Mum's Mail Johannesburg - East Rand April 2018

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Issue 9 • Johannesburg - East Rand • April 2018

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In this issue...

Everyday Life

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Home Life

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Meet our lovely Cover Stars, WIN tickets to see a Bollywood star, find out about Easter events at Eastgate Shopping Centre, plus free shopping and travel vouchers with Voucher Plus.

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Tips for applying for a home loan, advice on father’s rights and shop online at Who Needs The Mall.

Healthy Life/Beautiful Life

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Find fashion advice from an image consultant.

Kids’ Life/Educated Life

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WIN a Hauck Travel System worth R8999, the importance of sensory play, WIN a So Slime DIY hamper, plus Easter crafts for your kids.

Diary Dates 15

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Find out about events, festivals, workshops, meetings and markets happening in your area.

The Mum’s Mail Team

Editor: Victoria Arthur • editor@mumsmail.com • 031 - 573 1731 (ext 5) Operations Director: Andrew Arthur • andrew@mumsmail.com • 031 - 573 1731 Sub-Editor: Sarah Mackintosh • sarah@mumsmail.com • 072 384 9553 Accounts: Daniella Geldenhuys • 031 - 573 1731 (ext 3) • Enquiries: Natalie Wilcox • 031 - 573 1731 (ext 1) Advertising Sales: Melinda Bromley• melinda@mumsmail.com • 082 320 8223 Designer: Wendy Offer Models: Bongeka Mngcwengi & Liqhame • Photographer: Eve Meyer Photography • www.facebook.com/EveMeyerPhotography DISCLAIMER: Neither the Publisher, Printer or Editor can be held responsible for damages or consequences of any omissions or errors, as every care is taken to ensure the accuracy of the information in Mum’s Mail. We do not guarantee the performance or quality of service of any of the advertisers in this magazine. No part of Mum’s Mail magazine may be reproduced without the written consent of the Editor.

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Meet the Cover Stars

Our stunning cover stars this month are “She is very good at talking and she mimics Bongeka Mngcwengi and her daughter, everything you say so well – I can’t wait to have a full-on conversation with her!”

Liqhame from Midrand.

On being a mom, Bongeka had this to say: “I love the unconditional love and affection you get from your children; it’s the kind of love you don’t get anywhere else. I feel very blessed to have both my babies, as they shape my everyday interactions with the human race. With every single thing I do I have them in mind. I can’t be a perfect Liqhame loves people and is very friendly. parent, as I believe no one is perfect, but I Her favourite cartoon is ‘Masha and the definitely want to be a very good role model Bear’ and she loves cats and dogs. “I still to them.” can’t forget the first time she saw a live cat and a dog; she was laughing non-stop, we “I just love the dynamics of my children, the were home at Idutywa (Eastern Cape) and age difference is 15 years, yet they get on one of our dogs was standing at the door like a house on fire - big brother is so over looking inside and she burst out laughing! protective and likes to play with his sister.”

That’s actually when she took her first steps Written by Sarah Mackintosh - she wanted to go outside and see this dog, and her reaction was the same when she later met the cat,” laughs Bongeka.

Bongeka is an Assistant Financial Manager at Sun International, and her mom, Grace, is a pensioner and helps take care of little Liqhame when mom is at work. Liqhame was 10 months at the time of the photoshoot, but she’s now 15 months old. She has an older brother, Simamkele (16).

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Everyday Life

An Evening with a Musical Legend Synonymous with bringing world-class Bollywood entertainment to South Africa’s stages, Blu Blood is proud to announce the return of music legend and international award-winning singing sensation, Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, to Durban and Johannesburg on 20 and 21 April 2018.

from the age of three and performed for the first time at the age of nine. He started travelling the world from the age of fifteen and gained recognition globally. Don’t miss Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan at the Durban ICC on 20 April and Centre Court, Emperors Palace, Johannesburg on 21 April 2018. The show is family friendly. Both shows start at 8pm (doors open at 7.30pm). Tickets from R250 are available through Computicket and Johannesburg tickets are available at Emperors Palace Box Office on 011 - 928 1297/1213 or visit www.emperorspalace. com.

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Everyday Life

The Sweet Spot @ Eastgate This Easter, don’t miss this play area of epic proportions at Eastgate Shopping Centre!

Inspired by a childlike world of make-believe, The Sweet Spot @ Eastgate combines aspects of storytelling with the vivid brightness of mouth-watering candy… a journey filled with nostalgic activity and digital elements, where fantasy meets reality! This awesome play area will be open from 29 March to 15 April from 10am to 7pm daily, in the Strelitzia Court area at Eastgate Shopping Centre.

The play area is quite something to behold – excess of chocolate, candy, ice-cream cones, jelly beans and more! Follow a bunny pawprint pathway through the Lollipop Lane entrance, and choose your activity.

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Visit the Edu-Play corner, for Easter word searches and fairytales. Up ahead, 4D colouring! Colour in your Easter-themed Eastgate page (also your keepsake) and scan it with a digital tablet. Then, watch in awe as your work of art springs to life!

Try your luck at the Donut Ringtoss, or get bouncing at the Bunny Hop Mallow Spot… surrounded by giant plush marshmallows, just in case you take a tumble. Continue the adventure on the opposite side as you get nostalgic with a game of bunny-themed hopscotch.

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The fantastical Gingerbread House is a haven for the ultimate activities, which change every few hours! Strap on a Virtual Reality headset and go on an egg-hunt in the virtual maze! Test your PlayStation skills and stay to catch the afternoon daily screening of movies like Alice in Wonderland and more!

The Easter Bunny will also make an appearance from 29 March to 2 April, so join Eastgate Shopping Centre for all the best Easter activities in town!

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Everyday Life

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Home Life

Five Things to Look Out For When Applying for a Home Loan

Craig Gilchrist, the Regional Manager for SA Home Loans in Mpumalanga and the East Rand, shares his perspectives on what home buyers should be looking for when shopping around for a home loan provider and home loan product.

Service, service, and more service Buying a property is one of the biggest purchase decisions anyone will ever make, so applicants need to know their home loan provider is one hundred percent committed to them and the process. A home loan is a long term commitment which means a relationship with a financial lender is fairly permanent. At SA Home Loans, we want this relationship with our clients to be an AMAZING journey.

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Home Life

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Healthy Life

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Beautiful Life

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Kids’ Life

Win a Hauck Travel System

Hauck South Africa is the exclusive agent for the award-winning German baby brand Hauck. Hauck has been taking care of family needs since 1923 and is dedicated to delivering innovative and top quality products.

Mum’s Mail readers can stand a chance to WIN an amazing Hauck travel system (pram and car seat combo), valued at R8 999!

The Hauck iCoo Acrobat Shop n Drive Travel System that they are giving away comes in silver and black.

Features: *Easy one-hand fold *Suspension in wheels *High Quality PU wheels *Height adjustable handle *Folds up small and compact.

As a parent, you give your baby love, warmth and affection – Hauck will look after the rest.

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The safety and well-being of your child is their highest priority. As young parents you are in good hands. When a baby is due to be born, you will have a whole shopping list of new items that you need to buy. As parents, we want to know how and if the baby products have been tested. All Hauck products are tested by renowned national and international testing institutes, such as TÜV, SGS, LNE etc., and they comply with international safety standards.

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Educated Life/Kids’ Life

What’s the Fuss about Sensory Play?

‘Sensory play’, is a theme which dominates playground, can learn to gradually cope with child-centred magazines, play groups and these inputs through sensory play.

Pinterest and Instagram posts. So what’s all the fuss about?

But why has sensory play become so important for all children? Well consider The answer is quite simple and linked to the the changes in a child’s play in the last changing patterns of play and development. 20 years. The sensory experiences we Children experience their world through had as children differs significantly to the their senses, namely touch, smell, taste, children of today, both in terms of the play sound and sight. They also interact with environments and play tools. Outdoor play the world through movement, which has decreased, with space and safety often develops the sense of body awareness or being barriers to spending afternoons and an understanding of where their body is weekends outdoors. As a result, time in the in relation to gravity and the surrounding richest sensory environment for movement, environment. These sensory experiences sounds, sights and textures has been lost. strongly shape a child’s development, by These lost hours of mud-cakes, tree climbing creating and strengthening pathways to the and stone collecting means a loss of valuable brain that help them make sense of the world development-shaping sensory experiences. as they learn to understand themselves Furthermore with the dominance of and what is happening around them. This technology, many of these play hours are creates the foundation for a child to be able replaced by television, PlayStation, tablets to complete more complex learning tasks and cell phones - strongly limiting hours of and supports intellectual growth, language sensory experience to artificial sights and development, refinement of gross and fine sounds. motor skills, social interaction and problem solving skills.

Sensory input has the power to excite a child or calm them down and help them to So when do these sensory experiences take relax, so by watching a child’s reaction to a place? All the time! Every minute of the day variety of sensory experiences, a parent can - and this is particularly maximised during also learn ideas that may help to manage play, when a child gets the opportunity to behaviour at home and school. truly experience their body’s abilities and interact with their environment. ‘Sensory So yes, sensory play is the ‘in’ thing to do and play’ is therefore play focused on stimulating my advice to parents is to embrace it! a child’s senses and allows a child to create, Written by Sameera Ballim, investigate and explore, and in the process Occupational Therapist. learn to tolerate, process and respond to sensory input in an effective and meaningful way. While touch is a very important component, sensory play should aim to include other senses too in order to be remedial therapist H.Dip.Ed; BA Eng (Unisa); FDE Remedial (RAU) maximally effective.

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Kids’ Life Emoji Easter Eggs

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Supplies: • Yellow wool • Scissors • Googly eyes • Orange pipe cleaners • Low temp glue gun

Start by making your own pompoms with yellow wool - you can find plenty of tutorials online about how to do this.

Use orange pipe cleaners or felt to create feet and beaks, and glue them onto the pompoms with googly eyes to create these adorable chicks.

After cooking the eggs and letting them cool/dry, paint all of them yellow to start. Let them dry. For the details on the eggs, use black and red paint pens or markers. This is where you (and the kids) can get really creative and choose some of your favourite emojis to recreate.

Variation: you can use white chocolate Source: www.blog.consumercrafts.com.

Easter eggs and paint with food colouring for an edible version.

Pine Cone Bunnies Supplies: Source: www.thediyplaybook.com.

• Pine cones • Googly eyes Tin Foil Easter Egg Art • Wool Supplies: or craft felt • Cardboard • Hot glue • Scissors or tacky craft glue • Tin foil • Wooden beads • Markers • Twine • Pompoms Directions: • Scissors Cut out an egg shape from your cardboard. Directions: Tear off a piece of tin Put together little ears with the felt and glue. foil from your roll. Lay Note: If you don’t have felt, construction your egg on top of it paper will work just fine! and then fold the tin foil edges all over the Slide a short length of twine through the egg so the front of the egg is completely wooden bead “nose” and secure with glue. covered in the foil.

When it is dry, gently untwist the twine so it Leaving the lid on the Sharpie marker, have separates into many “whiskers.” your pre-schooler use it to draw lines and Glue the googly eyes, ears, nose, and designs all over the tin foil Easter egg. whiskers onto the pine cone. Glue a When they are finished drawing designs, pompom onto the back of the pine cone for they can use all of the Sharpie markers to a little bunny tail! trace over their designs and add any more details that they’d like.

Source: www.firefliesandmudpies.com.

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Diary Dates ENTERTAINMENT • 1 – 22 Apr, WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, The Barnyard Theatre, Cresta, Cresta Shopping Centre, Randburg, 011 - 478 5300, iris@barnyardtheatres.co.za, www. barnyardtheatre.co.za.

• 1 – 5 Apr, 8pm, RIAAD MOOSA: LIFE BEGINS, Auto & General Theatre On The Square – Nelson Mandela Square, Rivonia, Sandton, R200pp, book at Computicket, www.theatreonthesquare.co.za.

• 2 – 14 Apr, RAPUNZEL, Irene Village Theatre, Centurion, Johannesburg, R95 – R100pp, book at Computicket.

• 3 – 8 Apr, 8pm – 2am, REDBULL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2018, Various establishments in the inner city of Johannesburg, R100 – R350 at www.Redbull.com.

• 4 – 22 Apr, PIETER DIRK UYS: WHEN IN DOUBT SAY DARLING, Studio Theatre at Montecasino – Pieter Toeriens Theatre, 1 Montecasino Blvd, Magaliessig, Johannesburg, R130 – R180pp, book at Computicket.

• 6 – 15 Apr, THE JOBURG BALLET: CARMEN, Joburg Theatre, 163 Civic Blvd, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, R100 – R238pp, www.joburgballet. com, book at Webtickets.

• 6 – 22 Apr, SUNSET BLUES, Blue Theatre at Soweto Theatre, Bolani Rd, Soweto, Johannesburg, R100pp, www.sowetotheatre.com, book at Webtickets.

• 7 Apr, 2pm – 10pm, The Grand White Johannesburg 2018, Secret Venue, Johannesburg, R600pp, www. thegrandwhite.com.

LEISURE/OUTDOORS • 31 Mar – 2 Apr, MEET & GREET THE HAMLEYS BUNNY, Greenstone Shopping Centre, Cnr van Riebeeck and Modderfontein Road, Greenstone Hill, www.greenstoneshoppingcentre.co.za.

• 1 Apr, 10.30am, LIPIZZANERS: EASTER CELEBRATION, Lipizzaner Centre, Kyalami, Midrand, Johannesburg, www.lipizzaners.co.za.

• 2 Apr, 10am – 4pm, HARRY POTTER FESTIVAL, R40pp, Rumours Rock City, Valley Lane, Cresta, Randburg, Johannesburg, book at Quicket.

• 6 – 8 Apr, KIDS’ BISCUIT DECORATING, Ster Kinekor Court, Greenstone Shopping Centre, Cnr van Riebeeck and Modderfontein Road, Greenstone Hill, www.greenstoneshoppingcentre.co.za.

• 28 – 29 Apr, SOWETO FOOD AND DRINKS FESTIVAL, 2601 Corner Koma and Bolani Road, Jabulani Soweto. Johannesburg, 011 930 3333 or 086 678 0347.

• 29 Apr (last Sun monthly), DRINK AND DRAW, The Artisan, 12 Gleneagles Rd, Greenside, Johannesburg, 011 – 027 3707, info@theartisan.joburg, www. theartisan.joburg.

• 30 Mar – 8 Apr, 10am – 7pm, THE RAND SHOW 19

2018, Expo Centre Johannesburg, corner Nasrec and Rand Show, Nasrec, Johannesburg, book at Computicket, www.randshow.co.za.

• 30 Apr – 6 May, THE INTERNATIONAL FASHION & COCKTAIL FESTIVAL, Maboneng Precinct, 286 Fox Street, Jeppestown, Johannesburg, R100 – R1400pp, book at Quicket.

MARKETS • 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Apr (Sun), 9am – 3pm, EAST RAND FOOD MARKET, cnr Ridge & Elizabeth Rd (opp El Ridge Shopping Centre), Boksburg, 082 785 6389.

• 6 Apr (1st Fri monthly), 5pm – 11pm, BEDFORDVIEW NIGHT MARKET, 7 Marais Road, Bedfordview, Johannesburg, bedfordviewmarket@ gmail.com or 072 400 5326.

• 7 Apr (1st Sat monthly), RIETVLEI BOEREMARK, Rietvlei Farm, Swartkoppies Rd, between Alberton & Mulbarton, 079 199 8641.

• 7 Apr, THE LINDEN MARKET, Hoerskool Linden, corner 3rd Avenue and 6th Street, Linden, Johannesburg, R20pp, www.thelindenmarket.com.

• 7, 14, 21, 28 Apr (Sat), 8am – 2pm, GREENLYN GOODS MARKET, cnr 11th & Mackenzie Str, Menlo Park, Pretoria.

• 7 & 28 Apr (1st & last Sat monthly), 9am, IRENE VILLAGE MARKET, The Big Red Barn, 7 Nelson Road, Sunlawns, Centurion, Pretoria, www.thebigredbarn. co.za.

• 7 Apr (1st Sat monthly), 9am – 2.30pm, BOKKIE PARK CRAFT MARKET, Southdale Rd, Parkdene.

• 7 & 28 Apr (1st & last Sat monthly), 8am – 2pm, FRESH2U FARMER’S MARKET, Franz Hoenig Haus Gardens, 30 High Street, Modderfontein, Chantelle, 082 338 7818 or fresh2umarket@gmail.com, www. fresh2umarket.wordpress.com/.

• 14 Apr (2nd Sat monthly), 10am – 3pm, FIELD MARKET, Field & Study Park, corner 14th Street and Louise Avenue, Parkmore, Sandton, www. fieldmarket.co.za, 072 778 8044, thefieldmarket@ gmail.com.

• 27 Apr (last Fri monthly), 12pm – 10pm, NIGHT FOX MARKET, The Sheds @ 1 Fox, 01 Fox Street, Ferreirastown, Johannesburg CBD, www.1fox.co.za.

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