let’s go out for lunch to celebrate,” Ro- next to her.

Rosie sighed. “And what else? A cat sie said.

They walked to the nearby shopping called Scratch and a bunch of kittens to mall. Rosie froze. There in front of her in re-home.”

Nick put his arm around her. “We’ll shades of pink and blue was the café of her dreams: Claire’s Cupcake Café. The think of something.”

“I wanted this for so long.” selection of cupcakes was vast and they “I know. Here, try the toffee one.” looked incredible.

Rosie stuffed some in her mouth. With A waiter came out. “Table for two?” the sweet taste of toffee on her tongue, it “Want to go in?” Nick asked. was hard to stay miserable.

“I’ve lost my appetite,” Rosie said.

The kittens’ eyes were open now. The “You don’t mean that,” Nick said. “Why don’t I nip in and get some to take home. white one seemed the most adventurous of the bunch. He lay on top, patting the You haven’t had a cupcake for ages.”

They’d been so busy renovating that twitching tail of the ginger one below.

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Rosie went over to stroke them.

Two little girls were looking in the window, noses pressed to the glass.

“Can we see the kittens?” one of them shouted.

“Of course.” Rosie pasted on a smile and unlocked the door.

The woman accompanying the girls smiled back apologetically.

“We’re looking for homes for them, if you’re interested,” Rosie said.

“Sorry, we’re not allowed pets where we live,” the woman said. “It’s a shame because the girls love animals. So, are you opening a café?”

“We certainly are.” Rosie handed her a flyer. “Free cupcakes on our opening day.”

Whenever that may be.

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HE next day, the woman and children returned.

“I hope you don’t mind,” the woman said. “The girls were desperate to see the kittens.”

“Don’t worry,” Rosie said. “We’re nowhere near ready anyway.”

“You’d better give me more flyers to hand out. The girls have been telling all their friends at school. The Cat Café, that’s what they call it.”

Rosie smiled. “I’ve heard there’s such a thing.”

“Yeah, cat cafés are massive in Japan apparently,” the woman said. “I don’t know if we have any here yet.”

Rosie laughed. “Well, if we have, they haven’t reached Penworth.”

That gave her an idea. She talked it over with Nick once the children left.

Three weeks later, Rosie held the ladder so Nick could screw the new sign into place. The red tape had been so horrendous they’d had to delay their opening, but Rosie hoped it would be worth it.

Scratch rubbed herself against Rosie’s legs. Rosie bent to stroke her. “And it’s all thanks to Scratch. Anyway, the kittens are so gorgeous I don’t think I could bring myself to give them away.”

She’d baked all day yesterday and even designed a new cupcake in Scratch’s honour. With caramel sponge to match Scratch’s fur, The Cup-cat had burnt toffee icing, with dark chocolate ears, eyes and whiskers.

Nick came down the ladder. “How does that look?”

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won’t has never really been a problem. I won’t write about things that bore me. – Ree Drummond

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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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rabbit sheep sheepdog silkworm turkey

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Last week’s solution abhor, albino, bacon, bail, bailor, baric, barn, baron,

bicorn, binal, birch, blah, blain, blanch, bloc, boar, boil, boric, born, brain, bran, branch, brio, broach, broil, bronchi, bronchia, BRONCHIAL, cabin, carbon, carob, cobra, crab, crib, hobnail, lobar, robin.

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ACROSS 1 It’s a mess making this meat dish! (4) 3 Change of course in change of date is received with hostility (8) 9 Social gathering of engineers with workers’ association (7) 10 Arrogant jab puts grip on leader of union (5) 11 Be a tease by kidnapping Michael? (4,3,5) 13 Are they condemned to departure? (6) 15 From there hen etc can fly around (6) 17 Crazy Ada has turned up in an affair (3,2,1,6) 20 This paper’s King – that’s definite! (5) 21 Wild cry rose in magic (7) 22 Rest acts strangely and disperses (8) 23 Some have a lot of meat (4) DOWN 1 Tradition distorts their age (8) 2 King cuts up being unable to move (5) 4 Head of team and me will turn up – on this? (6) 5 Greeks were round here for sport (12) 6 Sort of effect that’s penalised in rugby? (5,2) 7 These clothes are not the real thing! (4) 8 Refuse container for dog to have puppies? (6,6) 12 The answer to this is a giveaway (8) 14 Scenic falls can be turned to advantage with an artist (7) 16 German emperor is rake, very corrupt (6)

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18 People here are in the more prosperous part of the UK (5) 19 Requests from clot around king (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 Hotpot (4) 3 Assaulted (8) 9 Meeting of old friends (7) 10 Arrogant or haughty (5) 11 To tease (4,3,5) 13 Doomed people (6) 15 From that place (6) 17 Very foolish (3,2,1,6) 20 Grim, desolate (5) 21 Black magic (7) 22 Distributes loosely (8) 23 Calf meat (4) DOWN 1 Traditional practices (8) 2 Adhered (5) 4 Bicycle for two (6) 5 An arena (12) 6 Foul move in rugby (5,2) 7 Explosions that fail to occur (4) 8 Bin for rubbish (6,6) 12 Quality of aiding an enemy (8) 14 Falls on the border of Canada and US (7) 16 German ruler (6) 18 Used to refer to things nearby (5) 19 Enquires (4)

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NO 1706 Reserve in Utah (5,6,8,4)

CORRECTLY COMPLETE THE BLOCKBUSTER AND YOU COULD WIN

High spirits

Eulogy

SA city (abbr)

Astonishment US university

Insects (6,8)

One named after another

Juno

Gather in small bits Those people

It is (poetic)

Tribal Petrol grade (6,6)

Repair (ship)

Anno Hegirae (abbr)

Stories Senna

Lucid

Paunch 12th Gk letter

Burial yard

Europeans

Type of bank transfer (abbr)

Hides stars from view Too

Industry

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Eye part Sandy play area

Cougars

Go back

Remitted Sailing (2,3)

Easily handled (vessel)

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Town in NW Italy

Tender

Edible tubers

Not a gentleman

Reptile shedding Dined at home (3,2)

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Crazy (informal)

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Runway

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Water elf

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US taxman (abbr)

SA political party (abbr)

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Vesicle

Cerium (symbol)

Form Italy (www)

Debit note (abbr)

Swift sharp reply

Joyous ecstasy

Vapours Iota

Ancient Peruvians

Disgrace

Venezuela (www)

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SA (www)

Type of belief in God

Did very well

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Chest bone

Archetype

Unit of current

Computer part (abbr)

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Dung Riding boot wheel

Pedal South American country

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Cereal mix

Proceed without allies (2,2,5)

Exhaust by dispersion

Wax palm

United Arab Emirates (abbr)

Bachelor of Arts

September (contr)

Dandy

Humble oneself

Spanish friend

Sprinted again

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Estonia (int car reg)

Evening party

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Conferences

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Scream actor (5,8)

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Gravimetric volume (abbr)

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Rotate rapidly

Curdled milk

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Epistle (abbr)

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Cutlery item

Naming word Souvenir

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Molars

Boat workers

Medieval stringed instrument French friend

Rush Hour 3 star (5,6)

German Mrs

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Knife part Entertained

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Belief

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Lament Sodium bicarbonate

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Desert in NE Sudan

Hat (French) Place Arrogant person

Jargon

Internet sites

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WORD LIST

BASIC, BONUS, BOXED, BRIEF, CHAOS, CLEAR, CLIFF, CRAWL, CRIED, FLAIR, FLUID, FOCAL, HAVOC, HOVER, LIVER, SCENT, SEVER, SLUSH, THUMB, TONIC.

CONNECT FIVE

All these five-letter words fit into the grid horizontally, vertically or diagonally. The first and last letters of each word should be written inside the shaded squares and the rest of the word in the circles. We’ve placed four starter letters to get you going.

SOLUTION

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The wall of Kolnbrein Dam in Austria is an example of a solid structure built to withstand the pressure of the water. The walkway is a frame structure.

Structures

They’re all around you in various objects – from natural to manmade – and are vitally important

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TYPES OF STRUCTURES

All the objects around you are made of structures and each has a specific function.

There are natural structures such as trees, rocks and caves. Then there are manmade structures such as houses, planes, bricks and rugby balls.

We can divide these structures into three basic types: S Solid; S Shell; and S Frame.

For a more versatile structure, you can combine two or all three of these types of structures. We call this a combination structure.

Let’s take a closer look at the three basic types and learn more by using examples. es A bicycle frame’s triangular shape ensure this frame structure is strong and stable.

A helmet is a shell structure that protects the head.

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SOLID Solid structures are made of fairly dense material with few open spaces.

This makes them sturdy and strong. They won’t easily change shape when a heavy load or a lot of pressure is put on them.

Examples of solid structures include concrete dam walls, marble statues and wooden telephone poles. It’s possible to make a solid structure even stronger – a concrete dam wall can be reinforced by embedding steel poles inside the structure so the wall can withstand even more pressure from the water mass.

SHELL

Shell structures usually contain or protect something inside them. They’re strong but hollow and lighter than their size indicates. A curved surface makes the shell structure stronger because it compresses the material it’s made of but a shell structure with a flat surface could stretch or break if there’s too much pressure.

Shell structures make good containers that protect their contents.

Think of a natural shell structure such as an eggshell. It’s oval shape makes it stronger, though the shell itself is quite thin. Other shell structures include a cake tin, a tortoise shell and the hull of a boat or ship. ture

FRA AME me structures are easy to recognise because of their “skeleton” shape.

Fram Thesse structures are created when various types of materials (structuromponents) are put together to form a framework. The purpose of al co the vvarious parts is to support a load. A bicycle is an example of a frame structure that’s strong enough to carry the load (weight) of a cyclist. our skeleton is a frame structure made of bones that support the Yo eight of other parts of your body such as muscles. Without a skelewe ton, you’d just be a blob on the ground, unable to stand or walk. Your sskeleton also protects the organs around which it forms a frame – for xample, your rib cage protects your lungs and heart. Other examples ex of frrame structures include skyscrapers and bridges.

A frame can be stronger or weaker depending on the material, shapes and reinforcements used. A bicycle frame with its triangular shape made ollow metal tubes is stronger than if it were a square made of flat of ho pieces of metal. The fact that it’s made of metal also ensures a safer ride than if it were made of a weaker material such as wood.

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This tunnel looking onto Kalk Bay in Cape Town is an example of a shell structure.

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A retaining wall – a solid structure – retains (holds) loose soil and rocks so it doesn’t bar the road.

Flexible structures are better at withstanding unpredictable forces than solid, rigid ones.

Your skeleton Taipei 101, one of the is an example world’s tallest buildings, is built on top of of a natural frame struc- pressure-absorbing dampers (above), which ture. allow the building to move without crumbling during a quake.

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COMBINATION Many objects can be considered combination structures because they’re made of more than one type of structure – solid, shell and frame. For example, when someone builds a wooden cabin, there are several types of structures involved, such as the wood panels, poles, cement foundation and iron nails.

We can also classify structures according to the function they’re made for.

The purpose of some structures is to contain or protect something, while other structures provide support and stability to something that’s resting on them. Others, such as a bridge over a ravine, are meant to span the distance or close the space between two points.

If the erosion of a mountain- or hillside causes rocks and mud to periodically bar a road when it rains, a civil engineer could decide to build a retaining wall (a solid structure) to protect the road from the debris.

Another example of a shell structure that keeps something inside is a ball. It keeps air inside so you can bounce and kick the ball. An example of a structure that protects something is a helmet that protects your head should you fall off your bike.

A ladder (frame structure) needs to be strong enough to bear your weight when you climb it to get something from a high cupboard.

Other examples of support structures are pillars that support a roof over a patio, or a foundation that supports a house and stabilises it. S

The builder anchors the poles in the cement foundation (which is a solid structure) – these poles form a frame.

Wooden panels attached to the poles and the roof placed on top together create a protective shell structure for the people and objects inside the house.

Tortoises have both a frame (skeleton) to carry its weight and a shell structure to protect its soft body.

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This wooden house is an example of a combination structure.

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THE S TE TODAY

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SOLAR AND LUNAR CALENDAR

STONEHENGE WHEN IT WAS NEW HEEL STONE

WHY IS T CALLED THAT?

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ANSWERS Match the shadow 3. Figure out the fractions A ¹/₂, B ²/₅, C ³/₄, D ²/8 (or ¹/₄). Match the opposites fast-slow, expensive-cheap, different-same, short-long, sour-sweet. What sense is that? Smell: bread, flowers, perfume, coffee. Sight: mirror, microscope, book, glasses. p u f f i n w p

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Help each child return to their matching home Find 10 F ifferences Cut out (ask for help) the pictures below and glue them into the correct category of smell or sight.

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TONEHENGE in Wiltshire, England, is the ruins of several enormous manmade stone circles. The site has captured human imagination for centuries.

The name is Old English for “stones supported in the air”. Stonehenge was declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1986.

INNER CIRCLE

This was a circle of five complete stone structures, each made of two 4,1m tall standing boulders with a horizontal stone resting on them, arranged in a horseshoe shape.

Only three complete structures remain.

THE SITE TODAY

THE STONEHENGE BLUEPRINT OUTER CIRCLE

This consisted of 30 upright sarsens (boulders of silicified sandstone), with other boulders balanced horizontally on top.

The boulders were up to 9m tall (five adult humans) and weighed up to 22 tons (four adult elephants) each. Some of the horizontal boulders have toppled and some of the upright boulders are missing.

TRILITHONS

Each stone structure in the inner circle is called a trilithon: two upright boulders supporting a third stone horizontally on top (“tri” means “three”).

SECOND CIRCLE

Originally there were about 80 upright bluestones in this circle, of which only 43 are left. The bluestones each weighed about 3,6 tons (two cars) and were 2,5m tall (about 1½ adult humans).

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SOLAR AND LUNAR CALENDAR The stone circles were built with mathematical precision, and whatever else the structure’s purpose was, it seemingly served as both a solar and a lunar calendar, indicating the summer and winter solstices, and the southernmost moonrise and northernmost moonset.

SOLSTICE This is when the sun reaches its most northern or southern position in the sky as seen from Earth’s surface. The summer and winter solstices indicate the longest and shortest days of the year respectively and are six months apart.

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sets on the opposite side.

LUNARSTICE This is when the moon reaches its most northern or southern position in the sky as seen from Earth’s surface. It takes 9,3 years for the moon to move between this northernmost and southernmost position. Then there’s a lunar (moon) standstill, called a lunarstice, after which the moon once more moves in the opposite direction for 9,3 years, when there’s another standstill. These are called major and minor lunarstices.

STONEHENGE AND THE MOON During lunarstices the moon’s light can be seen through specific points of the stone circles at moonrise and moonset.

HEEL STONE

This single stone is 77,4m from the centre of the stone circles. At summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, someone standing in the centre of the stones looking towards the heel stone would see the sun rising behind it.

WHY IS IT CALLED THAT?

Legend has it that the devil threw a stone at a friar, striking him in the heel (the stone is also called Friar’s Heel). The stone stuck in the ground and is still there.

YOU ALTAR STONE

Despite its name, we can’t be sure if the stone was used as an altar. It used to stand upright, before toppling over when a horseshoe formation fell against it. It weighs 6 tons (one adult elephant) and used to stand 2m tall.

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DID YOU KNOW?

Up to 40 000 people gather at Stonehenge every year on the summer solstice (longest day of the year) to watch the sunrise from behind the heel stone.

Stonehenge is a popular tourist destination year round – about a million people visit the site annually.

A LONG TIME TO BUILD Building Stonehenge took incredibly hard work. The only tools available would’ve been stones, wood and rope. Building began around 3000 BC and ended around 1600 BC. Scientists reckon building it took 20-30 million hours.

BLUESTONE OVAL Originally there were 15 bluestones in this formation but today there are only 10 left.

1. TRANSPORTING THE STONES Some of the stones came from as far as 225km away and would’ve had to be brought across rivers and overland. The stones were probably put on giant tree-stump rollers, supported by a lever and pulled along with ropes.

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3. PULLING IT UPRIGHT Each stone was pulled upright using ropes, after which tree stumps were used to stabilise it it.

STONEHENGE WHEN IT WAS NEW An artist’s impression of the original Stonehenge. The most common theory is that it was built as a calendar but other theories of its uses include for religious rituals or as a prehistoric burial ground.

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4. THE HORIZONTAL STONES A wooden tower was built to get these stones on top. Grooves and dowels were used to make the stones fit together together.

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Transplant surACK when I was a thirdgeon Joshua year medical student, I Mezrich has started thinking about a saved many career in surgery. I can’t lives during his say I had any earth-shatcareer but he’s tering revelation regardalso had to watch lots of ing choosing this spepatients die. cialty. I just liked the intensity, the idea that you had to train really hard, but that, eventually, you’d have a really special skill that would allow you to open people up and fix things.

I thought surgery was ballsy. For me, it felt like a calling – albeit one that involved a massive commitment: to take someone’s life in your hands and be responsible for what happened next. It felt intoxicating, almost godlike.

Now, more than two decades after medical school, I feel the same way. I’ve made thousands – no, millions of decisions about patients, some big, some small, some right, some not, and almost all of which had some consequence.

Many – no, the majority of those decisions were right, but so many were wrong.

Most of my patients have done well, and yet I can vividly remember almost them, but for some reason, three in a row every one who didn’t. I can remember leaked, forcing him to divide oesophawhat they looked like when they were guses and bring “blowholes” out in the suffering or dying, the desperate sadness neck (called spit fistulas). I remember of their families, who felt helpless to him turning to me and saying, “I’m make them better. creating f***ing monsters.”

As strong as we surgeons are supposed Some complications are of the kind to act in surgery, we all have to figure out that sit with you day and night – for how to deal with complications. Manag- example, the pancreatic leak after a kiding them medically is the easy part. The ney transplant I did. To this day I don’t challenge is how to handle them emo- know how that happened. Whatever the tionally. reason, a couple of days after the surgery, Complications sit on your shoulders the patient developed fluid in his belly. like a heavy weight, sucking the joy out I tried everything to stop the leak, from of your life. And to add to the giving the patient medicamisery, every day, we have to ‘I distinctly tion, to stenting his pancrevisit patients who are strugas, to resecting portions of it, remember gling because of errors we but in the end, nothing made. hoping, when worked.

Many of them are living in I saw this patient every he was really despair, unable to eat, someday for months. I saw him times even with stool pour- sick, that he’d when he seemed to be doing ing out of their bellies. better, and I continued to just die’ I’ll never forget the time see him when he was clearly one of my mentors in residency, getting worse. a world-famous thoracic surgeon, had He got frustrated with me by the end, a string of complications during several and I got frustrated with him. I can disesophagectomies [a surgical procedure tinctly remember hoping, when he was to remove part of the tube between the really sick, that he’d just die. It doesn’t feel mouth and stomach and then recon- good to admit that. And in the end, he struct it using tissue from another did. organ].

Don’t get me wrong. I feel awful that it He’d performed literally thousands of happened, and I feel responsible, even

and can’t imagine how I caused it. I was just powerless to fix him, and death provided relief for both of us.

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OME complications are straight-up mental errors. Author Malcolm Gladwell once wrote an essay for The New Yorker titled The Physical Genius. In it, he writes about Charlie Wilson, the master neurosurgeon: “Charlie Wilson talks about going running in the morning and reviewing each of the day’s operations in his head – visualising the entire procedure and each potential outcome in advance. ‘It was a virtual rehearsal,’ he says, ‘so when I was actually doing the operation, it was as if I were doing it for the second time.’”

I, too, often sit in my office or at the scrub sink and “perform” the operation in my brain before doing it in real life.

I go over the moves, what things are going to look like, what problems we might get into.

Before I do a laparoscopy [keyhole surgery], I look carefully at the CT scans, picturing the anatomy in 3D, seeing what all the structures will look like and how (Turn over)

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they’ll be related. (This gets easier the more you do it.)

I can’t fall asleep after a big case because I can’t stop my head from reviewing the steps of the operation, as if a tape were playing back the moves. I can actually register what I did well and what I might have done better, which helps me think about the next case. It’s probably the same for any field that combines technical skills with mental preparation.

Another thing that helps all of us in the transplant field deal with complications is the “M and M” or “morbidity and mortality” conference, a weekly meeting where cases from the previous week are discussed.

Virtually every department of surgery has M and M. They’re held primarily for the purposes of learning, teaching, and improving quality of patient care, but I think most of us find them cathartic, too.

An M and M is usually run by a senior surgeon, often the chairman or division chief. A resident or fellow presents the case, and other surgeons chime in with questions, comments, recommendations, and often criticism.

Usually, the attending surgeon in the case will at some point give his impressions of what happened, what went wrong, and what might have been done differently.

There certainly are cases where I think I did everything right; where where, given the information I had, I would’ve done things the same way again.

But there have been many others where I wish I’d made different choices, where

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In theatre bad things often happen even though the surgical team did nothing wrong. Joshua says these cases test surgeons like nothing else in the field.

I shouldn’t have operated, I should’ve called for help, I should’ve made a different choice about where to put a kidney, how to sew the artery to the liver, how to handle the ureter.

Each one of these decisions likely led to some suffering for the patient – perhaps a reoperation, another procedure, more time in the hospital, blood transfusions, loss of an organ, even death.

Heavy stuff – but talking about it with other people in the field is incredibly helpful, even when they call you out on your mistakes. We’re all trying to be better for the next patient we see.

NE piece of advice I’ve always liked is that every surgeon needs to have a metaphorical “box” into which he places all his complications. He should be able to access that box each time he sees the patients with complications and their families, and when he presents a case at an M and M conference.

At the same time, a surgeon should be able to close that box and put it away when he goes home to his family. Those who fail to maintain access to the bo ox become cavalier and lose hei eirr co c mp pas assi sion on. Conversely, thos th osse o n’ n t h ve a box can n sttru u le to ke r nityy, can t t p t inkkiing in g outt all th ou the

bad things that may have happened or they may have caused. Such surgeons often leave the profession entirely, or never really get started once they finish their training.

Others limit themselves to small procedures, and call partners in to help at the slightest turn of a hair.

Whatever the right strategy, we surgeons have to find a way to live with complications, to learn from them, to help patients get through whatever we may have caused or at least been a part of, and to move on.

Sometimes in surgery things happen even though you did nothing wrong. wrong And these cases test you like nothing else in our field.

I remember one winter, a few years ago. I was doing a kidney transplant on a young woman – a girl, really – with IgA nephropathy, an autoimmune disease characterised by deposits of antibody in the kidney, leading to inflammation and ultimately kidney failure.

She was about 19 years old and otherwise totally healthy. She was receiving a good kidney from a deceased donor, and I remember it was a right kidney.

I know this because right kidneys have short renal veins and are always a bit trickier than left ones.

When they come from deceased donors, they’re usually procured with a cuff of vena cava attached to the right vein, which allows you to extend the vein if neeed eded ed. ed I de de ded d no n t to o ext x end it in this case e usse th the recipient s sm smal all, and I ured ured it was wa un nne nece ceess s aryy.

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I remember noting that the vein was quite thin as it entered the kidney. But then, right veins always are. I flushed some fluid into the vein to distend it and noted that it was watertight. There were no major branches to tie, no little bleeders to fix.

Jake, an impressive resident, and I started at around 9pm. The case went really well. Once we sewed it in, the kidney reperfused beautifully and started making urine right away.

I had that incredible feeling of satisfaction as we were closing, and even though it was almost midnight when we finished, we took our time and gave her a nice plastics closure, with dissolvable sutures.

Later, as I pulled into my driveway and turned off the car’s engine, I reached over for my phone and discovered it wasn’t there. I looked over at my house, where all the lights were off, and pictured my daughters sleeping soundly inside.

It was already around 12:30am but as I started to climb out of the car, I had second thoughts. What if I were needed and couldn’t be contacted?

I started the car back up, drove the five minutes to the hospital, and made my way to the OR locker room on the third floor.

As I entered, I could hear the faint sound of my phone ringing inside my locker. I pulled it out and saw that I had 10 missed calls from Jake.

Oh shit.

As I tapped open the text app, I started hearing my name being announced on the hospital’s overhead pager. I was being summoned urgently to the OR. My heart jumped to my throat.

I ran to the back of the locker room, pulling off my street clothes on the way, grabbed some scrubs, and started changing rapidly, all the while calling Jake back.

He answered and started yelling, “She’s bleeding. I couldn’t get hold of you!”

I ran into the OR just as Jake and the team were pouring Betadine over her exposed belly, which was so distended that she looked pregnant. I also noted how the parts of her that didn’t have Betadine on them looked pale, like a cadaver’s.

As we were scrubbing, Jake filled me in on what had happened. Shortly after hitting the recovery room, the patient’s pressure had started dropping. She got confused, and her belly became distended.

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It was obvious she was bleeding VER the next few days, internally. we watched this young I couldn’t decide whether to yell at Jake woman like hawks. for going to the OR on his own or hug She’d come out of the him for taking the initiative. I cut him off OR with a breathing in midsentence and started rehearsing tube and was brought with him the steps we’d take once we got to the ICU. back in there.

Her kidney was a bit I was picturing the rivers of blood we’d slow kicking in, but ultimately it came see. I told him to make sure he had some back to life. After the patient woke up, eye protection, then we smashed she was p**sed that I’d put staples in – through the OR doors and walked over I hadn’t thought it appropriate to spend to the scrub table, where the tech time on a nice closure after the second gowned and gloved us. We threw some surgery. drapes on the patient, then we tore Her recovery was tough, quite a bit through her beautiful skin closure and more than she was expecting, but when cut the sutures holding her fascia closed. I saw her in my clinic about six weeks latBlood shot out and nearly hit us in the er, her colour was better than I’d ever face. Telling Jake to grab a sucker, I pulled seen it. She was back to normal – a radithe kidney up a bit and peered in. ant, beautiful young woman who now Torrents of blood were coming from the had a working kidney. side of one of the vessels. I could actually She asked me how close she’d come to hear it: audible bleeding. I could tell it dying. I told her she was about as close was venous. as she could be without beI reached my finger down ing dead. She thanked me, ‘I was and somehow got it right on and even gave me a hug. She picturing top of the hole in the vein. told me that she didn’t blame As Jake suctioned vigorousme for the complication. She the rivers ly, I managed to gently place felt great and was excited to of blood a couple of allis clamps on live without dialysis. She the side of the renal vein even pulled her shirt up to rewe’d see’ without obstructing the enveal her staples and said she tire vessel. was proud of her battle scar.

The side wall had blown out of this Did I do anything wrong there? Probthin, short right vein. I’m still not sure ably. Have I made any changes since that why it happened, but whatever the case? Well, I probably now make an extra cause, we had the bleeding controlled. effort to slow down on the back table, And amazingly, the kidney still looked take my time to make sure everything’s pink and perfused. perfect before I start the implant. I also It was no longer making urine, but that may be quicker to extend the vein, as this seemed the least of our problems at the allows me to pull up less on the kidney, moment. sew onto the thicker vein as it gets farWhile anaesthesia continued to resus- ther from the kidney, and see better. citate her, I considered my options. After One other thing: I never, ever forget my much thought, I decided it’d be okay to phone. sew up the side of the vein. I did so. And Thanks, Jake, for saving my patient’s once we had the sutures in place and the life. If things had played out just a little clamps off, I relaxed. The kidney was still differently, she might have died. pink, and the vein was soft. Everything I would’ve felt like shit, and she was okay. would’ve missed out on an entire life that As I dropped the kidney back down she now gets to enjoy – hopefully forever into her belly, I asked anaesthesia how off dialysis. S we were doing. They’d rapidly given eight units of blood, probably her entire blood THIS IS AN EXTRACT FROM WHEN DEATH volume.

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WO boys aimlesssly wander the streets of Cape C Town.

By day they beeg for food and get themselves into all ble and at kinds of troub night they sleeep on the pavement becaause there’s o go. nowhere else to Their future seems totally hopeless but then one day, out of the blue, they’re given the chance to escape theirr desperate it with circumstances – and they grab g both hands. Next thing theey’re jetting around the world as the stars of a travelling circus, perfforming for the likes of former USS president Barack Obama and tennis ace Roger Federer.

Jacobus “Trompiee” Claassen Ree” Ndak(27) and Phelelani “R rokra (25) are living proof that pen. Joining lucky breaks do happ the world-renowneed Zip Zap Circus, a non-profitt organisation that helps disadvantaged kids find purpose in life through urned their big-top disciplines, tu lives around and havee traded the Cape Town streets for a flat in C which they share. m at the Zip When we meet them Zap Dome they’re prepaaring to perform before thousands att The Match Africa, the highly anticipated chary exhibition match between Federer and Rafael Nadal in Capee Town.

“I met Federer in 2017 att his Match for Africa in Switzerland,” saays Trompwo. “I didn’t ie, the more chatty of the tw really know who he wass then so I wasn’t starstruck. I shookk his hand ol dude.” about four times. He’s a coo In the runup to this yeaar’s performance, they’ve been practiising for up to 15 hours a day to perfect their routine, but the “brothers” – as tthey refer to themselves – don’t seem to mind. m “I look at the hard timess I’ve been through and now I’m doing a great thing o with m Zip Zap and wow, I saw the dream here.”

ROMPIE grew up in Khayelitsha on the Cape Flaats with his paternal grandmother, but when she died hee moved to Paarl in the Westeern Cape to be with his father, W Willem.

Things were tough at hom me – money was scarce and there was domestic violence – so around the age of 100 he decided

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YOU he’d be better off living on the street “My friend’s nephew told me h nice it was because you get everythi for free. You just have to put out yo hands.”

For a while it was everything Trom ie expected. He found that people pi ied him because he was so young b as he grew older, handouts dried u and he started abusing drugs.

One day, by chance, he crosse paths with a good Samaritan h knows only as Amy. “She was from the United State and was kind of like a social worke friend and mother all in one.”

Amy invited Trompie and hi friend to her home where she f them before dropping them on the streets again. After that she stayed in touch and in 2007, when Trompie decided he wanted a fresh start she took him to the Cape Tow Multi Service Centre, a shelter tha aims to get children off the streets He was able to go to school an sleep with a roof over his head fo the first time in years. At the shelt children are given the chance to b part of Zip Zap’s Second Chan programme, which helps vulnerab youngsters develop their talents.

Trompie chose the circus – and h never looked back. After matricul ing in 2011 he became a full-time p former. As the circus’ resident clow he uses his craft to share his story.

“Instead of me holding a mic a explaining to people what happen they can see me live on stage showi my story through my body langua he says.

He counts performing for for US President Barack Obama at the White House in 2015 as one of the highlights of his career. “I wanted to shake his hand but security was tight,” he says.

Trompie is still in touch with Amy. “She’s so proud of me.”

Now that he’s earning a salary, he sends money to his sisters, Annellise (21) and Dora (18), whenever he can and says they’re delighted with their big brother’s achievements.

“You make your own choices in life,” he says. “You can choose to stay on the streets forever or you can decide to step out of that life.”

Unlike Trompie, Ree didn’t land on the streets by choice. Born into a homeless family, he spent his childhood wandering

Jacobus “Trompie” Claassen (ABOVE) recently performed at Roger Federer’s Match in Africa in Cape Town. They joined the Zip Zap Circus after spending their childhoods living on the streets.

Cape Town’s city centre with his mother, brother and sister. He describes his life before joining the circus as hell.

“But it taught me a lot and made me the strong person I am today,” he adds.

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He always knew a life on the streets wasn’t for him. At age nine, he begged his mom to allow him to

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ove to a shelter but she refused.

“She was too protective,” he ys. “She didn’t want to lose any her children.” Ree yearned to go school, own a pair of shoes and e a normal life.

You see a lot of bad things on streets that kids aren’t supsed to see. Sometimes you even involved in those things. But by grace of God I survived.” t around the age of 16 he finally suaded his mom to allow him to ve to a shelter in Salt River. Algh Linda chose to remain on streets, she visited him regularly. ortly after moving into the shelee was offered the opportunity in Zip Zap and was hooked the get-go. as amazed to see guys juggling riding the bicycle with one el,” he recalls. w a decade on, Ree specialises in batics, comedy and aerial skills. metimes when I’m performing n’t even feel myself doing it,” he s. “It’s like part of me stays kstage and my soul goes out to form.” he circus has taught him to be ertive.

I used to be shy,” Ree says. “I ays sat by myself and wouldn’t mmunicate with anyone. Zip Zap s allowed me to break that wall.”

He remembers how during his st tour in 2012, which was to ance, his nerves almost got the etter of him.

“My hands were sweating. I was ew so I didn’t know much.” hen he stepped on stage his fears quickly subsided and he fed off the crowd’s energy.

Ree says he knew from that moment he was born to be a performer.

“I love entertaining people,” he says, adding that he always prays before going on stage.

He desperately misses his mother, who died last year at the age of 54.

“She showed me the right way. Without her I wouldn’t have been here today.

She played a big role in my life.”

And she taught him a lesson he’ll never forget.

“She gave me the English name Remember so that I’d always remember where I come from,” he says. “I know she’s looking down on me with pride.” S you.co.za 20 FEBRUARY 2020

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‘I definitely have days where I say, Why me?’

Shannen tearfully revealed her latest diagnosis on ABC News in America (FAR RIGHT).

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’M PET TRIFIED.” Thatt’s how she feels about the gruTh ellin ng road ahead. Chemotherapy, radiattion, surgery – all are on the cards n now her breast cancer is back.

An nd d it’s back with a vengeance.

Actresss Shannen Doherty was diagnoseed with the disease back in 2015 and an nno ounced in 2017 that she was in remissiion n and joyously declared she was cancer-frree.

But thee 48-year-old star of Beverly Hills 90210 an nd Charmed recently revealed she has stage s 4 breast cancer, meaning the diseaase has metastasised or spread to otheer p parts of her body.

Shan nnen opened up about her diagnosis o on ABC News, telling the American neew ws channel that it would “come out in a matter of days or a week that I’m staagee 4.

“I do on’’t think I’ve processed it,” she said, ch ho oking back tears. “It’s a bitter pill to swallo ow in a lot of ways. I definitely have d dayys where I say, ‘Why me?’ And then I ggo o, ‘Well, why not me? Who else?

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The aactress has been privately bearing den for months but decided to tthe bu urd tell th he world now because of an ongoingg fi fight she’s having with her insurancce company over damage caused to heer California home by wildfires in n 2018.

Shannen was paid out more than $$1 million (R14,5m) but sued for exxtra compensation. The case is no ow ready to go to trial and her leegal counsel told her that details of her health condition would o be made public in court docub ments. m “I’d rather people hear it from me,” Shannen said. m “I don’t want it to be twisted.

I don n’tt want it to be a court document.

I want it to be real and authentic, and I want to o control c the narrative.”

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HERE’S another – more touching – reason why Shannen kept the news of her latest cancer battle to herself: it was because of Luke Perry, her friend and Beverly Hills costar, who died suddenly of a massive stroke in March last year at the age of 52.

In the months following her 2015 diagnosis Shannen was open about her health on social media, posting pictures, messages and videos of herself accompanied by the hashtag #cancerslayer.

Luke’s death changed all that.

“It’s so weird for me to be diagnosed and then somebody who was, you know, seemingly healthy to go first,” she told ABC News. “It was really, like, shocking.”

Shannen said accepting a role in the TV reboot BH90210, which is being broadcast on M-Net, was the “least I could do” to honour Luke.

Initially she decided against joining the reboot. “Nothing against the show,” she said. “At that moment it wasn’t what I wanted to be doing.”

She changed her mind when Luke died.

“I felt like it was a great opportunity to honour him,” she explained. “We went on this amazing journey wherre we also got to really heal through losing somebody who means the world to alll of us.”

Shannen, who starred ass Brenda Walsh alongside Luke’s Dylan D McKay in 90210 for four years, was shattered by his death h.

“Luke was a smart, qu uiet, humble and complex maan with a heart of gold and a never-ending well of integrity and love,” she told American magazine People. “He reached out to me

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during my cancer journey and we picked right back up, albeit older and wiser, but that connection remained intact.”

Getting back on set was also a personal mission for Shannen, an opportunity to prove she could continue working.

Back in 2018 she voiced her concern about her career in a heartfelt tweet. “It’s been a rough two years. Fighting cancer,” she wrote on Facebook. “As an actor, people bench you. They assume you’re too weak, not able etc, etc and yet it’s something like work that invigorates and renews strength to conquer the unimaginable beast.”

In the ABC interview she explained, “One of the reasons I did BH90210 and didn’t tell anybody [involved with the show about the cancer returning] was because I was worried they’d bench me.”

But people with stage 4 cancer can work too, she added. “Our life doesn’t end the minute we get that diagnosis. We still have some living to do.”

ER battle with cancer led to an unexpected silver lining. In August last year Shannen, who wed her third husband, photographer g p Kurt Iswarienko (now 45) in 2011, revealed it

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haad changed her marriage for the better.

“Cancer solidified us,” she told People.

“K Kurt and I have a much deeper appreciattion for each other now.

“It’s not that our marriage wasn’t good beefore. But we were going through some grrowing pains. We’d lock horns on things an nd, instead of resolving it, we wouldn’t sp peak for a few days.”

She says since her diagnosis, they don’t let a night end with them being mad at ea each other.

She’s at pains to point out that it’s not just the patient who suffers. “For anybody to think that the only person altered by cancer is the person with cancer is incredibly wrong,” she says. “Cancer alters the people in your life. And it’s shaped both of us. We look at life very differently now.”

After her 2015 diagnosis she underwent a mastectomy, followed by punishing rounds of chemotherapy and radiation. She found it hard to accept her post-cancer body, but Kurt helped.

“He made me realise I don’t have to be a sexy little vixen. How Kurt sees me really helps me to be a better person.

“He was always like, ‘I’ve never seen someone handle something so difficult with so much grace. You’re so strong.’

And I figured out it’s a quiet strength.

And that’s far sexier and more appealing than [what] I had before.”

Shannen has also said her cancer diagnosis helped her find a new kind of strength. “I felt more feminine and vulnerable than I’ve felt in my entire life.

“I also had a lot more time to look at myself and say, ‘I’m a pretty okay person’ and cut myself some slack. It’s okay to stumble.” S SOURCES, PEOPLE.COM, BBC.COM, HEALTH.COM, ABCNEWS. GO.COM

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A WINTER WONDERLAND Jaw-dropping ice and snow structures are on display at this popular Chinese festival COMPILED BY MAXINE PETERS

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T’S literally the coolest festival on the planet, taking place in temperatures of -30°C and below. You might have to wrap up warmly but the rewards make it all worthwhile.

Every year travellers who brave the cold to visit the Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in China near the Russian border have their minds blown by the winter wonderland. Ice creations soar from the frozen ground – everything from castles and skyscrapers to giants and fearsome dragons.

This year’s dazzling centrepiece, The Crown of Ice and Snow, reaches a height of 40m – as tall as a 12-storey building – and is made up of two towers lit with swirling neon lights. Engineers in China have developed a special type of neon bulb for these structures that generates a brighter light but gives off less heat to prevent the ice melting.

Lots of snow and about 220 000 cubic metres of ice went into the sculptures.

Huge ice blocks were hauled out of the local Songhua River, and at least 10 000 people were involved in transporting, sculpting, cutting and shaving the ice and snow into these marvels in just more than two weeks.

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Many local soya bean and corn farmers jump in to help and are paid to produce ice for the festival. “There’s nothing to do in winter. People play mahjong at home. I don’t like gambling, so I work,” farmer Liu Yantao (36) says.

Harbin is the capital of China’s northernmost province, Heilongjiang, and has been dubbed the Moscow of the Far East. Every year it hosts the festival, which starts in January and runs for up to six weeks, depending on the weather.

Visitors enjoy various activities, installations and games. The magical rainbow world spans an area of up to 700 000m² and not only features high-ri tures but offers slides, skiin skating for families – and swimming in sub-zero 7 water for brave souls.

A mass wedding recently took place at the festival, with about 40 teeth-chattering couples taking their vows.

A snow sculpture constructed in 2007 even made it into the Guinness World Records. Romantic Feelings, an Olympic-themed setup,

boasted a French cathedral, an ice maiden and a Russian church. It measured 35m tall and 200m long, and took 600 workers from 40 countries to chisel away at the ice.

The festival has been held since 1963 but came to a halt during China’s Cultural Revolution, then resumed in 1985. It’s become known as one of the world’s largest ice and snow festivals, along with the Quebec Winter Carnival in Canada, the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in Norway and the Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan.

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Shauwn Mkhize with her children, son Andile and daughter Sbahle.

KEEPING UP WITH THE MKHIZES

Shauwn Mkhize shows YOU her luxurious home and talks about the new reality show she’s doing with kids Sbahle and Andile

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TEPPING into the triplestorey La Lucia mansion near Durban is like walking into a showroom of glitz and dazzle.

An enormous glass chandelier hangs from the ceiling in the foyer, which is flanked by glass balustrades leading to two sets of stairs.

Each room has its own theme and features custom-made furniture and plush rugs spread across expansive floors. In one wing is an entertainment pad kitted out with a home theatre with cinema-style seats while another wing is home to a fleet of luxury vehicles.

Welcome to the home of Shauwn Mkhize, one of Durban’s most high-profile businesswomen. She shares the space with her two children, Sbahle (26) and Andile (18), after splitting from her businessman husband, Sbu Mpisane.

Shauwn and the kids are the talk of the town now thanks to their new reality show, Kwa Mam’Mkhize, which showcases their lavish lifestyle. But despite all the opulence and extravagance, they claim they’re just a regular family.

We’re welcomed at the house by image consultant Shaun Stylist, who ushers us up in a gold-plated elevator to meet Shauwn.

She and her son are dancing along to a song which, she explains, is Andile’s debut in the music world. There’s much laughter as the two break it down – but not everything around here is fun and games.

A high fence ringing the multi-millionrand property and round-the-clock security guards tell of a serious side to all this, and Shauwn says her and her family’s protection and privacy are her priority.

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HEN producer Legend Manqele approached her about making a reality show she wasn’t that keen at first, she says.

Legend – the same guy behind Bonang Matheba’s reality TV show Being Bonang – isn’t one to take no for an answer though.

“He didn’t let up,” Shauwn says. “As time went on, I felt this was going to be an opportunity for me to tell my story.

People know me according to the perceptions created by the media – they don’t know who I am. I thought this would help me to tell my story my way.”

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Shauwn has been embroiled in a lengthy and highly publicised battle with the South African Revenue Service (Sars). It claims she and her ex owe around R204 million through their many transport, construction and property businesses. But she says the matter has been sorted. And it wasn’t R204m, she insists, “but R65m according to Sars, and it ended being R16m which was paid in full”.

“The perception is I’m a fraudster,” she says. “People forget to look at the reality – the reality of a woman who was so liberated by the change in South Africa and was able to become who she is.”

Shauwn is the daughter of the late Dumazile Flora Mkhize, an eThekwini ANC councillor, but wants people to know she’s a self-made woman.

“Some think I’ve gotten to where I have because of my political background.

That’s a perception – it’s not the facts.

“Same goes for people who think I’m inaccessible but I’m just a regular person from [KZN township] Umbumbulu.”

Though having TV cameras follow her around 24/7 for the show was draining for Shauwn, it came easier to her daughter. Sbahle has 1,5 million Instagram followers. “I’m aware with everything I do that I’m a public figure,” she says, adding that the reality show is just an extension of that.

“The cameramen are nice and quiet.

They’re like friends of the family so we’re used to them. We laugh together and there’s no pressure to act a certain way or dress a certain way.

“That’s why I like it – it’s genuinely us.”

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BAHLE, who made a name for herself as a fitness instructor, has been largely wheelchair-bound after she was involved in a serious crash in August 2018 while

ABOVE LEFT: The family’s swanky mansion in La Lucia, Durban.

ABOVE RIGHT: Shauwn is proud of everything she’s achieved and wants people to know she’s a self-made woman.

driving her BMW in Durban.

“I broke all the bones in my body – both my arms, my fingers, both my legs and my toes,” says Sbahle, who spent several months in ICU and had to undergo a series of surgeries.

“I haven’t told anyone about the extent of how injured I was. It was everything, my lungs, my liver . . . honestly, I don’t know how I survived – even my doctors don’t know. I think it was God. That’s why I decided to return my thankfulness to Him by doing the most for Him.” Sbahle, who gets around in a motorised wheelchair she’s dubbed her Ferrari, is slowly pushing her body back to full health.

Her horror crash will be explored in more detail on the show but she tells us

Shauwn was at her Sbahle’s side during her long and painful recovery from a horrific car crash in 2018.

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she takes full responsibility for what happened.

“It’s not like anyone else was driving my car – there was a situation that caused me to have that accident. No one hit my car.

“There was just a situation . . . Obviously you can’t be driving and looking at things on the sides and stuff.

“I wasn’t focusing.

I knocked the side of the car, but from there I don’t remember what happened.”

NDILE is also a social-media sensation – mainly because of his lavish spending habits.

In a recent episode of the show, the teen can be seen blowing R87 000 on sneakers.

The splurge triggered mixed reactions, with some people asking why the family doesn’t give back to the community.

But Andile says they do pay it forward.

“We donate school shoes, sanitary pads and groceries.”

Andile, who owns Royal AM, a luxury grooming and pamper lounge, says more than 250 families from Umbumbulu and Ulundi benefit from the items he gives to the community.

“My goal is doing what I want and inspiring people who see me. I sing, so I want to make more music and I would like to build on my single to make an album so people know me for that,” he says.

Shauwn insists Andile learn the ropes of entrepreneurship from a young age so he can “grow with it”. “You get the roots of it, unlike having to take over when you’re older and you now have this big thing thrown at you. Chances of your failing are higher that way.”

In between her tax battles and her various businesses, Shauwn is making time to date again. What would a woman who seems to have it all look for in a man? It’s simple, she says.

“Someone who’s self-sufficient, intelligent and loving.”

Meanwhile, it’s just her, her kids and her kick-ass house. S S Kwa Mam’Mkhize is screened on Thursdays at 8pm on Mzansi Magic (DStv Channel 163). you.co.za 20 FEBRUARY 2020

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LAID-BACK LOVE There were good vibes all round when Roxy Louw married her sevens rugby hunk Sam Barton

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UN, sea, sand and surfboards. When you’re South Africa’s original “surfer chick” where else but the beach would you choose to get married?

And it’s on the silvery sands of Still Bay in the Western Cape that model-turned-yoga instructor Roxy Louw will exchange vows with her New Zealand rugby hunk, Sam Barton (both 32), later today.

The beach is within Skulpiesbaai Nature Reserve, a pristine piece of paradise which today boasts a cloudless sky as backdrop. A breeze is ruffling the waves a little, keeping the temperature at a comfortable 25°C. The 140 guests, from Cape Town, Johannesburg, New Zealand and Australia, take refuge from the sun under paper umbrellas as they wait for proceedings to begin.

Sam, dressed in white with a feather in his long hair, is barefoot and his childhood friend and best man, Lyall Grimmer, helps him drape a traditional Maori shawl over his shoulders, a nod to his late Maori father.

The wedding theme is bo oho chic and the women wear colourful dresses and free-flowing hairstyles while the men are kitted out in fun nky printed shirts.

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South African queen of surf Roxy wed New Zealander Sam. ABOVE RIGHT: His wedding band of rose gold and titanium and her rose gold ring with black diamonds.

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ding in a friend’s Jeep. RIGHT: Former Springbok Rob Louw walked his daughter down the sandy aisle. BELOW: The couple got hitched in front of a tepee decked out with pampas grass and pink flowers.

a teepee made of sticks, embroidered gauze, pampas grass and flowers.

The guests take their seats to strains of classical music and Roxy’s mom, Azille (61), arrives. “Oh wow, how beautiful my friends look!” she calls out, blowing air kisses to the guests.

The father of the bride, former Springbok Rob Louw (65), is standing on the road to the venue wearing a white shirt and sunglasses, scanning the distance.

“Maybe they got lost,” he ponders aloud.

Robbie makes a call on his cellphone.

“Sam, she’s run away,” he teases as the guests erupt in laughter.

Finally, the bridal car pulls up. It’s a red Jeep with three surfboards standing upright in the back. Roxy’s bridal party, consisting of her sisters, Misty Louw (31) and Shahnee George (29), and besties Hilton Conradie and Joëlle Kayembe, pile out

dressed in sunflower yellow.

Roxy is tanned and gorgeous in a figure-hugging white gown, her veil trailing in the wind. She takes Rob’s arm and he walks her down the sandy aisle between the rows of chairs.

Roxy and Sam grab each other’s hands and don’t take their eyes off each other until their friend Arno van Deventer, a lawyer, declares them man and wife.

When he does, Sam pumps his fist in the air while Roxy lets out an ecstatic, “Whoo-hoo!”

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ABOVE: The bridal couple with Roxy’s parents, Azille and Rob (left), and Sam’s mom, Jacqui Wilson. RIGHT: Sam and Roxy seal their love with a kiss.

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part in the Cape Town 10s, a two-day festival of sport, lifestyle and entertainment held on the Green Point common.

“It was like a tennis match,” Sam recalls. “I’d ask something and she was quick to answer. It went on like that for about 30 minutes before I asked, ‘When are we getting married?’ ” The next day they met for ice cream and a walk on Sea Point Promenade.

Two years later they got engaged in New Zealand – and now here they are, making it official.

The wedding celebrations were planned to coincide with this year’s Cape Town 10s, and for the event Sam designed T-shirts featuring a kiwi bird, a springbok, a cartoon of Roxy surfing and a dagga leaf.

The couple own a business that organises weekend retreats where “cannayoga” is practised. They use cannabis oil (without the hallucinogenic ingredient THC) to deepen their participants’ yoga practice and teach them mindfulness.

Roxy’s wedding wouldn’t be complete without taking to the waves, so shortly before the ceremony she, Rob and 50 friends grabbed their boards and hit the surf.

RIGHT: Rob with Schalk Burger Snr and Schalk Burger Jnr. Rob and Schalk Snr played rugby together more than five decades ago. FAR RIGHT: Three beauties – Roxy with models and TV personalities Lyndall Jarvis and Cindy Nell-Roberts.

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For Roxy, having her dad at her wedding is extra-special. More than 10 years ago Rob was given five months to live because skin cancer had spread to his organs, but after intensive treatment he’s now cancer-free (YOU, 6 June 2019).

Sam’s father, Geoff, isn’t here – he died aged 39 of motor neurone disease, leaving Sam’s mom, Jacqui Wilson, to raise

three boys under the age of five alone.

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“He’s my eldest and now he’s married to South Africa. But I’m very happy for him.”

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ELOW: Spit braai and summer salads were on the menu.

Town, where they run their yoga studio and cannabis-oil enterprise.

The theme of the reception is laid-back and relaxed. A low table, decorated with mismatched glass cups and garden flowers in glass bowls, has been placed at the centre of a carpet with colourful cushions for guests who want to sit down to eat.

Supper is informal yet finger-licking and delicious. Marinated ribs, roast chicken, a variety of salads and many veggie dishes are on offer and everyone mills about, tucking in and sipping bubbly.

There’s no wedding cake to slice – instead waiters offer guests ice lollies as dessert, a nod to Sam and Roxy’s first date. There’s also no seating plan and the speeches are relaxed too. Rob says he can’t wait to see whether the first grandson to “pop out” will be playing for the All Blacks or the Springboks.

Joëlle, who’s a model from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, takes the microphone next and tells guests how she and Roxy met on a Sports Illustrated shoot in the Maldives in 2014.

They bonded instantly when Roxy whispered, “I have chocolate,” and the pair shared a bite-size Mars bar in their hotel room.

“Now our nickname

each other is Mars bar,” she says.

Then it’s Sam’s turn.

“Let us celebrate the completion of the circle of our deep love,” he announces.

His aunt Gina Bergham, her daughter Diane and Gina’s cousin Donna Rouse, sing a Maori wedding song before the dancing starts.

Conveniently forgotten is the fact that the All Blacks, Wallabies and Boks are sworn enemies on the rugby pitch – today everyone is friends.

Roxy and Sam leave soon for their honeymoon on the private Mozambican island of Azura Benguerra.

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She’s already the mom of two busy toddlers – and life is about to get a whole lot crazier for KOULA BUDLER whose due to have another set of twins next month.

The former 5FM presenter recently shared snaps on Instagram of her beautiful bump at 30 weeks and 32 weeks, telling her followers to “watch them grow”.

Koula and businessman hubby PJ welcomed twins WILLIAM and EMMA (21 months) in May 2018 thanks to successful IVF treatment, after battling to conceive naturally.

The 38-year-old DJ has praised her husband for being an “incredible hands-on dad” who adores their kids.

The family live in Fort Worth, Texas, in the US and she’s said raising children away from their extended family has been tough.

“It’s been a year I’ve desperately missed having family nearby,” she wrote on Instagram last year, adding she’d love nothing more than for William and Emma “to get to laugh and giggle and snuggle with grandparents, aunts, uncles [and] cousins”.

For more than a decade he’s entertained viewers as the conniving David Genaro in Rhythm City, immersing himself so much in the role that he designed the character’s tattoos and often rewrote the script.

Now veteran actor JAM MIE BARTLETT (53) is retirin ng from the popular soap an nd taking a break from show wbiz to reflect and spend some time on himself.

“I had absolute fun,” Jamie said in a radio interview. “Genaro colonised every single corner of my y body. It’s the most unbe-lievable character to play y.

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Former 5FM DJ Koula Budler is about to have her second set of twins – and this time it’s two girls!

his attention on Finishing College, an institution he established that offers master classes to up-and-coming actors as well as corporate coaching.

ABOVE and LEFT: Jamie’s e.tv family hosted a farewell in Joburg.

Th hey gave him a framed picture of a sculpture of his character.

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Miss Universe ZOZIBINI TUNZI was welcomed back home in true South African style – with singing, dancing and gifts. It was the first time the lanky beauty had set foot on home soil after winning the Miss Universe title, visiting Johannesburg and her home villages of Dutywa and Tsolo in the Eastern Cape.

Looking breathtaking with her Miss Universe crown on her head, 26-year old Zozi was elated to be home. “The support of my family has been crucial to

my success,” she said. “My mother has taught me the importance of remaining kind and humble and always being helpful to those around me.

My father has taught me the importance of an education, hard work and discipline.

“Most importantly, they have equally moulded me to be who I am today.”

Asked what she misses most about home, she said tucking into her mom’s tasty umngqusho (samp and beans).

The beauty queen with mom Philiswa Nadophu (ABOVE), dad Lungisa Tunzi (RIGHT) and grandmother Cynthia Lawukazi Nadophu (FAR RIGHT).

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HAT a pretty woman! JULIA ROBERTS showed off her enviable figure in a navy bikini during a recent family holiday in Mexico.

The 52-year-old Oscar winner looked relaxed and happy as she hung around a hotel pool with hubby DANNY MODER (51), who was later spotted surfing, as well as their three kids, twins Phinneus and Hazel (15) and younger son Henry (12).

The mom of three also inadvertently flashed a lower-back tattoo, which on closer inspection turned out to be the names of her kids arranged around her husband’s initials.

No doubt the star was taking a break before she gets stuck into her next project, Little Bee, an adaptation of the bestselling book by British author Chris Cleave. She’ll produce and star in the movie about the relationship between a young Nigerian asylum-seeker and a British magazine editor who meet during the oil conflict in the Nige er Delta and are reunited in England a few years later.

‘The least of my worries is age. We all get old and that’s okay’ – JULIA ROBERTS

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JUSTIN BIEBER (25) has released a documentary series, Seasons, on YouTube, which gives fans an inside look at his life – and he makes a few big confessions.

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In episode five he reveals his drug-taking years were far worse than people coming into my room “I decided to stop because I was like, dying,” he says. “My security was at night to check my pulse. People didn’t know how serious it got.”

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“I’m here to cheer ch him on and support him,” says the 23-year-old model, who’s largely been credited for helping the singer with his mental-health issues.

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He now wants to help others “The older I get, the more I realise I’m not utilising my gift for the right reasons. This isn’t about me; me it’s about helping someone who’s going through whatever they’re going through. I think that’s a really cool way to look at what I do.”

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th i w ff o s e c a f a c i s Jes - u r g de A recent night out in New York turned ugly for JESSICA SIMPSON (39) when she was confronted by a group of anti-fur protesters.

The fashion designer and author was leaving a restaurant with her husband, ERIC JOHNSON (40), when she was accosted by the group.

Some of them yelled “animal abuser”, “murderer” and “shame on you” as she hopped into her waiting SUV. Earlier that day at her Barnes & Noble book-signing event for her new memoir, Open Book, she’d faced the same group and was forced to take cover for a few minutes while security got rid of the protesters.

On the plus side her fans stuck around, chanting her name, and eventually she came back out and talked about her book.

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Jessica Simpson and husband Eric Johnson were recently confronted by anti-fur protesters in New York.

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ABOVE RIGHT: Play ying a washed-up boxer in the 1949 film Champion. RIGHT: In 1999 with his second wife, Anne Buydens (far right), now daughter-inlaw Catherine Zeta-Jones and son Michael.

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LEFT: In the movie poster for 2003 film It Runs in the Family with Bernadette Peters (back left), son Michael, ex-wife Diana, Rory Culkin and grandson Cameron (sitting on the floor). BELOW: On his passing, actress Catherine Zeta-Jones left a poignant message about her father-inlaw on Instagram. Catherine married Michael in 2000.

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ABOVE: In 2018 with his grandson Cameron (left) when Michael received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. FAR LEFT: Kirk was 101 years old when Michael got his star. Kirk was inducted into the Walk of Fame in 1960.

LEFT: With Lana Turner in 1952 movie The Bad and the Beautiful.

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It seems the fight between MEL B and ex STEPHEN BELAFONTE over daughter MADISON (8) is getting worse by the day.

The exes currently have joint custody of the child but in court documents filed recently, Stephen (44) is asking for full legal and physical custody, claiming the former Spice Girls singer has “all but abandoned” Madison since moving to the UK following their split.

The American producer says he’s been Madison’s sole caregiver for most of the past two years and is happy for Mel (44) to still see her, but only in Los Angeles and only under supervision.

His filing comes after Mel had her request to take Madison to the UK for Christmas blocked by the courts, which sided with Stephen.

Mel – who’s also mom to Phoenix (20) with ex Jimmy Gulzar and Angel (12) with Eddie Murphy – says the only thing she wants is for Madison to move to England with her permanently. “The only gift I want is to have my youngest daughter, Madison, with me in Leeds. I’m currently in the midst of a custody battle with her dad and it’s incredibly hard. But I’m hoping and praying I’ll get her home.” you.co.za 20 FEBRUARY 2020

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Jojo Rabbit star Scarlett Johansson in Oscar de la Renta

Watchmen star Regina King glittered in Versace

Just Mercy actress Brie Larson, who was a presenter, in Celine

Scarlett Johansson arrived with her fiancé, Saturday Night Live actor Colin Jost. She clinched two nominations – best supporting actress for Jojo Rabbit and best actress for Marriage Story.

Actor Keanu Reeves, who lent his voice to best animated feature film winner Toy Story 4, brought along his mom, costume designer Patricia Taylor.

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Killing Eve star Sandra Oh (in Elie Saab), who presented an award, on the red carpet at the bash held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

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Talent agent John Carrabino hugged his client Renée Zellweger on hearing she won.

Best actress nominee (for Harriet) Cynthia Erivo wowed in a white Versace dress

Actress and singer Idina Menzel, who performed Frozen II’s Into the Unknown, in J Mendel

High glamour ruled on Hollywood’s biggest night

Best supporting actress winner Laura Dern (left) in Armani with best actress winner Renée Zellweger in Armani Privé

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Best supporting actress nominee (for Little Women) Florence Pugh in Louis Vuitton

Best adapted screenplay nominee (for Little Women) Greta Gerwig in Dior

Best actor nominee (for Marriage Story) Adam Driver and his wife, actress Joanne Tucker (in Oscar de la Renta)

Veep’s Julia LouisDreyfus, who presented an award, looked stunning in midnight blue Vera Wang

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S Renée Zellweger – best actress for Judy

S Laura Dern – best supporting actress for Marriage Story

S Joaquin Phoenix – best actor for Joker

S Brad Pitt – best supporting actor for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

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Brad Pitt runs onto the stage to receive his best supporting actor gong from Regina King.

Eminem finally performed his Oscar-winning song, Lose Yourself, after not attending the ceremony in 2003. On Twitter he wrote, “Thanks for having me @TheAcademy. Sorry it took me 18 years to get here.”

E! Red Carpet presenter Giuliana Rancic looked dazzling in a feathered and sequinned Atelier Zuhra gown

US model Lily Aldridge, who co-hosted a red-carpet show, in Ralph Lauren

Booksmart star Kaitlyn Dever donned a sustainably and ethically made Louis Vuitton dress

Late Night actress Mindy Kaling, who was a presenter, stood out in Dolce & Gabbana

Joaquin Phoenix with his Mary Magdalene co-star and fiancée, Rooney Mara, on the red carpet. In his acceptance speech the lifelong vegan spoke out against the cruelty of the dairy industry.

Last year’s best actress winner Olivia Colman (in Stella McCartney) presented the best actor gong to Joaquin.

Actress America Ferrera (in Alberta Ferretti), who lent her voice to best animated feature film nominee How to Train Your Dragon 3, is expecting her second child with hubby Ryan Piers Williams.

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1 Best supporting actress nominee (for Bombshell) Margot Robbie in vintage Chanel.

2 Best actress nominee (for Bombshell) Charlize Theron exuded old-school glamour in Dior.

3 Ford v Ferrari star Caitriona Balfe opted for Valentino.

4 Actress Rooney Mara in an edgy Alexander McQueen frock.

5 Annihilation star Natalie Portman (in Dior) wore a cape that featured names of female directors who werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t nominated.

6 Pain and Glory star PenĂŠlope Cruz in vintage Chanel.

7 & 8 Cats actress Rebel Wilson (in Jason Wu) and her best friend, TV presenter Carly Steel (in Zuhair Murad).

9 Joker actress Zazie Beetz in a two-piece by Thom Browne.

10 Actress Gal Gadot, who was a presenter, in Givenchy.