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WAS thinking of US singer Kacey Musgraves’ song Rainbow as I contemplated the year ahead. It was released in 2018 but became popular during the pandemic because of its message of comfort and I can see why. The melody is beautiful but it’s the lyrics that really moved me. “When it rains it pours But you didn’t even notice it ain’t rainin’ anymore It’s hard to breathe when all you know is The struggle of stayin’ above the risin’ water line. Well, the sky has finally opened The rain and wind stopped blowin’ But you’re stuck out in the same ol’ storm again You hold tight to your umbrella Well, darlin’, I’m just tryin’ to tell ya That there’s always been a rainbow hangin’ over your head.” The past two years haven’t been easy. I can only hope that 2022 is better for you and yours. I hope you’re not stuck in the same old storm again and that you can see the rainbow hanging over your head.

the spare room which sported a large double bed. The oldfashioned sash window, that was bordered by the breakfast room, was open as usual. Just as matters were really hotting up, my husband’s uncle, who lived next door, poked his head through the net curtain and said: “Oh there you are. I just wanted to tell you that I made myself a sandwich in your kitchen, and Bee, I must say your bread bin is the cleanest and freshest-smelling bread bin I’ve ever seen. No, don’t get up,

My husband and I were extremely fortunate, years ago, to live in one half of a large semi-detached property belonging to his grandparents. The two old houses were mirror images of one another, with a shared fence and an unlocked gate, allowing easy access to one another’s houses via the backyard. One weekend my mother had taken our two youngsters out for an ice cream, and hubby and I quickly decided to make the most of the opportunity. But to spice things up a bit, we opted for Two cousins had to fight for their lives when a hippo bull attacked k d them h m on a weekend trip to the Blyde River BY CYRIL BLACKBURN P CTURE JACOB MORAKE

over He stood o er me and b t me his in cisor eft a deep wound below my stom ach I screwed my eyes shut and begged Don t step on me Tonie eventually managed to chase the hippo off by throwing stones at t I ran into the house and fainted Natasha says When I came to Be inda was standing over me It looked as if shed been disembowelled Paramedics were called and the wom en were taken to the Mediclinic in Tza neen where they underwent emergency surgery They were discharged three days later and are recovering at home Every time I close my eyes I relive t all over Natasha says To be in that an imals jaws the terror is indescribable

HE remembers the terri ble pain she fe t when the hippos jaws ocked on to her legs how she screamed as the animal s teeth sliced through her flesh and her horror as it started dragging her towards the river Still in the hippos grip and soaked in blood she was certain the end had come I screamed God help me I don t want to die ike this! Natasha Vrany (39) recalls I just yelled Help! Help! Help! over and over aga n This nightmare un olded for Natasha and her cousin Belinda Newman (62) during what should ve been an idyl ic weekend on a farm on the banks of the Blyde River in Limpopo

ABOVE LEFT: Natasha Vrany (left) and Belinda Newman say they

The farm in the were attacked by Ritchie (TOP), Hoedspru t area be a hippo bull hand-reared on a farm in Limpopo. ABOVE: A day before longs to Belinda s the attack, the cousins joined a friends Tonie and group of tourists to feed Ritchie. Shirley Joubert and is a popular tourist He tossed Natasha around in his jaws attraction Its also home to Jess ca the hippo that like a rag doll says Belinda who has ga ned worldwide fame after she was health problems and s hard of hearing Natasha tried to st ck her thumb n the washed up on the banks of the Blyde Riv animals eyes so it would release her er as a young calf in 2000 But t didn t work she says I cou d The Jouberts took in the orphaned hippo cow and hand reared her treating feel his teeth sinking deeper into my flesh her like one of their pets Belinda then ran towards the hippo When heavy floods hit Hoedspruit in leapt on it and started pummelling its 2012 another baby hippo washed up this time a bull the Jouberts wou d name back only for it to turn on her He knocked me over and my head hit Ritchie And it s this animal that attacked the ground millimetres from a large rock she says them the women say

apples to Ritchie I was in our ac commodation c alled the Tree house and Ritchie h trapped me inside while w the other g guests were else w where she says Belinda with Tonie JouIn the video Nata bert, who raised Ritchs ha can be heard ie. He says it was a wild hippo, not his pet, that saying R tchie you attacked the women. n need to go home now I don t even n kno if I m al owed o ed to feed you But let know him rather eat app es before he eats me The next day Natasha and Bel nda and Tonie went for a walk on the farm with his dogs and sat down on the lawn near the main house where Tonie and his wife live The next thing they heard a stomping sound and then the hippo attacked I cant describe how I fe t when I saw the hippo tossing Natasha about I couldn t believe it Belinda says I screamed at the hippo and for Tonie but realised he was going to ki l her if I didnt do something So I jumped on him and beat him Tonie came running towards them and tried to slap the h ppo Natasha says But Be inda is the one who risked her life for me And you know shes not well she can barely hear But she put everything on the line to save my l fe The wound be ow Belindas stomach was so deep her intestines were falling out and the wounds to Natashas legs were so severe she feared losing her limbs Fortunately doctors managed to re pair the damage but both women are st ll on strong pa nkil ers You dont even have nightmares about something like this Na ta ha says I just kept thinking God we can t die like th s

ATASHA comes limping to the front door of the home she shares w th her fiancé Vincent Breittink (46) in Alberton Ekurhuleni Gaut eng I m st ll struggling to walk but I know were lucky to be a ive says Natasha a nail technician The cous ns had visited the farm for Bel nda to see Jessica whos old now and in poor hea th I ve known Jessica s nce she was a calf U Belinda tells YOU I d heard she was s ckly so I wanted to visit her one las t time The women ar rived at the farm on 12 November an d joined a tour group feeding Jessica and Ritch e The night before the incident Nata ABOVE The wounds on sha took a video Natasha’s legs where the hippo’s teeth sank into of herself feeding

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HEIR relationship with Tonie has soured since the attack. The women claim he initially refused to call for help, apparently concerned about how the public would perceive the incident. “He kept my phone from me and said, ‘Girlie, listen to me, here’s the story you’re going to tell: the attack happened off the farm and it was a wild hippo, understand?’ “I told him I’d say anything he wanted as long as we could get help because we were bleeding to death,” Natasha says. The department of environmental affairs in Limpopo, which confirmed the incident to YOU, is investigating and Belinda and Natasha say they’ll cooperate with the investigation. The women then intend to explore their legal options and are consulting lawyers about which course to take. Tonie denies the allegations against him “in the strongest possible terms”. “The women are blatantly lying,” he says. “It was a wild hippo and not my Ritchie that attacked them – and it happened off the farm. “And in any case, even if it happened on the property, there’s a large sign up at the entrance warning visitors that they’re here at their own risk, so [legally] they don’t have a leg to stand on. “The incident happened at the lowwater bridge at the Blyde River next to the D240 Essex road, a provincial road, where there are many free-roaming wild hippos. If it hadn’t been for me, they’d be dead. “I never kept Natasha’s cellphone from her and never told her to tell a story to protect my farm. “Yes, it’s true I didn’t want the incident to be discussed in the media because I knew it’d be blown out of proportion. But I never warned them not to speak up about it.” He says wild hippos have easy access to the low-water bridge and tourists are warned upon arrival that they’re entering the premises at their own risk. “Natasha and Belinda were staying here for ree Their allegations against me and Rit chie are untrue and regrettable to say the east 13

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I am sorry for Natasha and Belinda who suffered injuries by the hippo (YOU, 16 December). However, I get so angry when I hear of wild animals that are treated as pets and then vilified when they are just being themselves, i.e. wild. I understand some animals are “rescued” but every attempt should be made to rehabilitate them at a professional rehabilitation centre so they can be released. People who want to get up close and personal with any wild animal are ignorant and selfish. It sounds harsh, but when are human beings going to learn that wild animals need to remain wild? ANGELA, LIMPOPO

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I’ll see you guys later,” and he was gone. We simply stared at one another in utter dismay, wondering how we’d ever face his uncle again but he never ever mentioned the encounter to either of us. I’ve been puzzled by two things ever since: why did he choose our house for a snack when he had a veritable cornucopia of food readily available next door; and secondly, doesn’t everyone have clean, fresh-smelling bread bins?

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16 December), but in every supermarket I’ve used in South Africa the teller asks if I have my own bags. I don’t mind if the teller and packer chat as I’m just grateful not to have to pack my bags. I then leave the supermarket and can rely on a friendly car guard to remind me where I’ve parked my car, help me with my shopping and return the trolley to the store. Try shopping in the UK. You have to pay to park, put a coin in the trolley, pack your own bags, find your car, then take your trolley back to redeem your coin. I know where I would rather shop! HAPPY EX-UK CITIZEN, EMAIL

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I have just spent the last half an hour trying to get the sponge out of a narrow-neck pill bottle. I have used a sharp-tip knife, chopsticks, tweezers, all the time sweating and threatening to smash the bottle, to no avail. Eventually I got a kind soul passing my house to help me out. Why on Earth do manufacturers insist on putting so much sponge or cotton wool in containers thereby making it difficult to get out, especially for people like me with dwindling eyesight and no strong grip in their hands anymore? Is there anybody out there that has a solution for me? If the manufacturers

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CHARLENE’S HEALTH I feel really sorry for Princess Charlene and the upheaval she’s going through (YOU, 9 December). What an unhappy little girl Princess Gabriella looks in the picture of the four of them together in South Africa. As for dear old Prince Albert . . . ag shame. He looks like he’s going to be sick in the picture taken on the balcony. Imagine having to explain everything over and over concerning the health of Charlene and having to put up with the rumours and the paparazzi in Europe. Those poor kids. They’d be far better off in SA where they could live a normal life. Keep going, Charlene, you’re stronger than that snooty lot over there. ANNE, SMS

S When I bought the 9 December issue of YOU at first I couldn’t work out who was on the cover. What a shock when I

E COACHED his daughter for years, shouting encouragement to her as she swam up and down the school swimming pool in Benoni and later achieved Olympic glory. Mike Wittstock believed his little girl had what it took to make it then – and he has that same faith in her now. “My daughter used to swim 20km a day,” the 75-year-old tells YOU from the family home on the Gauteng East Rand. “Based on the way she used to train, I know she’s tough and will get through this and come out much stronger.” Mike and his wife, Lynette (74), were worried about their only daughter, Her Serene Highness Princess Charlene of Monaco, yet were cautious about visiting during her recent stay in SA. There were Covid-19 travel restrictions, for one thing. But they wanted to protect Charlene, Mike says. “[There are] our ages – we have to be very careful,” he says. “I also didn’t want

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to possibly infect her because she’d been through so many medical procedures and was vulnerable.” They communicated all the time, however. “We spoke regularly on the phone and I speak with the twins,” Mike adds. “We have a great relationship.” Charlene’s family are rallying around her – because there’s little doubt it’s going to be an uphill battle for her. There were hopes the princess would get back to her l fe when she left South Africa after spending six months in the country for treatment for a serious ear nose and throat nfection And for a brief moment

things seemed on track Pictures of a seemingly happy reunion with her husband Prince Albert (63) and their six year old twins Pr ncess Ga briella and Prince Jacques were posted outside the Pink Palace. Charlene even had a new dog in tow – a young ridgeback called Khan to replace the beloved chihuahua, Puppy, that was run over in Monaco. She’d returned in time for Monaco Day, a day of national festivities in the pinprick principality when the entire royal family assembles on palace balconies to watch parades and wave to the public. Yet Charlene thin and fra l was clearly ailing and t wasn’t long before trou b ing rumours started one of which was that she was holed up alone in a flat above a chocolate shop in Monaco Another clear sign it was reported that her marriage was in trouble

HANTELL Wittstock (35), Charlene’s sister-in-law and spokesperson, tells YOU this is “a total lie”. “Charlene will not be living in the apartment – which is the family’s apartment by the way – on her own She and Albert have properties all over and stay in different ones depending on where they are needed. I can definite y tell you that if she’s there it will be with Albert and their children.” It was apparently all systems go for Monaco Day – until the palace announced she wouldn’t attend. A statement cited “extreme fatigue” and Albert appeared on the balcony alone with the twins, who held up heartbreaking messages that read, “We miss you Mommy”. And the rumour mill went into overdrive again. Speculation raged about the real reason for her absence: she had a chronic illness, she was having a nervous breakdown, she was desperately unhappy, her marriage was crumbling. Prince Albert stepped into the fray, opening up about his wife’s condition in a bid to quell the gossip. It had become clear “within hours” of her return that she had far from recovered from her illness, he told People magazine. “She hadn’t slept well in a number of days and wasn’t eating at all well,” he said “She has lost a lot of weight.” Alb er t re vealed h e’d h eld an “intervention-type meeting with her brothers” to plot the way forward. “She had already made her decision, and we only wanted her to confirm it in front of her.” The decision was that she’d receive treatment for her physical and psychological conditions in a facility outside Monaco – believed to be in Switzerland, which has many top clinics. “She will be well looked after there,” a source says. Chantell, who is married to Charlene’s youngest brother, Sean (38), and also runs the princess’ charity foundation in SA, confirms to YOU that Charlene agreed to have treatment. “She was extremely excited about being back with her family but understandably is st ll very weak and fragile from all her medical procedures and the stress of being away for so long” she says “As a result she dec ded to take time off to focus on her healing and get the rest she needs As per Albert’s request she has gone somewhere outside 9

saw it was Princess Charlene. She looks seriously ill and has lost her glamour. LYN BALLEN, SMS

malice and viciousness displayed by the journalists working for those celebrity French publications, reporting on Princess Charlene. They seem to delight in constantly denigrating her. Sorry, normal people don’t operate like that! ARLENE, SMS

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I have noted only the elderly bring their own shopping bags when doing their shopping. If everyone did the same, they would not only be saving money but would be helping to save our already polluted seas and rivers from plastic waste. Come on, people! Think of ways to save money, and our environment. Add the

shopping bags, not to mention plastic bags, but for some reason my husband refuses to take bags with him to the supermarket, opting instead to buy even more bags. What is that about? It is one of the great imponderables of my marriage.

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IN BRIEF Thank you for your amazing Jumbo crossword book edition. It is really helping me with my English vocabulary. I am so looking forward to buying issue No 2. MELLONEY FOURIE, EMAIL

Whoopee! I’m so happy. How we love YOU Jumbo Print. Thanks so much. I went around Fish Hoek and Noordhoek buying all the copies I could find for the old folks in the oldage village who can no longer see the smaller crosswords even with glasses. GRATEFUL, EMAIL

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hatred, malice and a knee-jerk reaction, and you can call me and everyone who is not partial to Meghan Markle a minion all you like (YOU Say, 16 December), but my letter about her was simply fair comment and pointing out what she patently is: a relentless and ruthless social climber for whom little, if anything, is sacred, and who likes to play the victim when she does not get her way. JASON CARANO, EDENVALE

AVMB, if you want to defend Meghan Markle that’s fine. Bad taste in celebrities is unfortunate but not illegal. JONATHAN MONTAUK, RANDBURG

The feature on yoga for your face was great (YOU, 11 November). I wonder if there are yoga exercises you can do for your neck? Your readers would be interested. LISA, SMS

South Africa should copy New Zealand which plans to end cigarette sales permanently in order to save 5 000 lives a year. If we do this in South Africa we can save 44 000 lives a year, and copying New Zealand’s and Australia’s road safety rules would save another 10 000 to 12 000 lives a year. So let’s do it. RICHARD BENSON, SMS

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Shiloh Jolie-Pitt has grown up in front of the world. ABOVE: The teen still likes baggy jackets and jeans but now also tries out more feminine styles (RIGHT). ABOVE RIGHT: How YOU covered her birth in 2006.

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HEN your parents are practically Tinseltown demigods and two of the best-looking people on the planet, it goes without saying the world would be intrigued by you. And that’s been the case even before Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt was born in a Namibian clinic in 2006. Oh, how proud we were. Of all the places in the world actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt – globetrotters extraordinaire – should choose to welcome their first bi-

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ological child, it was right here in Southern Africa. Practically on our doorstep. The world’s media went into a bidding war for the first pictures of tiny Shiloh, paying millions of dollars for shots of a baby blissfully oblivious to the hype that surrounded her birth. All the money went to charity, as you’d expect from her philanthropic parents, and we got to feast our eyes on a downy haired cherub with a perfect rosebud mouth – a perfect mix of her beautiful mom and drop-dead gorgeous dad. Her name means “the desired one” and she was named after the first child of Angie’s parents, actor Jon Voight and the

late Marcheline Bertrand, a baby who passed away shortly after birth. “My father had been shooting in Georgia and that was the most Southern name my parents could come up with,” she said. “It’s a name I always liked. I used to go under it in hotels: Shiloh Baptist.” As Shiloh grew, there were many more sightings: a toddler with wispy golden hair in a cute white dress being carried by Brad; a pre-schooler holding her mom’s hand in one of the many international airports they streamed through; a tomboy in baggies leaping into a swimming pool. She famously shunned her female assignation, refusing to respond to her name, and Angie (46) and Brad (57) let her be, making it known that her identity was her choice.

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“She only wants to be called John – John or Peter,” Angie told Oprah Winfrey in 2008. “It’s a Peter Pan thing.” In a 2010 interview with Vanity Fair magazine, the star shared how her daughter wanted to be a boy. “So we had to cut her hair. She likes to wear boy clothes. She thinks she’s one of her brothers.” “Some kids wear capes and want to be Superman,” the Oscar-winner said in another interview. “She wants to be like her brothers. It’s who she is. I think it’s fascinating, the choices she’s making.” Shiloh became a mini-icon for the LGBTQ community. For years she wore suits on the red carpet, jeans and T-shirts when she was out and about, and shorts and hoodies as she trotted around the globe with her family. Which is why it was such a surprise to see the 15-year-old emerge as a more feminine version of herself – a blossoming beauty with an edgy style all her own.

“She’s the image of her mother at that age,” one fan observed. “And Angie was the image of her mother when she was a teenager. Shiloh is a real beauty.” She also seems to have come into her own as far as confidence goes. “Shiloh used to hate the cameras that followed the family everywhere,” an insider says. “But she’s accepted them now. They aren’t her favourite thing but she’s comfortable in her own skin. Now so she doesn’t cringe when she sees them. She’s growing up into a well-adjusted young woman.” She also seems to be coping with her parents’ messy, drawn-out divorce and a source in Brad’s camp says the Ad Astra star is happy his daughter is “coming out of her shell”. “Brad doesn’t want her growing up so

E FIRST got glimpses of a “new” Shiloh in 2020 when she started wearing her hair – cropped short for years – much longer. Her braces were gone, her legs had grown impossibly long and that Brangelina face of hers was really coming into its own. And then the premiere of Angie’s new movie, Eternals, happened and the world was like, wow! Shiloh had a major fashion momen nt in a repurposed version of her mom’s 2019 2 Christian Dior dress at the London event in October, the frock shortened to show off her coltish limbs and black baallet flats, proving it won’t be long beforee she overtakes Angie in the height stakees. A slick of lipstick and a pair of silver hoop h earrings completed the look. And there were other red-carpet outings too: a beige slip dress with a folded neckline and an asymmetrical skirt (another repurposed outfit from Mom m) in Los Angeles, and a short sleeveless little l black dress with bright yellow and black b high-top sneakers at the 2021 Rome F Film Festival.

S Lily-Rose Depp (22) The daughter of actors Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis is making waves as a model and a brand ambassador for Chanel. Her acting credits includeThe King (2019) oppositeTimothée Chalamet. S Lourdes Leon (25) Her dad is personal trainer Carlos Leon while her mom is the Queen of

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fast but he’s proud to see her on red carpets. It’s been a confidence boost for her. Of course, he worries about the effect of Hollywood on all his kids, but he does trust Angie’s instincts in this area.” Say what you like about Angie, her kids have always come first. “This is a woman who values her relationships with her children more than anything,” says a source close to the actress-director. “I have six very individual human beings in my home,” Angie says of Shiloh and her siblings, Maddox (20), Pax (18), Zahara (16) and 13-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. “I’m so excited about all the different stages and feelings and curiosities that they go through. “Why wouldn’t you be? We’re supposed to help them figure out who they are. And you can’t figure out who they are if you don’t enthusiastically develop with them.” SOURCES: SCMP.COM, THELIST.COM, OKMAGAZINE.COM, PEOPLE. COM, THEHOLLYWOODREPOTER.COM, VANITYFAIR.COM, INQUISITR.COM, OKMAGAZINE.COM

OTHER A-LIST OFFSPRING TURNING HEADS Pop, Madonna, whom Lourdes has described as “a control freak” but also the “hardest worker I’ve ever seen”. Lourdes is a successful model, gracing the cover of Vogue magazine and starring in a Swarovski campaign. She also has her mom’s exhibitionist streak and has come under ﬁre for racy Instag gram posts.

S Natalia Bryant (18) She’s been a pillar of support to her mom, Vanessa, following the deaths of her dad, Kobe, and sister Gianna in a helicopter crash in 2020. The graceful teen has been her mom’s plus-one at gala events and has also appeared with Vanessa in Vogue and Bulgari’s Mother’s D Day campaign in 2021. 2021

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Natanya Pienaar can pick up the pieces of her life now that the man who raped her when she was six has been sent to jail.

Natanya with Marie and Manie Senekal during the time she was being sexually abused by him.

‘THE WEIGHT WAS LIGHT ENOUGH TO CARRY ONCE I’D FINISHED TESTIFYING’

She was sexually abused by the owner of the crèche she attended, but now Natanya Pienaar has found closure BY PIETER VAN ZYL PICTURES: MISHA JORDAAN

T’S a picture from a seemingly carefree childhood: a little girl posing with two smiling adults – but she can’t look at it without a shiver going down her spine. “Look at his hand on my shoulder,” Natanya Pienaar says. “He was grooming me.” She’s talking about Hermanus “Manie” Senekal (78), former owner of the

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Byekorf Crèche in Balfour, Mpumalanga. The other adult in the picture is Manie’s late wife, Marie, who ran the crèche. Manie was the person who robbed Natanya of her innocence, turned her into an emotional wreck and eventually saw her fleeing the country for a while in the hope of finding peace. But Natanya (23) finally has closure:

Manie has been convicted in the Secunda Regional Court of raping her 17 years ago. He was recently sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for the rape of a minor and another four years for indecent assault. For Natanya, hearing magistrate Graham Cupido say the word “guilty” was an immense relief. “I’m done with this now,” she said as she left court. Yet the Pienaar family is wracked with guilt. Natanya was 15 before she realised the reason for her deep-seated trauma and could finally tell her parents what had happened to her as a little girl. Her mom, Jenny, was shattered. “Knowing that I delivered her right into his clutches every weekday was unbearable to me,” she says. Kisha, Natanya’s 25-year-old sister, is seen as a young child in another picture with the Senekals. But “Uncle Manie”, as the kids used to call him, isn’t touching Kisha in the same way. “It bothers her that he ‘chose’ me,”

Natanya says. After Jenny and Johan, the girls’ father, reported the rape to the police in 2013, several other victims came forward and the crèche was shut down. The Pienaars pressed charges and the Senekals were both arrested and appeared in court – Marie on a charge of neglecting to report a crime, Manie on charges of rape and sexual abuse. The case hadn’t been finalised when Marie died of cancer in 2019. But justice was eventually served and Natanya can now finally pick up the pieces of her life.

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ENNY, sitting with Natanya in the living room of the family’s Mossel Bay home, shows us a bulky file she kept on the court case over the years. Included in it are details of Natanya’s first panic attack at an athletics event in Cullinan in 2011. Natanya, then in Grade 7 at the Balfour Primary School, was running the 1 500m. Jenny, the headmaster’s PA at the time, was a track steward at the long-jump event and someone told her, “Your child just fell.” “She was rolling around on the track, pulling at her hair and screaming. I freaked out,” Jenny recalls. Jenny thought her daughter’s legs were cramping after her race and didn’t suspect anything of Natanya’s collapse – but it would happen again and again. “It got worse,” Natanya says. “I’d have up to 80 or more attacks a day. I was so scared that I slept between my mom and dad.” Sometimes, when she woke up from one of her attacks, she’d think she was six years old again. “Why am I taller than you, Mommy?” she once asked. Her parents, fearing she had a physical problem, took her to the Steve Biko Hospital in Pretoria in July 2013 but numerous scans came out clear. Then a neurologist asked, “Does she have a boyfriend who might be upsetting her? “These attacks are because of emotional trauma.” A few months later, as Natanya was listening to a fellow Grade 9 girl bragging about her sexual exploits with older men it finally dawned on her what was wrong. She recalled what the man at the crèche had forced her to do all

those years ago. That evening she told her mom what had happened. “Mommy, that man hurt me. He hurt me badly.” Jenny and Johan contacted the children’s protection unit in Balfour, who sent officers to take Natanya’s statement. Then the family started trauma counselling. On the advice of a psychologist, Natanya and her parents talked openly about the abuse. “I dropped you off here the day he did that to you. I’m so sorry,” Jenny would say to her daughter. Natanya told her mom she’d forgiven her and the family turned their focus to the court case against the Senekals. There were many postponements. Natanya was 17 when she started testifying against Senekal in December 2013. By the time she gave her final evidence, she was 21 years old. “He’d be ill, or change attorneys, or we had to wait for a magistrate to become available,” Jenny recalls. The trial triggered all the memories of the ordeal she suffered as young girl. She was forced to disclose how Manie had favoured her by giving her more sweets and peanuts than any of the other children, how he’d lured her into the “pink room” at the crèche, how he’d taped her mouth shut and raped her. A nurse and a forensic psychologist confirmed the credibility and consistency of her testimony in court. Because Jenny was also testifying in the case, she couldn’t attend hearings. Natanya and her mother, Jenny, who’s supported her since she opened up about her ordeal.

Hermanus “Manie” Senekal outside court in Secunda.

But Johan was there, supporting his daughter in court every step of the way. “The weight hadn’t been completely lifted off my shoulders, but it was light enough to carry once I’d finished testifying,” Natanya says.

S THE wheels of justice slowly turned, Natanya tried to get her life on track. She applied to work at a circus in America and as an au pair in the Netherlands but worried that her panic attacks might destroy everything. She then spent nearly three years teaching English in China. And there, continents removed from her tormentor, her true healing began. She says she “didn’t really feel anything” when she heard Marie had died. “But I think she got off lightly,” she adds. Natanya now works as an activity coordinator at a centre for the elderly in Mossel Bay. “I love it,” she says. “They appreciate everything I do. They make me happy.” “Before the age of six she was always laughing. Then her laughter stopped,” Jenny says. “My child’s smile is back now.” She feels at peace now, Natanya says. “This chapter has been closed – and it feels good.”❑ you.co.za 6 JANUARY 2022

F THE SHOW RUNNING

As t t the leaders in top pp portfolios fared last yyear – and the challenges that await them BY NASIFA SULAIMAN

MINISTER OF HEALTH DR JOE PHAAHLA The deputy health minister took over in Augu ust when Dr Zweli Mkhize resig gned after being implicated in the R150-million Digital Vibes scandal.

reasonable job so far. “He’s acquitted himself well and comes across as a beacon of authoritative information.”

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The health ministry can emerge from the shadow of the Digital Vibes scandal by working with communitybased organisations to ramp up vaccinations and spread the word of their importance to people across the country, including rural areas, political analyst Ralph Mathekga says. “Community-based organisations have been around for a long time and there’s usually a high level

Phaahla took k over a vital ministry at a diﬀicult time and has done fairly well, says po olitical analyst Professor André Duvennhage of North-West University – esp pecially when it comes to his weekly briefings on the government’s Covid d-19 response, which keep the public up p to date and informed.

‘THE RREACTION TO OMICRON WASN’T HYSTTERICAL – IT WASS CALM AND A CALCULATED’ Phaahla’s department also handled the Omicron outbreak well, he says. “The re eaction wasn’t hysterical – it was calm m and calculated. Despite a rampant fo ourth wave, the ministry is working to o find a way of living with the crisis and d the governance of the situation hass been taken forward by the health minister. m ” Phaahla has also taken the economic impacct of the pandemic into consideratio on and has taken a measured approach when it comes to imposing harsher lockdown levels. Political economy analyst Daniel Silke agrees the minister has done a 12

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of trust among the people,” he adds. Tenders aren’t the way to go, Mathekga says. Digital Vibes was an outside company hired by Mkhize to do communication for the department, and the minister was exposed as having personal connections to the company. The damage runs deep, Mathekga says. “You can’t manage a crisis when there’s a trust deficiency. The department needs to show through their actions that they aren’t acting in their own interest but in the interest of the public.”

OR many 2021 is a year best forgotten. The grind of the pandemic, skyrocketing unemployment, record highs for the petrol price, Eskom struggling to keep the lights on . . . If we thought the year was going to be better than the horror that was 2020, we were sorely mistaken. Often when times are dark and friends are few, we look to our leaders whose job it is to help navigate stormy seas. So how did those in charge of some of the biggest portfolios in the government d ?W k d experts to unpackk it i – and d do? We asked to look ahead to what ministers need to do in 2022.

MINISTER OF MINERAL RESOURCES & ENERGY GWEDE MANTASHE He’s been at the helm since 2018.

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MINISTER OOF FINANCE ENOCH GODONGWANA He was appointed in August when Tito Mboweni resigned. Godong gwana was previously chairperson of the board of the Development Bank and heaad of the ANC’s economic transformation su ubcommittee.

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Godongwana’s appointment was met with some scepticism because he isn’t a trained economist, says Izak Odendaal, an invesstment manager at Old Mutual Multi-Manag gers. “But in reality, a finance minister must haave political clout because his job is to say n no.” Godongwana certainlyy has clout thanks to his experience with the e economic transformation subcommittee e, which is why the rand didn’t plunge when his appointment was announced. “He’s an old hand in the policy field and regarded as a fairly steady hand,” says Hugh Pienaar, chief ecconomist for the Bureau for Economic Research. He stuck to the script laid out by the National Treasury, which looks at the g government’s fiscal policy framework.This includ des increasing investment in infrastructure and capital, improving education and skills development, and fighting poverty and inequality through eﬀicient public-service delivery. In 2021 the treasury also looked at the ongoing pressure from state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and bringing the rising debt costs of the country under control –

something the minister ﬂagged in his mediumterm budget policy statement in November. Godongwana has stressed the focus will be to grow the economy and his department will work on measures to deal with socioeconomic challenges, especially the unemployment and poverty crises. Hard evidence in the coming months will show whether he’s successful in his job.

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Godongwana needs to formulate his department’s policy clearly and sell it to the government as he won’t be able to get anything ng done if he can’t get consensus within his ownn party, says political economy analyst Daniel Silke. S A big focus must be on SOEs, he adds. “The minister has to begin a policy process w within the ANC explaining to the leadership thhat SOEs can’t be the be-all and end-all of South Africa. “He must make it clear that many havve failed and therefore need to be disposed of or o run by the private sector. This will enable reso ources and capital to be used in ways that will benefit the economy and not just be pumped back b into SOEs that keep failing.” Unemployment should also be a major focus, according to o political analyst Professor André A Duvenhage. A crisis committ ttee should be established made up of a team with the necessary skills and expertise e to look at ways to grow the e economy and increase jobs.

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Not much, m experts say. Mantashe’s department was onne of the worst-performing departments as a result of the ongoing crisis at Eskom. “Energy is a disasster,” political analyst Ralph Mathekga says. In n June President Cyril Ramaphosa announced businesses will be allowed to generaate power of up to 100MW each without a licence in a bid to ease the pressure on the naational grid. “When the president twisted m my arm to move in this direction, I ultimatelyy agreed,” Mantashe grudgingly stated. His handling of the Shell exploration project o on the Wild Coast also raised ire. The petroleum company plans to explore possible oil and gas reserves in the remote marine environment and intends to send soundwaves into the sea every 10 seconds for the next four to five months. Environmentalists say the exploration will severely impact the sensitive marine area and are trying to get it stopped. Mantashe condemned the attacks on Shell, saying the opposition was designed to “exacerbate poverty and unemployment” and was “a special apartheid”. Energy sector analyst Roger Lilley says his response is “not forward-thinking. The minister is still set on doing things the way they were done when he was younger, when everything was about coal. He doesn’t seem to understand the world has changed dramatically.”

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The department has been plagued by corruption scandals, such as rigging the country’s electricity plan to favour expensive coal projects. Another disaster was the deal with Karpowership, an international company selected to provide the country with emergency power over the next 20 years at a cost of around R218 billion. But the deal is fraught with problems – approvall was given i without i h involving i l i theTransh T net National Ports Authority and the environment minister’s authority. “Mantashe indicated that this company can provide emergency power without getting the necessary authorities’ say-so,” Lilley says. He must be more transparent when making deals. Mantashe must focus on moving SA to a greener economy – even if forced to do so “kicking and screaming”, adds political economy analyst Daniel Silke.The country needs to move away from coal and oil and develop renewable energy resources.

MINISTER OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES PRAVIN GORDHAN Gordhan has been at the helm of this portfolio since 2018.

“Mantashe is pushing strongly for the maintenance of fossil fuels and coal-supplied energy, while Eskom and its management [which Gordhan supports] is now talking about renewable energy and nuclear energy as the way of the future,” says political analyst Tessa Dooms. Yet while positive noises are being made, Gordhan needs to get a move on. The unbundling of Eskom into three wholly owned entities – power generation, power transmission and power distribution – announced by Ramaphosa in 2019 has yet to happen. South African Airways (SAA) also took to the skies after being grounded for more than a year due to business rescue,

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Experts says the minister’s vast experience has resulted in some positives. For instance, he opposed the National Union of Mineworkers’ call for Eskom CEO André de Ruyter to stand down. “This support and confidence in the management by the minister helps the troubled SOE in terms of moving forward with their plans to fix things,” says energy sector analyst Roger Lilley. If Gordhan had supported calls for De Ruyter to stand down, Eskom would’ve been back to square one and in a worse position than ever. In November, Gordhan said the state will agree on a unified approach to turning Eskom – and its R402bn debt – around. “There’s absolutely going to be one voice as we go forward into 2022,” he said. Gordhan and Gwede Mantashe, minister of mineral resources and energy, have had diﬀerent approaches to tackling the energy crisis.

recently signing an interim agreement with CemAir, a privately owned domestic airline that gives them same-ticket access to each other’s networks.

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Gordhan needs to be more transparent, Dooms says. “SAA went through a huge change. It’s gone down, it’s come back up and we haven’t had proper briefings about the state of that SOE or about the deals that have apparently been made.” South Africa’s SOEs are in significant distress and Gordhan’s leadership needs to be refocused in the new year, she adds. He needs to stop SOEs’ reliance on bailouts and come up with an action plan where they can hold their own. “And his leadership needs to be more visible when it comes to those action plans and the implementation of them,” Dooms says.

MINISTER OF BASIC EDUCATION ANGIE MOTSHEKGAA She’s held this position since 2009.

WHAT DID SHE GET RIGHT?

Managing schools during a pandemic isn’t easy and experts say she’s done okay under the circumstances. Besides social-distancing regulations at schools, in 2020 she also implemented a rotational timetable (where children attended staggered classes to keep numbers down) – but kids lost hours of classroom time as a result. In 2021 Motshekga was more prepared and tried to make up for lost time, cutting back on the rotational timetables and making sure schools followed shutdown procedures on a need-by-need basis while ensuring strict mask-wear-

ing and social-distancing protocols remained. “The minister and her department did well by having a firm but ﬂexible approach guided by cabinet, which was in turn informed by some of the best medical scientists in the world,” says Professor Jonathan Jansen of Stellenbosch University’s faculty of education. The department also managed to recruit more than 500 000 assistant teachers to help ease the pressure on educators. In addition, around 88% of all staﬀ in Motshekga’s department were vaccinated.

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Given lockdowns could be a reality for a while, the single most impor-

tant thing g the minister can do to improve levels of education is to build technological infrastructure in an nd around the poorest schools, Jansen says. “[Th his is] so the transition to online learning can happ pen instantly and eﬀectively for all schools.” The minister and her department also need d to focus on improving infrastructure e and facilities in schools. Pit latrrines remain a big issue – Motshe ekga admitted at the end of 20 021 that about 2 825 schools still s used pit latrines and that eradicating them was a priority.

‘SAA WENT THROUGH A HUGE CHANGE. IT’S GONE DOWN, IT’S COME BACK UP AND WE HAVEN’T HAD PROPER BRIEFINGS ABOUT THE STATE OF THAT SOE OR ABOUT THE DEALS THAT HAVE APPARENTLY BEEN MADE’

MINISTER OF COMMUNICATION & DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES KHUMBUDZO NTSHAVHENI She took over from Stella NdabeniAbrahams in August. Ntshav vheni was acting minister in the pre esidency from January 2021 to A August.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa annnounced during his State of thhe Nation address that the counttry must complete the broadcast digital migration by 31 March 2022 – which means South Africa will transiition from analogue broadcasting to digital terrestrial TV. “The switch to digital terresstrial television allows the country tto move into the digital age and improve the quality ofTVservice es,” Ntshavheni says. The initial deadline for the e transition was 31 March 2021 but it was missed and reset to a year later – and the e minister is confident it will be reached. Experts say Ntshavheni’s biggest move so far is laaunching a project-steering committee to make

sure the analogue broadcast service switch-oﬀ picks up. If she reaches the deadline, it’ll be a huge victory for her.

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In short, speeding up the digital migration plan. “There’s been a lot of work that’s been done in that area, so now we need actual policy that’s going to guide the country into the next five to 10 years,” says political analyst Tessa Dooms. The policy should include providing free set-top boxes to poor households, which the government has indicated is part of the plan, and will enable households to continue to receive free-to-air broadcasting services. If they don’t have the settop boxes, they won’t be able to watch SABC or e.tv.

Ntshavheni should also focus on upgrading the government’s technology hub that’s been dysfunctional for a long time. “The government’s inability to provide for its own technology needs is a burden on the fiscus,” Dooms says. “We can’t talk about going into a technological revolution with a government that’s still tardy and stuck behind the walls of inefficiency.” One of the biggest examples of technological inefficiency is home affairs, says political economy analyst Daniel Silke. “It’s an operational disaster. The system is often down, which means services are delayed. Even navigating the department’s website is a struggle because it’s so difficult to understand.”

‘THE GOVERNMENT’S INABILITY TO PROVIDE FOR ITS OWN TECHNOLOGY NEEDS IS A BURDEN ON THE FISCUS’

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Tk Kennedy’s rare medical condition means part of her vagina is missing and she doesn’t have a womb.

HE was well into her teens and her period hadn’t yet a r r iv e d – but she was told she was just a late bloomer. But by the time she was 17, Tk Kennedy learnt the truth: she has a condition that means she’ll never have children and sex would always be painful unless she underwent a gruelling treatment. Tk (20) was diagnosed with Mayer-RokitanskyKüster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome – a condition that leaves the vagina and uterus underdeveloped or absent. She doesn’t have a womb and a cervix and part of her vagina is missing. “My vaginal canal isn’t properly developed,” says Tk, who’s from Dorset, England. “It’s very, very little so I’m unable to have comfortable sex without treatment or surgery.” The condition can also cause uncomfortable pain, which sometimes causes her to “curl up in a ball on the floor”. But there’s a glimmer of hope. She’ll soon undergo a painful 60-hour treatment that involves having to dilate her vagina twice a day for at least three months. The goal is to allow her to have pain-free sex. “With treatment, you use dilators and start with a very, very tiny one, no bigger than the size of your pinkie, and stretch to make your vagina canal bigger so that when it comes to sex it’s comfortable and you’re stretched big enough to be able to have sex without it being painful,” says Tk, who works at a nursery. “You have to do treatment for 20 minutes twice a day which is a lot. I work 10hour days four days a week, so trying to

‘MY GIRLFRIENDS ARE OBVIOUSLY NOT DOING IT SO IT’S JUST ANOTHER THING THAT HIGH LIGHTS HOW DIFFERENT I AM’ fit it either side of that can be quite challenging.” Treatment varies depending on the length of a person’s vaginal canal, she explains. “You can dilate through sex but it’s likely to be very painful because there’s basically no room to be able to have sex.”

HE discovered something was wrong with her in 2019 when her periods failed to appear. Tk, then 17, went to her local hospital where they performed an MRI after she insisted she wasn’t just a late bloomer. “They thought I might have polycystic ovary syndrome and sent me for an ultrasound,” she recalls. “After an hour he was like ‘Oh, maybe you just don’t have a womb’. “And I was like ‘Wait, hold up, what? You can be born without a womb?’ ” Doctors then ran more tests before finally diagnosing her with MRKH. “It was more just the shock of ‘Wow, I do actually have it’. My life has been changed. Now I have to live with this condition and all the plans for the future about pregnancy are no more. It was a big shock,” she says. Although Tk can’t carry her own chil-

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NE woman who knows what Tk is going through is Julian Peter (30) of Kenya. A routine question from her doctor led to Julian discovering she had MRKH syndrome.

Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome is a rare congenital condition resulting in the vagina and uterus either being underdeveloped or absent, although the external genitalia are normal. Affected women usually don’t have menstrual periods – which is also the first noticeable sign of

‘REALISING THAT YOU’RE NOT LIKE OTHER WOMEN IS DIFFICULT. YOU NEED SOMEONE WHO YOU CAN TALK TO’

Julian Peter from Kenya also has Mayer-RokitanskyKüster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome and only one kidney.

ment for swollen legs and when the doctor asked when last she’d had her period Julian, then 17, realised she’d never had one. They did a scan immediately, which showed that her reproductive tract was closed from the outside. Julian had to undergo surgery to open it, but the operation was unsuccessful.

“I had another scan that howed I had no uterus or agina and that was when I as diagnosed with MRKH,” he recalls. The diagnosis was devastatg but Julian quickly decided not wallow in self-pity. “I cried on the first day nd the second day and the hird, but then I moved on,” he says. “I was only 17, so my priority as to get back to school.” Ten years after the failed opration, Julian went under the nife again to have her vaginal anal reconstructed. Unlike Tk, Julian has type 2 RKH syndrome (see box elow) and was born with only ne kidney. She has had to live with the she’ll never bear children of

her own. “I’ve had four scans and no ovaries were found, so even retrieving eggs for IVF can’t be done,” she explains. She’s tried to make peace with it. “You must accept the way you are,” she says. “But realising that you’re not like other women is difficult. You need someone who you can talk to.”

A RARE MEDICAL CONDITION MRKH – and are unable to become pregnant. When only the reproductive organs are affected, the condition is classified as MRKH syndrome type 1. Women then still have ovaries. In cases of type 2, abnormalities occur in other parts of the body.

Some women are born with only one kidney or have skeletal abnormalities, particularly of the spine. MRKH syndrome affects about 1 in 4 500 newborn girls and while its exact cause is unknown, studies have shown a link between gene changes in the development stage of the foetus and the condition.

To treat MRKH syndrome some patients, likeTk Kennedy , resort to self-dilation, which involves using a small rod to expand the vagina over time. Or there’s vaginoplasty, in which a surgeon can create a functional vagina using a skin graft from the buttocks or a portion of the bowel. you.co.za 6 JANUARY 2022

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dren, she does still have h ovaries, which means she ca have biological children via surrogate. “I told my best friend prett soon after I got diagnosed,” sh says. “And she just hugged m and we cried because we talke about being pregnant at th same time so she understoo the heartbreak.” The painful treatment sh faces makes her feel different t other people, Tk says. “My girlfriends are obviousl not doing it so it’s just anoth thing that highlights how diff rent I am.” She smiles and laughs whe told she’s “lucky” to not have p riods but admits that dee down it’s a “kick in the teet because she’d always dreamt becoming a mother. “But actually, I’d take period any day to be able to have child. I’m not lucky because I missing out on something fa better than not having period Tk now hopes to use her stor to raise awareness around th condition. She’s also starte an organisation called MRK Stars, which aims to help wo en like her. “I can now help others wit it by supporting them an spreading awareness, and on day I could have a child of m own through adoption and giv them a loving family. “Now I don’t see it as a weakness. I see it as a strength.”

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HE found fame as a young woman with a bright smile who sang her way into the h ear t s of au di en c e s around the world, capti vating even notoriously acerbic judge Simon Co well with her velvet voice and unique style. But it wasn’t only her voice that moved the America’s Got Talent (AGT) judges – it was her inspiring tale of courage that brought them to tears and helped the video of her audition go viral around the world. Nightbirde sang Okay, a song she wrote about her gruelling cancer battle and how she seeks joy in the face of ex treme adversity. “It’s important that everyone knows that I’m so much more than the bad things that happen to me,” she said. “You can’t wait until life isn’t hard any more before you decide to be happy.” Simon was so moved he gave her the golden buzzer, which automatically sent her into the next round of the competi tion. But Nightbirde has had to withdraw from the talent search. Her metastatic breast cancer has spread to many parts of her body, including her bones, and she’s become so frail she now weighs just 38,5 kg. “Since my audition, my health has tak en a turn for the worse and the fight with cancer is demanding all of my energy and attention,” she says. “I bet you never saw someone win so hard and lose so hard at the same time. This isn’t how the story was supposed to go.” She’s not letting her advanced cancer diagnosis stop her from living, though. The 30yearold has been going for cancer treatment and is getting back to doing what she loves: singing. Recently she shared an update on so cial media along with a picture of herself sitting beside the black and whites of a keyboard. “I’ll be better soon,” she says optimisti cally. “I’m planning my future, not my legacy. Yeah, I’m pretty beat up, but I’ve still got dreams.”

IGHTBIRDE, whose real name is Jane Marczewski, has had several runins with cancer. Her world turned up side down when she was first diagnosed in 2017 at the age

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of 26 after finding a lump in her breast. In the months that followed, she underwent chemotherapy, a bilateral mastectomy, and reconstructive surgery. She was delighted when she was de clared cancer free a year later. Her joy turned to dread when she dis covered the cancer had returned on New Year’s Eve 2019. This time around, it was more aggres sive. Doctors found multiple tumors on her liver, lungs, lymph nodes, ribs and spine and she was given just three to six months to live. She was dealt a double blow when her musician husband, Jeremy Antonio Claudio, left her after five years of mar riage. “Soon after the diagnosis, my hus band informed me he no longer wanted to be married,” she says. The trauma of it all took a toll on her and led to what she describes as a “cata strophic” mental breakdown. “I barely spoke, ate, or moved from my bed for several months,” she recalls. “My brain was sending false signals of excruciating pain, and my brain’s ability to process stress and emotion was func tioning at just 8%.” Yet Nightbirde picked up the pieces. She moved from Nashville, Tennessee, to Long Beach, California, where she underwent more treatment at an integrative medicine centre. She also decided to audition for AGT in April all on her own, without telling any of her family members. “I didn’t want to cause a stir because I didn’t know if they’d like me to sing or if I’d get on TV, so I just thought, ‘I’m going

Nightbirde won judge Simon Cowell’s Golden Buzzer after her magnificent audition on America’s Got Talent.

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The musician, who’s been battling cancer since 2017, has undergone chemotherapy and a bilateral mastectomy.

She made a surprise virtual visit to AGT after making the decision to quit the show to focus on her health.

HE grew up in a small Ohio town with her parents, Mitchell and Sharon, and her six siblings, Jason, John, Michael, Mitch Jr, Andrew and Katelyn. Her family is super-conservative, she says, which has influenced her music. “If you listen for it and look for it, you’ll see Jesus all over it,” she says. “You’ll find it there, but I’m not just writing music for people that believe the way I believe.” Through her songs she hopes to convey a message of hope. Even her stage name communicates hope. She says she chose Nightbirde because she dreamed about birds singing in darkness for three straight nights. “I want to be the bird that sings in anticipation of the good things that I trust are coming.” Her unwavering faith has kept her going through the dark days. Nightbirde has seven dots tattooed on her right forearm, which represents a verse in the Bible that says a righteous person falls seven times and gets back up again. Her cancer is terminal, and she admits she’s afraid of dying. But staring death in the face has made her take more risks, she says. One day she hopes to return to the AGT stage but in the meantime, she’ll continue to use her voice to spread love and positivity. “The note that I’ve been given to sing in the orchestra of life is short and insignificant, she says. “But I want to sing it well.” you.co.za 6 JANUARY 2022

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Afterwards Simon gave Nightbirde,whose real name is Jane Marczewski, a warm embrace.

to do it and then if it becomes something we can discuss it’,” she recalls. Her bold move paid off – not only did she receive the coveted golden buzzer, but her performance has since garnered 36 million views on YouTube. She’s still stunned by the reaction. “‘It’s okay’ is something I’ve been saying to myself through the whole situation. It’s the story of the last year of my life,” she shares. “It was a song I wrote in the middle of the night for myself when I needed it. It’s beautiful to see the world welcome that song into its dark night.” Nightbirde’s song is now one of the most downloaded songs in America. She’s also released four more tracks, all of which shot to the top of the charts.

Nightbirde’s sister and brothers have shaved their heads to show their support.

Dingo Dinkelman with Thor, his Malaysian King Cobra pet snake that he’s shared many adventures with. Thor weighs 15kg and is about 5m long.

T’S hard to imagine he was once an investment broker. The guy who swims with crocodiles and shares his bed with snakes doesn’t look quite the suitup-and-get-serious type. And it turns out he wasn’t – which is why Graham “Dingo” Dinkelman quit his job to devote his time and energy to the animals he loves so much. Now the Pietermaritzburg-born adventurer has a rapidly growing following on his profitable YouTube channel where he shares some of his wildest stunts, all in the name of “building a connection between people and animals”. The 41-year-old has a BCom from the University of Pietermaritzburg but the great outdoors has always been his passion. “I probably went to about 10 lectures in those four years of studying because I hated it so much,” he tells us, chuckling. “I did the bare minimum to pass. I hated varsity – I thought it was a complete waste of time and I just wanted to be out in the bush exploring nature instead of sitting in a lecture on economics.” The conservationist and wildlife filmmaker shot to global fame after he won the Cell C “Break the Net” competition in 2017 with a YouTube video clip of him catching a crocodile. His channel features videos of him safely removing puff adders, pythons and black mambas from homes, assisting in the dehorning of rhinos, relocating hyenas and re-homing trafficked pangolins. He works with a dedicated crew and his wife, Kirsty, to shoot and edit the footage, and many of the animals he rescues can be visited at Dingo’s Farm and Reptile Park in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.

INGO’S love of nature comes from his dad, Brian. “My dad worked for the wildlife authority (now Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife) and we grew up near the Pietermaritzburg forest, so there was always wildlife around. We had the opportunity to interact with these animals.” Dingo and his younger siblings, Jaqui, David and Simon, learnt how to rehabilitate injured animals from an early age, he says. “We weren’t too far from the coast so from dolphins, whales, and fish, to reptiles and zebras . . . we were exposed to these wonderful animals which were all 20

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SA’s Steve rwin ta ks about his ove or animals, a near death experience and why his work matters BY LESEGO MKHIZE around us.” Of course living and working with wild animals doesn’t come without risk. Dingo learnt this the hard way in 2019 while shooting a documentary in the Amazon rainforest in South America. “It was on the 28th of February,” he recalls. “Filming had gone really well, and we had returned to base camp in the middle of the jungle.” At the camp he noticed a small brown snake with orange eyes. “I thought, ‘That’s quite a nice little snake let me get a photo of it.’” Little did he know that what he and

the crew biologist initially thought was a harmless water snake was a poisonous leopard water snake. “I was with my colleague who took the snake out of the water and after we decided it was a water snake, he removed his glove and was bitten five or six times. He didn’t have any reaction. No swelling, no pain, nothing.” When Dingo tried to take the snake to photograph it, it bit him too. “It wasn’t too sore, so I thought, ‘Let me just leave it there and take the pictures.’” Then he started feeling dizzy and slightly woozy. “I knew immediately that

He’s won himself a loyal fanbase with his videos of his daring stunts which often involve reptiles.

I was going into anaphylactic shock. “I know that I’m very allergic to elapid venom, which is found in cobras and mambas. “I’ve been allergic for 15 years and we didn’t know that this snake contained this venom.” A second later he hit the ground, unable to breathe. “I was dying in the middle of the jungle.” Thanks to the quick action of the crew and their medic, Dingo’s life was saved. “I would’ve been done within a minute and a half to two minutes if I hadn’t received massive amounts of adrenaline injected into my veins,” he says. In what he thought were his final moments, he says he could only think of his family. “I wanted to see my kids get married and I wanted to live a long and happy life with my wife.” Those thoughts motivated him to cling to life, and to embrace the second chance he was given. But he won’t do anything unless his family remain his number one priority. “I’m still passionate about adventure and bringing people along on the journey as long as I get an opportunity to be

with my family and continue the work that I do.”

INGO and Kristy met nearly 13 years ago and they have three children – two daughters, Taylor (11) and Matty (9), and a son, Rex (6). Dingo was leading a church

Dingo with his wife, Kirsty, and their three children, (from left) Taylor, Matty, and Rex.

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youth group in Pietermaritzburg and later when Kirsty moved to Cape Town to study occupational therapy at the University of Cape Town, they stayed in touch. When she finished her studies in 2008, Dingo went to visit her. “I was like, ‘What have I been doing – this is the girl of my dreams!’” He wasted no time in declaring his intentions – after 10 days of dating he proposed. “I was so nervous that she was going to say no so I took her out on a boat. When she saw the ring, she buried her face in her hands for like 20 seconds. I thought I was going to jump off the boat,” he says, laughing. But, of course, Kirsty said yes, and four months later they tied the knot. “We’ve been married for an incredible 12 years but she says it feels like 12 minutes,” he says proudly. “When we were engaged, I had 40 venomous snakes in my lounge, so it was a rude awakening for her. But fortunately she knew what she was getting herself into,” he adds. The couple run their reptile farm on their Hillcrest property in Pietermaritzburg, where they encourage visitors to learn more about animals. Kristy manages the operation, which includes Dingo’s Wild Creatures, Shelley’s Centre and Dingo’s Farm and Reptile Park. “Because when people love animals, they don’t kill them,” Dingo says. “Instead they’ll make a plan to take it to safety.”

KIDS LOVE CORN!

Sweetcorn adds something special to every meal. Here’s how to incorporate it into your family’s diet, making sure your children get the best of what this golden veggie has to offer BY ESTHER MALAN PICTURES: MISHA JORDAAN

CRUNCHY CORN AND TUNA CUPS

Make a batch of these corn cups and keep them in the fridge for when the kids get home from school. MAKES 6-8 CUPS PREPARATION: 30 MIN COOKING: 35-40 MIN

FILLING 30ml (2T) olive oil 1 onion, chopped 2 garlic cloves, chopped 2 carrots, diced 45ml (3T) ﬂour 125ml (½c) milk

125ml (½c) frozen corn kernels 1 can (170g) tuna chunks, drained 1 can (410g) creamed sweetcorn a handful fresh parsley, chopped (optional) salt and freshly ground pepper 2 eggs, whisked CUPS 12 sheets phyllo pastry 100g butter, melted 125ml (½c) grated mozzarella cheese

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Thoroughly grease 6-8 hollows of a large muﬃn

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tin with nonstick spray. 1 Filling Heat the oil in a saucepan and fry the onion, garlic and carrot until soft and fragrant. Sprinkle the ﬂour over and mix through. 2 Turn down the heat and add the milk. Stir continuously, adding the corn kernels, tuna, sweetcorn and parsley (if using). Mix well, then season with salt and pepper. 3 Remove from the heat and leave to cool completely, then add the eggs and mix well. 4 Cups Lightly brush one of the phyllo sheets with

butter, then fold in half. Fold in half again and carefully press down in one of the hollows of the muffin tin. Repeat with the rest of the phyllo sheets. 5 Divide the filling between the phyllo cups and sprinkle the mozzarella cheese over. Brush butter on the edges of the phyllo pastry overhanging the muffin hollows, then bake for 30-35 minutes until golden brown and the filling has set. 6 Leave to cool in the muffin tin for 10 min-

utes, then slowly remove. Leave to cool on a wire rack, transfer to an airtight container and store in the fridge until needed.

Phyllo pastry is a healthier alternative for the crust, but you can even use tortilla sheets or precooked lasagne sheets. Instead of tuna, try shredded chicken.

CORN, HAM AND SWEET POTATO FRITTERS

Veggies plus goodness. These fritters can be kept in the fridge for up to a week. MAKES ABOUT 12 LARGE FRITTERS, OR 16 SMALL

FRITTERS PREPARATION: 15 MIN STANDING: 30 MIN COOKING: 20 MIN

FRITTERS 2 eggs 80ml ( c) milk 250ml (1c) corn kernels 250ml (1c) grated sweet potato 250ml (1c) shredded baby

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spinach 100g ham, shredded 1 garlic clove, chopped 250ml (1c) self-raising ﬂour 2,5ml (½t) salt TO FINISH a little oil for shallowfrying

1 Beat the eggs and milk together in a jug and set

aside. In a large bowl, mix the corn kernels, sweet potato, spinach, ham and garlic. 2 Add the milk mixture and mix through. Sprinkle the ﬂour and salt over and mix. Leave to stand for 30 minutes. 3 To ﬁnish Heat a little oil in a nonstick pan and add

dollops of the batter. Fry until golden brown on one side, then carefully turn over and fry until golden and cooked. Repeat with the rest of the batter. 4 Eat the fritters hot or at room temperature, or store in the fridge for later.

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CHICKEN AND CORN BAKE

The whole family will enjoy this one-dish meal. The creamy sauce is delicious with the chicken. SERVES 4-6 PREPARATION: 15 MIN COOKING: 1 HOUR 15 MIN

30ml (2T) olive oil

15ml (1T) butter 1 onion, chopped 2 garlic cloves, chopped 30ml (2T) ﬂour 125ml (½c) chicken stock 60ml (¼c) each mayonnaise and plain full-cream yoghurt 1 can (410g) creamed sweetcorn salt TO FINISH 1 butternut, peeled, seeds removed and diced 6-8 chicken drumsticks

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30ml (2T) chicken spice 15ml (1T) mixed dried Italian herbs 2 cobs of corn, cut into wheels 30ml (1T) olive oil

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Keep a deep ovenproof dish or tin and a sheet of aluminium foil handy. 1 Heat the oil and butter in a pot or saucepan and fry the onion until soft.

Add the garlic and stirfry until fragrant. 2 Sprinkle the ﬂour over, stir, then add the chicken stock. Stir until the mixture starts thickening, then mix in the mayonnaise, yoghurt and sweetcorn. Season with salt. 3 To ﬁnish Transfer the sauce to the ovenproof dish or tin and scatter the butternut over.

4 Season the chicken with the spice and herbs and arrange on top of the butternut. Put the corn wheels in-between, and drizzle the oil over. 5 Cover the dish with foil and roast for 1 hour. Remove the foil, turn the heat up to 200°C and roast for another 15 minutes or until the chicken is golden brown and cooked.

CORN KERNEL AND BOLOGNESE PIES

This bolognese is chock-full of hidden veggies to trick the kids. The corn adds a hint of sweetness to the salty Bolognese. SERVES 4-6 PREPARATION: 15 MIN COOKING: 45 MIN

FILLING 30ml (2T) olive oil 100g bacon, diced 1 red onion, chopped 1-2 garlic cloves, chopped 2 carrots, grated 350g lean beef mince 50g tomato paste 250ml (1c) beef stock 250ml (1c) shredded spinach 500ml (2c) frozen corn kernels

salt and freshly ground pepper TO FINISH 125g phyllo pastry 30ml (2T) melted butter

Preheat the oven to 200°C. Keep a medium-sized ovenproof dish handy. 1 Filling Heat the oil in a saucepan or pot and fry the bacon until crispy. Add the onion, garlic and carrot and stir-fry over

medium heat for 5 minutes. 2 Add the mince and stir-fry for another 5 minutes until browned. Stir in the tomato paste and add the beef stock. Bring to the boil, then turn the heat down and simmer slowly for 15 minutes. 3 Add the spinach and corn kernels and stir-fry until the spinach wilts.

Season with salt and pepper. 4 To ﬁnish Transfer the bolognese to the ovenproof dish. Break the phyllo pastry into pieces and lightly crumple. Cover the bolognese with the phyllo pieces. Lightly brush butter over and bake for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown and crispy.

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MINI CORN AND CHEESE PANCAKES

We’ve added grated carrots for extra fibre in the delicious cheesy corn-kernel filling. You can replace the bacon with ham cubes or shredded chicken or, for a vegetarian option, leave out the meat entirely. MAKES ABOUT 18-24 MINI PANCAKES PREPARATION: 15 MIN STANDING: 30 MIN COOKING: 30 MIN

PANCAKES 4 eggs, whisked 250ml (1c) milk 60ml (¼c) water (if needed) 250ml (1c) cake ﬂour 2,5ml (½t) baking powder a pinch of salt

FILLING

30ml (2T) butter 30ml (2T) olive oil 100g bacon, cubed 125ml (½c) grated carrot 45ml (3T) ﬂour 250ml (1c) milk 1 can (410g) corn kernels, drained 100g cheddar cheese, grated salt

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fry the pancakes, or use a large nonstick pan and just slice the large pancakes into small portions. 1 Pancakes Combine the eggs, milk and water. In a large mixing bowl, mix the ﬂour, baking powder and salt, then make a well in the middle and add the milk mixture. Beat the batter until smooth and free of lumps. Cover and leave to stand for at least 30 minutes. 2 Filling Heat the butter and olive oil in a saucepan and fry the bacon until cooked. Add the carrot and stir-fry for another minute. Turn

down the heat, sprinkle the ﬂour over and mix through. 3 Add the milk, stirring continuously until thickened. Leave the mixture to simmer for 5 minutes over low heat, then stir in the corn kernels and cheddar cheese. Season with salt. Remove from the saucepan and leave to cool completely. Store in the fridge until needed. 4 To ﬁnish Heat a little oil in a nonstick pan and pour some of the pancake batter into the pan. Fry the pancake over medium heat until the surface starts bubbling,

then turn over and fry until golden brown. Remove, set aside and continue with the rest of the batter. 5 Add spoonfuls of the ﬁlling to each pancake and roll up.

Fry the pancakes and make the ﬁlling beforehand and store in the fridge until needed. Roll the pancakes before school and put it in an airtight container, or preferably a small cooler bag.

POPCORN AND PEANUTBISCUITS

The popcorn adds extra fibre and crispy texture to the biscuits. Instead of peanuts, you can use toasted sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds. MAKES ABOUT 32 BISCUITS PREPARATION: 20 MIN CHILLING: 1 HOUR BAKING:15-17 MIN PER BATCH

500ml (2c) popcorn 125g soft butter 125ml (½c) light brown sugar 60ml (¼c) white sugar 1 egg 5ml (1t) vanilla essence 250ml (1c) cake ﬂour 60ml (¼c) polenta or maize meal 2,5ml (½t) bicarbonate of soda 2,5ml (½t) salt 125-250ml (½-1c) peanuts

Preheat the oven to 170°C. Line 2 baking

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IN YOUR 30s R I TA O R A ( 3 1 )

In the third part of our series we take a look at optimal hair care through the decades IN YOUR 20s PA R I S J A C K S O N ( 2 3 )

IN SALON Home hair colouring is fun and

cheap but if you’re indulging in permanent hair colour options every other weekend, it might be time to head to your nearest salon. “The chemistry behind colouring is complicated,” Gleeson explains. “There are many things to take into consideration: your natural colouring, existing colour from previous services and the desired result.” Gleeson recommends prescribed treatments to add protein and moisture to the hair and to help prevent colour from fading. AT HOME Using colour-saving products ensures hair stays in the best condition possible between salon visits. If you heat-style every day, use thermal prote n products. Ceramic and ionic technol y helps duce moisture loss. Even better:: gadgets with a ustable settings allow at control. 1

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TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING

Experimentation is a virtual right in your 20s. Sometimes the eﬀect can be erased in minutes but other times . . . well, you have to live with it. For example, too much heat styling and colour changes can leave hair seriously sad. “Chemical and thermal damage leaves hair weak and prone to breakage,” Australian stylist Barney Gleeson says. “When we colour and style, we either permanently or temporarily alter the structure of the hair, which weakens it.” Fried hair becomes dry, brittle and harder to colour and style. Semi-permanent colours are less damaging but they can only add tone or darken hair. Permanent colours penetrate hair’s internal structure, lifting and/or depositing pigment. “The further the hair is taken away from its natural colour base, the more likely it is to be damaged,” says Gleeson, adding that bleaching is “by far the worst culprit” and that overprocessing hair weakens the bonds. 36

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IN YOUR 40s CHARLIZE THERON (46)

IN YOUR 50s STRAY GREYS

Every woman remembers the morning she found her first grey hair. If you made the milestone discovery in your 30s, consider yourself lucky – some women have been masking greys since their 20s. “The question of when you will get your first greys is usually determined by genetics and they’re more likely to first appear at the temples or on the top of the head,” Australian colourist Maria Legudi says. If you only have a couple of grey hairs and don’t want to colour, you can cut those few strands, change your hair parting, cut a fringe to disguise greying temples or pluck them – but overpluck and you run the risk of a sparse patch or, worse, hair that eventually doesn’t grow back (think overplucked eyebrows). “Another possibility is the plucked hair will appear thicker and have a wiry appearance,” Legudi says. “And because plucking damages the hair follicle, the grey hair will stand out from the healthier hair.” So what’s a girl to do? PROFESSIONAL “When you or your partner first detect that grey, see a professional,” Legudi advises. “Adding subtle balayage highlights and blends greys, allowing hair to look as natural as possible.”

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ouring kits (apply to the whole head as trying to only target greys can get tricky); hair mascara or root touch-up pens; or, if you need a quick fix, use a wet shadow brush to dab loose matte eyeshadow on the roots.

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experience in treating hair loss and they will start with a baseline blood test to check your levels. “For about 75% of young women I see, it will be in their blood test,” Pearce says. Hair-thinning treatment products may help slow down the loss but they’re only a temporary solution while you treat the underlying causes.

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To cut or not to cut? “It is an absolute myth that older women must cut their hair,” says stylist Marie Cain. CUT “Shape around the cheekbones is like a non-commitment fringe and softens the face,” Cain says. Aim for a length that skims the collarbone and style it loose and relaxed – nothing too stiﬀ or sharp COLOUR Hair tends to get wiry as we age. Colour can help soften the cuticle and give hair a smoother, shinier appearance. Dark shades can bring attention to lines and sunspots but brunette reﬂects more light than blonde. The compromise: a mix of low- and highlights to create dimension and texture. CONDITION Use hydrating shampoos and conditioners and commit to regular masks.

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Ponytail a little skinny these days? Thinning hair is on the rise and for younger women who haven’t hit menopause, it can be a reflection of what’s happening on the inside. “Younger women have problems with nutritional metabolic hormonal imbalance, where low iron levels can be the result of their periods or not eating sufficient lean red meat or iron-rich food,” explains trichologist and Pantene expert Tony Pearce. “It’s not her colouring or the shampoo she is using or that she is having a bad day. Women are more prone than men to being deficient in the three most important nutrients – iron, vitamin D and iodine – and that reflects in hair, since they all drive metabolic activity.” How hair thins can tell a practitioner what’s causing the loss: obvious patches of baldness can indicate alopecia; all-over thinning could be due to low iron levels; while recession thinning through the top could be a male hormone influence. “When you’re a woman who is low in iron, vitamin D and iodine, your body goes to the back-up battery – the adrenal glands – and it will increase testosterone production to try to stimulate your thyroid function, leading to hair thinning through the top,” Pearce says.

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HOLIDAY FEELING LAST

Is the thought of going back to the daily grind getting you down? Here’s how to hang on to the vacay vibe

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T’S the start of a new year, but the end of the festive season break is looming and the thought of going back to work might be making you feel a little gloomy. Whether you’ll be working from home or heading to the office, getting back into the swing of things after a vacay – even a short one – can be hard. You’re not alone. The slump that comes after a holiday is over even has a name – it’s called post-holiday blues. Travel to a far-flung destination is very likely to be followed by a feeling of emptiness once you’ve returned to your normal routine. “Travelling makes you feel 40

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amazing; almost like a drug,” says Netherlands-based globetrotter travel writer Manouk on bunchofbackpackers.com. “You experience new things. You push your boundaries. You see and learn. You open your heart to new people and cultures.” She’s familiar with the “dramatic post-holiday dip” after returning home from an amazing break and adds that “the positive effects of a holiday only last for so long”. But the post-holiday blues can hit even if you haven’t been on an exotic trip and have simply had a staycation relaxing with loved ones and friends. The good

news is there are things you can to make the bliss last. Find small ways to bottle up that magical feeling, says travel blogger Keri on ladieswhattravel.com. “A number of studies have been carried out to look into this feeling. “And they all say the same thing – those who can prolong the holiday vibe are those who derive the most pleasure out of life itself.” Here are five ways to hold on t that holiday feeling once you’re b to your 9-to-5.

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STAY IN TOUCH WITH NATURE

Holidays are about having fun and feeling carefree and relaxed. So keep doing the things that you did during your time off even if it’s in smaller doses. Also remember it’s not only this past holiday you have to draw on to stretch out that car free vibe – you have a bank of memories from previous holidays, so use them too. If you had a holiday playlist, keep playing it. And if you didn’t, put one together now – create a collection of your favourite holiday tunes. Pick one night a week to rewatch some of your favourite shows whether it’s a Christmas movie or a series you enjoyed. Make a list of beach reads just as you would when getting ready for a holiday – then read them. Create a scrapbook of your favourite ho days. It can be an actual scrapbook or you can put together a photobook online that you can get printed. Turn it into a mini project over a couple of weeks and whenever you’re spending time on it you’ll be transported back to those

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If your weekday routine is demanding or work means you’re glued to your computer screen for hours at a time, make sure you take a break from it on weekends by doing something different. Imagine you’re a tourist in your and make a list ings you’d want . Outdoor activisuch as sighteing and hikes ould be ideal. lso look out for pecials that are med at getting als through the r.

PLAN YOUR NEXT HOLIDAY – OR A FEW MINI BREAKS

Sometimes the anticipation of a holiday feels almost as good as the break itself. It doesn’t even have to be a long one – shorter getaway every two to three months ight even be better for you in terms of stress anagement. It also means you won’t have too ng to wait before your next break. Start checking out places close by for a quick etaway or a long weekend. Put feelers out on cial media about great local places to visit. nd if you’re planning a longer holiday towards e end of the year, start creating an itinerary of ll the things you’d love to do.

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PREPARE MEALS FROM YOUR BESTLOVED TINATIONS OR FROM A LACE YOU’D IKE TO VISIT

o research about he dishes that are amous in the reion/city/country u want to visit and e which ones you’d to make. See if you atch it with a drink e region, for exama and sangria from

Spain. Go to YouTube or Instagram and search for food bloggers who create the kind of meals you like and plan a weekly dish. When it’s safe, invite a friend or two over and ask them to dress as if you were going to a restaurant in your favourite city. Make a playlist of music that would’ve been played in a restaurant there to create that magical feeling of being away from home. Don’t be shy to have a bottle of bubbly with your meal – simply because you can.

To-do lists, deadlines, projects, meetings . . . Work often means pressure nd all the demands can snap you out of hat holiday feeling quicker than you realse. But you can choose not to let it overwhelm you. It’s about managing your time and tasks. Don’t jump right into work without some planning. Get a diary or desk calendar and get into the habit of planning each day/week/ month. List your daily tasks, tackle them one at a time and tick them off as you go. Use an app or a paper diary to remind you of what’s on your list. Switch off from work every day – don’t look at work emails or allow notifications to come through on your phone once the workday ends (many email accounts now allow you to disable notifications for a certain period so check your account settings). Set an alarm for the day to end – say 5pm – and make it the loudest and most annoying it can be. When it goes off, resist the temptation to do “just one more” thing and shut down your computer immediately to signal to yourself and to others that your personal time starts now. you.co.za 6 JANUARY 2022

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One of the best ways to get back into that relaxed feeling is to spend time outdoors. And when you do, it’s important to be present in the moment and really take it in – feel the sun on your skin and enjoy the fresh air. It doesn’t have to be a major outing. Here are some easy ways to enjoy being in nature: Enjoy lunch in your garden, on your balcony or at a nearby park once a week. Try not to check your phone no matter how tempting! Take time to sit outside and read that book you bought during the holidays or received as a gift. Sit outside in silence for a little while every day and just appreciate the sounds of nature. Make a note of what you heard and how you felt about it in a journal or diary – over time you’ll see how lovely it will start to feel. If you live in a coastal town or city, head out for a beach walk regularly and enjoy the soothing sound of the waves, the sensation of sand between your toes and the fresh sea breeze on your face.

RECREATE THE FEELING

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MY FATHER-INLAW INTERFERES IN OUR LIVES From the moment I met my husband, his father didn’t like me. My husband is an advocate and I only have a matric certificate as I wasn’t interested in studying. I don’t need to work as my husband earns a lot. I keep myself busy meeting up with my girlfriends, getting my hair done and grooming myself. I love shopping and spend at least three out of the five weekdays in the shops. Whenever my father-in-law sees me he comments on my designer clothes and how good I look but I get the feeling he’s not sincere. He’s always trying to convince my husband that I should work or have children to keep me busy, but I’ve told my husband I married him so he could look after me and that I’m not ready for kids as I still want to enjoy my life. I’m 35 now. My parents taught me that I should look for a husband who’s able to look after me. So I’ve done my part. How can I get my fatherin-law to stop interfering in our lives? Mandy, email

Your father-in-law might be concerned that you aren’t really doing anything valuable with your life. The fact that you’re only giving time to your looks, your friends and having fun probably doesn’t seem worthwhile to him. You seem to believe your husband has to do everything for you and this might be why your father-in-law always seems to be on your case. Perhaps in between shopping and get-togethers with your friends you should try to find a way to add value to other people’s lives. Seeing that you don’t need to earn money, you could do volunteer work at an orphanage or with a charity that’s helping people in need. Spending some time on things like this will likely increase your father-in-law’s respect and admiration for you. You might even be surprised at how proud your husband will be of you, and of how good you’ll feel about yourself. 42

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WHY DO I LOVE THE DRAMA SO MUCH? I’m 40 and married with two children. My husband has given me an ultimatum – either I see a psychologist or our marriage is over. I come from a difficult background – my parents drank a lot and it was often followed by violence. My dad would beat my mom and she’d beat him back. It seemed as if there was always drama in the house. My husband is a professional and when he has a meeting or dinner with staff I get so jealous I follow him and then when he gets home I scream, tear my clothes, swear at him in front of the kids and basically lose control. Recently he had a function and before he got home I bashed my cheek against the door so it’d look as if he’d assaulted me. When he came into the house I started screaming and pressed the panic button. The security from our complex came and I even phoned the police. I told them my husband had beaten me when it wasn’t true.

It seems as if I’m addicted to drama and can’t stop lying. I feel this is my parents’ fault because they didn’t sort out their problems and now it’s blown over to me. What should I do?

Marna, email

You can’t at the age of 40 still point the finger at your parents for your behaviour. You’re an adult and should behave like one. You’ll destroy your marriage if you keep behaving in such an uncontrolled and hysterical manner. You could also seriously harm your husband’s reputation if you keep telling lies about him. You need professional help and your husband is right to tell you that you need to consult a psychologist – possibly even a psychiatrist – to address your behaviour and how you handle your emotions. You need serious psychological intervention as you seem to lack an internal locus of control. If you don’t get help there are likely to be serious consequences not only for you but also for your kids and husband.

‘LOVE IS THAT CONDITION IN WHICH THE HAPPINESS OF ANOTHER PERSON IS ESSENTIAL TO YOUR OWN’ – AMERICAN AUTHOR ROBERT A HEINLEIN, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND

I’M GAY AND HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE Throughout my life I’ve tried to convince myself that I’m heterosexual. I dated guys and even slept with a lot of men to try to feel something or maybe even get a kick out of sex with a man. I recently started a new job and when I met one of my female colleagues, we immediately fell in love. It took me some time to acknowledge to myself that I wanted to make love to her. Well, it eventually happened – and a new world opened up for me. I realised I can no longer deny who I am. The problem is that I got married last year in my quest to convince myself I’m straight. Luckily my husband and I don’t have children, but he wants kids desperately. What should I do? Should I continue with my marriage and have children for my husband’s sake? Or should I tell my

husband the truth and get divorced? Liane, email

It will only complicate matters if you stay married and have kids because you now know your desires and needs – so if you stay with your husband you’ll most likely end up having affairs. You won’t be able to have an emotionally or sexually fulfilling life with your spouse as you’re living a lie in this marriage with him. The truth does set you free. Although it will hurt your husband, it’s best to tell him what you’ve discovered about yourself and what it means for your marriage. Tell him you want a divorce so you can be free to pursue the life you want. He’ll eventually see that it’s for the best that the two of you split up so he can also find a life partner who can give him the love and intimacy he wants.

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Income protection cover and mental health What you need to know if you suffer a lack of income due to your mental well-being

BY LETITIA WATSON

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HE pandemic wreaked havoc with our health over the past two years and apart from physical health issues, many people have also been aﬀected by the psychological and emotional eﬀects of Covid-19. In 2020 mental-health problems, largely due to anxiety, burnout and depression, were the second most common reason for the income-

WHAT IS INCOME PROTECTION?

It’s insurance that specifically pays out when you’re unable to work, either for a short time or for the long term. Policies usually pay out monthly until you can work again or until a specific age, for instance 65 (at retirement). It usually covers you in the case of illness, trauma, hospitalisation, partial disability or permanent disability. It’s an important part of your financial plan as your ability to earn an income is probably one of your biggest assets. So you can pay the bills you would’ve paid with your salary. WHAT DOES THE INSURER WANT TO KNOW?

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protection claims life insurer FMI received. There’s a perception that it’s diﬃcult to claim for mental-health issues, but it’s a topic incomeprotection providers are proﬁcient in assessing and insurers do pay for valid claims, says FMI’s chief product actuary Leza Wells. Here she answers questions about income protection and mental-health claims.

with your nervous system or mental health. Your insurer may ask about your symptoms, treatment you’re getting or have had (such as medication or hospitalisation), your doctor’s details and if it kept you from doing your job. The insurance company has to determine the severity of your condition to ascertain the risk to insure you. This in turn aﬀects the cover you can get, as well as your premium. To avoid a negative claim experience it’s best to give as much information as possible. When insurers reject claims the reason is often because the claimant failed to supply known and relevant health information when taking out the policy, which meant the insurer wasn’t aware of the full risk when doing the underwriting. CAN MENTAL-HEALTH ISSUES BE EXCLUDED FROM THE POLICY?

Exclusions are incidents not covered by your policy. Depending on the severity, psychological conditions are

excluded from income-protection cover where it may be easy to claim for short periods of absence from work, but not from critical illness cover or life cover. Typically, insurers will exclude psychological conditions rather than increasing premiums to cover the additional risk. These are usually conditions that are already present and could become a major risk. Certain forms of depression can be temporary (in response to a speciﬁc traumatic experience, such as postpartum depression). If you then apply for cover, certain companies can make it a temporary exclusion. A medical statement from your doctor that you’ve been treated successfully should be suﬃcient to remove the exclusion. Remember, exclusions on a policy can be reviewed if circumstances change. WHAT IF I DEVELOP MENTAL-HEALTH ISSUES?

If a policyholder is unable to work for a period due to medically valid reasons, such as Covid-19 as an illness or mental-health problems brought on due to the pandemic, the income-protection beneﬁts should pay out. Insurers are in favour of clients seeking medical treatment and many mental-health claims are paid out. Only if your condition was an exclusion on your existing policy will it not be covered, or if you don’t adhere to the terms and conditions, for instance claiming during the waiting period.

DO I NEED PROOF OF ILLNESS TO CLAIM?

Yes. You can’t simply stay away from work and claim. Your insurer will ask for information about your medical treatment from the doctor who treated you. You may also be required to go for regular follow-up consultations. Some insurers might even want to see your bank statements to verify you no longer receive an income. HOW DO WAITING PERIODS WORK?

The waiting period is the number of days a policyholder must be sick or unable to work before a claim will start paying. It can vary from 7 to 30 days or longer, depending on your employment and occupation, risk proﬁle and the speciﬁc insurer. Make sure you understand it when you take out the policy.

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a greater than usual need for a bit of escapism. Find healthy ways of doing so by means of exercise, yoga, or meditation.

BY PETRA DU PREEZ

LOVE WON’T BE PLAIN SAILING RIGHT Venus in retrograde motion, there’s a possibility that your affections might be misplaced or misdirected. If anything related to love must be hidden or happen in

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secret, chances are that things aren’t above board. It’s entirely up to you to decide how you wish to proceed.

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 4, 10, 27, 31, 19, 6

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CAPRICORN’S DREAM JOBS S Their love of working means they should ideally be their own boss. S They’re excellent organisers, so being a dealmaker or in management is ideal. S They have a love for business, so they’ll make a good entrepreneur. S Their practical side would make them a good builder or renovator. S They crave the status of a traditional office space. S They’re a natural authority figure, so a boss or director. S They could also deal in luxury goods. GALLO IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES

If someone whom you have work ties with is making you feel inadequate about your contribution at work, you need to find a way to stand up for yourself against these bullying tactics. The support that you’re seeking from a friend may not be forthcoming. It’s not because your friend doesn’t care, but it’s likely that they’re pre-occupied elsewhere. There’s a great lesson to be learnt in being self-reliant. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 2, 19, 29, 44, 25, 14

ARIES

21 MARCH – 19 APRIL

Bide your time with the lack of progress at work as your natural impatience isn’t going to turn the tide in your favour. Now is not the time to waste money on dead-end projects, but rather preserve, save, and invest what you have. You currently have

21 MAY – 20 JUNE

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 6, 19, 30, 38, 20, 7

LEO

22 JULY – 22 AUG

Even though relationships are strained at work, you must find a way to deal with it while getting on with the task at hand. It’s not an easy thing for egocentric Leo to deal with, but then again you’re a natural actor. The one thing that’ll take your mind off the current issues is to increase your leisure

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 3, 46, 5, 15, 49, 23 23 OCT – 21 NOV

Remind yourself that the misunderstandings or problems you’re experiencing in your love life now may only be temporary. It may still be a while before things get ironed out between you, so best to tread water and not to make any long-term or final decisions. If you find it difficult to concentrate on your job, it’s an indication that you need a vacation or even a short weekend break. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 1, 10, 13, 48, 11, 5

Things might seem to go smoothly at home, but it may be all on the surface and there’s little substance. It’s not always a bad thing if things unravel, provided you have the stamina to put it together again. If you feel your partner is putting pressure on you to act in a way that’s contrary to your nature, you have to speak up. It may have been unintentional.

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CANCER

21 JUNE – 21 JULY

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 1, 18, 37, 47, 36, 2 23 SEPT – 22 OCT

You often have as many ideas and solutions at hand as the number of problems you encounter. How you and your partner share financial contributions and responsibilities is at the top of your agenda. There’s no miracle solution to solving your problems and shifting blame will only worsen your relationship. Find a way to effectively deal with their anger.

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 13, 41, 46, 49, 44, 29

It’s understandable that one may doubt one’s abilities from time to time. You tend to be self-critical by nature, so instead of running yourself down, try to identify activities that you enjoy and focus on getting better at those. There’s no point in doing something you don’t enjoy. Someone at home could be acting a little out of character, but do you really want to become the rescuer?

LIBRA

A friend may be in dire need of money and could be pressing your guilt buttons to assist. It’s your decision if you want to engage in a charitable act, but preferably don’t do it out of guilt. You may find you have a secret admirer, which will leave you feeling flattered. But it’s best to leave it at that instead of initiating something that eventually will only lead to heartache.

19 FEB – 20 MARCH

AJA NAOMI KING

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 13, 29, 42, 49, 33, 20

GEMINI

PISCES

THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE

You might be longing or yearning for the company of somebody who lives far away. It may be time to invest in up-to-date technology such as a smartphone or tablet for better communication. But beware of breaking the bank – and don’t even think of borrowing money from a friend. Your partner is bound to find out and that will only lead to further complications between the two of you.

AQUARIUS

21 JAN – 18 FEB

SHIRLEY BASSEY

23 AUG – 22 SEPT

20 APRIL – 20 MAY

21 DEC – 20 JAN

LEWIS HAMILTON

VIRGO

TAURUS

CAPRICORN

WIMPIE VAN DER WALT

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 1, 11, 23, 24, 22, 3

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 1, 21, 39, 41, 26, 14

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Under normal circumstances, this ought to have been a most fortuitous week for love since the Sun meets up with love diva Venus in your sign. However, with

and pleasure time. Just be mindful that you don’t fall into a pattern that could become addictive.

If things aren’t going to plan, be patient. This especially relates to matters of communication where you may be misinterpreted. Try not to waste energy on righting this wrong. Be wary of seeking escapist activities as a means of compensating for the frustration. You could be throwing good money away on pointless activities. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 4, 11, 28, 33, 25, 10

SAGITTARIUS 22 NOV – 20 DEC

This isn’t the best time to make long-term financial plans or to spend capital on a dicey purchase or project. Rather hang on to what you’ve got. With Mars still marching through your sign, you could feel motivated and energetic, but also angry and argumentative. You need to balance these emotions without feeling you’re making unnecessary sacrifices. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 2, 13, 26, 44, 14, 10 you.co.za 6 JANUARY 2022

NCIS

M-NET THURSDAY 19:30

6 JANUARY / THURSDAY / TV

As the team pursues an arms dealer, Bishop (Emily Wickersham) is implicated in an old NSA leak.

SABC1 05:02 GELEZA NATHI 06:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 08:00 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 08:30 D MUVHANGO 09:00 D UZALO 09:30 D SKEEM SAAM 10:00 D RENTED FAMILY

Comedy series. A self-made township entrepreneur’s big house attracts a motley crew of incompatible family and friends. 10:30 D DAILY THETHA 11:30 D BREAKING THE SILENCE 12:00 D SOCCERZONE 13:00 LUNCH TIME NEWS 13:30 D SELIMATHUNZI 14:00 TEENAGERS ON A MISSION 14:30 MAM’SAKHILE’S STORY HOUSE 15:00 DIYASPORA 15:30 YO.TV 16:30 MAKING MOVES 17:30 NDEBELE/SWAZI NEWS 18:00 SELIMATHUNZI

Variety series that regularly travels to all the regions of the country, spotlighting events and functions, and highlighting trends, fads and fashions.

SABC3

E.TV

05:00 D THABANG THABONG 05:30 D JAKKALS JOL 05:57 D MOTHEO 06:00 MORNING LIVE 08:00 D THE MAGICAL WORLD OF LUNA BELLE 08:30 D ED & EPPA IN THE WORLD 09:00 D ENCHANTED TALES 10:00 D ZAFARI 11:00 D 7DE LAAN 11:30 D MUVHANGO 12:00 D UZALO 12:30 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 13:00 D SKEEM SAAM 13:30 D THE ESTATE 14:00 MURDER SHE WROTE 15:00 D ALL HAIL KING JULIEN

05:00 D CHALLENGE SOS 05:30 D HECTIC ON 3 06:00 D THE GIRL FROM TOMORROW 06:30 D SPELLBINDER: THE LAND OF THE DRAGON 07:00 CHRISTMAS IN EVERGREEN 09:00 D THE VIEW 10:00 D ONE DAY AT A TIME 10:30 D 7DE LAAN 11:00 D THE ESTATE 11:30 D THE RED ROOM 12:00 TROPICAL HEAT 13:00 ON POINT 14:00 D LIRA: DREAM CHASER 14:30 D A NEW COUNTRY 15:00 THE VIEW 16:00 HECTIC ON 3 16:30 CHALLENGE SOS 17:00 LIRA: DREAM CHASER 17:30 AFTERNOON EXPRESS 18:30 KIM’S CONVENIENCE

05:00 D COOL CATZ LEGACY 05:30 THE MORNING NEWS 06:00 THE MORNING SHOW 08:30 D DAYS OF OUR LIVES 09:30 ELIF 10:30 DOKTER ALI 11:30 D HOUSE OF ZWIDE 12:00 D SCANDAL! 12:30 D IMBEWU: THE SEED 13:00 ENEWS 13:30 D DURBAN GEN 14:00 D PATERNITY COURT 14:30 CARE BEARS: UNLOCK THE MAGIC 15:00 LEGO CITY ADVENTURES 15:15 FRIENDS: GIRLS ON A MISSION 15:30 THE EPIC TALES OF CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS 15:55 DINOTRUX SUPERCHARGED 16:20 JUDGE JUDY 16:45 NATIONAL SECURITY 18:30 DURBAN GEN 19:00 HOUSE OF ZWIDE 19:30 SCANDAL! 20:00 ENEWS 20:30 MAGNUM P.I.

Animation. After some doubt in Frank the Sky God’s existence, he visits King Julien – and demands the lemurs sacrifice King Julien to his brother Comedy series 19:00 THE ESTATE Larry the Volcano God. 15:30 RAGGS 16:00 WORDS AND NUMBERS 16:30 HECTIC NINE 9 17:00 YU-GI-OH! 5D’S 17:30 TSONGA/VENDA NEWS 18:00 7DE LAAN 18:30 AFRIKAANS NEWS 19:00 MUSIEK ROULETTE 20:00 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS 21:00 MUVHANGO 21:30 THE REV

Reality series

22:00 D THE COOLEST OG’S 23:00 D AFRO CAFÉ 23:30 FULL VIEW 03:00 THE GLOBE

SABC1 05:00 DEVOTIONS 05:02 D MY WORLD 06:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 08:00 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 08:30 D MUVHANGO 09:00 D UZALO 09:30 D SKEEM SAAM 10:00 D RENTED FAMILY 10:30 D BIG UP 11:00 D IMIZWILILI 12:00 D SPORT@10 13:00 LUNCH TIME NEWS 13:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 14:00 TEENAGERS ON A MISSION 14:30 MAM’SAKHILE’S STORY HOUSE 15:00 SPORTBUZZ 16:00 YO.TV 16:30 D RESTYLE MYSTYLE

Kids’makeover show that uses young people’s individual style ideas and visions to transform their personal spaces. 17:00 D THE BRAAI SHOW WITH CASSPER 17:28 REFLECTIONS OF FAITH 17:30 NEWS 18:00 LIVE AMP

Local music show

18:30 SKEEM SAAM 19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS 19:30 D THE ESTATE 20:00 GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 20:30 UZALO 21:00 LION VS LION 23:00 D MZANSI INSIDER 02:00 KOZE KUSE

SABC2 05:00 D THABANG THABONG 05:30 D JAKKALS JOL 06:00 MORNING LIVE 08:00 D THE MAGICAL WORLD OF LUNA-BELLE 08:30 D CURIOUS GEORGE 09:00 WHAT WOULD YOUR KID DO? 10:00 D FUNDI’S 10:30 D KLIPHARD 11:00 D 7DE LAAN 11:30 D MUVHANGO 12:00 D UZALO 12:30 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 13:00 D SKEEM SAAM 13:30 D THE ESTATE 14:00 MURDER SHE WROTE 15:00 ALL HAIL KING JULIEN

19:30 THE RED ROOM 20:00 ENGLISH NEWS 20:30 IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA

Comedy series

21:00 THE COMMONS

Drama series. Keeping Eadie and Latus out of the hands of border authorities is going to cost more than they imagined. 22:00 D SURVIVOR: DAVID VS GOLIATH 23:00 D TRANSPLANT 00:00 D EATING WITH MY EX 01:00 D TROPICAL HEAT 02:00 DEUTSCHE WELLE NEWS

SABC3 05:00 D INBESTIGATORS 05:30 D HECTIC ON 3 06:00 D THE GIRL FROM TOMORROW 06:30 D SPELLBINDER: THE LAND OF THE DRAGON 07:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 09:00 D THE VIEW 10:00 D KIM’S CONVENIENCE 10:30 D 7DE LAAN 11:00 D THE ESTATE 11:30 D THE RED ROOM 12:00 L.A. HEAT 13:00 ON POINT 14:00 D LIRA: DREAM CHASER 14:30 D WILD LIFE WARRIORS 15:00 THE VIEW 16:00 HECTIC ON 3 16:30 FIRST DAY

Animation

Teen series

15:30 RAGGS 16:00 ODD SQUAD 16:30 HECTIC NINE 9 17:00 YU-GI-OH! 5D’S 17:30 TSONGA/VENDA NEWS 18:00 7DE LAAN 18:30 AFRIKAANS NEWS 19:00 ROOF DOSSIER 20:00 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS 20:30 RELATE 21:00 MUVHANGO 21:30 D KE NYALA MANG 22:00 D DITLABONYANE KE DITLABOIMA 23:00 D TKO BOXING MAGAZINE 23:30 D YU-GI-OH! 5D’S 00:00 FULL VIEW 03:00 THE GLOBE

17:00 LIRA: DREAM CHASER 17:30 WIFE SWAP: NEW ZEALAND

6 JANUARY 2022 you.co.za

Reality series season 1 starts. 18:30 KIM’S CONVENIENCE 19:00 THE ESTATE 19:30 THE RED ROOM 20:00 ENGLISH NEWS 20:30 BETTER THINGS

Action. Katsumoto suspects that one of his fellow cops is dirty and has stolen evidence.

Reality cooking competition. Chef Michael Cimarusti guest judges as the finalists try to impress with their entrée and dessert dishes. 19:00 LEGACY

Local telenovela 19:30 NCIS

Reality show season 5 starts

20:30 DIEPCITY 21:00 THE QUEEN 21:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: MAFELE AGA THABO 22:00 D LOVE ISLAND SOUTH AFRICA 23:00 D LOCKDOWN 00:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 01:00 D MZANSI MAGIC MUSIC SPECIAL 02:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: SEPHIRI HIGH 03:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THE TRUTH

00:15 THE MECHANIC 01:55 2012

E.TV 05:00 LIFE BY DESIGN

Inspirational spiritual show encouraging people to live a conscious life. 05:30 THE MORNING NEWS 06:00 THE MORNING SHOW 08:30 D DAYS OF OUR LIVES 09:30 ELIF 10:30 DOKTER ALI 11:30 D HOUSE OF ZWIDE 12:00 D SCANDAL! 12:30 D IMBEWU: THE SEED 13:00 NEWS 13:30 D DURBAN GEN 14:00 D PATERNITY COURT 14:30 3 NINJAS KICK BACK 16:20 JUDGE JUDY

Reality courtroom show 16:35 THE BOSS BABY 18:30 DURBAN GEN

Local medical drama 19:00 HOUSE OF ZWIDE 19:30 SCANDAL! 20:00 ENEWS 20:30 MAGNUM P.I.

21:30 LIVE AT THE APOLLO 22:30 LIRA FIRST DECADE 23:30 D MILLENNIAL MAFIA 00:00 D UNFILTERED 00:30 D SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT 01:00 D L.A. HEAT 02:00 DEUTSCHE WELLE NEWS

21:30 IMBEWU: THE SEED 22:00 FAMILY TIME WITH ANGUS BUCHAN 22:05 HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE 00:20 THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES 02:00 G.I. JANE 04:15 D FORENSIC FILES

06:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: BAD THROW 09:30 D DIEPCITY 10:00 D THE QUEEN 10:30 D GOMORA 11:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 12:00 D THE RIVER 12:30 D DIEPCITY 13:00 D THE QUEEN 13:30 D GOMORA 14:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THE TRUTH 15:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: TAKE ME HOME 16:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 17:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: TANGO 18:30 D LIFE WITH KELLY 19:00 THE RIVER 19:30 GOMORA 20:00 THE RANAKAS

20:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 21:35 LIE WITH ME

22:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 23:30 D AMERICAN GODS 00:30 D THE BAY 01:30 D ORDINARY JOE 02:30 D GHOSTS 03:10 SAVE THE WEDDING 04:40 HAPPY HALLOWEEN SCOOBY-DOO!

Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he wouldn’t pose with a gun to market this film, because he considered it irresponsible amid a wave of gun violence in the US.

MZANSI

Action series season 18 ends.

21:30 IMBEWU: THE SEED 22:00 THE 6TH DAY

Comedy series

21:00 ATLANTA

06:00 D A MILLION LITTLE THINGS 07:00 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 08:00 D MASTERCHEF USA 09:00 D NCIS: LOS ANGELES 10:00 D LEGACY 10:30 D S.W.A.T. 11:30 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 12:30 D MASTERCHEF USA 13:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 14:30 D ELLEN’S GAME OF GAMES 15:30 D A MILLION LITTLE THINGS 16:25 THE SIMPSONS 16:55 THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 18:00 MASTERCHEF USA

Drama series. Anna makes a startling discovery. This sets a plan in motion that leads to a series of events with possibly unintended consequences.

Action series. On Halloween, Magnum and Jin search for a skip-tracer at a Halloween bash, just as Katsumoto tracks down an escaped killer who’s headed to that same party.

Comedy series

M-NET

M-NET 06:00 D A MILLION LITTLE THINGS 07:00 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 08:00 D MASTERCHEF USA 09:00 D CLOSE UP WITH THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 10:00 D LEGACY 10:30 D CARTE BLANCHE 11:30 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 12:30 D MASTERCHEF USA 13:30 D MAGNUM P.I. 14:30 D BLUE BLOODS 15:30 D A MILLION LITTLE THINGS 16:25 THE SIMPSONS

Comedy series. A Christmas movie is filmed in Springfield. Meanwhile, Skinner falls in love.

17:00 THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW

Talk show

18:00 AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR

Reality competition series season 8 starts. Cloncurry in north-west Queensland is where the ultimate battle between brains and brawn takes place. 19:00 UNITED STATES OF AL

Comedy series season 1 starts. 19:30 THE VOICE US

Double bill

22:30 GHOSTS 23:00 D CINEMA TOAST 23:30 D AMERICAN GODS 00:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 02:35 ME, MYSELF & DI 04:20 RIKI RHINO

MZANSI 06:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: HOW I MET MY HUSBAND 09:30 D DIEPCITY 10:00 D THE QUEEN 10:30 D GOMORA 11:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 12:00 D THE RIVER 12:30 D DIEPCITY 13:00 D THE QUEEN 13:30 D GOMORA 14:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: A LIFETIME OF TEARS 15:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: MR LAVA-LAVA 17:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 18:00 D MZANSI MAGIC MUSIC SPECIAL 18:30 D LIFE WITH KELLY 19:00 THE RIVER 19:30 GOMORA 20:00 I BLEW IT 20:30 DIEPCITY 21:00 THE QUEEN 21:30 MASSIVE MUSIC 22:00 D LOVE ISLAND SA 23:00 D THE REPUBLIC 00:00 D WWE: RAW 01:00 D LOCKDOWN 01:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 02:30 D MZANSI MAGIC MUSIC SPECIAL 03:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: A LIFETIME OF TEARS

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

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7 JANUARY / FRIDAY / TV

18:30 SKEEM SAAM 19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS 19:30 D THE ESTATE 20:00 GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 20:30 UZALO 21:00 SQUAD GOALS 22:00 D HUSH MONEY 23:00 D MAKING MOVES 01:00 D KOZE KUSE

SABC2

IN THE DARK

M-NET SATURDAY 21:30

Murphy (Perry Mattfeld) is arrested and will do anything to get news about Jess.

05:00 D MY WORLD 06:00 BONISANANI 06:30 YO.TV 09:00 D IMIZWILILI

The show presents choral groups in a fresh and exciting manner. 10:00 MZANSI INSIDER

Magazine show. The show covers a wide variety of topics, including entertainment news, movie reviews, motivational speakers and doctors’ responses to viewers’health questions. 11:00 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY

Omnibus

13:30 SPORT MAGAZINE 14:00 LADUMA 15:00 SOCCER

Build-up

15:00 SOCCER LIVE 17:30 ROOTS 18:00 UNPLUGGED

Gospel music show. A contemporary gospel music show comprising both talk and lifestyle elements. It caters exclusively for various genres of urban gospel music, from hiphop to house and R&B gospel music. 19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS 19:30 REAL GOBOZA

Magazine show

20:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 22:00 D SQUAD GOALS 23:00 KOZE KUSE

All night music

05:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 06:00 D TEENAGERS ON A MISSION 07:00 D SIYAKHOLWA 07:30 D NGOMUSA 08:00 D IMVELO

Magazine show. It focuses on African traditional practices as performed at various rituals and events.

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

08:30 D GOSPEL AVENUE

Gospel music show. Join local celebrities as they share their journeys in faith through gospel artists and the music they’ve selected. 09:30 D SKEEM SAAM

Omnibus

12:00 D UZALO 14:30 SOCCER

Build-up

15:00 SOCCER LIVE 17:30 GOSPEL UNPLUGGED

Gospel show

18:00 TELKOM MONATE VIBES 19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS 19:30 AFRICAN DREAMS

05:00 D RAGGS 05:30 D INSIDE THE BAOBAB TREE 06:00 D CASPER’S SCARE SCHOOL 07:00 MORNING LIVE 08:30 D MUVHANGO

Omnibus

11:00 D GIYANI: LAND OF BLOOD

Omnibus

12:30 D SIDE BY SIDE 13:00 D BEYOND 13:30 D DIJO LE BOPHELO

Food and lifestyle magazine show hosted by Khabonina Qubeka. The show aims to encourage viewers to examine their relationship with food, so as to make informed choices. 14:00 EACH ONE TEACH ONE 14:30 TRENDZ TRAVEL 15:00 D MURDER SHE WROTE 16:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 18:00 AFRIKAANS NEWS 18:15 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS 18:30 TOP 14 RUGBY

Build-up

19:00 TOP 14 RUGBY 20:30 TOP 14 RUGBY

Wrap-up

20:57 LIVE LOTTO DRAW 21:00 SUPERNATURAL

Fantasy series. Castiel and Sam track down a shaman who may be able to help a friend. Nick continues to spiral down a dark path as he looks for answers surrounding the deaths of his wife and son. 22:00 BORN TO KILL? 23:00 D SIDE BY SIDE 00:00 FULL VIEW

SABC2 05:00 D RAGGS 05:30 D INSIDE THE BAOBAB TREE 06:00 D CASPER’S SCARE SCHOOL 06:57 MOTHEO 07:00 MORNING LIVE 08:30 D 7DE LAAN

Omnibus

11:00 DERECH ERETZ 11:30 BIBLE MYSTERIES 12:00 HOSANNA 12:30 RUGBY TOP 14 HIGHLIGHTS 13:00 SPORT SHOW TO BE ANNOUNCED 14:00 D STAND UP SOUTH AFRICA 15:00 D MURDER SHE WROTE 16:00 ISSUES OF FAITH 17:00 THE AMERICAN BIBLE SHOW

Drama series

21:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 23:00 D GOSPEL AVENUE 00:00 KOZE KUSE

05:00 D TAKALANI SESAME 05:30 D I AM A WORK OF ART

The programme showcases the talent of children training or trained in the arts and features a role model who’s to be a mentor that inspires the young artist in their discipline. 06:00 TECHNO SQUAD 06:30 D WILD BUT TRUE 07:00 D INBESTIGATORS 07:30 D SADHANA

18:00 AFRIKAANS NEWS 18:15 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS 18:30 FROGGER

AFRICAN INVENTORS 22:00 D SUPERNATURAL 23:00 D LIFE 24/7 23:30 FULL VIEW 02:30 NETWORK

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

E.TV 05:00 D ALL THAT GLITTERS 05:30 D CARE BEARS: UNLOCK THE MAGIC 06:00 D ALVINNN!!! AND THE CHIPMUNKS 06:25 D YOKO 06:55 D LEGO CITY ADVENTURES 07:10 D FRIENDS: GIRLS ON A MISSION 07:25 D DINOTRUX: SUPERCHARGED 07:55 D DRAGONS: RACE TO THE EDGE 08:30 D SCANDAL!

Hindu magazine show. The programme explores the vibrancy of Hinduism in South Omnibus 10:20 D IMBEWU: THE SEED Africa. 08:00 D AN NUR: THE LIGHT Omnibus 08:30 D AFTERNOON EXPRESS

Double bill

10:30 D THE ESTATE

Omnibus

13:00 D THE INSIDER SA 14:00 SPORTS ARENA

SABC’s expert sport presenters keep you up to date with sporting news from all corners of the globe, as well as South Africa’s very own local sports news. 18:00 ENGLISH NEWS 18:30 THE X FACTOR

Reality competition show 19:30 THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

12:15 INFOMERCIAL 12:30 D LITTLE BIG SHOTS 13:30 D JUST FOR LAUGHS GAGS 13:55 SPIDER-MAN 2 16:20 IMPACT 18:00 DATE MY FAMILY 19:00 SOUTH AFRICA TONIGHT 19:30 SUPERSTORE

21:30 CRSHD 23:30 DEUTSCHE WELLE NEWS

05:00 D HECTIC ON 3

07:30 D SADHANA

Hindu magazine show 08:00 AN NUR: THE LIGHT

Islamic magazine show 08:30 D PURE ACTION 09:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 10:00 D ONE DAY AT A TIME 10:30 D KIM’S CONVENIENCE

Double bill

11:30 D THE RED ROOM

Omnibus

21:30 D ATLANTA 22:00 LIVE AT THE APOLLO 23:00 D WEEKEND ROUND UP 00:00 SPORT ARENA 04:00 D A MILLION LITTLE THINGS

Drama series

Omnibus

11:00 D NCIS 12:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 13:00 D THE VOICE US 15:00 D ELLEN’S GAME OF GAMES 16:00 THE ADVENTURES OF THOMASINA SAWYER 18:00 THE GOLDBERGS

Comedy series. Erica goes on a date with a guy from the coffee shop. 18:30 LAST MAN STANDING

Comedy series. While Mike is away, Kristin learns what it takes to be in charge at Outdoor Man. Meanwhile, Vanessa and Kyle debate how to upgrade the backyard play area, and Ryan teaches Mandy how to play chess. 19:00 MOM

19:30 THE VOICE US 21:30 IN THE DARK 22:30 THE INVESTIGATION 23:35 D GHOSTS 00:10 D DEXTER: NEW BLOOD 01:10 D LIE WITH ME 02:10 D ORDINARY JOE 03:00 BIGFOOT FAMILY 04:30 LOVE IN FULL SWING

23:50 2012 02:40 SPIDER-MAN 2

E.TV 05:00 D CARE BEARS: UNLOCK THE MAGIC 05:30 D MADINGWANA 06:00 D I AM SOUL PRECIOUS 06:25 E-INSERT 06:35 ELEVATION CHURCH 07:00 D ALL THAT GLITTERS 08:00 JOSEPH PRINCE: NEW CHURCH CREATION 08:30 D HOUSE OF ZWIDE

Omnibus

10:20 D DURBAN GEN

Omnibus

12:15 D CELEBRITY SCOOP 12:45 INFOMERCIAL 12:55 3 NINJAS KICK BACK 14:55 CHARLIE’S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE 16:50 BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT 18:00 OUR PERFECT WEDDING SA 19:00 SOUTH AFRICA TONIGHT 19:30 THE GOLDBERGS

Comedy series. To make sure his little brother gets his first Documentary. Host Chris kiss, Barry hosts a“no parents Packham explores some of the allowed”birthday party in the smartest animals in nature. basement for Adam. The animators made it so that the Chipmunks frequently scratch their ears to make them seem more realistic.

06:00 D MAGNUM P.I. 07:00 D BLUE BLOODS 08:00 D NCIS: LOS ANGELES 09:00 D LEGACY

20:00 CHARLIE’S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE

18:00 ENGLISH NEWS 18:30 ANIMAL EINSTEINS

19:30 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS

MZANSI

Comedy series. When Bonnie can’t decide what to do with the spare bedroom, bigger issues are uncovered. Meanwhile, Tammy tries to create boundaries with Marjorie.

SABC3 Omnibus. This tween interactive show brings young viewers the best of tech inspiration, crafty DIY experiments, and a whole lot of fun and games.

M-NET

Comedy series. The store hosts a gender reveal party for Glenn and his wife, Jerusha, just as Dina is freaking out at the realities of having to deliver a baby.

Pete’s high-school reunion is Brad Pitt has said that it took for Rydell High School, the altogether five hours each day same school from the movies to complete the makeup reGrease and Grease 2. 22:05 BOA VS PYTHON quired for the role.

Game show. Three teams con- 14:00 SPORTS ARENA Keeping viewers up to date sisting of three participants with local and international each compete against each other to test their knowledge sporting news. 17:00 ARUANAS of the Bible.

Game show. A competition A South African mockumenseries based on the 1980s tary television series which re- video game of the same volves around African Dreams, name. 19:30 OUR WEDDING STORY a young wedding planning 20:00 MY FATHER MY HERO company in competition to 20:30 CONNED win their biggest client yet: 21:00 MADE IN AFRICA: Lalla Hirayama. 20:00 D AMAZING GRACE

SABC3

20:00 MECHANIC: RESURRECTION

In preparation for their action sequences, both Jessica Alba and Sam Hazeldine had to undergo extensive physical training. 21:55 NATIONAL SECURITY 23:35 THE 6TH DAY 01:50 HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE 03:55 D FOR MY MAN 04:45 D E-INSERT

M-NET

06:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THE BOY IS MINE 09:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: JOZI TO KAPA 11:00 D THE QUEEN

Omnibus

13:30 D THE RIVER

Omnibus

16:00 D ABAZALI 16:30 D OUR PERFECT WEDDING 17:30 D FACE 2 FACE 17:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 18:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: TAXI QUEENS 19:00 D THE RANAKAS

Reality series. Meet Dineo Ranaka’s family in the hilarious, heartwarming reality show that gives us a glimpse into the lives of an ordinary African family. 19:30 ABASEMZINZI 20:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: TANGO 21:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: UMLINGO

A magic wand becomes a boy’s best friend. He uses it to reach academic success and outshine his rivals. 22:30 RAFIKI 00:00 D WWE: SMACKDOWN 01:00 D HOMEGROUND 01:30 D MASSIVE MUSIC 02:00 D MZANSI MAGIC MUSIC SPECIAL 02:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THABO TURBO T

MZANSI

06:00 D UNITED STATES OF AL

Comedy series

06:30 D MOM 07:00 D THE GOLDBERGS 07:30 D LAST MAN STANDING 08:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 09:00 D THE VOICE US

Omnibus

13:00 THE SECRET GARDEN

Mrs Medlock is played by Julie Walters in this film and by Maggie Smith in the 1993 version. Both actresses are in the Harry Potter series. 14:30D THE GOLDBERGS 15:00 D LEGACY

Omnibus

17:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 18:00 ELLEN’S GAME OF GAMES

Game show

19:00 CARTE BLANCHE

SA’s flagship current affairs and investigative journalism programme. 20:00 STRANGERS YOU KNOW 21:05 HOW IT ENDS

Written and directed by Zoe Lister-Jones (who also stars in it) and her husband, Daryl Wein. 22:30 D IN THE DARK

Crime series

23:25 D THE INVESTIGATION 00:30 D ORDINARY JOE 01:35 D THE BAY 02:40 ABIGAIL 04:25 THE BARKERS: MIND THE CATS!

06:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 07:00 ICILONGO 08:00 D GOSPEL ALIVE

Gospel talk show. Gospel stars are in studio to lead praise and worship sessions, and field questions about their personal lives and careers. 09:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: INGODUSO 10:00 D DIEPCITY

Omnibus.

12:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: TANGO 13:30 D HOMEGROUND 14:00 D MZANSI MAGIC MUSIC SPECIAL 14:30 D GOMORA

Omnibus

17:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 18:00 DATE MY FAMILY 19:00 OUR PERFECT WEDDING

Reality series

20:00 THE REPUBLIC 21:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: MAMODIBE 22:00 D BOUNCE 22:30 D LOCKDOWN

Omnibus

01:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: 10 STEPS TO MAKE HIM PROPOSE 02:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: AN HONEST LIVING 03:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: UMFELOKAZI 05:00 D GOSPEL ALIVE

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LAPD detective Sydney Burnett (Gabrielle Union) and Nancy McKenna take down criminals.

SABC1 05:00 D AUM 05:02 D GELEZA NATHI 06:00 KIDS’NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS 06:30 YO.TV 07:00 D TAKALANI SESAME 07:30 D MAM’SAKHILE’S STORY HOUSE 08:00 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 08:30 D MUVHANGO 09:00 D UZALO 09:30 D SKEEM SAAM 10:00 D TENTED FAMILY 10:30 DAILY THETHA 11:30 D NGEMPELA 12:00D UMBIKO 13:00 LUNCH TIME NEWS 13:30 D MY WORLD 14:30 D MAM’SAKHILE’S STORY HOUSE 15:00 DIYASPORA 15:30 YO.TV 16:00 BLUE COUCH 16:30 BREAKING THE SILENCE 17:00 EXPRESSIONS 17:28 DEVOTIONS 17:30 NDEBELE/SWAZI NEWS 18:00 BROKEN SOCIETY 18:30 SKEEM SAAM 19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS 19:30 D THE ESTATE 20:00 GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 20:30 UZALO 21:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 22:00 SOCCERZONE 23:00 D BROTHERS AND SISTERS WITH SOUL

Documentary series

05:00 D THABANG THABONG 05:30 D JAKKALS JOL 05:57 D MOTHEO 06:00 MORNING LIVE 08:00 D THE MAGICAL WORLD OF LUNA BELLE 08:30 D CURIOUS GEORGE 09:00 D RAISING BABIES 101 09:30 D GOING STRONG 10:00 D IMVELOGY 10:30 D AFRICA FROM WITHIN 11:00 D 7DE LAAN 11:30 D MUVHANGO 12:00 D UZALO 12:30 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 13:00 D SKEEM SAAM 13:30 D THE ESTATE 14:00 MURDER SHE WROTE 15:00 3-2-1 PENGUINS 15:30 RAGGS 16:00 KNOW YOUR STORY 16:30 HECTIC NINE-9

Live magazine show for teens and tweens.

Educational talk show looking to inspire Mzansi’s youth. 11:30 D NGEMPELA 12:00 D UMBIKO 13:00 LUNCH TIME NEWS 13:30 D TELKOM MONATE 14:30 D MAM’SAKHILE’S STORY HOUSE 15:00 DIYASPORA 15:30 YO.TV 16:30 D YILUNGELO LAKHO 17:28 DEVOTIONS 17:30 NDEBELE/SWAZI NEWS 18:00 NYAN’NYAN 18:30 SKEEM SAAM 19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS 19:30 D THE ESTATE 20:00 GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 20:30 UZALO 21:00 D CUTTING EDGE 22:00 D NYAN’NYAN 22:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 00:30 D KOZE KUSE

05:00 D HARDBALL 05:30 D HECTIC ON 3 06:00 EXPRESSO 09:00 D THE VIEW 10:00 D KIM’S CONVENIENCE 10:30 D 7DE LAAN 11:00 D THE ESTATE 11:30 D THE RED ROOM 12:00 JAG

Drama series. Harm accuses a TV reporter of disobeying military orders and botching a SEAL operation in Afghanistan. 14:00 D LIRA: DREAM CHASER 14:30 SPORT WRAP 15:00 THE VIEW 16:00 HECTIC ON 3 16:30 WILD BUT TRUE 17:00 LIRA DREAM CHASER 17:30 THE INSIDER 18:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 19:00 THE ESTATE 19:30 THE RED ROOM 20:00 ENGLISH NEWS 20:30 UNFILTERED 21:00 SURVIVOR: DAVID VS GOLIATH

E.TV 05:00 D COOL CATZ LEGACY 05:30 THE MORNING NEWS 06:00 THE MORNING SHOW 08:30 AS DIE SKOEN PAS 09:30 ELIF 10:30 DOKTER ALI 11:30 D HOUSE OF ZWIDE 12:00 D SCANDAL 12:30 D IMBEWU: THE SEED 13:00 ENEWS 13:30 D DURBAN GEN 14:00 PATERNITY COURT 14:30 CARE BEARS: UNLOCK THE MAGIC 15:00 LEGO CITY ADVENTURES 15:15 FRIENDS: GIRLS ON A MISSION 15:30 VOLTRON: LEGENDARY DEFENDER 15:55 DRAGONS: RACE TO THE EDGE 16:20 JUDGE JUDY 16:45 DAYS OF OUR LIVES 17:30 DROOMVERLORE 18:30 DURBAN GEN 19:00 HOUSE OF ZWIDE 19:30 SCANDAL! 20:00 ENEWS 20:30 MAGNUM P.I.

17:00 YU-GI-OH! 5D’S 17:30 TSONGA/VENDA NEWS 18:00 7DE LAAN 18:30 AFRIKAANS NEWS 19:00 SAFARI LIVE 20:00 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS 20:30 LEIHLO LA SECHABA 21:00 MUVHANGO

Reality competition series. The castaways are divided into two tribes: those who have led Action series. Magnum must help Abby when she realizes privileged lives, and those the client she defended in a who have not. 22:00 D THE OTHER GUY murder trial is actually guilty.

21:30 GIYANI: LAND OF BLOOD 22:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 23:30 D YU-GI-OH! 5D’S 00:00 FULL VIEW 02:00 D UNFILTERED 03:00 THE GLOBE

22:30 D THE COMMONS 23:30 D IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA 00:00 D BUNDESLIGA REVIEW SHOW 01:00 D JAG 02:00 DEUTSCHE WELLE NEWS

Local soap

SABC1 05:00 D DEVOTIONS 05:02 GELEZA NATHI 06:00 KIDS’NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS 06:30 YO.TV 07:00 D TAKALANI SESAME 07:30 D MAM’SAKHILE’S STORY HOUSE 08:00 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 08:30 D MUVHANGO 09:00 D UZALO 09:30 D SKEEM SAAM 10:00 D RENTED FAMILY 10:30 DAILY THETHA

SABC3

SABC2 05:00 D THABANG THABONG 05:30 D JAKKALS JOL 05:57 D MOTHEO 06:00 MORNING LIVE 08:00 D THE MAGICAL WORLD OF LUNA BELLE 08:30 D CURIOUS GEORGE 09:00 D RAISING BABIES 101 10:00 D KONTREIKOS KOKKE 10:30 D DEKATV 11:00 D 7DE LAAN 11:30 D MUVHANGO 12:00 D UZALO 12:30 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 13:00 D SKEEM SAAM 13:30 D THE ESTATE 14:00 MURDER SHE WROTE 15:00 3-2-1 PENGUINS 15:30 RAGGS 16:00 KNOW YOUR STORY

Children’s programme

16:30 HECTIC NINE-9 17:00 YU-GI-OH! 5D’S 17:30 TSONGA/VENDA NEWS 18:00 7DE LAAN 18:30 AFRIKAANS NEWS 19:00 GEURE UIT DIE VALLEI 19:30 STERLOPERS 20:00 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS 20:30 KHA RI TSHINE 21:00 MUVHANGO

Local soapie

21:30 GIYANI: LAND OF BLOOD 22:00 D AMERICAN BIBLE SHOW 23:00 D YU-GI-OH! 5D’S 23:30 FULL VIEW 03:00 THE GLOBE

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SABC3 05:00 D I AM A WORK OF ART 05:30 D HECTIC ON 3 06:00 EXPRESSO 09:00 D THE VIEW 10:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 10:30 D 7DE LAAN 11:00 D THE ESTATE 11:30 D THE RED ROOM 12:00 JAG

Drama series. A sailor involved in a 1944 incident at a naval ammunition base asks that mutiny charges be removed from his record and those of his colleagues. 13:00 ON POINT 14:00 D LIRA DREAM CHASER 14:30 D UNFILTERED 15:00 THE VIEW 16:00 HECTIC ON 3 16:30 YUM.ME 17:00 LIRA: DREAM CHASER 17:30 AFTERNOON EXPRESS 18:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 19:00 THE ESTATE 19:30 THE RED ROOM 20:00 ENGLISH NEWS 20:30 SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT 21:00 TRANSPLANT

21:30 IMBEWU: THE SEED 22:00 LA’S FINEST

Action series starts

23:30 D BEGEERTES 00:00 BOA VS PYTHON 01:40 G.I. JANE 03:55 FEAR THY NEIGHBOR

E.TV 05:30 THE MORNING NEWS 06:00 THE MORNING SHOW 08:30 AS DIE SKOEN PAS 09:30 ELIF 10:30 DOKTER ALI 11:30 D HOUSE OF ZWIDE 12:00 D SCANDAL! 12:30 D IMBEWU: THE SEED 13:00 ENEWS 13:30 D DURBAN GEN 14:00 PATERNITY COURT 14:30 CARE BEARS: UNLOCK THE MAGIC 15:00 LEGO CITY ADVENTURES 15:15 FRIENDS: GIRLS ON A MISSION 15:30 REGAL ACADEMY 15:55 POKEMON THE SERIES: MASTER JOURNEYS 16:20 JUDGE JUDY 16:45 DAYS OF OUR LIVES 17:30 DROOMVERLORE 18:30 DURBAN GEN 19:00 HOUSE OF ZWIDE 19:30 SCANDAL! 20:00 ENEWS 20:30 MAGNUM P.I.

Action series. Magnum poses as the head of hotel security Drama series. When Bash’s while he investigates the friend calls him from Syria ask- death of a guest. ing his help to treat patients, 21:30 IMBEWU: THE SEED Bash has to figure out how to 22:00 THE BLACKLIST 23:00 D BEGEERTES be in two places at once. 22:00 D WIFE SWAP: NEW ZEALAND 23:00 CRSHD 01:00 D JAG

00:00 SPIDER-MAN 2 02:20 MECHANIC: RESURRECTION 04:05 D KILLER COUPLES 04:55 E-INSERT

M-NET 06:00 D A MILLION LITTLE THINGS 07:00 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 08:00 D AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 09:00 D THE GOLDBERGS 09:30 D S.W.A.T. 10:30 D ELLEN’S GAME OF GAMES 11:30 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 12:30 D AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 13:30 D MAGNUM P.I. 14:30 D CARTE BLANCHE 15:30 D A MILLION LITTLE THINGS 16:25 THE SIMPSONS

Animated comedy series. Comic book guy and his wife, Kumiko debate having a baby, and comic book guy’s origin story is revealed. 16:55 THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 18:00 AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR

Reality competition series

19:00 LEGACY 19:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 20:30 AND JUST LIKE THAT . . . 21:30 DEXTER: NEW BLOOD

Drama series ends 22:30 WESTWORLD

American dystopian science fiction neo-Western television series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. 23:30 D AMERICAN GODS 00:30 D STRANGERS YOU KNOW 01:30 D CINEMA TOAST 02:05 D GHOSTS 02:45 D THE BLACKLIST 03:40 TO BE ANNOUNCED 04:30 EMILY AND THE MAGICAL JOURNEY

M-NET 06:00 D A MILLION LITTLE THINGS 07:00 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 08:00 D AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 09:00 D UNITED STATES OF AL 09:30 D THE GOLDBERGS 10:00 D LEGACY 10:30 D LAST MAN STANDING 11:00 D MOM 11:30 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 12:30 D AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 13:30 D NCIS 14:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 15:30 D A MILLION LITTLE THINGS 16:25 THE SIMPSONS 16:55 THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 18:00 AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 19:00 LEGACY 19:30 NCIS: LOS ANGELES 20:30 S.W.A.T.

Action series. When four escaped prisoners take control of a courthouse with Hondo and Deacon inside but unarmed, the two race to save the lives of innocent civilians. 21:30 THE BLACKLIST

Crime series

22:30 ANIMAL KINGDOM 23:30 WARRIOR

Action series season 2 starts. 00:30 D WESTWORLD 01:35 D DEXTER: NEW BLOOD 02:35 D GHOSTS 03:05 A PICTURE PERFECT WEDDING 04:35 SAVE THE WEDDING

MZANSI 06:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW

Double bill

08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: LOVE SPECIALIST 09:30 D DIEPCITY 10:00 D THE QUEEN 10:30 D GOMORA 11:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 12:00 D THE RIVER 12:30 D DIEPCITY 13:30 D GOMORA 14:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: AN HONEST LIVING 15:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: CHAKIDO 16:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 17:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: MABENA SECURITY 18:30 D LIFE WITH KELLY 19:00 THE RIVER 19:30 GOMORA 20:00 D BOUNCE 20:30 DIEPCITY 21:00 THE QUEEN 21:30 D HOMEGROUND 22:00 D LOVE ISLAND SA 23:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 00:00 D LOCKDOWN 00:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 01:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: RANDS & FAMILY 03:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: AN HONEST LIVING 04:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: REMBRANDT

MZANSI 06:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW

Double bill

08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: MAMPARA 09:30 D DIEPCITY 10:00 D THE QUEEN 10:30 D GOMORA 11:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 12:00 D THE RIVER 12:30 D DIEPCITY 13:00 D THE QUEEN 13:30 D GOMORA 14:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THE SPOT 15:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: NGIXOLELE 16:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 17:30 D DATE MY FAMILY 18:30 D LIFE WITH KELLY 19:00 THE RIVER 19:30 GOMORA 20:00 INGANE YAM 20:30 DIEPCITY 21:00 THE QUEEN 21:30 D BOUNCE 22:00 D LOVE ISLAND SA 23:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 00:00 D LOCKDOWN 00:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 01:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THABO TURBO T 2 03:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THE SPOT

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SABC2

ONE DAY AT A TIME SABC3 18:30

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SABC1

SABC2

05:00 LISTEN FOR A MOMENT 05:02 GELEZA NATHI 06:00 KIDS’ NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS 06:30 YO.TV 07:00 D TAKALANI SESAME 07:30 D MAM’ SAKHILE’S STORY HOUSE 08:00 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 08:30 D MUVHANGO 09:00 D UZALO 09:30 D SKEEM SAAM 10:00 D RENTED FAMILY 10:30 DAILY THETHA 11:30 D NGEMPELA 12:00 D MUDINDA WAMU DZIMU 13:00 LUNCH TIME NEWS 13:30 D CUTTING EDGE 14:30 D MAM’ SAKHILE’S STORY HOUSE 15:00 DIYASPORA 15:30 YO.TV 16:30 THE CHAIR 17:28 LISTEN FOR A MOMENT 17:30 NDEBELE/SWAZI NEWS 18:00 IKASI LAM 18:30 SKEEM SAAM 19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS 19:30 D THE ESTATE 20:00 GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 20:30 UZALO 21:00 KHUMBUL’EKHAYA

05:00 D THABANG THABONG 05:30 D JAKKALS JOL 06:00 MORNING LIVE 08:00 D INSIDE THE BAOBAB TREE 08:30 D CURIOUS GEORGE 09:00 D RAISING BABIES 101 09:30 D STORIES UNTOLD 10:00 VITAL SIGNS 11:00 D 7DE LAAN 11:30 D MUVHANGO 12:00 D UZALO 12:30 D GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY 13:00 D SKEEM SAAM 13:30 D THE ESTATE 14:00 MURDER SHE WROTE 15:00 D ALL HAIL KING JULIEN 15:30 RAGGS 16:00 DISNEY COOKABOUT 16:30 HECTIC NINE-9 17:00 YU-GI-OH! 5D’S 17:30 NDEBELE/SWAZI NEWS 18:00 7DE LAAN 18:30 AFRIKAANS NEWS 19:00 FOKUS 19:30 DEKATV 20:00 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS 20:30 NGULA YA VUTIVI / ZWA MARAMANI 20:57 LOTTO DRAW: LIVE 21:00 MUVHANGO 21:30 GIYANI: LAND OF BLOOD 22:00 D MADE IN AFRICA: AFRICA RISING 23:00 D VITAL SIGNS 00:00 D YU-GI-OH! 5D’S 00:30 FULL VIEW

Reality series

22:00 SPORT @10 23:00 D YILUNGELO LAKHO 00:00 D KOZE KUSE

SABC3 05:00 D TECHNO SQUAD 05:30 D HECTIC ON 3 06:00 EXPRESSO 09:00 D THE VIEW 10:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 10:30 D 7DE LAAN 11:00 D THE ESTATE 11:30 D THE RED ROOM 12:00 JAG

Drama series. Harm and Mac are prosecutors at the first military tribunal for a terrorist accused of the attacks on 11 September 2001. 13:00 ON POINT 14:00 D LIRA: DREAM CHASER 14:30 D SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT 15:00 THE VIEW 16:00 HECTIC ON 3 16:30 TECHNO SQUAD 17:00 LIRA: DREAM CHASER 17:30 PURE ACTION 18:00 WILD LIFE WARRIORS 18:30 ONE DAY AT A TIME

Comedy series

19:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 20:00 ENGLISH NEWS 20:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 21:00 LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD 22:00 D ANIMAL EINSTEINS 23:00 D ARUANAS 00:00 D SCIENCE OF STUPID 00:30 D SPORT WRAP 01:00 D JAG 02:00 D DEUTSCHE WELLE NEWS

E.TV 05:00 D COOL CATZ LEGACY 05:30 THE MORNING NEWS 06:00 THE MORNING SHOW 08:30 AS DIE SKOEN PAS 09:30 ELIF 10:30 DOKTER ALI 11:30 D HOUSE OF ZWIDE 12:00 D SCANDAL! 12:30 D IMBEWU: THE SEED 13:00 ENEWS 13:30 D DURBAN GEN 14:00 JUDGE FOR YOURSELF 14:30 CARE BEARS: UNLOCK THE MAGIC 15:00 LEGO CITY ADVENTURES 15:15 FRIENDS: GIRLS ON A MISSION 15:30 DENNIS AND GNASHER UNLEASHED 15:55 POWER RANGERS: NINJA STEEL 16:20 JUDGE JUDY 16:45 DAYS OF OUR LIVES 17:30 DROOMVERLORE 18:30 DURBAN GEN 19:00 HOUSE OF ZWIDE 19:30 SCANDAL! 20:00 ENEWS 20:30 MAGNUM P.I. 21:30 IMBEWU: THE SEED 22:00 CHECKPOINT 22:30 FORENSIC FILES 23:00 D BEGEERTES 00:00 HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE 02:05 NATIONAL SECURITY 03:45 D IN ICE COLD BLOOD 04:40 E-INSERT

M-NET

MZANSI

06:00 D A MILLION LITTLE THINGS 07:00 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 08:00 D AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 09:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED 10:00 D LEGACY 10:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED 11:30 D THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 12:30 D AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 13:30 D NCIS: LOS ANGELES 14:30 D S.W.A.T. 15:30 D A MILLION LITTLE THINGS 16:25 THE SIMPSONS 17:00 THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW 18:00 AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR 19:00 LEGACY 19:30 NCIS 20:30 NCIS: HAWAII 21:30 ORDINARY JOE

Drama. With Jenny out of town for work, Nurse Joe faces the challenges of parenting Christopher alone. 22:30 THE BAY

Drama series. As the team press on, Lisa and Med dig deeper and discover not all family relationships with the victim were amicable. 23:30 D WARRIORS 00:30 D STRANGERS YOU KNOW 01:25 D THE BLACKLIST 02:10 D ANIMAL KINGDOM 03:05 RIKI RHINO 04:35 EMILY AND THE MAGICAL JOURNEY

06:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: MAKOTI 09:30 D DIEPCITY 10:00 D THE QUEEN 10:30 D GOMORA 11:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 12:00 D THE RIVER 12:30 D DIEPCITY 13:00 D THE QUEEN 13:30 D GOMORA 14:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: 10 STEPS TO MAKE HIM PROPOSE 15:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: GOG’FLO 16:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 17:30 D OUR PERFECT WEDDING 18:30 D LIFE WITH KELLY 19:00 THE RIVER 19:30 GOMORA 20:00 MNAKWETHU HAPPILY EVER AFTER? 20:30 DIEPCITY 21:00 THE QUEEN 21:30 D BOUNCE 22:00 D LOVE ISLAND SA 23:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 00:00 D LOCKDOWN 00:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD: THE COMEDY SHOW 01:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: MAKOTI 03:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: PEACE ORDERS

TV MOVIES / THURSDAY 6 JANUARY – WEDNESDAY 12 JANUARY BRILLIANT / EXCELLENT / WORTHWHILE / SO-SO / IF YOU MUST A All ages D Drugs H Horror L Language N Nudity P Prejudice PG Parental guidance S Sex V Violence

THURSDAY S CHRISTMAS IN EVERGREEN ★★★ 2017, 84 min, PG, SABC3, 07:00. Romantic drama. A small-town veterinarian about to move to Seattle to live with her boyfriend meets a widowed doctor and his daughter who stop over in town on their way to a cruise holiday. Ashley Williams, Teddy Sears. S NATIONAL SECURITY ★★ 2003, 88 min, 13VL, e.tv, 16:45. Action comedy. Two failed aspiring cops, now working as security guards, uncover a smuggling operation lead by a criminal mastermind. Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn. S THE 6TH DAY ★★★ 2000, 123 min, PG13, e.tv, 22:00. Sci-fi action. A man must fight for survival when he returns home after work and finds a clone in his place. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Rapaport. S THE MECHANIC ★★★ 2010, 93 min, 16SNVL, e.tv, 00:15. Action. After an elite hitman’s mentor is killed, he takes on the mentor’s son as an apprentice so they can exact revenge on those responsible. Jason Statham, Ben Foster. S 2012 ★★★ 2009, 158 min, PG13, e.tv, 01:55. Action adventure. A limo driver tries to get his family to safety during a global cataclysm predicted by the ancient Mayan calendar. John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor. S SAVE THE WEDDING ★★ 2021, 86 min, PG,

M-Net, 03:10. Romantic comedy. A wedding planner must team up with the best man, whom she despised in college, to save her best friend’s wedding when a series of mishaps gives her cold feet. Kasey Landoll, Travis Burns. S HAPPY HALLOWEEN, SCOOBY-DOO! ★★★ 2020, 80 min, PG, M-Net, 04:40. Animated comedy. A team of amateur detectives must save a town from toxic monsters. Voices: Frank Welker, Matthew Lillard.

FRIDAY S 3 NINJAS KICK BACK ★★ 1994, 93 min, PG, The Boss Baby, Friday on e.tv at 16:35.

e.tv, 14:30. Action comedy. The sequel to 3 Ninjas. Three young American brothers who are experts in martial arts travel to Japan to rescue their grandfather from an old enemy bent on revenge. Victor Wong, Max Elliot Slade. S THE BOSS BABY ★★★ 2017, 97 min, PG, e.tv, 16:35. Animated comedy. A seven-year-old boy is dismayed when his parents adopt a baby. Voices: Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi. S HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE ★★★ 2003, 116 min, PG13, e.tv, 22:05. Action comedy. Two detectives more interested in their side business than police work investigate the murders of an up-and-coming rap group. Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett. S THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES ★★★ 2007, 90 min, 16, e.tv, 00:20. Drama. On the 15th anniversary of a school shooting, a woman’s survivor’s guilt causes her perfect life to unravel. Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood. S G.I. JANE ★★★ 1997, 125 min, 16VL, e.tv, 02:00. Action. A female soldier is put through the tough US Navy Seal training to see if women can match their male counterparts. Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen. S ME, MYSELF & DI ★★ 2021, 93 min, 16, M-Net, 02:35. Romantic comedy. After an awkward, nerdy woman wins a holiday, her best friend gives her a glamorous makeover so she can find romance. Katy Clayton, Lucy Pinder. you.co.za 6 JANUARY 2022

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After a visit from a census taker, the Alvarez family thinks on their future. Also starring Justina Machado.

S RIKI RHINO ★★★★ 2020, 92 min, A,

M-Net, 04:20. Animated adventure. After his horn is stolen by poachers, a young Sumatran rhino and his friends set off through the Indonesian jungle to find it. Voices: Jennifer Castle, Paul Reynolds.

SATURDAY S SPIDER-MAN 2 ★★★★ 2004, 127 min, PG13, e.tv, 13:55 & 02:40. Sci-fi action. Based on the comics. Just when superhero Spider-Man decides to give up crime-fighting, a powerful new villain appears. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst. S THE ADVENTURES OF THOMASINA SAWYER ★★★★ 2018, 93 min, PG, M-Net, 16:00. Adventure. Based on the book by Mark Twain. In 1840s rural America, a mischievous orphan girl living with her aunt gets into a series of scrapes and adventures. Angelina Capozzoli, Beth Grant. S THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON ★★★★ 2008, 166 min, PG13. SABC3, 19:30. Fantasy drama. Based on the short story by F Scott Fitzgerald. A look at the extraordinary life of man who appears elderly at birth and ages backwards. Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett. S CHARLIE’S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE ★★★ 2003, 106 min, PG13V, e.tv, 20:00. Action comedy. The sequel to Charlie’s Angels. Three private investigators try to catch a mysterious villain who’s stolen a list of people under witness protection and is murdering them one by one. Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore. S CRSHD ★★★ 2019, 81 min, 16, SABC3, 21:30. Comedy drama. On the last night of her first year at university, a student hopes to lose her virginity by getting into an exclusive party with the help of her two best friends . Sadie Scott, Isabelle Barbier. S BOA VS PYTHON ★ 2004, 92 min, 16, e.tv, 22:05. Sci-fi horror. When a mega python escapes and start to wreak havoc, a snake specialist releases his bioengineered killer boa to stop it. David Hewlett, Jaime Bergman. S 2012 ★★★ e.tv, 23:50. See Thursday. S BIGFOOT FAMILY ★★★ 2020, 89 min, PG13, M-Net, 03:00. Animated adventure. The sequel to Son of Bigfoot. A boy and his mom set out to save his father, Bigfoot, who’s gone missing

after deciding to use his newfound fame to fight a dodgy oil company in Alaska. Voices: Jules Wojciechowski, Roger Craig Smith. S LOVE IN FULL SWING ★★★ 2021, 85 min, PG, M-Net, 04:30. Romantic comedy. A romance columnist starts to fall for her best friend while helping him win over an old flame. Sarah Smyth, Andrew Dunbar.

2012, Thursday on e.tv at 01:55.

SUNDAY S 3 NINJAS KICK BACK ★★ e.tv, 12:55. See Friday. S THE SECRET GARDEN ★★★ 2020, 99 min, PG13, M-Net, 13:00. Adventure. Based on the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett. In 1947 a British orphan girl is sent to live with her uncle on his remote estate where she discovers a hidden, neglected garden. Colin Firth, Julie Walters. S CHARLIE’S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE ★★★ e.tv, 14:45. See Saturday. S ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS ★★ 2007,

92 min, PG, SABC3, 19:30. Fantasy comedy. Based on the band. A struggling songwriter discovers three singing chipmunks who resurrect his career. Jason Lee, David Cross.

S MECHANIC: RESURRECTION ★★★ 2016, 98 min, 16VL, e.tv, 20:00. Action. The sequel to The Mechanic. A retired hitman is forced back into action when his nemesis kidnaps his girlfriend and forces him to complete three assassinations. Jason Statham, Jessica Alba. S HOW IT ENDS ★★★ 2021, 82 min, 16, M-Net, 21:05. Sci-fi comedy. On the day before the world is about to end, a woman and her younger self embark on a journey through Los Angeles to make amends with those she wronged. Zoe Lister-Jones, Cailee Spaeny. S NATIONAL SECURITY ★★ e.tv, 21:55. See Thursday. S THE 6TH DAY ★★★ e.tv, 23:35. See Thursday.

S HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE ★★★ e.tv, 01:50. See Friday. S ABIGAIL ★★ 2019, 110 min, PG13, M-Net, 02:40. Fantasy adventure. In a city cut off from the outside world because of an epidemic, a young woman tries to find her missing father and discovers that magic exists. Tinatin Dalakishvili, Eddie Marsan. S THE BARKERS: MIND THE CATS! ★★★ 2020, 77 min, A, M-Net, 04:35. Animated comedy. Based on the TV series. When the youngest in a family of dogs has no one to play with while they’re on holiday, he befriends a family of cats.

MONDAY S BOA VS PYTHON ★ e.tv, 00:00. See Saturday. S G.I. JANE ★★★ e.tv, 01:40. See Friday. S EMILY AND THE MAGICAL JOURNEY ★★

2020, 85 min, PG13, M-Net, 04:30. Fantasy adventure. A young girl who’s been neglected while her mother grieves her father’s death finds a mysterious chest that takes her on a magical journey. Tipper Seifert-Cleveland, Harriet Slater.

TUESDAY S CRSHD ★★★ SABC3, 23:00. See Saturday. S SPIDER-MAN 2 ★★★★ e.tv, 00:00.

See Saturday. S MECHANIC: RESURRECTION ★★★ e.tv, 02:20. See Sunday. S A PICTURE PERFECT WEDDING ★★★ 2021, 85 min, PG, M-Net, 03:05. Romantic comedy. A photographer gets asked by a New York mogul’s son to shoot his sister’s nuptials and soon sparks fly between them during the wedding weekend. Emily Tennant, Tyler Johnston. S SAVE THE WEDDING ★★ M-Net, 04:35. See Thursday.

WEDNESDAY S HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE ★★★ e.tv, 00:00.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Saturday on SABC3 at 19:30.

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See Friday. S NATIONAL SECURITY ★★ e.tv, 02:05. See Thursday. S RIKI RHINO ★★★★ M-Net, 03:05. See Friday. S EMILY AND THE MAGICAL JOURNEY ★★ M-Net, 04:35. See Monday.

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A husband is trying to prove to his wife that women talk more than men. He shows her a study which indicates that men use about 10 000 words per day, whereas women use 20 000 words. The woman tells her husband that women use twice as many words as men because they have to repeat everything they say. Her husband looks stunned and sputters, “What?”

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A small boy is talking to his grandfather. “Why does it rain?” he asks. “To make the plants grow,” the grandfather replies. The boy looks puzzled and says, “So why does it rain on the pavement?”

FLIGHT PROBLEM

Taxiing down the tarmac, a jetliner abruptly stops, turns around and returns to the gate. After an hour-long wait, it finally takes off. A concerned passenger asks the flight attendant, “Excuse me, what was the problem?” “The pilot was bothered by a noise he heard in the engine,” explains the flight attendant, “and it took us a while to find a new pilot.”

THANKS, BUT NO THANKS

A local charity organisation for the veterans’ office realises it has never received a donation from the town’s most successful lawyer. The person in charge of fundraising calls him to persuade him to make a contribution. “Our research shows that out of a yearly income of at least R500 000, you give not a cent to charity. Wouldn’t you like to give back to the community?” The lawyer mulls this over for a moment and replies, “First, did your research also show that my mother is dying after a long illness, and has medical bills?” The embarrassed officer mumbles, “Um . . . no.” “Or that my brother, a disabled veteran, is blind and confined to a wheelchair?” the lawyer continues. The stricken rep begins to stammer an apology but is interrupted.

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“Or that my sister’s husband died in a car crash,” the lawyer’s voice rises in fury, “leaving her penniless with three children?” The horrified charity rep, completely beaten and utterly ashamed, says simply, “I had no idea.” The lawyer is on a roll, so he cuts the rep off once again. “So, if I don’t give any money to them, why should I give any to you?”

SOMETHING SILLY S Question: What lies at the bot-

tom of the ocean and twitches? Answer: A nervous wreck. S Question: Why do bagpipers walk when they play? Answer: They’re trying to get away from the noise. S Question: What do you call Santa’s helpers? Answer: Subordinate Clauses. S Question: How does a spoilt, rich girl change a light bulb? Answer: She says, “Daddy, I want a new apartment.” S Question: What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t work? Answer: A stick. S Question: Why are there so many Smiths in the phone book? Answer: They all have phones. S Question: What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night? Answer: A pillow. S A rubber-band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of maths disruption.

PROBLEM SOLVED

By the time a sailor pulls into a little town every hotel room is taken. “You’ve got to have a room somewhere,” he pleads. “Or just a bed.” “Well, I do have a double room with one occupant – an Air Force guy,” admits the manager of the hotel, “and he might be glad to split the cost. But to tell you the truth, he snores so loudly that people in adjoining rooms have complained in the past. So I’m not sure you’d want to do that.” “No problem,” the tired sailor assures him. “I’ll take it.” The next morning, the sailor comes down to breakfast brighteyed and bushy-tailed. “How did

you sleep?” the manager asks. “Never better.” The manager is impressed. “No problem with the other guy snoring?” “Nope. I shut him up in no time,” the Navy guy says. “How did you manage that?” the manager asks. “He was already in bed, snoring away, when I came in the room,” the sailor explains. “I went over to him, gave him a kiss on the cheek and said, ‘Goodnight, beautiful’. He sat up all night watching me.”

ROAD WARS

Magistrate: But if you saw the lady driving towards you why didn’t you give her half the road? Motorist: I was going to, Your Honour, as soon as I could find out which half she wanted.

NOT NECESSARY

A little girl runs up to her mother and asks, “Mummy, Mummy, where do babies come from?” “The stork, dear,” her mother replies. “Mummy, who keeps bad people from robbing our house?” the girl asks. “The police, dear,” the mother answers nonchalantly. “Mummy,” says the girl, “if our house was on fire, who would save us?” “The fire department,” the mother answers calmly. “Mummy, where does food come from?” the girl asks. “Farmers, dear,” the mother says. “Mummy,” says the girl, “then what do we need Daddy for?”

IN COURT

Pamela is sitting at the defendant’s table while the traffic officer is being cross-examined on the witness stand.

CATCH OF THE DAY After a match, a cricketer who’d dropped six catches is getting changed in the locker room. Sniffling, he says, “I think I’ve caught a cold.” “Thank goodness,” his captain says. “At least you can catch something!”

The lawyer asks, “When you stopped the defendant, Pamela, were your red and blue lights flashing?” “Yes, sir, they were,” the officer replies. “Did the defendant say anything when she got out of her car?” “Yes, sir, she did.” “What was it the defendant said?” the lawyer asks the officer as he points to Pamela. “What disco am I at?”

EXTREME SPORTS

Two drunks are standing on a cliff with their arms outstretched. One has a few budgies perched on his arms while the other has parrots on his arms. After a few minutes they both leap off the cliff and plummet to the ground. Later, lying next to each other in hospital, one says, “I don’t think much of this budgie jumping.” “Yeah,” the other drunk says, “and this parrot gliding is for the birds.”

PARTY TALK S At a cocktail party, one woman

says to another, “Aren’t you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?” The other replies, “Yes, I am. I married the wrong man.” S A man says to his buddy, “My wife’s jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.”

WHAT A PENALTY

Did you hear the new penalty for speeding in South Africa? On the first offence they give you match tickets to go watch Bafana Bafana and on the second, they make you use them.

FOR THE KIDS S Question: What do you call a pig

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Yahya AbdulMateen II

The acclaimed actor takes over the role of Morpheus in The Matrix Resurrections

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ENTER THE MATRIX The iconic sci-fi franchise is back with a fourth instalment. Several new actors join cast members Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss, including Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Morpheus, played by Laurence Fishburne in the previous films. At first he couldn’t believe he was reading a script with the original films’ star, Yahya says. “I looked up and there was Keanu and I said, ‘Oh s**t, I’m really in The Matrix’.” As the previous film, The Matrix Revolutions (2003), ended with Neo (Reeves), Trinity (Moss) and Morpheus all dead, it’s a mystery how they’ll be back for part 4. The three movies were directed by sisters Lana and Lilly Wachowski and while Lana returns for part 4, Lilly said directing another Matrix film was unappealing. BECOMING MORPHEUS When he auditioned, Yahya (35) says he couldn’t wrap his head around how he could replace Laurence (60), who’d been an integral part of the films. Last year the veteran actor said he had “not been invited” back, but wished the cast well. Yahya says that while he has nothing but respect for Laurence’s performance, he had no interest in copying it. “Laurence already did what had to be done. I think what the script provided was a new narrative and new opportunities that did make room within the Matrix universe for a new Morpheus,” he said. Fans will see Morpheus on a journey of self-discovery, he says. “There’s a lot in our story that’s about defining your own path. Morpheus isn’t exempt from that.” 52

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SECOND CAREER The actor was born in New Orleans and says he wassn’t much of a film fan growing up. “I was aw ware [of The Matrix],butitwasn’t somethin ngIwatched 10 or 15 times,” he told GQ magazine. m Born to a Muslim dad, Yaahya, and a Christian mom, Mary, the Candyman star was raised in both faiths but ended up at church “because that’s w where the girls were,” he jokes. After graduating from univeersity with a degree in architecture, he w worked as a city planner in San Francisco, with no ambition to become an aactor. But that changed when he was retre ched and had a flashback to thee acting classes he took as a student. “I remembered that actingg thing. I had a really fun time with itt when I took the class and I said, ‘Okay, I’m going to go try that for a littlee bit’.” He got into the Yale Schooll of Drama and just four years after hiis debut in 2016 series The Get Down,, he won his first Emmy for Watchmeen. “The people who believed in me firsstt – I call you my early investors – I love you. I appreciate you. And this one iss for you,” he said during his acceptancce speech. AN INSPIRATION Yahya, wh ho prefers to keep his personal life private, says he also plans to work behind the ccamera because he wants his movies and series to have “real meaning and conn nection”. To have his name on billbo oards alongside Keanu’s is huge, the Aquaman actor says. “To be validated, to holld my own, and to go on talk shows wheere they say my entire name, that’s inspirring.” T

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Eternals Sci-fi action. With Gemma Chan, RichardOUT Madden andTO Kumail | WHAT CHILL WATCH Nanjiani. Director: Chloé Zhao.

In 5000 BC, 10 immortal superpoweredbeingscalled Eternals, including Sersi (Chan), Ikaris (Madden) and Kingo (Nanjiani), are sent to Earth to stop monsters called Deviants from wiping out humankind. The Eternals are allowed to help human civilisation to advance but may not interfere in human conflicts. With the last of the Deviants wiped out in the 16th century, the Eternals go their separate ways, living on Earth while waiting for their creator to tell them when it’s time to return home to their planet. But a surprise Deviant attack on Sersi in present-day London forces her to reunite the team. With Oscar-winning indie director Zhao (Nomadland) at the helm, the expectation was that she’d somehow break new ground with her entry into the Marvel Cine-

AT THE CINEMA matic Universe (MCU). But though there are elements that make Eternals stand out, it’s ultimately still a superhero tale that must fit in with the rest of the franchise. So there are the usual topnotch special effects, warm character moments and world-endangering finale. The MCU is the best in the genre, but if you’re not a comics fan or have “superhero fatigue”, this movie won’t win you over. It’s long, somewhat ponderous and it takes a while for all the plot threads to gather and gain momentum. The initial rapid introduction to multiple god-like characters is alienating, which could cause some viewers to lose interest. But the slow build-up and multiple flashbacks do give the characters the chance to interact in various situations so their personalities come through. The diversity of the characters and cast (who use their real accents), including Salma Hayek and Brian Tyree

Cosmic beings (from left): Don Lee, Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Salma Hayek, Gemma Chan and Lia McHugh in Eternals.

Henry, is also refreshing. Chan’s kind Sersi is the heart of the film, while even stereotypical heroic warriors such as Ikaris and Thena (Angelina Jolie) have hidden facets, which humanise them. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for the Deviants, who remain stock villains. The action scenes are thrilling, containing goosebumpinducing moments set against sweeping shots of magnificent landscapes, and the way the Eternals’ powers manifest in golden filigree patterns is striking. Welcome humour, often from vain Bollywood star Kingo, lightens things up. But overall Eternals has a pensive, melancholy tone as it mulls over existential questions. The messy ending also doesn’t come with a cathartic, crowd-pleasing resolution. This ambitious, epic film offers food for thought as well as entertainment, but won’t win over viewers sick of superheroes. 2021. 157 MIN. 13LV.

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Comedy. This fast-paced sketchcomedy show is the first TV series from Australian-based absurdist comedy group Aunty Donna, known for their live performances and podcasts. The show follows the antics of Broden Kelly, Mark Samual Bonanno and Zachary Ruane playing over-the-top versions of themselves while taking part in skits with themes such as treasure or dating in 20-minute episodes. Their comedic style heavily relies on absurdity and viewers will likely be chuckling at the complete randomness that these three comedians come up with. Not all the sketches work, but if you like this style of comedy, you’ll be laughing more often than not. Also be on the lookout for the hilarious sketch where two of the Aunty Donna boys tackle a South African accent. – FRANCO HAVENGA 2020. 6 EPISODES. 16SLV.

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Horror. Malignant is a treat for horror fans, a veritable buffet of grisly and spooky delights inspired by many of the great films of the genre. Director and co-writer James Wan (Aquaman, The Conjuring) masterfully blends elements from cult horrors of the ’70s and ’80s to create a tense and darkly humorous film that’s sure to become a classic too. Mom-to-be Madison (Annabelle NETFLIX, WALT DISNEY STUDIOS, WARNER BROS PICTURES

Wallis) lives with her abusive husband (Jake Abel from the Percy Jackson movies). Soon after we’re introduced to the unhappy couple, Madison wakes from a disturbing

dream, to finds her hubby’s mangled corpse in their kitchen. She miscarries, and in hospital her younger sister (Maddie Hasson) says she’ll take care of her, but Madison begins experiencing paralysing waking nightmares where she sees a deformed killer gruesomely murdering people. The nightmares, of course, aren’t just bad dreams – they’re occurring in real life, and

soon a pair of detectives (George Young and Michole Briana White) are on the bizarre case. The twists and turns come quick and fast – some are clever, and some are obvious – but kudos to Wan and his co-writers for crafting a witty, original and entertaining film. – DENNIS CAVERNELIS

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than ever. A couple of us have a few side-projects that cover different genres and never conflict with WONDERboom. I think that’s helped our creativity and feeling of fulfilment.” If you look back at what WONDERboom has achieved, both locally and internationally, do you still have to pinch yourself? “Back then, I don’t think we had any limits as to what we’d achieve or even considered our longevity. Now it feels like we’re still striving for that perfect song or album – and chasing those dreams. I don’t think this journey will ever stop.”

SA Indie rock band WONDERboom marks 25 years with an album.

WONDERboom The five-time SAMA nominee is still indie rock’s darling BY NICI DE WET

They’ve been rocking local and inMUSIC ternational stages for 25 years – and to celebrate, WONDERboom, one of SA’s most iconic rock bands, have released a greatest hits anniversary album and a new single, Prodigal Son. We caught up with charismatic frontman Cito to find out more. Congrats for making it to a quarter of a century in a notoriously tough industry. To what do you put down your longevity? “Thank you so much! Yeah, this industry is tough all right. Especially after all these years, witnessing and having to endure the different phases of trends and technology. But I wouldn’t change it for the world. It’s a small price to pay for making the music we love and to perform live.” You guys have known each for so long now. Was it fun putting together this anniversary album? “It was quite cathartic looking back on the years of recording and song-writing. It’s become easier for us. Nowadays I look forward to going into the studio more than ever. The experience and knowledge have made it more enjoyable and all of our insecurities are kind of gone.” What were some of the biggest challenges you faced? “Selecting which songs should go on the album and which to leave out. If it were up to us, we’d have a double deluxe anthology release! We tried to not only 54

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choose radio-friendly hits but also songs that are dancefloor stompers.” Tell us about the new single, Prodigal Son: “It seems like a very appropriate song of our times. It’s a bit of an existential reflection on us dream chasers. A few years ago, I went back to my old hometown in Queens, New York, and felt like such a stranger there. It’s weird but also cool knowing that so much has happened since those formative years. Musically, it’s a nod to our urban indie roots and breakbeats.” What is your musical vision these days? “Although we’re essentially a rock band, WONDERboom has always had an eclectic approach to musical styles because, individually, we are like that. Even within albums every song is different. Personally, I feel like music is all-consuming and I enjoy making it now more

What have been some of your personal career highlights with the band? “Coming second in the world at the Global Battle of the Bands in 2004; coming first at the Silk Road Indie Music Festival in China in 2017 and being the sole support act for Guns n Roses at Soccer City in 2018. Personally, landing the role of Jesus in Pieter Toerien’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar. That production grew and toured Greece and South Korea in 2007 and a reprise production ran in 2011.” What local bands do you rate? “Yoh! There are some good ones. I really rate Diamond Thug and BCUC. Would love to collaborate with either of them.” Apart from music, what are the guys up to? “Our drummer, Jono, is a lawyer. So that’s kind of cool and convenient. Wade consults in home automation and high-end entertainment systems. Martin sessions and teaches guitar, and, like me, produces and does music direction and sound design for special and corporate events and advertising. I also just launched my own coffee brand, CITO 1974.”

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What’s cooking?

FOOD INSPO

There are so many new cookbooks on the shelf that readers are spoilt for choice. We take a look at six of the best COMPILED BY JANE VORSTER

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By DAN D TOOMBS Quad drille This book contains easyy-tow recifollow pes for f all your Thai favourites such su as Masssaman curry, Pad Thai and fried crispy duck. There’s also a smorrgasbord of delicious-looking sttarters and appetisers. Before you ﬁre up your wok, mbs explains what equipToom mentt and ingredients you’ll need and shows how to make your curry pastes from scratch.

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By JAMIE OLIVER Michael Joseph It’s hardly surprising that this year’s crop of cookbooks have a preoccupation with lockdown and the eﬀect it’s had on the way we interact and the way we eat. Oliver is on a mission to get us to reconnect after months of being apart and to celebrate food’s power to bring us together and create memories. Simply put: “This is about saying ‘I love you’ through food.” The recipes are divided into menus from everyday get-togethers and special occasions from Brunch Party and Curry Night to Last Minute Feast and Celebration Roast. Each menu is divided into starters, mains and puds, with some sharing platters in there too. Here’s the menu for a fun family meal: scrumptious garlic bread, crispy pesto chicken and, to ﬁnish, Essex Eton mess with chocolate sauce and sprinkles. At the back is a nutritional breakdown of each recipe as well as a friendly lecture from Oliver’s nutritional team about healthy eating. The photography is vibey and the recipes accessible enough to make you want to invite loved ones round for that long overdue catch-up. – SANDY COOK

By OTTOLENGHI TEST KITCHEN Ebury In this post-lockdown cookbook, Yotam Ottolenghi and his team have put together a proudly utilitarian guide with the aim of getting readers to tap into their creativity while making use of what they already have in their kitchens. They want you to raid your shelves, rummage in your freezer and have the conﬁdence to swop out ingredients. Got a tin of butter beans nearing its use-by date at the back of your cupboard? Some wonky-looking veggies in your fridge? Don’t bin them. Use them. And put an Ottolenghi spin on it. The book has a sturdy fold-out list of ingredients you might have and a cross-reference to recipes where you can use them. On each recipe there’s a Make It Your Own box for you to write notes of how you made it your own. Ingredients are recognisably “Ottolenghi”: from aubergine to za’atar, and some aren’t readily accessible in South Africa, such as black limes. But there’s a simplicity here too: one-pan crispy spaghetti and chicken or “that one bag of mixed veggies and potato fritters with harissa”. These are recipes that say, “I’ll show you the rules but here’s how to break them.” – SANDY COOK

By GORDON RAMSAY Hodder & Stoughton Ramsay in 10 began as a quirky idea for the famous chef’s YouTube channel. He wanted to throw down the gauntlet to fellow chefs to see if they could cook classic dishes in 10 minutes. Then lockdown happened and the Michelin star-maestro found himself stuck at home with his family. So he decided to challenge himself, and took to the task with gusto. This book is the result of these quickfire culinary adventures, recipes that in theory you can whip up in a flash without sacrificing flavour. There are loads of familiar dishes with a Ramsay spin – green shakshuka, panfried veal chops with Boston baked beans, and bacon cauliflower cheese on toast. The desserts are inviting and accessible: microwave sticky toffee pudding, 10-minute cookies with malted hot chocolate and American-style fluffy pancakes with flambéd pineapple. It’s worth having an arsenal of flavour-packed pastes, sauces and spice mixes in your pantry to speed up the cooking process and maximise flavour. Ramsay exhorts you to be organised, have a well-equipped kitchen and buy good ingredients. Oh, and keep your knives sharp. – SANDY COOK

By ANN NELIEN PIEN NAAR Hum man & Rou usseau Thiss book feattures morre than 100 recipes, provviding information f about the best ways to prepare diﬀerent cuts and types of meat. South Africans are committed carnivores but many of us stick to dishes we know well and here Pienaar encourages you to try something new or at least put a new spin on those old favourites.

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B V E R A Z A L F S O M O V Q

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NO 2 OCEAN & SEA TERMINOLOGY

bay bight canal channel coral reef cove current fjard fjord gulf inlet ocean ocean bank ocean gyre passage polynya reef sea sound strait

NO 4 FOOD WE LOVE OR HATE

anchovy avo beets bluecheese brawn brinjal [Brussels] sprouts chillies coconut gherkins green pepper liquorice mackerel marmite marzipan mushrooms oysters pickled fish

V Q T E D R O J F R C X T J U

O Z T G B J D B Y J I A W Z U

M R E A M I F K B S F N N O Y

F S G S E D L N Z I T J L A A

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L F F V A N V A C U R R E N T

A N P X T N S E C H A N N E L

R F Z H A S A C S O U N D U Y

O V F E K N K O P O L Y N Y A

C V C H G O K G J Y R B Z F R

K O U Y W W X P R B O G P E X

E B R Y P Q D F R A C G Q E O

O E S U S H L Y M Y U D N R E

E S E E H C E U L B R A W N D

E T I M R A M B T U N O C O C

U L Y T S T U O R P S T F B Y

P I C K L E D F I S H U Q L F

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sardines sauerkraut snails spinach

Egg _ _ _ board

sushi tofu

See how much of an eagle eye you have and ﬁnd the 7 diﬀerences between these two pictures of singer Zayn Malik and model Gigi Hadid.

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Use the letters in the grid to create as many words as possible containing four letters or more. Each word must contain the letter in the shaded block in the middle, and may contain any of the other letters only once. No proper nouns, foreign words or abbreviations.

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NO 1

R T R H E L B O Y

Home _ _ _ _ bed

NO 2

How did you do?

Average: 19 words Good: 28 words Excellent: 42 word

D C U R O L A T K

How did you do?

Average: 22 words Good: 38 words Excellent: 48 words

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NO 902 1

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INPRA

Two sets of clues but the answers are the same CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Is intimate with such a pal’s vital statistic? (5) 4 Is not certain if I’d sub Open University requires (7) 8 It is light in the middle of what was once resin (5) 9 Venetian craft may display supermarket goods (7) 10 John was the plaintiff, but she sounds a dear (3) 11 Will be too long in bed to see plover moving about (9) 12 Remark one musical sound (4) 13 Scorch the fish, as will a cleaner (4) 18 Accustom one to a heat – but one may vary it (9) 20 Take it as it’s printed in musicology (3) 21 If in due order, it can be made into one (7) 22 It may be drab, but the colour is uniform (5) 23 It will finish up not so much if it never stops (7) 24 Long narrow top part removed from game bird (5) DOWN 1 Where the pupils may be accommodated in a small hotel (8-5) 2 Make one unergo being a king’s man, for instance (7) 3 One has it in one’s bones to be a mucker on Tyneside (6) 4 One with a spade may be from Down Under (6) 5 Dismiss one in turning up in a party (6) 6 Ring-belt produced by UV light acting on oxygen (5) 7 Perhaps harps on rehearsal of what’s unscrupulous in

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business (5,8) 14 Manage with economy to be a spouse (7) 15 Make match work when others are out (6) 16 Fly larva forming a disc round end of pond (6) 17 One’s spirits, as kept up by a bird? (6) 19 Is unable to see a screen hunters can use (5)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 The human breast (5) 4 Doubtful (7) 8 Colour; fossilised resin (5) 9 Venetian boat (7) 10 A she-rabbit (3) 11 Fail to wake up in time (9) 12 A chit (4) 13 Reduce to carbon (4) 18 To accustom (9) 20 Instruction to read as printed (3) 21 Made into one, consolidated (7) 22 Army uniform colour (5) 23 Interminable (7) 24 Earth thrown up by the plough (5) DOWN 1 A guest-house (8-5) 2 Topic (7) 3 Soft tissue inside bone (6) 4 An excavator (6) 5 Condemn one to exile (6) 6 An atmospheric layer (5) 7 Unscrupulous, almost dishonest dealing (5,8) 14 Male spouse (7) 15 Industrial action (6) 16 Fly larva; sort of worsted ribbon (6) 17 Type of bird; type of hoe (6) 19 Unseeing (5)

ACROSS 1 4 10 16

Despised (7) Nasa crafts (10) Quiet (4-6) Retain (printing term) (4) 19 Fishing vessel (7) 20 To test (7) 21 Large farm building (4) 23 Spicy sausage (6) 24 Delicate (7) 25 Garlic segments (6) 26 Domestic animal (3) 27 Cave (5) 29 Call on (5) 31 The internet (3) 32 Teach (5) 33 Female sheep (4) 34 At that time (4) 35 Bad (5) 36 Group of three (4) 38 Musical symbol (4) 40 Refers to a female (3) 41 International cricket contest (4) 43 Gobbles (4) 46 Anticipate (7) 49 Indian flatbread (4) 50 Heavy hand tool for timber (4) 51 Waterfall (7) 54 Cunning (3) 55 Soil component (5) 57 Drench (5) 60 Call (5) 62 Born (Fr) (3) 63 Spirit (4) 64 Residue of burnt wood (3) 65 Tear roughly (3) 66 Sulk (4) 67 Message sent by phone (abbr) (3) 69 Ashamed (11) 70 Baton (3) 71 Shade of blue (9) 72 Scare (9) 73 Low earth orbit (abbr) (3) 74 Bad dream (9) 75 Precious stone (3) 77 Get along (7) 79 Circular building (7) 81 Strong flavoured coffee (5) 82 Wizards (9) 85 Sharply hooked claw (5) 86 Destructive insect (6) 88 Skewer (6) 90 Crystalline powder (4) 93 Journalists (9) 95 Red . . . (bureaucracy) (4) 97 Sleeplessness (8) 98 . . . of (large amount of ) (8) 99 Bottom (4) 101 Mind reading (9) 102 Role for an actor (4) 105 Closet item (6) 106 Gave to (6) 108 Distress (5) 109 Laptops (9) 113 Finishing for a cake (5) 114 Mogul (inf ) (7)

116 Puts pressure on (7) 118 Female (subject) (3) 119 Become ordinary (9) 121 Male title (3) 122 Lead (9) 124 Dissolute person (9) 126 Carpet (3) 127 Hades (11) 128 Male offspring (3) 130 Bundle (4) 131 Female chicken (3) 132 Go up and down (3) 134 Lacklustre (4) 135 Baltic, eg (3) 137 Falls (icy precipitation) (5) 138 Velvet-like leather (5) 141 Poem by Homer (5) 142 . . . and feather (3) 143 Falkland, eg (7) 147 Trampled on (4) 148 Type of missile (4) 149 Least bold (7) 153 Surrender (4) 155 Decorative case (4) 156 Epoch (3) 157 Article (4) 158 Young animals (4) 160 Prices (5) 161 Six balls in cricket (4) 163 Bowling green (4) 165 Irritate (5) 166 Blade (3) 168 Muscat native, eg (5) 170 Metal sheath at the end of a shoelace (5) 172 Neither . . . (3) 174 Breakfast food (6) 175 Idioms (7) 176 Appeared (6) 178 Unfortunately (4) 179 Semitic language (7) 180 Lustrous fabric (7) 181 Locale (4) 182 Confidence (4-6) 183 Units used for measuring fuel needs (6,4) 184 Rumour (7)

DOWN 1 2 3 5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 17 18 21 22 28 30 36 37 39 42

Forfeiture (4) White poplar (5) Ballpark figure (8) Aviator (5) Time limit (6) Hoodie, eg (10) Enter surreptitiously (10) Part of a shirt (6) Edges (5) Egg dish (8) Particular (8) Rascal (5) Cloistered sisters (4) A weighing device (7) Narrow (5) Skin design (6) Threw a ball (6) Refute (5) Snacks (12) Translators (12) Hurls (6) Doubtful (inf ) (4) Intermediate theorem (5) Breaking news story (5)

44 An immeasurably long time (4) 45 Astute (6) 47 Mutual (10) 48 List of times (8) 52 Resign (4,4) 53 Judge (10) 56 Employs (4) 57 Totter (7) 58 Wading bird (5) 59 Stamps (7) 61 Animal skin (4) 68 Showing no emotion (7) 70 Emblems of royalty (7) 73 Arms and legs (5) 76 Chopped meat (5) 78 Fake (9) 80 Restrained (9) 83 Zoomed-in shot (5-2) 84 Withdraw (7) 87 Tiara (5) 89 A blackfly, eg (5) 91 Camel hair cloth (3) 92 Wear it with a suit (3) 93 Long-tailed rodent (3) 94 Secret agent (3) 95 Dance genre (3) 96 Up to . . . (on stand ard) (3) 99 Boasts (5) 100 Least speedy (7) 103 Assumed names (7) 104 Big cat (5) 105 Wildly funny (10) 107 Regular regimen (10) 109 Moisture (12) 110 Swamps (7) 111 Embodiment (7) 112 Hypnotic (12) 115 Type of cheese (8) 117 Bestride (8) 120 Be in accord (5) 123 Fresh (4) 125 Worshipped object (4) 126 Paranormal (6) 129 Gives medical attention (6) 131 Lift (5) 133 Large natural habitat (5) 136 Battery contents (4) 139 Fundamental (10) 140 Remove salt (from water) (10) 142 Desmond . . . (former archbishop) (4) 144 Set of games (6) 145 Painting course, eg (3,5) 146 Barren (8) 150 Drained (7) 151 Nostalgic item (8) 152 Setting for a play (6) 154 Tripod (5) 159 Military-style hat (5) 162 Sticky (6) 164 Frittered away (6) 167 African village (5) 169 Fill with anxiety (5) 171 Of imposing height (5) 173 Excludes (5) 174 Taxis (4) 177 Contradict (4)

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

Assets you bequeath (4,4,3,9)

Grassland

Ancient Cambodian

Bend

Seasoned sausage

Rose plant fruit

Move wings

Not either

Port in E Canada

18thcentury shawl

Building levels

Chemical suffix

Scallion

Accept without question (4,3,7)

Bass voice singer 7th Greek letter

Male relative

Sergeant

Cask

Commercials

Precipitation

Test

Cash teller

Simple Witch

Dept of Health (UK)

Rhinal

Stupid Consisting of salt Mayweed

Small islands

Talents

Pixie

Iced (cake)

Wombs

Assumed name

Centigram (symb)

Strikes with an axe

By way of

Confront boldly

Despicable Mobile light

Escort (4,3)

Before

The (French)

African river

Cravat Lament

Wearing away

Tiny hole Similarity

Simpler Query

Depose from office

Drive out Throw out

Gambit

Chew the ...

Showy flower

African antelope

Obtained

Taunt

Go away!

Female birds

Asian republic

Nordic Caucasian

Weird Small devils

The Ram Eager

Beguile Ecuador (www)

Assigns

Undergoes a genetic change

Giant monster (Arabian myth)

Human mind Turn inside out

Easily handled (vessel)

Rematch Asian climbing plant

Pleasant

Country in E Africa

Winter infection Lacking respect

Musteline

Vice chairman

Mature

More dexterous

Helps

Wildebeest

One that controls your mind

Make excited

Plumlike fruit

Cry

Filth

Toilet (slang)

Hindi bread

Spicy skewers

Sketch

2nd Hebrew letter

Wealthy Inflamed

Type of paint

American cuckoo

Over the top (abbr)

Consume

Pace Type of comLesotho pany (www) High up Russian country house Open pastry

Bound

Large swallow

Slum area

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Chinese suit

Frozen

Cowboy shows

Silver (symb)

Holmium (symbol) Destined

Cot

He had (contr)

Ethiopia (abbr) Current fashion

Noisy brawl Epistle (abbr)

Baneberry

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Debt reminder

NO 1 Small cake soaked in rum

Vicious dog

European river

Nautical

Mineshaft

Try again

Cheese basis

Engine sound

Egyptian spirit

Male duck

Marine gastropod (3,4)

Vital organs Lang of Maharashtra

Small citrus tree

Camel cousin Systematic diet

Insect Dassies

Cot

Aids cause

Republic in N Africa

African desert

Adult (2,3)

Rave

Small share

Want to

Fasten Skilled

Daub

Slowly (music)

Everyday (3-2-3)

Calcium (symb)

Unfavourable balances of trade (5,4)

Purse Gunned

Valley (literary)

Revulsion

Yugoslavian money

Hindu class

Deep chasm

Strong male (2-3) NZ rugby chant

Danced (inf)

Speedwell, eg

Hunger pain

Refund

Pay in advance

Rumour Idiot

Detect

Hectolitre (symb)

Be consistent

17th Gk letter

Coffee cups

Respond

Film part Shrews

Conspirator Fill with horror

Commandeer Having an established key

Island off Scotland

Mound

Cyprus int car reg

San Marino (www)

... Lanka

Plead

Piece of eight

Gossip Lower in rank Follow

Type of firework

Piquant Knowledge

Lion calls

Omit

Ooze

Agave plants Yugoslavia (www)

Quick look Pip

Adds

Priests garments

Drink gingerly

Parasite Wine and cassis drink

Deed Flexible mineral

Apertures

Chemical suffix

Balm Three spots (dice)

Puts on a list

Horsefly

Churn plunger

Green gems Ammunition

Radiant energy

Gallium (symb)

Unit of length Executive (abbr)

Acinus (pl)

Fencing stance

Pair of opera glasses

Indian Mr

Side of the mouth

Do-ityourself

Call off

Wall light

Exist

Sacred

Judo suit

Ceric oxide

Esoteric

Exclude from a place

Reddish- Safe for orange Muslims colour to eat

Spanish friend

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Negligée item

Military Police Cereal mix

South Indian lang Virtual reality Descry

Japanese stringed instrument

Case (abbr) Strollers

Copy

Plan

Afflict

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NO 2 National park in USA (5,6,8,4)

Plant for treating bruises

Physical ed By way of

Boozy festivity

VGhana shaped so- car reg lid Thin out Exchange

Heavy drinking paunch (4,3)

Technology (abbr)

Sn-coated steel sheet (3-5)

Obtained

Become apparent Nickel (symbol) Iceland (www)

Steer clear of (4,1,4, 5,2)

Royal Air Force (abbr)

Component Deodar Melting point (abbr)

Go ... (contrary) (7,3,5)

Sister (inf) Cravat

Quarry Johannesburg (inf)

Water plant

Raise

Sound

Compassionate Piquant Edible tuber Very (music)

Ancient Peruvian

Caught in the act (inf) Not any Shrill warbling sounds Nut

Mandarin’s office (imp China)

Removes rind Revs per minute (abbr) Burning

Weight-toheight ratio (abbr) Enemies

Woodwind instrument

Large scissors

Small Eurasian duck

Re: bears Stilettos, eg

Wound Hour-glass, eg

Fertile spots Chirp sound

Church table

Frock

Aus marsupial

Thread

Van ... Hum (liqueur)

Cuban smoke

Adore Hard- wood tree Glance

Compass point

Thus Beams

Type of fertiliser

Thick lump Long stride

Protester Birman, eg

Aus gem Title holder Uneven walk

Dried grape Aid in a crime Lengths of timber

Concur Pond growth (sing)

Coal grime

Re: sound Chilly (inf)

Attack Survey Sofa Light boat Hadeda, eg

Grassy plain (US) Mend Blind salamander Place

Settled a debt

Class

Type of moth

Radar blip Each (abbr)

Diving bird

Rifle end

Permit

Egyptian sun god

Xenon (symbol) In pieces Wood chopper

Songlike (poetry)

Furious

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Washington state (abbr) Asphalt

Romania (www) Re: foot bones

Heir

Risk . . . (danger seeker)

Forbid

Slender

Former spouse (inf) Male bee

Young child Regarding Donkey

Foot digit Essential

Rupee (symbol) Georgia (www)

General average (abbr)

Nail file coating

Egg part

Maxims

Tests (short)

Inferior (inf) Nabokov novel

Including (abbr)

Nervous

Tentacle Indigenous SA people

On land

Rent

Anagrams are great fun. Rearrange the letters in each clue block to spell a new word or phrase. The words crisscross as in a regular crossword puzzle. We’ve given you the ﬁrst word to get you started.

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DIRGE

SAND DART

CLEATS ICON

OR ELMS EMIT RAGE

APE

DONATE

ORE

NOT MIRE

LEI

ACT SIN

IDES CALM

DEER

MAPS

BARD

REAP

DENS SAME

US RAG

SMUG

GAPS

LET LID

BAN

CITED ONE SIS

RELY

CAR

AURA MET

CODERS ODE

LAMA TOE RENT COURSE ORBITS

GALS

MEAL

NET

PLEA OR SIT

SIAM

SEATS

AN ORC EAVE ROT

LIMO CURE

LOPS

TEAR

SNIP PROD SMOG TIE

TICKS

AUNT

MATER

NOTED APT

GRID

PEST IN

AS ME AT SARI

PESO

IRE SOON

EAT

AN ULTRA TAN PLAINS

VETS

RAM STEAM

ALP

MET RIP

CATS

TRAM

TILER

WARD SOAK

PANS

PETS

DEMO

OILS

VETO RATS

LIME US A REV

EEL DEB

RAW LAB ON

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SLIT

AWNS RED HAT

SAVES

TILLS

PEEK SAD TEE

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NO 1 Indian money

Epic

Baby bed

Vacant

Hiatus

Deform

Fine!

Tiny

Gremlin

Small devil

Speaker's platform

Cap of Bangladesh

Baking measure Month

Edible tuber

Crash

Acid measure

Electrical plug

Cow call

Online address

Bus depot

Weighed down

Intense grief

You and I

Snow vehicle

Ink stain

Achieve much (2,3) The Subject actor (5,5)

Simple

Heavenly being

Italian dessert Fine net fabric

Sine die (abbr)

Contend for

City in Tennessee

Toilet (slang)

Cook Islands (www)

Lover

Pressed

Large outdoor fire

Roguishness Page (abbr)

19th Greek letter

Pica

Cheese, etc

Opera solo

Sung by a pair

Spherical bacteria Stranger Things actor (3,5)

Legume Not AC

Large NZ parrot

Produce

Axe

Moldova (www)

Queen of the gods

Trunks VIPs Cape Verde money

Our country Pierce

Spasm

Agree

Small buoy

Snoot

Thorium (symb)

Callas

Epic poem by Virgil

Strontium unit (abbr)

Excrete

Putrid

Fibber Garden tool

Squamous

Mixed fabric

Forbid

Federal Communications Commission

Jot

Ytterbium (symb)

Agreement Grass like plant

Antennas

Layers

Loft

Contrive

Liveliness

French friend

Pulsate

Rodent

Skating jump

Detox

Sharing in (2,2)

Dancing On My Own singer (5,5)

Iran (www)

Unit of pressure Cerumen

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Limb

Water closet Teleost

Sludge

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Binary digit Speaker

Chinese dialects

Computer

Type of company

LSD

Causes fear

Ibidem (abbr)

Social insect

Morning moisture

Japanese straw mat

Asian snake

Solo performance

Stone mounds

Small scrap paper

Heroic tale

Cleaner

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Body of water

Not any

Paraguay (www)

6th Gk letter

Sneaked

Twisted Small colourful parrot

Lay down

Image

Sing jazzily Tidy

Failed shell Road

NO 2 One that walks by

Singer, Bob ...

Diminish

12th Greek letter

The Fix actress (5,6)

Wound sore

Jansky (symbol)

Follower of Genghis Khan

Type of resin Building extensions

Uni degree Israeli gun

Bans Dried grape

Crow cry Bath

Fray Housemaid (Fr)

Irish Republican Army

Total

Rio is there

Lutetium (symb)

Epochs

Dutch cheese Horse man (Gk myth)

22nd Gk letter

... de plume

Gist

Related Western Region

African canine

Decision A pair

Jerk Purchase

Treat as a celebrity

And so on

At risk (2,5)

Mature Give off

Hindu teacher

Having lines Hand part Store

Not your

Voiced sound

Trig function

Midget buffalo Helpers

Front foremost (4-2)

Paraffin Cosmetic powder

Buzzer

Nobleman

Shellfish

Kernel Celestial object

Needle cases

Spur Merriment

Compass direction

Subtle differences Ashen

With

Seeps

Roads taken

Sew loosely Focal point

Immature insects

Crease French sec schools

He takes bets

Elite groups

Ancient document marks

SA cattle breed

Spectacle on ice (3,4)

Hiccup sound

Not said

Switzerland (www)

Auricles

While

Kibibyte (symb)

Dossier

... and ivory

Turkish Mr Freshwater food fish

Rage

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Very cold Roman seven

Ibidem (abbr)

No good (abbr)

Greased

Bismuth (symbol)

Ratites

Gorse

Tibetan cattle

Oblique look

Goddess of warfare

Pouchlike hat

Anthropod's appendage

Palmate

Lumbus

S Amer feline

Causing vomiting

Nocturnal birds

Midday N Amer Indians Sing in plainsong

Factor

Specific gravity

Piercing

Subject to debate Pale

No name (abbr)

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Game of Thrones star (6,5)

Kinetic energy

Free State (abbr)

Baron (abbr) Plead Vibrations (slang)

Red marine fish

Highest point

Luck Day actress (4,6)

VIII Cirque

The man's Nuts

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9 3

6 7

7 7

9 20

9 18

6 9

13 18

26 15

12 12

11 10

8 26

17 15

13 26

13 13

9 19

6 3

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19 10

22 8

26 16

17 8

13 9

12 9

13 17

12 17

11 12

17 9

19 20

20 23

14 8

14 9

23 17

9 16

8 12

9 13

26 13

2 17

16 14

20 26

3 8

6 14

16 13

3 17

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6 6

8 19

26 7

20 9

15 20

12 13

8 20

26 3

10 6

16 9

2 6

7 18

3 12

11 20

9 2

17 19

13 13

7 3

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The sky’s the limit for Rolls-Royce

RITISH luxury car manufacturing company Rolls-Royce has been working on a batterypowered airplane for several years. Now it has set a record as the world’s fastest fully electric aircraft. The plane, called Spirit of Innovation, reached a top speed of 623km/h – that’s 213km/h faster than the previous record set in 2017. The company says it also broke the existing 3 000m climb record by 60 seconds, recording a time of 202 seconds. However, the records must still be validated by the World Air Sports Federation. Experts say electric planes could help curb pollution because most conventional planes burn

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fuel, which causes emissions that contribute to global warming. Electric planes are powered by dense battery packs instead of fuel. It works by powering the engine that makes the propeller turn.The problem is that for the battery to provide enough power for this, it’s Rolls-Royce’s Spirit of Innovation is the world’s fastest fully electric aircraft.

usually very heavy which slows down the plane. Rolls-Royce now aims to improve the Spirit’s battery pack so it can be used in larger planes. They plan to eventually transport people or goods in electric planes which will be better for the environment.

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The weight of the battery pack powering the Spirit of Innovation.

7 500

The number of smartphones the plane’s battery is capable of charging.

202 seconds How long it took the Spirit of Innovation to fly 3 000m above Earth.

623km/h The top speed of Rolls-Royce’s batteryoperated plane during a test flight.

AROUND THE WORLD

OREA

GIANT DINOSAUR DISCOVERY

DANCING ROBOTS TEACH CHILDREN

TEL AVIV’S MONEY MATTERS TE It would cost you an arm and a leg to be a tourist in Tel Aviv – the Israeli city is now the most expensive city in the world to live in. Each year a list of the planet’s highest-priced cities is put together based on the cost of staples such as fuel, food and rental prices. Last year Tel Aviv was sixth on the list but it’s now made it to the top due to high inﬂation (see Word of the Week). Paris and Singapore share second place on the list.

Palaeontologists have un unearthed the fossils of a herd of 11 dinosaurs near the port of Trieste in north-eastern Italy. The dinosaurs belong to the Tethyshadros insularis species, a type of duck-billed dinosaur that lived 80 million

years ago and grew up to 5m tall. One of the fossils, dubbed Bruno, is the largest and most complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Italy.

Robots are being used in 300 nursery schools in Seoul, South Korea. The city’s government hopes that this will prepare the next generation for a future of advanced technology. Each robot, called Alpha Mini, is 24,5cm tall. They can read stories, dance and sing songs with the kids. They can also blink and their pupils can go heart-shaped when in conversation because there’s a camera on the robot’s head that takes pictures that are instantly sent to a tablet for viewing.

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CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?

GAMBIA’S UNIQUE VOTING SYSTEM

Electoral systems diﬀer from country to country. In South Africa, everyone who is allowed to vote gets a ballot paper with a list of candidates. You vote by drawing a cross next to the candidate or party you wish to vote for. In Gambia, people vote using marbles. Last year the country held its ﬁrst democratic election but instead of drawing crosses, voters made their mark by tossing marbles into drums. Each drum had a picture of the candidate above it. The country’s electoral commission says this is the fairest way to hold elections because illiterate people (those who can’t read or write) also get a chance to vote.

PILLOW FIGHTS NOW A PROFESSIONAL SPORT

Pillow fights are no longer just something you and your friends do at sleepovers – it’s now a professional sport. The world’s first Pillow Fighting Championship was recently held in Florida, in the US, and it was far from a snooze fest. Organiser Steve Williams says the only difference between these high-action fights and mixed martial arts is that no one gets hurt. “There’s a lot of people who don’t want to see blood,” he says. “They want to see good competition; they just don’t want to see the violence.”

CAMELS’ BOTOX ABUSE

The organisers of a Saudi Arabian beauty pageant for camels have disqualiﬁed more than 40 camels because their owners had cosmetically enhanced the animals. Some owners injected their camels with collagen and Botox to enlarge their lips to make them “prettier”. Others used hormones to boost the animals’ muscles to make them bigger. Camel breeding is big business. This year breeders at the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival competed for $66 million (almost R1 billion) prize money. The winning camels were chosen based on the shape of their heads, necks, humps and posture. you.co.za 6 JANUARY 2022

MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

3D printer creates realistic eye

BRITISH man has received the world’s ﬁrst 3D-printed prosthetic eye. A prosthetic eye is a fake eye – people who’ve lost an eye due to illness or injury are often ﬁtted with one. The prosthetic eye can’t see; it’s

by hand. The 3D prosthetic eye, however, has more depth because it lets light through, making it appear clearer and more realistic. The process of making the 3D eye is also less trouble for the patient. For a conventional prosthetic eye, specialists must make a mould of the eye socket to make

just for cosmetic purposes. Doctors at Moorﬁelds Eye Hospital in London where the procedure was performed say the 3D-printed eye is more realistic-looking than other prosthetic eyes. Conventional prosthetic eyes are discs onto which an iris (the coloured part of the eye) is painted

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suure it fits. But for this new 3Dprinted version, the eye so ocket is digitally scanned whhich creates a detailed im mage of the shape and sizze of the prosthetic. The printer uses this im mage to make an eyeball that’s just the right shape annd size. This also means it ttakes less time to make the eye – two to three daays as opposed to the sixx weeks it takes to make the traditional prosthetic eye. STEVE VERZE (47), the patient who received the 3D-prin p ted eye, lost his eye when he was 20. Before, he used to be self-conscious about his prosthetic eye but now he’s bursting with confidence. “This new eye looks fantastic,” he says. “Because it’s based on 3D digital printing technology, it’s only going to be better and better.” The Moorfields Eye Hospital will soon start clinical trials to test the 3D printer for other patients who have lost an eye.

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Inﬂation is the rate at which the price of goods and services increases over time. It means that people need more money to get the same amount of something. If inﬂation is high, it means prices increase faster than expected or predicted.

BY THE NUMBERS

10 The length in minutes of TAYLOR SWIFT’s remake of the song All Too Well. She released the song, oﬀ her album Red (Taylor’s Version), last November. It now holds the Guinness World Record for the longest song to make it to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts. The previous record was held by Don McLean’s American Pie which was 8 minutes and 37 seconds long.

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The number of white rhinos transported from SA to Rwanda in November 2021 – reportedly the largest relocation of rhinos from one natural habitat to another. Rhinos aren’t indigenous to Rwanda but researchers and conservationists hope moving the animals to the Akagera National Park in Rwanda will boost the numbers of this species in the area.

The distance in kilometres Michael Yellowlees walked to raise funds for a charity in Scotland. Michael, who is Scottish, walked across Canada with his best friend, a husky named Luna. The epic journey, from Toﬁno on the west coast to Cape Spear on the east coast, took them nine months and they raised more than $60 000 (nearly R1 million).

A crane hoists an enormous star to the top of the Sagrada Familia, a cathedral in Barcelona, Spain. This unique

FIVE QUICK QUESTIONS 1

What does the Japanese word “karaoke” mean?

Which African country’s ﬂag is this?

Who wrote the novel Oliver Twist?

In which American national park is the well-known geyser Old Faithful?

How many legs does a butterﬂy have?

cathedral was constructed in 1882. The star weighs 5,5 tons and the tower it sits on is 138m tall.

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

When gold was discovered in California, in the US, in the 19th century, the city of San Francisco expanded at a rapid rate. People realised that the land on the other side of the Golden Gate – the entrance to San Francisco Bay – would be much more valuable if there was a direct route there from the city. That’s how the idea for the Golden Gate Bridge was born. After years of planning, construction started on the bridge in 1933. It was a challenging job – the tides of the sea strait, regular storms and thick fog made it very diﬃcult for workers. Rocks that were deeply submerged had to be blasted away to make way for foundations – and these needed to be earthquake-resistant. Altogether 11 construction workers died over the course of construction and the bridge took four years to complete. This is why the project’s lead engineer, Joseph Strauss,

designed a safety net that could be moved around while the workers worked The net saved the lives of worked.The 19 workers who fell while construction took place. When the bridge was ﬁnally completed in 1937, it was the tallest and longest suspension (hanging) bridge in the world. It is

1,28km long and is suspended from cables attached to towers that are 227m high. high At its centre, the road surface is 81m above the high-water mark.The bridge was painted orange to complement the surrounding area, and to make it more visible to ships when conditions are foggy.

ANSWERS 1 Empty orchestra. 2 Tanzania. 3 Charles Dickens. 4 Yellowstone National Park. 5 Six.

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We love dinos! Do you love them too? Draw a picture or make up a story about your favourite type.

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Cut & paste puzzle Cut out the pieces on the right and paste them in the grid below.

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TAURUS

GEMINI

21 March – 19 April

20 April – 20 May

21 May – 20 June

Your confidence is set to soar in 2022, thanks to larger-than-life Jupiter making its first entrance into your sign in over a decade. May to October and again from December are especially ripe for pursuing a personal dream or passion. Overall, life will feel fuller as new experiences for growth and expansion beckon. As you spread your wings and say “yes” to life, you’ll radiate a “can-do” attitude that will see opportunities fall in your lap. Whether you’re looking for career progress, fulfilling relationships, more money or all of the above, the more you believe in yourself the more likely you’ll manifest whatever your heart desires!

Restlessness and change have been a signature, and necessary, theme over the past few years. Hopefully any upsets have guided you in making more authentic choices. 2022 will continue to bring exciting and possibly dramatic turning points as your personal growth this year is set alight. You’ll be ready to shake oﬀ the solid, stable and familiar and trade it for potential and possibility. Be willing and ready to embrace change as it will catapult you into freedom, self-expression and adventure. If you find yourself doing things that are out of character for you, then that’s your cue that you’re on the right track!

You thrive on a multitude of options. This year though, you may ask yourself, how much is too much? As 2021 becomes 2022, take time to dream up your ideal life. Whether it’s your career aspirations or major life plans, this year will oﬀer you a smorgasbord of opportunities. Sounds fantastic, doesn’t it? The problem is your energy may run thin, especially if every new opportunity looks as shiny as the last. Your challenge this year is to follow your heart and avoid distraction. Decide what it is you want and put your best efforts forward to bring your dreams to life.

RELATIONSHIPS Eclipses in your self-

RELATIONSHIPS With rolling eclipses

esteem zone suggest you need to value yourself more in relationships. Others will follow suit. With lucky Jupiter in your sign (May to October, and again in December) you’ll be more popular with everyone.

CAREER Start the year by working

and chaos planet Uranus, 2022 is a big year for you and all your relationships. If you’re single and looking, it’s definitely a standout year to meet someone special. If you’re attached, tend to your relationship when it’s troubled. Don’t take anyone for granted.

CAREER You have to put in some Saturni-

RELATIONSHIPS Your social life is better than it’s been in at least 12 years. This isn’t just the post-lockdown eﬀect, it’s because happy planet Jupiter in your friends zone during 2022 puts you at the top of everyone’s invitation lists. Great friendships can boost your love life. CAREER Be careful all the after-hours

through your fear of success. What holds you back? Maybe talk to a counsellor to clear your career blocks. Blast away past professional dramas and move on. A new career trajectory begins in May.

an hard yards to get to or stay at the top. Work through whatever is holding you back. Forgive whoever was involved in gestating this fear (including you).

fun doesn’t negatively impact your job. Obviously after restrictions there’s going to be a temptation to go wild, but you need balance. A job that inspires you will reward you best in every way.

WELLNESS is comparatively happier and

WELLNESS With so much wild energy in

WELLNESS Again, avoid too much

easier overall. Despite all the razzmatazz coming your way, you are still in a healing cycle. Whether that means healing mentally, emotionally, physically or spiritually, make it a priority for the year ahead.

your chart, you must take extra good care of yourself to avoid burnout. Meditation will soothe you and walking with bare feet on the earth (or using a grounding blanket) will ground you.

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fun, especially if your system is fragile. Your 2022 planetary alignments suggest you focus on your mental health, so meditate, chant, do yoga or whatever you need to do to get into a calm headspace.

Too much fun?

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AIR

FIRE

WATER

EARTH

CANCER

LEO

VIRGO

21 June – 21 July

22 July – 22 August

23 August – 22 September

Golden opportunities open up for you from May to October and again from December thanks to Jupiter’s once-ina-decade arrival in your professional and major life plans zone. You might be ready to strike out in a new direction, travel or make your life and career path increasingly philosophically aligned. As your worldly ambitions take a hold, a new realisation may be made about important relationships in your life. This year may encapsulate the ethos of “a reason, a season or a lifetime” when it comes to other people. Focus on stretching your own comfort zones. Some will join you in your growth, others may not.

There’s no escaping the intensity that relationships of all kinds have brought you. If you’ve been papering over the cracks last year, then 2022 may make or break certain partnerships. In all areas of life, but especially your career and major life plans, an experimental approach will help. If you’re craving freedom, autonomy or more independence, keep an eye out for opportunities in July and August. The tricky part for you is the adjustment required between your restlessness and your responsibilities. While you may be impatient for progress, anything worth having, whether that be love, money or fulfilment, is worth its time and due diligence.

Love and money receive a cosmic boost as Jupiter moves through Pisces and Aries. You might be ready to commit to a significant purchase, pay oﬀ a loan or join financial forces with someone else. With the Western half of your solar chart the most active in 2022, you can make brilliant progress in relationships, longer-term finances, as well as your health and wellness. Time management may still be an issue as you learn to draw firm boundaries. Glorifying the grind is a thing of the past. With so much happiness coming your way, seek to commit to being aligned instead.

RELATIONSHIPS It’s one more year with eruptive Pluto in your love zone. If you’ve been giving your beloveds a hard time, purge yourself emotionally. Respond instead of reacting. You can also make some super powerful connections. CAREER Your career luck is at a 12-year

RELATIONSHIPS Saturn lingers in your

love stars in 2022. Look for someone who lifts you up and inspires you. Give anyone you suspect is dodgy a very wide berth. If you’re long-term attached, go deeper with your partner.

CAREER How exciting do you want things

CAREER Slow and steady achieves your career goals in 2022. Show up every day and do what needs doing. It might not sound like a lot of fun but turn your work into service to others. All the fun in your love life will thankfully take your mind oﬀ any drudgery.

love zone throughout 2022. What you sow is what you reap in relationships. Do as you would be done by and you won’t go too far wrong. Be as selﬂess as you can be for one more year (and a bit).

peak. Think big and visualise what you want to achieve professionally. You will be the ﬂavour of the month at work on and oﬀ, and there should be some fun chances to travel for work too. Financially, the more you plan, the better.

to be professionally? The eclipses combined with change-making Uranus in your career zone mean you are poised for a total career turnaround in 2022.

WELLNESS How do the eclipses in your

WELLNESS Detox planet Pluto is still in

fun and friendship zones lead to better health? Happy mind = healthy body. The ruler of your wellness zone, Jupiter, is in really good shape, so you should be too (especially in the first half of 2022).

Be nice, be kind, smile

RELATIONSHIPS You have impressive

WELLNESS You have tedious, karmic

your wellness zone in 2022. The more you take the rubbish out of your life, the better. Declutter your home (and notice the positive impact on your mental health) and treat your body as much as you can.

planet Saturn in your wellness zone in 2022. Luckily you’re naturally drawn to a healthy lifestyle. More than ever, routines are your friend. Take that supplement and eat right to boost your energy levels. Get enough sleep too!

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SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

23 September – 22 October

23 October – 21 November

22 November – 20 December

Your greatest growth in 2022 can be found through personal and professional partnership. Two bites of the cosmic apple will double the opportunity to meet someone new. If you’re partnered, you can explore what healthy independence means. Themes of generosity, adventure and experience will help boost your confidence as well as rekindle your faith in life and love. Meeting a mentor or a person of wisdom is likely, someone who takes you under their wing and plays a pivotal role in your growth and success. August to October is prime for getting to know yourself better or pursuing a personal interest or passion.

Personal development is big in 2022. Wherever you’re looking for success, growth and progress, much of it will stem from surrendering old habits. When it comes to important relationships, your goal is to trade complexity for simplicity. Embrace opportunities to purge, forgive and release the past. As you learn to see things for exactly how they are, you’ll feel freer and in the moment. This will be important as some of the happiest developments arrive from January to May and again from October to December. If you’ve felt disillusioned in the past, April is a standout month in which to renew your faith in joy.

Forging ahead with a New Year’s resolution of increased health, wellness and vitality will serve you well in 2022. Embrace a “me-first” attitude when it comes to taking care of yourself, being physically active and forging ahead with personal desires. Achieving goals also means eliminating distractions, so aim your arrow intentionally as the year begins. Large-scale growth is set for your home and family life, including children. Making big changes that align with your evolving circumstances or realising a domestic dream is likely. Some of your most joyful and special moments arrive from May to October and again in December.

RELATIONSHIPS Are you ready for ro-

mance? You have the best love stars you’ve had in more than a decade, thanks to lucky Jupiter in your love zone. It could bring more romantic options, happiness about who you are with, or the confidence to leave an unhappy relationship.

CAREER Quiet career sectors don’t

necessarily mean a dull work life in 2022. Reframe it and decide to have a smoothsailing year at work. The lack of drama is a chance to get important projects happening. Financially, there could be bonuses.

WELLNESS With the planet Neptune

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RELATIONSHIPS It’s an intense astrological year for your love life. With eclipses and the planet of chaos, Uranus, in your love zone, it’s basically a case of all bets are oﬀ. Be careful what you wish for. Massive changes are possible in your most important partnerships.

RELATIONSHIPS You have great roman-

tic energy in your chart, especially between May and October. This is less about commitment and more about enjoying yourself in the moment (though good things can follow).

CAREER Understand this: you are in a

CAREER Your career is unlikely to be bor-

WELLNESS Jupiter’s move into your well-

WELLNESS Focus on your wellness this

place astrologically where you have the chance to change your life 100%. This is not an overstatement. So if you want to change your career in 2022, take steps towards making it happen.

ing in 2022. And if it is boring, you’ll change things up. Routines will be hard to stick to and you may never know what’s next, but if you work hard 2022 could be an amazing year professionally.

ness zone – on and oﬀ – is great news for you if you feel exhausted. Jupiter helps you to stay positive about life, and that’s half the battle, right? When we enjoy our days, our health tends to be better.

year because everything is up in the air. As you can’t rely on routine, it could be very easy to slip into bad habits. Obviously bad habits don’t lead to feeling good. So be wise – make time for self-care.

A very big year

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AIR

WATER

EARTH

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

21 December – 20 January

21 January – 18 February

19 February – 20 March

2022 could turn out to be a year to remember. Profound, powerful and permanent personal change is to be expected. In fact, you’ve been undergoing this since 2008, but this year may feel a bit like a finale. So, with that in mind, develop your curiosity by exploring a personal interest, diving into self-help or healing, or devour topics of interest in any areas that stir your soul. As you develop rituals and routines that align with you, you’ll be amazed at how, as a by-product, the ﬂoodgates in other areas of life open up and opportunities magically show up for you.

2022 is a year of honouring your priorities. This is the last full calendar year where the cosmos oﬀers you the chance to make meaningful and long-lasting changes. You might opt to double down on certain responsibilities and choices, or you’ll gain the maturity to know when to give up. As you grapple with options, be mindful to communicate your thoughts to those who matter, especially in the first quarter of the year. You will be rewarded with increased support in March and April, which may be tough months. Even though you like to be firm in your choices, reserve the right to change your mind.

Balancing your desire to give to others and your need to get oﬀ the proverbial grid will be your challenge in 2022. Give yourself the space you need to acknowledge your achievements thus far. You may also need to recognise that you still have a way to go. Fortunately, Jupiter in your own sign will help. In fact, you’ve got growth and opportunity in spades this year – but you will need to embrace it. A little bit of soul-searching can illuminate the subconscious patterns that have held you back from reaching your full potential. Courage is taking action despite your fears.

RELATIONSHIPS The pressure from serious Saturn could leak into your relationships. Don’t be too heavy-handed with the people you love. Focus on how well or not you are communicating. Lighten things up for best results.

RELATIONSHIPS You’ll feel more conﬁdent, which boosts your most important one-to-one relationships. You tend to be easy-going with people, but once you start to realise how fabulous you are, hopefully you’ll draw a few stronger boundaries.

RELATIONSHIPS 2022’s eclipses bring

change to your friendship sector. Get out and have fun with your friends – especially if you‘re seeking romance. If you’re attached, tap into the good energy by socialising more as a couple.

CAREER Passionate Pluto is in your sign all year (though you may be interested to know that this changes in 2023), so your whole life is still up for transformation, including your career. Always maintain your professional integrity. WELLNESS There are no particularly no-

table energies in your wellness zone this year. That said, one of the best ways for you to look after yourself in terms of your health in 2022 is to detox from whatever you know is not good for you in your diet. That might not sound like a lot of fun, but it will boost your wellness.

More power and passion

CAREER The eclipses suggest a big career

year for you. How ambitious are you? This is the year to really go for it. If you fear that your current position is tenuous, you would do well to see what else is around as a Plan B, because these energies are extremely volatile.

CAREER Study and/or travel are both

WELLNESS Saturn in your sign can bring

WELLNESS Fears don’t just hold us back

well starred for you in 2022, thanks to the eclipses. Colleagues, clients and bosses will love your open-minded perspective and agree that the sky really is the limit. Financially, 2022 looks promising.

a lot of welcome discipline – to move your body daily, to do the exercises you know it will respond to and to eat well and sleep enough. Be grown up when it comes to looking after yourself in 2022.

in life – they eat away at us. Fear can even make us unwell. As Saturn goes through your 12th house, it’s the ideal time to look at what scares you, and why, and to deal with it.

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HE first thing I learnt about parenting is that the kids ain’t going nowhere. When Corinne was born, the responsibility smacked me upside the head, made me scared as hell. It dawned on me that this parenting thing is forever. And it’s not like having a puppy – the consequences of messing up are way worse than some s**t on the carpet. When you take the kid to school on Monday, you actually have to get up and take them again on Tuesday. Damn, they got to go every day? The things you took for granted when you were a kid, like breakfast, lunch and dinner – that’s now on you. No one is coming to make food for them. But lemme slow down and introduce myself. Hello, my name is Jamie. You might know me from film, television, stand-up comedy, the music world but there are two young girls in my life who don’t give a s**t about any of that and

only know me as Dad. Corinne is now 27, Anelise is 13. They have different mothers (don’t judge me and I won’t judge you). Everything I learnt about parenting came from Estelle and Mark Talley, the beautiful couple who adopted me at seven months. I consider them my grandparents because (and try to keep up because this story is messy) 13 years before they adopted me they’d adopted my mother. Mark was an uncle to my mother, Louise. From what I was told, my mother’s mother, my biological grandmother, was stressed trying to raise my mom’s other siblings. Believe me, I know how hard it i s raising k i d s when

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you have money, and it’s even harder when you don’t. So one day Estelle said to her, “I can’t have kids because God didn’t let me. I always wanted to have kids. Would you allow me to adopt Louise?” They agreed. I guess legally my mother is my sister – I know, it sounds like a countryass Southern thing. But hey, I never married my cousin so, like I said, don’t judge me. By the time my mom turned 26, she’d got married to a man named Darrell Bishop and gave birth to a bighead boy named Eric Marlon Bishop. That was me. Their marriage didn’t work out. Her family saw she was overwhelmed and

offered lots of help. As a result, in my early months I’d spend the majority of time with my grandparents. Finally, Estelle said to her daughter, “Why don’t you let the boy stay here?” Soon that turned into, “Why don’t you let me adopt the boy?” I was five when I found out I was adopted. The news of my parentage was shocking – imagine learning who you thought was your sister was actually your mom and who you thought was your mother was your adoptive grandmother-slash-auntby-marriage (yeah, the story is complicated). But it didn’t devastate me. After I found out my grandparents weren’t really my parents, I finally met my biological mother (as far as I knew, I had a sister who lived far away). I learnt she wasn’t ready for the responsibility of parenting – I mean, I get it now, she wasn’t ready to give up her youth. But back then, I had a hard time with my mother being absent in my life. I got to see things from her perspective just a bit when my daughter Corinne was young and I sometimes had a rough time

came Anelise’s. Jumping ahead to 2000, I was 32 and at a pivotal place in my career when Kristin [Grannis] and I got serious. But although our beautiful relationship brought Anelise into my life I still wasn’t changing my stance on marriage. I saw so many marriages collapsing around me. I was trying to stay away from that trauma. Corinne later told me that when she was young, she wanted me and her mother to be married. Then she started seeing all of her friends’ parents getting divorced by the time she got to high school and she saw how it wrecked them. The performer and Although I never married his eldest daughter, her mom, I pledged to be there Corinne, in front of a for Connie and our daughter. Los Angeles billboard advertising their Those last two months of Netﬂix comedy her pregnancy were really imseries Dad Stop portant for our relationship, Embarrassing Me! establishing a dynamic that continues to this day more than 25 years later. Yeah, we fittin g father- still give each other a lot of s**t, but hood into my we’ll always have each other’s back. crazy schedule. was My career c S MUCH as I want to provide just takking off, I my girls with everything, I was off to the races don’t need them growing and BOOM, liffe hits me up spoilt. All I have to do is nie [Kline, right between the eyes. Conn look around me in Hollyhis girlfriend at the time] told me she wood to see what that was pregnant and I remembeer my body would look like. filling with joy and fear at the ssame time. I think I did a pretty good job with her – I was Corinne in that sense. She was always I didn’t know how to be a fath upposed to disgusted with ostentatious displays of still a kid myself! How was I su change diapers in the middle of o the night wealth. But also, on the flip side, I grew medy club? up poor, remember? So sometimes I get when I was still out in the com Not to mention my circumstances carried away with spending money. weren’t traditional. I wasn’tt married. There I was one evening after [an Connie and I already had problems in American] football game at Corinne’s the relationship like any ccouple, so high school, picking her up after she adding a pregnancy on top of that didn’t put in a full Friday night as head of the help. Things got so stressful and tense cheerleading squad. I’d just got my that we stopped talking to eeach other hands on a sleek new black Rolls-Royce halfway through the pregnanccy. convertible. Oh, it was purty. But after I simmered down, I realised A scene like this was always a dream that by not speaking with her h I’d let of mine, picking up my baby girl at the his intense fancy school populated with all the rich this woman to go through th experience all by herself. Thatt bothered white folks. What teenager wouldn’t love the s**t out of me. that, right? Well, you know the answer. ne. “Listen, Corinne. My very reserved, very sensible I called Connie on the phon I don’t care, we might agree or disagree, teenage daughter Corinne. ut the thing not understand each other, bu I slid the shiny black car into the pickis, we’re having a baby. It’s the best thing up line and moved along with the other in the world. Let’s do this the rright way.” cars. Her high school is a co-ed private So that covers Corinne’s motther – next school that had established a reputa-

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tion as a school of choice for the Hollywood elite. Basically it’s a fancy-pants school. Celeb and rich kids all through those halls. In other words, I figured these kids were used to a certain amount of luxury; I wouldn’t look ridiculous pulling up in my new Rolls-Royce. But when I got to the front of the pickup line and saw the look of horror on my daughter’s face, I started to realise I’d f**ked up. “Dad!” Corinne screeched. “What are you doing?!” Immediately, I panicked. Maybe she just needed to see how cool it was. “Look, Corinne, the top goes down!” I said. Wrong! Corinne looked around at her friends, who seemed to be enjoying the whole spectacle. My daughter wasn’t having it. “You’re embarrassing me. I’m not getting in that!” she said. It wasn’t helping that I was blasting loud hip-hop music. I started to get flustered. “C’mon, Corinne, get in,” I said gently, trying the softer approach, turning the music down a little. But she was already on her phone. “Mom, can you come get me?” she said. “Dad’s trying to pick me up in a ship.” I was mortified. Corinne fled the scene, leaving me there looking like a goofball in the gaudy car. But when I realised why she was embarrassed, I knew I’d done an alright job raising her. Anelise is the world’s foremost expert

on Jamie Foxx’s weaknesses. As a comic, I’m used to being roasted and even more used to dishing it right back out At the 2020 but it’s not really a fair Screen Actors fight with my daughter. Guild Awards with Corinne and his We were sitting at the younger daughter, dinner table a couple of Anelise. years ago with many of my family members who live with me. The subject bounced around to zodiac signs. People were listing the attributes of their signs when Anelise, without even looking up from the videogame on her phone, felt the need to weigh in. “My dad’s a Sagittarius and they say Sagittariuses have trouble committing in their relationships,” she said. I was like, what? Everybody stopped talking for a second, marvelling at this observation from a 10-year-old kid. “Anelise, how do you know about relationships?” one of my cousins asked her. She shrugged. “Relationships is when you really love somebody and you care about them. That’s what relationships are.” “But what do you know about that?” somebody else asked. “Well, that’s what they say about Sagittarius. You can read it.” But I can’t hit her back. I can’t say, “Oh, we gonna talk about relationships, you little Libra? Let’s see how well you do in a relationship if you’re self-indulgent,

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controlling and vindictive!” Yeah, that’s right. I know about the zodiac. Moments like that keep me grounded, no matter how much success and accolades come my way outside the house. Kids get a thrill from messing with you.

HEN it came time for Corinne to start dating, I’ll admit that I had a hard time figuring out where to erect the barriers. Things were so different from when I was a teenager. So how strict or lax was I going to be when it came to my daughters dating? Hollywood isn’t exactly known for its stern parenting practices; I didn’t want to be as laissez faire as the parents I saw around me. “Oh, our darling child just got their second DUI [driving under the influence]? Let’s let the lawyers handle that and get him a brand-new BMW to replace the one he wrecked.” But I knew what could happen when you go too far in the other direction and your kids decide they need to break out of jail in a big way. So being an Old-School Dad wasn’t gonna cut it, and being an LA No-Dad was a no go, so I came up with a new

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Celebrating last year after a show Corinne starred in won two Emmy awards.

concoction known as . . . New Dad. New Dad attacked parenting challenges in a much different way than Old-School Dad. When talking to a daughter about to begin dating, Old-School Dad might say something like, “You know, just find somebody who’s gonna treat you right,” and leave it at that. New Dad is gonna roll up his sleeves and get in there. “Let me tell you what they tryna do — they tryna hit it.” And then New Dad is gonna teach her about condoms. Not to encourage sex, but New Dad knows odds are he won’t be able to prevent sex, and New Dad ain’t about to become New Granddad. I had a prime opportunity to trot out New Dad with Corinne. We were filming Django Unchained in Louisiana at an actual former sugarcane plantation, so I decided it would be an educational experience for my family to come to the set. I don’t know what I expected – on the call sheet they had grips and gaffers, not historical experts ready to give families tours of the set. Corinne showed up shortly after her 18th birthday in early 2012. Once she got there, she looked around at all the stars in the movie, including Leonardo DiCaprio, the great Samuel L Jackson, Kerry Washington and Christoph Waltz, and she just couldn’t understand what I was doing there. “Dad, why’d they pick you?” she asked. I looked at her. The girl was serious. She’d sat right there next to me when I won the Academy Award in 2005 [ for Ray] seven years earlier. Maybe she thought the academy had made a mistake. Corinne seemed to really enjoy herself that day on set. But oh, I forgot to mention: Corinne showed up . . . with her

boyfriend. Like many fathers of daughters, the presence of a boyfriend puts me on immediate high alert. I want to be courteous and gracious, but a part of me also wants to punch him in the throat for no reason. Especially after it got to evening time and we all retired to the house I was staying at. “Where are we sleeping?” Corinne asked. WE?! As in where are you AND your boyfriend

sleeping?! Corinne hadn’t introduced me to many of her boyfriends, and I was all ready to sink into Old Dad. Thank God, I was able to take a deep breath. This was a prime opportunity for New Dad tactics. “Okay,” I said. “This is what’s going to happen. I know what you guys are going to do – you’re gonna respect me. So I’m going to let you sleep in the same bedroom. Okay? You see, I’m trying something new.” Corinne had no idea what I was talking about and didn’t care. She just wanted to go to sleep. So she headed to the bedroom. Her boyfriend started to follow her, but I grabbed him by the arm before he left the room. “Listen!” I said in a stage whisper. “Don’t f**k me up!” He looked at me with a mix of fear and confusion. “What do you mean?” What did I mean? Did I have to have the birds-and-bees talk with this fool, too? “You know exactly what I mean,” I said. “You can do anything when I’m not around or whatever.” I thought about how that sounded. “Well, I’m not saying you could do anything, but I’m just saying, you gotta respect me. Don’t f**k me up. You know what I’m saying?” He stared at me and nodded. “Yeah, I got you,” he said. Off he went to join Corinne in the bedroom. I was thinking, Yeah, this is going to work, because I’m New Dad, remember. I went to one of the other bedrooms, where Anelise and her mom were about to go to sleep. “What are you doing?” Kristin asked me, all kinds of judgment in her voice.

“What do you mean, what am I doing?” “You’re going to let your daughter be in the same bedroom with a guy?” she said. “Alone?” “Yeah,” I said. “Because I’m New Dad. I know what I’m doing. I’m basically taking the adventure out of it, you know what I’m saying? I’m taking the sneakiness out of it. They know not to disrespect me because I’m basically taking all of the hype and adrenaline out of sneaking around.” She rolled her eyes. “Well, whatever,” she said. “You won’t be doing that with our daughter.” “Nah, I got this,” I said. I was thinking, She’s Old Mom. I’m New Dad. I went to my room and lay my head down on the pillow. By 1 am I realised I wasn’t going to be able to fall asleep. 2 am: my mind was racing like crazy – I was having flashbacks to myself as a teenager. 3 am: it dawned on me. I let my daughter and some guy share a bedroom! 4 am: New Dad had a straight-up anxiety attack. I jumped out of the bed and slowly crept over to their bedroom. I did one of those quick knocks and pushed open the door, like the cleaning lady at the hotel who barges in and catches you butt naked. I didn’t want to give them time to stop whatever they were doing. If anything was happening, it was about to be murder on the dancefloor. When I stepped into the room, it took me a second to focus my eyes. Busted, I thought. They were both in bed together! But then, when my brain caught up with my eyes, I realised the boyfriend was lying on top of the covers with his clothes on sleeping in the opposite direction while Corinne was snug underneath the covers, both of them sound asleep. It was even more PG than the cartoons Anelise was THIS IS AN EDITED EXTRACT FROM ACT LIKE watching. GOT SOME SENSE Wa s Ne w D a d YOU AND OTHER THINGS MY TAUGHT ME right? Was I dead-on DAUGHTERS BY JAMIE FOXX WITH NICK in my analysis? I have CHILES (CONSTABLE), AT TAKEALOT.COM no idea. All I know is R419* PRICE CORRECT AT THE that my daughter is TIME OF GOING TO PRINT AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE awesome. ❑ WITHOUT NOTICE. you.co.za 6 JANUARY 2022

THE WORLD’S WEIRDEST MUSEUMS They’re not just a home for fancy art – these museums show there are other fascinating things that can also be showcased COMPILED BY COLIN HENDRICKS MACABRE, GRIM & GRUESOME S Museum of Mummies of

Guanajuato, Mexico This macabre museum has more than 100 mummified corpses, from infants to adults, on display. In the 19th century hundreds of people were buried in the Santa Paula cemetery in the tiny mining town of Guanajuato but because their families couldn’t pay the

town’s grave tax, the bodies were exhumed – and it was discovered the corpses had become mummified through natural processes linked to the area’s unique climate. News of the mummies spread and it was decided to put the corpses on display in a museum, which opened in 1969. Today it remains one of the most popular tourist attractions in the country.

The Avanos Hair Museum in Turkey has the locks of 16 000 women on display.

More than 100 mummies are on display in the Museum of Mummies in Mexico.

NSTANT noodles, salt shakers and toilets aren’t the kind of things that usually make up museum fare. But dinosaur bones and ancient artefacts aren’t going to cut it for the curators of these unusual, fascinating, absurd and sometimes gruesome exhibitions.

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Funeral History in Texas documents the history of undertakers’ work as well as funeral rituals and techniques from around the world.

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The mummified corpse of cannibal Si Ouey can be viewed at the Siriraj Medical Museum in Thailand.

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Bangkok,Thailand, isn’t a destination for sensitive tourists. Its halls resemble scenes from a horror film, with displays of severed limbs and skulls penetrated by bullets. The main attraction is the mummified corpse of gardener Si Ouey, a notorious cannibal who killed several children in the ’50s.

THE HAIR-RAISING MUSEUM Avanos Hair Museum, Turkey In 1979, when Turkish potter Chez Galip had to say goodbye to a dear friend who was moving house, the woman cut a lock from her hair for Chez to remember her by. Later, several other women who heard the sad story also sent Chez locks of their hair, which are now on

display in an underground cave in the town of Avanos that he uses as his studio. Locks of hair from about 16 000 women who sent their hair to Chez over the past 40 years dangle from the ceiling in the studio – each with a tag bearing its owner’s name and address.

In The Salt & Pepper Shaker Museum you’ll find condiment containers in every shape imaginable.

FASCINATING FOR FOODIES S CupNoodles Museum,

Japan Noodles are big in this East Asian country and it’s where Momofuku Ando created the world’s first instant noodles – chicken-flavoured ramen ones – in 1958. So little wonder Japan is home to this museum, which opened in 1999. There are two branches: one in Yokohama and one in Ikeda, Osaka. The museum documents Momofuku’s influential creation and the evolution of instant noodles. Noodles from all over the world are on display, and visitors can sample Japan’s best instant ramen as

The CupNoodles Museum in Osaka, Japan, documents the history of instant noodles.

well as 800 types of noodles not readily available. You can even design your own instantnoodle packet at the museum. It must be the dream of many a famished university student to try out all the flavours.

S Many people collect salt

and pepper cellars and in 2002 Andrea Ludden’s obsession with the containers culminated in The Salt & Pepper Shaker Museum in Tennessee, USA. Andrea’s museum has more than 22 000 salt and pepper sets of every imaginable shape, from chickens and cats to feet and a pair modelled after the

Mona Lisa. Visitors can buy duplicates in the gift shop.

S The European Bread

Museum in Ebergötzen, Germany, is a collection of more than 18 000 items, including ancient artefacts from bakeries dating to the Stone Age.

S Avery Island in Louisiana,

USA, is home to the Tabasco Brand Factory Tour & Museum. It was here that the hot sauce was created, and is where it’s been produced for the past 153 years. Visitors are treated to a factory tour before being invited to taste the sauce.

THEY’LL MAKE YOU GASP Torture Museum, Netherlands This museum documents the history of torture and executions. An interrogation chair embedded with nails and executioners’ swords are among more than 40 devices on display that were

Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of the Sulabh toilet museum, with a replica of French King Louis XIV’s throne.

employed for the interrogation of crime suspects, witches and political prisoners. The museum supports the UN’s convention against torture, and visitors are informed about modern-day torture practices in more than 100 countries.

LOVE, SEX & RELATIONSHIPS ships, Croatia Singer Whitney Houston wondered, “Where do broken hearts go?” and while they might not end up here, items linked to their sad states do. The museum, which opened in Zagreb in 2006, displays items from failed romantic relationships, including shoes, wedding gowns and even a prosthetic leg,

with a note from the jilted lover on the significance of that item.

S In 2002 the Museum of Sex

documenting the evolution of human sexuality opened in New York. With its collection of historical sex toys, a “jumping castle of breasts” and vintage nude photos, the museum has definitely raised a few eyebrows.

NOT FOR POLITE COMPANY S Sulabh International Museum

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of Toilets, IndiaThis museum in Delhi might look like a plumbing warehouse but contains golden toilets coveted by Roman emperors and thrones from bygone eras. It chronicles the history of hygiene and sanitation from 2500 BC to the present. And what would a public toilet be without graffiti on the walls?The museum also boasts a collection of rare toilet poems.

S The National Poo Museum

on the Isle of Wight, England, was opened in 2016 to break the taboo around talking about bowel movements by sharing all sorts of fascinating facts on the subject. The displays cover human, animal and even fossilised excrement that’s millions of years old. The museum is hoping to receive donations from well-known personalities for future displays. ❑ you.co.za 6 JANUARY 2022

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When these stars made headlines, it wasn’t for being the best in the game BY KIM ABRAHAMS

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HEY’RE athletes at the top of their game – fit, fabulously talented and super famous. But in 2021

they didn’t make headlines only for the sports they’ve mastered. Controversy and drama were the order of the day in a year when achievement took a back seat to personal issues.

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The year started off pretty well for the golfing great and he was on n track to make moves in the game he loved – until he totalled his car in Febru uary, shattering both his legs and pre etty much smashing his hopes of a comeback to the professional game. The 15-time Major cham-pion had to undergo hours of surgery to repair his lower right leg and ankle after his SUV veered off the road in Los Angeles and flipped several times. Though he was found to be speeding, police say he wasn’t under the influence of any substances. Woods (46) – who’s been plagued for years by back injuriies – is on the mend and will soon be playing in a tournament alongside Charrlie Axel Woods (12), his son with ex x-wife Elin Nordegren. Teeing off alongside the biggest names in the sport on the greatest greens in the world is likely a thing of the past, thoug gh. 92

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Everyone from Boris Becker to Martina Navratilova had something to say when Osaka refused to attend post-match press conferences at the French Open in May. Facing a room full of world media was detrimental to her mental health and heightened her anxiety, she said. “The truth is I’ve suﬀered long bouts of depression since the US Open in 2018 and I’ve had a really hard time coping with that,” Osaka (24) said. She was slapped with a $15 000 (R240 000) ﬁne for not honnouring

her contractual media obligations and threatened with disqualiﬁcation or suspension from the women’s tour. Becker said she had “to learn to deal with it”, while Navratilova tweeted that in an attempt to make the situation better for herself and others, Osaka had “inadvertently made it worse”. Osaka stood her ground and also pulled out of Wimbledon to focus on her mental health. She’s now ready to return to the court. “Kinda rusty, but good to be back,” she says.

NOVAK DJO OVIC He’s just one win away from ma record-breaking 21st Grand d Slam win but he might not have the chance to make history at the t 2022 Australian Open.The world No 1 could be barred from entering e the country because of his ﬁerce ﬁ opposition to mandatory Covid-19 vaccines. Djokovic (34) claims he issn’t an anti-vaxxer – he’s just “alwaays believed in freedom of choiice”. Former Aussie tennis plaayer Paul McNamee says he’s fed up with the furore surrounding g the ace. “If he plays the Australian Open, he’s either vaccinated or has an approved medical exemption. If not, he

doesn’t play,” he says. “Same rules for everyone – as they should be.”

NORWAY’S BEACH HANDBALL TEAM

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The European Handball Federation got their knickers in a knot when the team refused to wear bikinis at a European Championship match in Bulgaria in July. The players were each ﬁned £1 300 (R23 537) for donning shorts, which the regulatory body deemed “improper clothing”. The team was outraged, claiming the global beach handball rules were archaic.

“With so much body-shaming and stuﬀ like that these days, you should be able to wear a little bit more when you play,” said player Martine Welﬂer. The team scored a goal for women around the world when the International Handball Federation changed the rules in November: com women are now allowed to compete in tank tops and spandex bottoms.

‘YOU SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO WEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE WHEN YOU PLAY’

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The American sprinter caused a stink when she was disqualiﬁed from the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for marijuana. Although the substance is legal in Oregon, where she smoked it, marijuana is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Richardson (21) says she smoked a joint to cope with her mother’s passing a week before the Olympic trials began. A reporter broke the devastating news to her, she says. “Finding out something like that deﬁnitely was a very heavy topic on me.”

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PENG SHUAI The former World Doubles champ triggered global outrage g when she disappeared from f the public eye after claiming online that she’d been sexually assaulted by a highranking memb ber of the Chinese Communist Paarty (CCP). Shortly afte er Peng (35) published her blog, th he post was deleted and she vanish hed – prompting tennis stars Billie Jean King, Naomi Osaka and Serrena Williams to call for an investig gation into her disappearance. A series of photos p purporting to show a smiling g Peng going about her life in Beijing were later released, but the ere are still concerns for her wellbeing as the pictures

were posted by people working for Chinese g government-controlled media and the state sports system.

She may be only 1,42m tall but the 24-year-old is the biggest gymnast in the world. Yet it wasn’t her gravity-defying feats at last year’sTokyo Games that thrust her into the spotlight but the mental-health issues that saw her withdrawing from the greatest sporting spectacle on the planet. Biles under immense pressure Biles, und to bring back medals for herself America, delivered beandTeam A low-par perrformances in the preunds of the competition liminary rou nced she was pulling out and announ to concentrate on herself. “There’s more to life than the Olympics, y p ” she said. Although she had strong supmany quarters, she also port from m or criticism from some came in fo o felt pressure came who with the territory. w Simone said she was sad about withdrawing. “But then on the ﬂipside, I’m like, ‘You know how many people I helped by speaking out and teaching them that tthey need to speak up ffor themselves?’ “I knew that it was h” rright.

QUINTON DE KOCK The Proteas batsman refused to take the knee in support of the ﬁght against racism before a match against the West Indies at the T20 World Cup in Dubai. Some accused him of racism while others lambasted Cricket South Africa, which had issued the instruction for all players to take the knee shortly before the start of the match. The 29-year-old later issued an emotional statement explaining his reasons. “I didn’t understand why I had to prove it with a gesture, when I live and learn and love people from all walks of life every day,” said De

Kock, who comes from a mixedrace family. “When you’re told what to do, with no discu ussion, I felt like it takes away tthe meaning.” ke the knee He did tak in the next m match, however. “If me takiing a knee helps to educate others, and makes the lives of others o better, I am more m than happy to do so,” he said.

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E BELIEVES the meta verse will be the future of the internet. In fact, so strong is his conviction, he was willing to pay almost R1 billion – in cash – to buy the trade mark of the name. It’s safe to say Mark Zuckerberg is serious about dominating the meta verse, as the recent purchase of the trademark name from US bank Meta Financial Group showed. As the year drew to a close Meta Platforms Inc, which is how Zuck re branded the company formerly known as Facebook Inc, paid $60 million (about R900 million) in cash for all rights to the Meta name. That’s pocket change compared to how much he’s already spent to start growing the metaverse – but he be lieves the cost is worth it for what he

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE The metaverse is a virtual world where people can socialise, work and play – and Mark Zuckerberg wants to make it happen in the next 10 years OMPILED BY DENNIS CAVERNELIS

Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse astronaut.

The Facebook founder wants to create a virtual world in which you can live and interact without having to see another person in the flesh. In the metaverse you show up as a digital character and do things as if it were in real life. Of course, this isn’t anything new – gamers have long been interacting in the metaverse. And The Sims and Second Life, which are based on virtual communities simulating normal life, have been around since 2000 and 2003 respectively. But Zuck believes the metaverse is going to become so mainstream it will be the new face of the internet. Building this digital universe won’t happen overnight, however – he ex pects it to take a decade for it reach a billion people and he’s hired 10 000 people to work on it. 94

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The Facebook cofounder’s vision of his metaverse.

BUT WHAT IS IT EXACTLY? Right now when you go online, it’s typically via your cellphone or laptop and you engage with apps or websites via your screen. All your digital activity happens in the real world. With the metaverse, you’ll be immersed in a virtual world where you can see yourself via your avatar, which is a digital character you create to represent you in that world. In other words, you’ll move around in a digital world that’s been created for you, inter

acting and engaging with other avatars as if you were together in the real world. For example, you could be in a coffee shop in Sandton having a virtual coffee with a friend who’s at a café in Paris. You’d be in that digital restaurant having coffee together even though you’re physically on different con tinents. More companies will start to create virtual worlds in the future, experts predict. A res

taurant chain might do it so you and your friend can have that coffee in their virtual restau rant, for example. “Just as every company a few decades ago created a webpage and then at some point every company created a Facebook page, I think we’re approaching the point where every company will have a real time live 3D presence,” Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, which owns Fortnite, told the Los AngelesTimes.

Did you know? The “metaverse” was coined by author Neal Stephenson in his 1992 sci-fi novel Snow Crash, and the idea was revisited as “the Oasis” in Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One. “Meta” means beyond and “verse” refers to the universe.

BUT HOW WOULD IT WORK? Augmented reality (AR) is technology that allows companies to create virtual worlds that are accessed via devices like smartphones or AR headsets. You may have heard of Pokémon GO, a popular AR game where players tried to “catch” cartoon characters in the real world using their phones, which overlayed an image of the creatures on real-world surroundings. The metaverse works in a similar way with users wearing headsets to see an AR version of reality. Companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google and Ray-Ban have been working on developing digital glasses, headsets and even contact lenses to access

Companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Google and Ray-Ban have been working on developing digital glasses.

the metaverse Mark Zuckerberg wants to create his own virtual world in the way he did with Facebook – he wants everyone to basically hang out there. This will allow him to sell virtual products or have advertisers market to users. The software he’ll be using will be called Horizon. Meta is

alsodevel pingARglasses calledNazaré.They’re similar toGoogleGlass, introduced by Google a decade ago. It never took oﬀ with consumers – these days it’s modified to clip onto the spectacles or safety goggles of workers in manufacturing industries to feed them information.

YOU’VE PROBABLY BEEN IN THE METAVERSE If you’ve ever used a virtual background while on a video call, you’ve engaged with the metaverse. Or likely your kids have if they’ve played popular games like Fortnite, Roblox, Animal Crossing and Minecraft, where they’ve created and shaped their own worlds, along with avatars, to interact with other players.

Popular video games like Fortnite already tap into the metaverse realm.

“If the last generation is about sharing, the next generation of social media is going to be about participating,” says Sima Sistani, co-founder of the video-chatting network Houseparty.

“A great example of this is the RiftTour featuring Ariana Grande in Fortnite – a performance that you don’t simply watch but navigate and explore with others to the sound of the music.”

Mesh for Teams will also include pre-built immersive spaces where people can get together virtually, and groups can create customised meeting spaces, much like an actual of-

fice or even a water cooler. Microsoft says companies will eventually be able to design spaces themselves to reflect their actual oﬀices.

CHANGING THE WORLD OF WORK Microsoft wants to make hybrid working – where some people are in the oﬀice some days and at home others – easy and convenient. They’re launching Mesh, which will be incorporated into MicrosoftTeams as a virtual meeting platform next year. Instead of joining aTeams meeting with your device camera, you’d pop up as an avatar that moves and talks with your voice. Avatars will be animated by following your face and movements with your webcam. GALLO IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES, WWW.FACEBOOK/RAY-BAN

THE INTERNET TIMELINE S In the 1980s the internet was basically

a series of connected tubes and wires that allowed people to send emails and chat on message boards. S By 1989Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web, the first internet browser, which was the birth of what many of us came to know as the internet. It allowed us to visit diﬀerent websites. S Thelate1990ssawtheriseofuser-generated digital content published on blog sites such as Blogger and imaging sites like Flickr.This Web 2.0 made the internet more accessible to ordinary people because you didn’t need to be able to write code to create your own site. In the Noughties social media became a thing with Myspace, Facebook and Twitter gaining popularity. These days a great deal of our online interaction happens via apps on smartphones. It’s still just a layer built on the original foundation of the Berners-Lee version of the internet. The metaverse is predicted to be the future layer. SOURCES: THEVERGE.COM, NYTIMES.COM, WASHINGTONPOST.COM, FT.COM, INVESTOPEDIA.COM, VANITYFAIR.COM, STATISTA.COM, NEWSCIENTIST.COM, BBC.COM, FACEBOOK.COM/META you.co.za 6 JANUARY 2022

A DAY TO REMEMBE

Rugby star Malcolm Marx married his high school sweetheart, medical doctor Kirsten Grant, at a picturesque farm in the Winelands BY PIETER VAN ZYL

Malcolm and Kirsten are highschool sweethearts who have been together for 11 years.

The Springbok rugby player Malcolm Marx and Dr Kirsten Grant were officially married on 11 December at a Stellenbosch vineyard.

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E’S A sturdy guy known for shoring up the scrum with his bulk. Those who have played with the beefy hooker describe him as fearless and frightening on the field. But there’s one thing no one has dared call Malcolm Marx – a softie. Yet today the Springbok player is showing another side. Malcolm (27) is tying the knot with his long-time love, Kirsten Grant (28). It’s a summery day out in MolenVliet wine estate between Stellenbosch and Franschhoek in the Cape Winelands. The 95 guests at the foot of the breathtaking Simonsberg Mountains are socially distancing. The pandemic – which medical doctor Kirsten has been fighting at Sebokeng Hospital near Vereeniging, Gauteng – couldn’t keep the lovebirds from saying their vows. Travel restrictions did, however, keep Malcolm’s best man, former Lions player Cyle Brink who now plays for Leicester Tigers in the UK, from being here. But he has four more groomsmen by his side including Springbok Steven Kitshoff, one of his 2019 World Cup-winning squad teammates. The groomsmen are stylish in suits with trendy sunglasses when they walk down the aisle. Seven bridesmaids in elegant black dresses are next. Then the moment Malcolm has been waiting for arrives. Kirsten makes her way down the aisle to the violin strains of Daniel Yang. She’s radiant in an off-the-shoulder gown with a sweetheart neckline. Malcolm can’t hold back tears. “I’m most looking forward to seeing her walk down the aisle,” he’d told YOU a few days before the wedding. Shortly after 2pm, with World Cup-winning Boks Jesse Kriel, Willie le Roux and Frans Steyn looking on, the couple’s wedding officiator, Sumari Redelinghuys, pronounces them husband and wife.

Wedding officiator Sumari Redelinghuys shares a light-hearted moment with the couple and guests.

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ALCOLM and Kirsten have been together for 11 years. Kirsten’s mom, Bev Grant, loves telling the the story of how the newlyweds met. Kirsten, she says, was 16 when she first laid eyes on Malcolm (then 15) at a rugby match. Her brother, Brett, was playing alongside him for the first team of King Edward VII School (KES) in Johannesburg and Bev and Kirsten attended the game to support Brett. “Mom, see that No 5? That’s him. I’m going to marry him,” Kirsten told Bev. Bev raised Kirsten and her siblings, Kendal and Brett, as a single mom. She was more than happy to give Malcolm her blessing when he asked for her daughter’s hand in marriage. He popped the question at a game park in Limpopo in July last year and they planned the wedding for December so they could be sure he’d make it home in time from Japan. Malcolm’s been living in Japan since May 2020 where he plays for Kubota Spears. He moved there after opting out of his contract with South African Super Rugby’s Lions when pay-cuts in the domestic game were introduced because of the effects of Covid-19. The pandemic has taken a toll on them too. In the past year, he’s been home for only four weeks. Kirsten wanted to join him in Japan earlier this year but travel restrictions were introduced and borders were closed. But she’s happy to be home to do her bit to fight Covid, even if it means long hours and late nights at the hospital. And just because there’s a doctor in the house doesn’t mean Malcolm gets special treatment when he’s injured. “If

RIGHT: The couple decided on a fivetier traditional wedding cake and a smaller, gaming cake for Malcolm.

The newlyweds opened the dancefloor to pumping pop music from the ’80s.

the injury isn’t serious, I don’t want to know about it,” says Kirsten, who admits she hates seeing him hurt.

HE reception kicks off at 5pm. A live band plays jazzy tunes in the background, the smell of braaied meat wafting through the air. Guests are treated to lamb ribs and kebab canapés served hot from the coals. There’s also a bread table and a gin bar. The rugby stars are having a blast. Frans (34) doesn’t have any marriage tips for Malcolm. “I’m just really happy for them,” he tells us. “If you’re unsure, just say yes,” Jesse (27) grins. Groomsman Steven (29) nods and teases, “Just always say you’re sorry.” Fairy-lights twinkle on the tables like

fireflies as guests tuck into their starter: prosciutto salad with oyster mushrooms, Parmesan shavings, pickled shimeji mushrooms, roasted cashew nuts, hummus and baby salad greens with a fynbos honey dressing. For mains, there’s seared steak fillets with bacon jam, smoked onion purée, wilted green salad, mashed potatoes with herbs, roasted asparagus, baby corn and pinotage jus. The wedding cake is multi-layered: chocolate sponge cake with caramel filling, lemon vanilla sponge with lemon curd, and carrot cake with cream cheese filling. Kendal, the bride’s sister, has everyone in stitches with her maid of honour speech. She can’t believe how far Malcolm has come from the scruffy guy she met years ago, she says. “I remember how my mom and sister elevated him to superhero status in my mind – this handsome and humble young man,” she recalls. “What walked into our house was Malcolm Marx kitted out in Super- dry, wearing Axe deodorant and diamond earrings in both ears.” Kirsten and Malcolm broke up once but it only lasted two weeks. “My sister wrote down Malcolm’s pros and cons and kept it in her cupboard to remind her why he wasn’t allowed in the house. The cons: he smokes hubbly with friends every night. The pros: he’s cute, kind and marriage material.” Now the newlyweds are looking forward to spending the rest of their lives together but there’s no time for a honeymoon – Malcolm needs to return to Japan for work, and Kirsten will continue to battle the Covid pandemic in Gauteng. They’ll just have keep their love burning across oceans – as they always have.

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TRAVIS BARKER & KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN The couple, who hotted up Instagram feeds to such an extent you could practically see the steam, were pals for a decade before they got it on. The Blink 182 drummer had his eyes on Kourt’s sister Kim back in the early 2000s when she was still Paris Hilton’s assistant and Kourtney was in a relationship with cad Scott Disick, dad of her three kids. After they split in 2015, Kourtney was linked to Younes Bendjima and Luka Sabbat before she decided to take a 98

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break from dating in 2019. But just when Kourtney (42) put her dating life on hold, she realised her heart was beating to the sound of Travis’ drums. The couple went Insta-oﬃcial in January 2021 with a source saying the rocker had been smitten with Kourtney “for a while”. Since then they’ve spent their ﬁrst Valentine’s Day together, packed on the PDA in restaurants and watched Ultimate Fighting Champions matches together.

They enjoyed a steamy desert holiday in April and Kourtney helped him get over his fear of ﬂying. “Anywhere with you,” Travis (46) captioned a pic of Kourt. He took things to the next level when he got down on one knee on a rose-covered beach in Montecito, California, and popped the question with a Lorraine Schwartz stunner of a ring. “She can’t wait to marry Travis,” an insider says. “She’d also love to have a baby with him.”

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This was a breakup few saw coming. After 27 years, three kids and a partnership forged on philanthropy, the Microsoft founder and his wife decided to go their separate ways. And Bill, long regarded as nerdy and harmless in his dad jeans and owl-like glasses, soon emerged as the bad guy. Shocking stories emerged of an alleged aﬀair and a history of inappropriate behaviour with women at work – along with tales of how the tycoon belittled his wife in meetings and disre-

garded her opinions. The pair met when Melinda joined Microsoft in 1987 and she told Fortune magazine how she was “attracted to his brilliant mind and his curiosity”. “And he has a huge sense of fun. I love that side of him.” But there was another side to Bill she didn’t like that much. Insiders say she stayed in the marriage until their youngest, Phoebe (18), left school and then called time on the union. Bill said he was heartbroken. “It’s a sad milestone.”

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What would a cheating scandal be without Tristan and Khloé as the main protagonists? The NBA basketball player has once again found himself embroiled in telenovela-level drama – and this time there’s a baby involved too. The athlete is now a father of three after an affair with his personal trainer, MARALEE NICHOLS (inset). Tristan reportedly offered to pay Maralee $75 000 (R1,2 million) to get an abortion while he was still in a relationship with the Keeping Up with The Kardashians star. “You know how I feel. My feelings haven’t changed at all. Won’t be involved at all. Btw if you think having this baby is gonna make you some money, it’s completely wrong,” Tristan allegedly said in text messages to Maralee. “You are aware that I’m retiring after this season. So in terms of support it will be whatever is required monthly for someone who’s unemployed. It’s texas [sic] so it will be only a couple hundred dollars. “So you [sic] better off taking this 75k I’m offering cause you won’t get nothing near that with having a kid with a father who’s unemployed.” The baby was reportedly con-

ceived after Tristan’s 30th birthday celebration according to court documents. Khloé attended the party too. “When we got to my hotel room, we immediately had sexual intercourse. [Maralee] initiated our sexual contact and never objected to our having sexual intercourse,” Tristan says in court documents. Maralee is suing Tristan for medical expenses and pregnancy-related costs. Of course, this isn’t the ﬁrst time Tristan has cheated on Khloé. In 2017, when Khloé was pregnant with the pair’s daughter, True, photos and videos emerged of Tristan kissing model Lani Blair at a hookah lounge outside Washington. And in 2019 he had a ﬂing with Kylie Jenner’s best friend Jordyn Woods, who insists they only kissed. “Tristan has been consistently cheating on Khloé. He’s a serial cheater. And there will be more women to come out of the woodwork,” someone in their inner circle says. “[Family and friends] are heartbroken for Khloé. They didn’t realise how deceptive Tristan could really be.” Which is kind of odd, given his track record.

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BRRITNEY SPEARS & SAM ASGHARI

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Sam has been Britney’s rock in her gruelling battle to end her conservatorship and soon he’ll be her husband too. “I have always wanted nothing but the best for my better half and will continue to support her following her dreams and creating the future she wants and deserves,” Sam says. The couple met in 2016 and went public with their relationship at a pre-Grammys party a year later. “Had an amazing night,” Brit (40) captioned a snap of her and Sam cuddling on a couch. Since then the Iranian-born actor and model has been the Piece of Me singer’s pillar during her 13-year legal battle with her father, Jamie Spears, to end her conservatorship. When news broke that Britney had won her case this year, Sam (27) was ecstatic. “History was made today,” he said. “Britney is Free.” The singer thanked her beau for being there for her during “the hardest years of my life,” and not long afterwards he proposed. “The couple made their long-standing relationship oﬃcial today and are deeply touched by the support, dedication and love expressed to them,” Sam’s manager Brandon Cohen said in a statement. So, should we call them Brisam or Sambrit?

SHAWN MENDES & CAMILA CABELLO

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We were the ones crying in the club when news broke on social media that these two were over. “Hey guys, we’ve decided to end our romantic relationship but our love for one another as humans is stronger than ever,” the pair, who had been dating since 2019, said in a joint statement. “We started our relationship as best friends and will continue to be best friends. We so appreciate your support from the beginning

and moving forward.” Although they haven’t revealed why they decided to call it quits, an insider says they’re simply at diﬀerent places in their lives. “They’re both sad about the split, but doing their best to take care of themselves, stay busy and surround themselves by loved ones,” the source told Entertainment Tonight. They didn’t even give us time to make Camshaw a thing!

ZAYN MALIK & GIGI HADID

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BEN AFFLECK & JENNIFER LOPEZ Bennifer became a thing again this year and romantics the world over went into a swoon. J Lo and Ben’s engagement imploded in 2004 with the couple citing intense media interest for the reason they didn’t make it to the altar. “We didn’t try to have a public relationship,” Jen said during an interview with People’s Jess Cagle. “We just happened to be together at the birth of the tabloids and it was like, ‘Oh my God’. It was just a lot of pressure. “I think diﬀerent time, diﬀerent thing . . . who knows what

could’ve happened, but there was a genuine love there.” And it seems that different time is now and the fire that ignited that love had been burning all along. After J Lo’s split from fiancé Alex Rodriguez and Ben’s breakup with actress Ana de Armas, Jen (52) and Ben (49) were spotted holidaying in Montana. According to an insider, they were just “having fun together”. There were rumours of a showmance but as the weeks stretched by it seemed like this was the real deal.

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After six years of on-andoff dating, the singer and model, who have a 13-month-old daughter named Khai, decided to call it quits – but boy, the drama! The last straw for the couple was a reportedly heated dispute Zayn had with Yolanda Hadid, Gigi’s mom, which found its way to court. According to documents filed by Yolanda, Zayn shoved her during an argument and apparently also called Yolanda a “f***ing Dutch sl**”. Supermodel Gigi (26) is done with Zayn (28) for good, an insider says. “They’re in the process of working out a custody arrangement as they both feel entitled to custody of Khai.” Expect more fireworks. They were spotted working out together, going on dinner dates and looking loved-up on the red carpet. J Lo even moved her kids, Emme and Maximilian, to Los Angeles from the Hamptons in New York to get a “fresh start” with the actor. Ben, who has a long history of alcohol addiction, is doing better than he has for years. “I’m very lucky in my life that I’ve benefited from second chances,” he told The Wall Street Journal. For fans and love-story lovers out there, Bennifer is the gift that keeps on giving. you.co.za 6 JANUARY 2022

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CELEB QUIZ r ffun quiiz!! Test your showbiz knowledge with ou

Where is Nicole Wilmans, the winner of Survivor SA season eight, from? A B C

Western Cape KwaZulu-Natal Eastern Cape

Which city did media personality Bonang Matheba move to earlier this year?

Name the Real Housewives of Johannesburg star who claimed she was assaulted by her costars while ﬁlming the show.

A B C

2 1 2 3

Former Freshlyground singer Zolani Mahola has rebranded herself. What is she now known as? A B C

Match the celeb baby to their famous mom or dad Lee-Ann Liebenberg and Jagger DJ Zinhle and Asante Donovan Goliath and Sophia Mae

The One Who Sings Zo I Am Zolani

3 Somizi and Mohale shocked Mzansi when they announced they were splitting. For how long were they married? A 12 months B 23 months C 24 months 102

New York Los Angeles Atlanta

Tarina Patel Kgomotso Ndungane Christall Kay

True or false

A True

False

B True

False

Celebrity doctor Michael Mol launched SA’s ﬁrst Christian streaming service called TruthTV this year.

Actress Khanyi Mbau won Drama Queen of the Year for a second time at the Feather Awards.

C True C

False

Actress Kate Liquorish won Best Actress in a TV Soap for her role in Still Breathing at this year’s Saftas.

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11 Rumour has it Boity Thulo is dating her bestie, actor Anton Jeftha. Which show does he act in? A B C

8 Which SA actress was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role in The Underground Railroad? A Thuso Mbedu B Thando Thabethe C Ama Qamata

How old was actor and producer Shona Ferguson, who died of Covid complications in August? A 50 B 36 C 47

Actor Tumisho Masha shed a whopping 26kg over ﬁve months when he took on the dad bod challenge. Which Hollywood actor inspired him? A B C

Anthony Anderson Idris Elba Will Smith

13 Former Miss World Rolene Strauss has penned a book on conﬁdence. What is the title?

Rolene’s Top Tips to Gaining Conﬁdence Rediscover Your Self-ConfIdence: Seven Steps to A New You

How to Reign with Conﬁdence

Name of the Cape Town-born actor who plays Tuppen in the Netﬂix ﬁlm The Kissing Booth.

ANSWERS 1A; 2A; 3B; 4A; 5.1=B; 5.2=C; 5.3=A; 6C; 7A=TRUE; 7B=TRUE; 7C=FALSE (SHE WON THE AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA); 8A; 9B; 10C; 11A;12C;13B;14B; 15=JOSH EADY

14 Where did newlyweds Liesl Laurie and Musa Mthombeni go on honeymoon? A KwaZulu-Natal B Western Cape C Northern Cape

9 Actors Jay Anstey and Sean-Marco Vorster welcomed their little girl in December. What is her name? A Arya B Ayla C April

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This veteran comedian was released from prison after his sexual assault conviction was overturned.

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2 Which actress A is South LEIGHTON MEESTER Africanborn comedian Trevor Noah rumoured to be dating? C

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What is the name of the film project Alec Baldwin was working on when he accidently shot and killed crew member Halyna Hutchins?

This ra per p died of a cocaaineinduced heaart attack in Ap pril last year.

MINKA KELLY

Which acctor did Britis ritis itissh singe er FKA Twigs acccuse e of sexual batterry,, assault and inﬂiction of emotional distress?

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Robert Patttinnsoon James Frannco Shia LaBeoouff Armie Ham mm mer

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Reality TV star Scott Disick briefly dated Amelia Hamlin, who is the d daughter of which former Days of d our o Lives actress?

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R Rapper K Kanye West llegally cchanged his nam me e to: A B C D

Kaayne Yee Yeeezy Mr West

ALISON SWEENEY

LISA RINNA

Actress and director Olivia Wilde has been romantically linked to which former One Directioner?

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Match the celebrity to their tequilaa brand. Nick Jonas Kendall Jenner George Clooney Justin Timberlake Rita Ora Dwayne The Rock Johnson

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Fallout Boy Blink 182 Green Day Linkin Park

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U Up-and-coming actress E Ella Bleu is the daughtter of which actor? A B C D

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Match the celebrity couple to their adorable baby girl.

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Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk Kim Kardashian and Kanye West

John Travolta Sean Penn Johnny Depp Robert Downey Jr

Kathy Hilton, the mother of Paris and Nicky Hilton, became the darling of the internet after appearing on which reality TV show?

True or false False

TV personality Nick Cannon welcomed his fifth, sixth and seventh children last year.

C True

False

Singer Lady Gaga’s employee Ryan Fischer was shot during an attempted kidnapping of her beloved cats, Mother and Monster.

Travis Barker, the fiancé of reality TV star Kourtney Kardashian, used to be a drummer for which rock band?

VILLA ONE

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This actress was hospitalised in South Africa after severely injuring her leg during an excursion in the Congo rainforest.

12 This pair of chart-topping pop stars and frequent collaborators recently split after a two-year romance.

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This television starr announced his autism diag g gnosis in July y last year.

B True

False

Makeup mogul Kylie Jenner is expecting her second child, this time with rapper Drake.

D True

A B C D

False

Rapper and body-positivity icon Lizzo and Captain America star Chris Evans recently welcomed their first child.

Margaret Qualley, the star of Netﬂix’s hot show Maid, is the daughter of which veteran actress (hint: she starred opposite Hugh Grant in the 1994 romcom Four Weddings and a Funeral)?

The Real Housewives of New York Keeping Up With the Hiltons The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Selling Sunset

Which of the below stars haven’t been romantically linked to come-dian Pete Davidson?

HALSEY

KAIA GERBER

ARIANA GRANDE

PHOEBE DYNEVOR

KATE BECKINSALE

KIM KARDASHIAN

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1 BILL COBSY 2D 3C 4 JOJO SIWA 5 RUST 6 DMX 7D 8B 9 HARRY STYLES 10 WENTWORTH MILLER 11 SHAWN MENDES AND CAMILA CABELLO 12B 13 ASHLEY JUDD 14 1A, 2E, 3F, 4D, 5C, 6B 15A 16 A-TRUE, B-FALSE, C-FALSE (IT WAS HER DOGS KOJI, ASIA AND GUSTAV), D-FALSE 17 ANDIE MACDOWELL 18 1B, 2C, 3D, 4A 19 C 20A

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These celebs let their glamorous shoulders do the talking

Singer Mereba in Viviane Valerius at the BET Awards in Los Angeles.

The Harder They Fall’s Regina King in Louis Vuitton at the Oscars.

French actress Frédérique Bel in Yanina Couture at the Cannes Film Festival in France.

Gunpowder Milkshake star Angela Bassett in Alberta Ferretti at the Oscars.

Actress Zendaya in Rick Owens at the UK premiere of Dune in London.

Singer Kehlani in Tony Ward at the Billboard Music Awards in LA. Daisies singer Katy Perry in Schiaparelli at Variety’s Power of Women Dinner in LA.

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