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WINNING LETTER
I rent a flat on a beautiful farm
in the Eastern Cape. Chickens
run around freely as nature
intended. I call out, “Gip gip
gip” and in an incredibly short
time 10 hens and a Rhode Island red rooster are standing
in front of me. I then throw

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bits of bread to them so they
each get a piece.
You have to be quick –
they’re fast and gobble down
the bread at lightning speed.
To my amazement the rooster
doesn’t touch the bread but
he once picked up a piece and

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T’S that time of year when the
cool air starts to seep in through
windows in the early evening
and the sun rises just a little later
every day. The leaves on the trees
are starting to lose their lustrous
shine, the air isn’t as filled with the
chirpy sounds of birds and it’s hard
to tell if the mist rolling in over the
city is a sign summer is truly over or
if it’s just a temporary glimpse of
what’s to come.
The passing of another season
is a period of reflection for me.
Autumn signals a slowing down, a
quieting of the mind and body and
contemplating the year ahead. Winter is a time of solitude, of engaging
with thoughts and feelings, being
with those closest to us and seeking
comfort where it can be found.
Spring is a time of renewal, of
hope and new beginnings. Summer
– my favourite – is about enjoying
the splendours life has to offer, doing the things that bring us happiness.
I hope this changing season is a
good one for you.

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Real is as real does. I was momentarily
bewildered recently when someone
snidely suggested that a late family member “wasn’t of course, your real sister”.
The much-loved person was my younger
sister with whom I shared the same
mother but we had different fathers. We
never ever considered each other as
anything other than true siblings.
Different though we were, we remained staunchly supportive of each
other as we grew up in Kenya. Mother
was our bedrock and we never forgot
that when strangers sought to separate
us.
My late sister saved both me and our
younger sister from life-threatening situations on two unforgettable occasions.
Sadly we couldn’t spare her the ravages
of cancer.
Our beautiful, brave Blondie has
passed on but in our hearts she’ll never
pass away.
FERN HAWKSWORTH, EMAIL

NO HELP FOR THE ABUSED

As an abused woman, I often wonder at
the story behind a femicide. Did the victim turn to the law that failed her? Did
she get platitudes from the church? Did
she get advice from friends but nothing
practical? Did her family become judgmental? Did she toss and turn when
others were sound asleep? Did she feel
unsafe in her own home? Did she get up,
show up and fool the world? Did hopelessness withdraw her into herself?
So many thoughts.
There’s so much hype around domestic
violence but, starting with the police,

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instead of gobbling it down,
placed it in front of a hen.
This is magic to watch. I now
love him to bits and call him
Gentleman John. A great pity
humans can’t (overall)
follow his lead.

CB, EMAIL

little actually gets done.
Ask me. Either they don’t answer the
phone – 10111 included – or they simply
don’t pitch up.
Most times when they do turn up, they
“mediate” and leave. Often, they don’t
send out the patrol car even if you’ve
gone there in person.
I’ve experienced all of this. I document
it on scribbled bits of paper just in case.
My protection order is a farce. He acts
with impunity. For more than a decade
he’s lived in a flatlet on the property rentand municipal-account free while I go to
work and return to bear the brunt of his
narcissistic abuse.
HOPELESS, EMAIL

COVID IS STILL WITH US

The fact that we use past tense when we
talk about the negative effects of the
Covid-19 pandemic means things are
slowly going back to normal. Although
we aren’t completely off the hook, there’s
a light at the end of the tunnel.
The eased lockdown restrictions present the opportunity for us to pick up the
pieces and rebuild our economy. The biggest damage was done when so many
people lost their jobs. Many businesses
also collapsed. Those that are still operating have also lost many customers.
Life is difficult for families whose
breadwinners have lost their livelihoods.
Our fight to rebuild our lives should
start by continuing to follow the eased
lockdown restrictions and to vaccinate.
We shouldn’t tell ourselves that we’re
completely out of the pandemic limbo.
Winter is fast approaching and we
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PERFECT PENNY

dent. He suffered a severe brain injury
that left him paralysed and unable to
speak until his death 12 years later.
Three years later, Micky died, soon
after his 89th birthday.
“It was difficult,” Penny says. “It’s a
very lonely existence if you’ve lived with
somebody for so long. But that’s life.”
At the time of his death they’d sold the
farm and were living in a house on the
Zimbali Coastal Estate in Ballito
When Penny became a widow she
moved to a three bedroom house at the
nearby Simbithi Eco Estate
Working on the interior has kept her
occupied as has spending time with
friends she says
“You must have something to get up
for in the morning Now I play bridge
I do art I play golf Family is wonderful
of course but the children and grand
children have also got their own lives”
Her eldest son Michel (60) lives in
Cape Town while Jean Paul (59) and Do
minic (53) are in Johannesburg and
Christopher (52) lives close to her in
Mount Edgecombe near Durban
Penny’s beauty queen titles opened
many doors for her but she put every
thing on hold after Nicholas’ accident
He’d been married for six years at
the time and he and his wife Gayle had
two young daughters Bianca (then 3)
and Oliv a (then 2)
“It’s been quite sad for them” Penny
says “I’ve had a lot of sadness in my
life” she says dabbing away tears
Penny travelled to America in her
quest to get help for her son but the fa
mily were told that no amount of money
could guarantee Nicholas a better life
Her eyes f ll with tears again
“It’s like you drop a glass vase and it
smashes to the ground you can never
put it back together again
“Nicholas couldn’t talk he was fed
through a tube in his stomach and had a
tracheostomy (opening in the windp pe)
But he knew everything that was going
on He’d blink in acknowledgement and
he could mouth words”
It took h m a week to mouth words to
a nurse for a speech that he wanted to
have read at his parents’ golden wedding
anniversary
“It was a lovely speech” Penny says
“He remembered me on the farm and
how my nickname was Black and Decker
because I was such a drill [sergeant]”
Her kids often joked about the iron
fisted way in which she ran their home
Penny explains her laughter filling the

I’VE BEEN SO

BLESSED

I’ve just finished reading the article on
Penny Coelen-Rey (YOU, 24 March).
What a wonderful, kind lady she is and
has always been. I was in Durban when
she got married and stood outside
Claridges to see her walk into the hotel
and thought how graceful she was.
I’ve always said and still do that she’s
the most beautiful natural lady I’ve ever
read about or watched on TV. There’s
never been or ever will be anybody to
beat her.
Penny, I wish you all the best in your
new phase of life. Wow, 15 grandkids!
They’re surely the luckiest children
around to have such a beautiful grandmother.
PAT, EMAIL

Penny Coelen-Rey, SA’s first Miss World,
opens up about losing her son and husband,
the joy of family and the start of a new
chapter
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BY JANA
A VAN DER
D MERWE

LEFT Penny
Coe en was
crowned Miss
Wo ld in 1958 with
Miss France Claudine
Auger (left) as first
pri cess and Miss
De mark V nnie
In
ngemann (right)
as econd pr ncess

T’S been more than six decades since
she was crowned the most beautiful
oman in the world and she’s been
ut of the limelight for some time
nce Yet when she’s out and about
e’s still recognised by those who
aw her being crowned as South
frica’s first Miss World
eople still ask me for autographs all
these years later” Penny Coelen Rey (81)
tells YOU
We’re catching up with her at the
Zululami Luxury Coastal Estate near
Ballito Bay She’s been living alone at a
nearby eco estate for the past 16 months
but will move to the Coral Cove retire
ment facility being built at Zululami
when it’s done
“I have a lovely home but liv ng on my
own is not much fun” Penny says
Her husband Micky died in 2019 after
battling cancer and dementia They were
married for nearly 59 years

She’s looking forwa d to moving to
the retirement village “It will be like
livingg in a residential area but you have
the security of frail care dementia care
and a community centre with restau
rants a coffee shop and a pool
“My friends will also come live there
and life will carry on for you when you
don’t know who you are” she says with a
chuckle Then on a more sombre note
“You don’t know when that will happen
to you”

S

HE’S had a full and happy life
but also had to deal with
plenty of sorrow
The former beauty queen
a mom of five and grandmo
ther to 15 lived on a sugarcane
farm on the north coast of KwaZulu
Natal when her kids were growing up
She had to deal with great tragedy in
2003 when her middle son Nicholas
then 39 fell off his horse in a freak acci

room again

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T ’S clear
Penny re
lishes he r
treasure
trove of mee
mories She
remembers
winning he r
first beaut y
queen title it
was in earl y
1958 that she
was voted
Miss Margate
and late r
that same
year she’d also
snap up the
coveted titles
of Miss South
Africa and
Miss World
She was a
secretary with
a Durban firm
of architects
when she en
tered the Margate contest “I didn’t do
much modelling but I had two friends
who were models and they came second
and third in the same competition ”
she says
Her dad Henry Coelen an accountant
and her mom Joyce were both born in
British Malaya (now part of Malaysia)
and educated in England Penny was
born in the United Kingdom but her
three younger siblings were born in
South Africa
In her youth the fam ly moved around
a lot from Sea Point to Swaziland
Two years after being crowned Miss
World Penny married wealthy Maur tian
farmer M chel Rey

‘I’VE HAD A LOT
OF SADNESS
IN MY LIFE –
BUT I WON’T
CHANGE
IT FOR
ANYTHING’

Penny with four of her
five sons on holiday last
year n Plettenberg Bay
From left are Dominic
Christopher Jean Paul
and Michel

Penny and her late
husband M cky w th
their son N cholas
who was paralysed
in a ho se r ding
accident at 39

Before her marriage she’d dreamt of
o
a career as a Ho lywood actress
“But I’d never even been an actress in
the school play! So it didn’t work out for
me” she says “I have been so blessed
with a beautiful united family I won t
change my life for anything”
She was a full time at home mom for
15 years while raising her five children
n
But with the arrival of television in SA
in 1976 she got the chance to appear in
commercials
That same year she started her own
beauty salon on the farm even travelling
to Japan for specialist training And for
seven years she was a sought after public
speaker “My husband used to let me go
to do my thing” she says
She still looks amazing so many years
after wearing the Miss World crown and
we ask what her secret is
Just a regular skincare regime with
cleanser and a good moisturiser which
she sticks to faithfully Penny tells us “I
could never go to sleep with makeup on ”
Is she as strict about her diet?
“Do you want the truth?” she asks
“Not really!”
As she prepares to celebrate her 82nd
birthday in April she hasn’t ruled ou
ut
romance
“I think it’s won
n
derful to share life
with others But I
haven’t met another
Prince Charmin g
yet”
Then she tells us
about how a fro g
landed on her head
recently when she
was fixing the bl nds
on her patio and she
chuckles “Unfortu
u
nately he didn’t turn
nto a prince”
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It was great to see how she’s doing.
I was surprised to notice that nothing
was mentioned about the clothing line
she once had. Being a plus-sized woman
I loved her clothing. It’s hard to find
affordable plus-sized clothes.
MARLENE MARTIN CAPE TOWN

Coelen-Rey. She’s such a gracious, beautiful role model.

Thanks to the team at YOU magazine
and to my wife whom I’ve known for 20
years (we were high school sweethearts)
for always making my Fridays great.
DEAN COHEN, EMAIL

PRISONERS OF OUR PHONES

Have you ever sat down and considered
the damage caused by cellphones? In
most cases, the overuse of mobile
phones steals an important time in
many families.
Cellphones should be set aside so families can connect.
High divorce rates are also caused by
these items because some people aren’t
even ashamed to chat with their secret
lovers in the presence of their partners
at night.
It’s time we took our families to the
movies or go shopping rather than always fiddling with these devices. People
are prisoners of their phones. No wonder
they’re called “cell phones”.
SAMUEL RADEBE, HEILBRON

IN BRIEF
How sad to read about Mark
Pilgrim’s cancer returning
(YOU, 24 March). I always
hear his lovely voice and
enjoy his radio shows every
morning.
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Covid-19. That will certainly take us back
when we’re supposed to be rising again,
dusting ourselves off and seeing where
we can start to rebuild our lives.
We’re a limping nation, trying hard to
walk straight again. The last thing we
want is another hard lockdown. So let’s
get the jab.

My weekly highlight is when YOU magazine comes out on Fridays. My wife and
I have an iPad that we use to read the
magazine. We much prefer reading on a
tablet – it’s more environmentally friendly.
My wife reads YOU first in the morning
after our daughter has been dropped off
at school and our son is napping. She
ever so kindly leaves the iPad on my
nightstand for me to read YOU later after
work. After reading the magazine we
then discuss the excellent articles we
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Ukraine crisis? It’s the biggest
mistake the ANC will make.
We don’t want to support a
mad dictator who’s killing innocent people for his own ego.
W, MIDRAND

I went out for my daily walk
this morning and felt naked
without my mask. But it felt

good. Fellow walkers cheerily
called out to one another,
“No masks!” It was like a
celebration.
LINDA, CAPETOWN

Harry and Meghan, who
cares? You’re not royal,
you’re old news.
TRUE ROYAL FAN, EMAIL

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IN PARADISE
Will and Kate have come under fire for their ‘tone-deaf ’ Caribbean
tour raising questions over the future of the monarchy COMPILED BY NICI DE WET

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HEY oozed charm, showed
off their fun side and dazzled the world with their
glamour and grace.
But William and
Kate’s tour
of three Caribbean countries will be
remembered for a lot more
than smiles and style and
waves and warmth.
The trip, in which they
represented the queen in

ABOVE: Queen Elizabeth and
Prince Philip during their visit
to Kingston in November 1953,
which formed part Her Majesty’s first Commonwealth tour.

William and Kate took part in a military parade in Kingston, Jamaica,
and rode in the same open-top
Land Rover that was used by the
queen and the late Prince Philip
during their trips to Jamaica.

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her platinum jubilee year, was fraught
with controversy from the start. And
now, as they settle back into life with
their three children, the Cambridges
will be reflecting on a tour
that drove
home one salient point: the
monarchy is
not sacred.
People in
some countries
in the Com-

monwealth realms, wher
Queen Elizabeth is still head
state, want out.
Royal commentator Camill
Tominey says the royals ar
fighting a losing battle trying t
keep countries in the organis
tion. Over the years many n
tions have done their best t
grin and bear it for the sake
the queen who, as William sai
in one speech on tour, is like
grandmother to all.
“The queen is sacrosan
among the Commonwealt
because she’s dedicated her li
to serving people,” Tomine
says. “But her successor, Princ
Charles, is a more polarisin
figure which could trigger th
departure of other countrie
when he ascends the throne.”
The queen turns 96 on 21 Apr
and is becoming increasingl
frail, her every rare public a
pearance greeted with a sigh
relief and a tinge of sadness. N
one can live forever and her fa

The duke and duchess of
Cambridge at a state
dinner thrown by Jamaica’s
governor-general, Sir
Patrick Allen, at his official
residence, King’s House.

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Which is why the Cambridges’ tour
was so important. It was the first royal
visit to the region since the queen and
Prince Philip’s tour in 2002 and was
supposed to be a celebration of Her
Majesty’s historic reign and warm
acknowledgement of the country’s
inclusion in the Commonwealth.
But it was marred by protests – first in
Belize, when the couple had to cancel
their visit to a cacao farm in the village
of Indian Creek. Villagers, upset that the
royal helicopter was to land on their
football field without their prior consent
and fed up at being told to “clean up”
their village, bore placards that read
“Prince William leave our land”.
In Jamaica there were slavery reparation protests and calls for apologies for
how the royal family had benefited from
slavery. William, being a sensitive soul
and blessed with a healthy dose of his
mother’s humility, addressed the issue
during his speeches at official dinners
in Belize and Jamaica, calling slavery
abhorrent. “It should never have happened,” he said – although he fell short of
apologising. Then, as the tour wound up
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n the Bahamas, the prince
ssued an unprecedented endf-tour statement acknowledgng the unhappiness, which he
aid had brought questions
bout the past and future into
even sharper focus”.
“Catherine and I are commited to service,” he said. “For us,
hat’s not telling people what to
o. It is about serving and suporting them in whatever way
hey think best, by using the
latform we are lucky to have.
“It is why tours such as this reffirm our desire to serve the
eople of the Commonwealth
nd to listen to communities
round the world.”
In releasing his statement,
illiam broke away from the
ueen’s decades-long mantra of
never complain, never explain”
nd is indicative of the way he
ill lead when he becomes king
ne day, royal insiders say.
“He believes if the monarchy
as something to say, they
hould say it,” one says. “The
ever complain, never explain’
ays are over.”

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OME critics have
gone so far as to call
the tour “tone deaf ”
and a “PR disaster”.
One particularly
picked-apart engagement took place in Trench Town, Jamaica, when William and Kate greeted
children pinned behind tall metal fences.
The BBC’s Jonny Dymond says the
picture shows how “defeat was plucked
from the jaws of victory”.
“Palace staff must be wondering how
the defining image of the trip was not the
explosion of joy that greeted the couple
in Kingston, Jamaica. Instead it was one
that looked like some sort of white saviour parody, with Kate and William fleetingly making contact with the outstretched fingers of Jamaican children
pushing through a wire fence.”
And it was not the only unfortunate
image. A drive around in an open-top
Land Rover during a military parade,
which featured William in full military
garb and Kate in a white dress and extravagant hat, was deemed “absolutely
awful”. The queen and Philip drove in the
same vehicle during a Caribbean tour
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Despite the negative headlines and controversy, William and Kate
put on their best smiles and went on a full-on charm offensive.

in 1953 and the Cambridges’ recreation was described as “a throwback to a
bygone era” by critics and an image that
“impinged on the god-like status of the
queen”.
“It might have been intended as a
charming homage to the queen and the
Duke of Edinburgh,” Dymond says. “But
it felt like a clunky reminder of a more
deferential time.”
Royal commentator Richard Kay says
William learnt an important lesson in
the Caribbean. “He discovered for the
first time that navigating the distant
reaches of his grandmother’s realms is
not always going to be plain sailing.”

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ET the tour was by no means
a categorical failure. The
Cambridges aren’t called
royal rock stars for nothing
and there were many moments of magic – as well as
insights into the kind of king William
will be. “The public can see that he has
his mother’s touch and that his heart is
in the right place,” Kay says. “With the always elegant Duchess of Cambridge by
his side, he has steadied the royal ship in
the aftermath of the Harry and Meghan
fiasco and the Prince Andrew saga.
“And he has shown, when trouble does
come along, he is prepared to take the
initiative and prove he is listening.”
Royal biographer Christopher Wilson
says the Cambridges “acquitted themselves with distinction”.
“But the institution they represent has
come under attack. The queen represents the beating heart of the nation yet
her advanced age exposes just how delicate the bond is between sovereign and
people.”
For William and Kate, the tour must
have been hard – it was the first time
they’d experienced a backlash and insiders say it affected them deeply. That is
why the prince issued his statement
shortly before boarding the plane home.
“He was keen to be heard and thought
there was a need to get ahead of the raft
of negative headlines,” a source says.
“He realises the role he occupies is
increasingly important to be able to
adapt in an ever-changing world.”

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COM, PEOPLE.COM, DAILYMAIL.CO.UK, USMAGAZINE.COM,
THEGUARDIAN.COM, STANDARD.CO.UK, HELLOMAGAZINE.COM,
TATLER.COM, BBC.COM

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CHOCOLATE
TESTERS

The pair looked delighted during their visit to
the Che’il chocolate
farm in Belize with
Kate remarking on the “amazing” smell as she
and Will tried their hands at grinding nibs
(crumbled dried cacao beans) with a mortar
and pestle. “Do you take apprentices?” the
duke joked to Julio Saqui, the owner of the
family-run farm. “Can I come and work for you?
It’s my kind of thing.”
As they dipped tortilla chips into a chocolate
fountain, Kate quipped that their kids, Prince
George (8), Princess Charlotte (6) and Prince
Louis (3), would be “very jealous”.

The couple looked like
they were thoroughly
enjoying themselves
when they were given
the chance to join other
musicians in playing
the bongos during a visit to Trench Town in
Kingston, Jamaica. The occasion took part in
the courtyard of late reggae star Bob Marley’s
house, which is now a museum. They were also
seen posing next to a statue of the No Woman,
No Cry singer.
There was mass hysteria in the neighbourhood when they arrived with a crowd chanting,
“We love you, we love you”.

JAMMIN’
TIME

The couple took a
private scuba-diving
DEEP-SEA
trip to explore
DIVERS
Belize’s barrier reef,
the second largest in
the world, at South
Water Caye. Both are
experienced divers and in a video shared on
their social-media sites they were seen
admiring the marine life and giving each
other the “okay” signal.

FOOTBALL
FUN

ALL
ABOARD!

William got to enjoy a kickabout with
England star Raheem
Sterling, Aston Villa and Jamaica winger
Leon Bailey and Jamaican league players
on a neighbourhood pitch in Kingston.
Wearing a yellow number 10 vest, William,
who is president of the UK’s Football
Association, had to play in his shoes as he
forgot his trainers. But it didn’t seem to
matter as England’s future king landed the
winning goal in a 1-0 victory over Bailey’s
team, thrilling the supporters.

During their first day in Belize the royal couple
were treated to a traditional dance by a group
of women celebrating the Garifuna Festival.
But the dancers weren’t content for the couple
to just watch – they pulled them in and the
ensuing videos quickly went viral.
Laura Cacho, one of the local women on the
scene, told Hello! magazine that William had
“beautiful rhythm and
Kate was excellent too.
They were shaking
their waists like
DANCING
nobody’s business”.

QUEENS

Kate and Will indulged
their competitive
streaks as they took
part in a husband-and-wife sail-off at Montagu
Beach in The Bahamas.
The couple braved the rain as they showed
off their nautical skills during a regatta that
involved six boats, with William’s finishing in
the top three.
The future king received a well-deserved pat
on the back from his wife when they both
returned to the dock looking soaked but
invigorated.

ALL LOVED-UP
The tour also highlighted the
unwavering love of the royal
couple who, this year, will celebrate 11 years of marriage.
William and Kate aren’t big
on public displays of affection
but there were plenty of
moments for fans to swoon
over. Long, loving gazes and
gentle touches said it all: this
is a couple in love.
Body language expert Judi

James says the PDA also
shows a change in their relationship. “We knew they
worked well as a team, but the
dynamics of that team appear
to have shifted slightly and
even strengthened,” she told
the Daily Express. “This is
thanks to Kate’s increased
levels of confidence and her
recently elevated status in
the royal line-up now the

queen is appearing in public
less and Harry and Meghan
have left the Firm.
“She often seems to lead
the poses or throw loving
glances of humour or approval
at William to encourage him
to be more outgoing too.
There are also moments of
checking and tuning into each
other as part of their wellsynchronised double act.”

BOBSLEIGH
TIME

Kate and William had
their own Cool Runnings
moment when they
climbed into a bobsled
under the watchful eye
of members of Jamaica’s Winter Olympics 2022
bobsled team, who talked them through the
mechanics of racing at high speed.
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CLASSY KATE’S CARIBBEAN COUTURE
ROYAL BLUE DREAM

Kate made her oh-so-chic arrival in Belize in a stunning lace
peplum two-piece from one of her
favourite designers, Jenny Packham.
She accessorised with Emmy London Rebecca heels, a scalloped clutch
bag and a sapphire and diamond necklace and earring set that once belonged
to Princess Diana.

FANTASTIC FLORALS

For her first set of engagements in Belize, she chose a
blue floral Tory Burch tiered, smock
dress.
She teamed the more casual-looking
frock with a woven Anya Hindmarch
fan bag, Stuart Weitzman wedges and
Sézane beaded earrings.

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PINK GODDESS

Kate was breathtaking in a
shimmering pink gown by
British label The Vampire’s Wife,
attending a reception held at the
Mayan ruins at Cahal Pech.
She accessorised with a Mayan
embroidered handbag, silver Jimmy
Choo heels and earrings by Indian and
Pakistani couture brand O’nitaa.

VINTAGE VIBES

To wrap up her visit, the duchess arrived at the airport in a
vintage, orange YSL jacket, a piece
she’s had since her university days,
paired with white tailored trousers, a
white Mulberry top-handle bag, white
and gold Aquazzura heels, Anthropologie earrings and a Halcyon Days bangle.

SUNSHINE GIRL

In a nod to the Jamaican flag,
the duchess touched down in
the country wearing a sunshine yellow
Roksanda dress with a statement bow
on the shoulder. She completed her
look with white and gold Aquazzura
heels, a white Ferragamo clutch bag,
earrings by Sézane and a bangle by
Jamaican brand Steelz and Mantraz.

STRIPED WONDER

For hers and William’s first
engagements in Kingston,
Jamaica, Kate chose a pretty striped
dress from Willow Hilson Vintage. She
paired it with nude Russell & Bromley
pumps, Maria Black earrings and the
same Steelz and Mantraz bangle she
wore on her arrival in the country.

CHIC SUIT

The duchess met with Jamaican prime minister Andrew
Holness and his wife, Juliet, in a white
wool blazer and trouser set by Alexander McQueen. She paired it with a Ridley London orange silk blouse. Accessories were a bag from Dayne Taylor,
white Jimmy Choo pumps and Maria
Black and Steelz and Mantraz jewels.

REGAL IN WHITE

During a military parade in
Kingston, the duchess dialled
up the glamor in another outfit from
one of her favourite designers, Alexander McQueen.
The white dress was paired with a
Philip Treacy hat as she rode alongside
her husband.

The 40-year-old mom-of-three chose a wardrobe that would see her staying cool in the island weather.
TEAL GODDESS

No one does evening gowns
quite like Kate and she once
again turned to her most trusted
designer, Jenny Packham, for this
stunning green off-the-shoulder gown
for a formal dinner hosted by the
governor-general of Jamaica, Patrick
Allen, at King’s House in Kingston.

NOD TO THE QUEEN

MAKE-UP

Despite the humidity in the
tropical islands, the duchess
looked flawless throughout the
tour. She swopped her matte
winter foundation for more
summer-appropriate blusher and
bronzer tones, which added a sunkissed look to her skin. Instead of
lipstick she opted mainly for gloss
in pale pinks and kept her lashes
intact with smudge-proof mascara. Statement brows are a big
part of her beauty look and she’s
been wearing her arches in a
thicker style lately.

Kate’s emerald earrings and bracelet
were from the queen’s collection, along
with her special insignia which she
reserves for formal royal occasions.
These included
the yellow Royal
Family Order
badge and the
Dame Grand
Cross of the Royal Victoria Order
(GCVO), which
Her Majesty gifted to her in 2019
on her eighth
wedding
anniversary.

NOD TO
DIANA

The dress drew
comparisons to
one Diana wore
for her official
engagement
portraits in 1981.

HAIR

Kate is known for her glossy,
wavy blow-out but she opted for a
different strategy in the Caribbean, often wearing her hair straight
or styled into sleek ponytails and
buns. Mason Josh, senior stylist at
Hari’s – a go-to London salon for
royals – believes a sleeker look is
the most sensible option for
humid climates. “Voluminous
blow-dries are more likely to lose
their shape quickly.”
The bun she wore to the blacktie dinner at the governor-general’s residence in Jamaica was
“reminiscent of the hairstyle she
wore to the premiere of the James
Bond movie No Time to Die, but
with extra humidity-beating
techniques,” says hairstylist
Tom Smith.

AQUAMARINE BEAUTY

Kate made a stylish arrival in
the Bahamas, wearing a stunning aquamarine, shin-length dress,
echoing one of the colours in their
national flag.
She paired the dress with nude
Gianvito Rossi suede heels and Sézane
earrings.

SATIN STUNNER

For their final evening event,
Kate dazzled in an ice-blue satin gown by Phillipa Lepley at a reception hosted by the governor-general of
the Bahamas. She teamed it with a Lulu
Guinness satin Hayworth clutch, Van
Cleef & Arpells mother-of-pearl earrings and Gianvito Rossi Rania heels.

PASTEL PRINCESS

Kate dazzled in the rain during
a visit to a primary school in
Nassau in the Bahamas in a mint-green
pleated chiffon midi dress by SelfPortrait.
She teamed it with white Jimmy
Choo heels and dangly gold earrings
by Bahamian designer Nadia Irena.
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Shrien and Anni
Dewani were the
picture-perfect
couple until her
murder in 2010.

H
The family of murdered newlywed Anni Dewani
say the decision to grant parole to the fixer
behind her murder is one the country will regret

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BY SIPHOKAZI ZAMA

HE phone call made his
skin crawl. The man who’d
killed his beloved Anni
was being considered for
parole and wanted to
meet as part of the rehabilitation process.
Ashok Hindocha made
his way from his home in Sweden to
South Africa to meet with her killer, but
he was so dejected by the process that he
left before the department of correctional services even made its decision.
“I feel like I flew all the way for nothing
because their minds were already made
up to give him parole,” he tells YOU.
Businessman Ashok (71) is talking to
us from his office in Mariestad, Sweden.
Even though spring has arrived, life remains cold and bleak for the Hindochas.
They were plunged into permanent darkness the day Anni (28) was murdered in
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Cape Town in November 2010.
Dubbed the honeymoon murder, the
case made headlines the world over.
Anni’s husband, Shrien Dewani, was accused of hiring hitmen to kill her while
the newlyweds were on holiday from the
UK. Shrien claimed they were hijacked
on their way back to the Mother City after dinner in Strand and taken to Gugulethu, where Anni was shot in the neck.
It was later alleged he orchestrated the
killing.
The businessman was arrested along
with hitmen Xolile Mngeni and Mziwamdoda Qwabe and shuttle driver Zola
Tongo, who said he’d hired the two men
on Shrien’s behalf.
Shrien’s case was eventually thrown
out of court after Judge Jeanette Traverso
said the prosecution’s evidence fell “far
below the threshold” of what a reasonable court could convict on.

Anni’s dad,
Ashok Hindocha, has written a book
about her life.

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Mngeni, Qwabe and Tongo were all
convicted of murder. Mngeni was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 and died
two years later of a brain tumour. Qwabe
is serving a 25-year sentence behind
bars. Tongo, who’s served more than half
his 18-year sentence, was recently granted parole and will be released in June.
He applied for parole two years ago,
but his application failed after fierce opposition from the Hindocha family. This
time, the family’s pleas fell on deaf ears.
“To us, it felt like what we said to them
wasn’t going to influence anything – they
were speaking to us to tick their boxes,”
Ashok says. “If I knew they were going to
give him parole, I would have saved myself a 22 000km journey.”

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EETING Tongo brought
back painful memories.
The devastated dad says
he’s been unable to move
on because he feels the
family still don’t know all
the details of that terrible day.
Th
Though
hT
Tongo pleaded
l d d guilty
ilt tto kid
kidnap
pping, robbery, murder and the obstru
uction of justice, Ashok feels there’s
morre to the story than what came out in
court. He had hoped the family would
get the
t closure they need when they met
him
m recently, but this wasn’t the case.
“I asked Tongo, ‘You said you regret
yourr actions and take full responsibility, so
s why do you want to go out on
paro
ole then instead of serving the
full 18 years?’ He told me, ‘I didn’t ask
for this [parole].’ To us it was
veryy annoying that despite
him
m saying he didn’t ask for
paro
ole, they were going to
givee it to him anyway.”
When
W
Ashok asked the
paro
ole board why Tongo
wass being considered
for release,
r
“They said
he’d gone through an
angger management
programme and all
th e se oth er progra mmes. I asked
them
m, ‘Do you have a
programme for
greeed?’ This guy was
earn
ning R30 000 a
mon
nth and he did
such
h a heinous murder for R15 000, so
whaat’s he going to
do now?
n
“ H e w a s n’ t

drunk or angry when he was offered the
money, so what’s the point of ticking
those boxes and granting him parole? He
was sober when he did this, he could’ve
said no and walked away, and we
wouldn’t be in this mess.”
Ashok says he’s disappointed by the
justice system. “I mean the guy isn’t even
asking for parole and they’re granting
him parole.”

support from the people of SA, but the
justice system doesn’t mirror the people,
and I say that from my heart.”
When Shrien was charged with Anni’s
murder, he claimed he had post-traumatic stress and flew back to England
where he sought medical treatment.
He was later extradited to SA and
Ashok and his brother Vinod were at
court throughout the extradition hearing. When he was eventually handed
HOUGH Ashok feels the police over to SA authorities to stand trial, the
did a fantastic job bringing the brothers were at every court appearance.
Nilam, Ashok’s wife, was also at the
killerstobook, “all the good
court case, as was the couple’s
work they did just
elder daughter, Ami Denborg.
went down the
Vinod was by his brother’s
drain”, he says.
side again when he met
“We had such great
Tongo and also feels his
parole is a travesty. “This
time the parole board
got it wrong. They’re
sending a very wrong
message that says, ‘Do
the crime, it’s okay, you
don’t need to do the
time’,” he says.
Zola Tongo will be out on parole from
Ashok hopes the board
21 June 2022 after serving 11 years of
won’t
regret their decihis 18-year sentence for his role in
the murder of Anni Dewani.
sion to let Tongo out.
“My last words to them
were, ‘I hope I don’t see
another father sitting in
this chair ever again.”
Ashok says they’ve had
no contact with Shrien
in more than 10 years.
He heard Shrien had
married a Brazilian man,
but that’s all he knows.
Ashok says he’s heard
rumours Qwabe could be
up for parole soon, but he
Mziwamdoda Qwabe, one of the
won’t be flying back for
hitmen, remains behind bars, though
that. “They’re going to do
Ashok Hindocha says he’s heard
whatever they’re going to
rumours that he might be up for
do, and I don’t want to be
parole soon.
a part of it.”
Inmates in SA don’t
apply for parole, the department says. They become eligible for parole
after serving the minimum required time,
which is usually half
their sentence. Tongo
met requirements for
qualifying for parole, including attending proXolile Mngeni, the second hitman,
grammes to reintegrate
Shrien Dewani
died in 2014 after battling a brain
was acquitted
him back into society,
tumour.
on all charges
the department says.

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‘I FEEL LIKE
I FLEW ALL
THE WAY FOR
NOTHING’

against him.

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Samuel L Jackson
married his wife,
LaTanya Richardson,
in 1970 and says she
is his rock.

SUCCESSFUL,
SOBER AND
SUPPORTED
Samuel L Jackson admits he wouldn’t’ be where
he is today without his wife of 42 years, LaTanya
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E’S the badass of
the silver screen
who’s delivered
some of cinema’s
most iconic and
profane oneliners. There are
awards on his
mantelpiece, a $250 million
(R3,6 billion) fortune to his name
and more movie credits than he can
count. And he’s showing no sign of
slowing down at the age of 73.
But Samuel L Jackson believes if
it wasn’t for his wife, LaTanya Richardson, he’d have been in the grave
years ago. Years of alcohol and drug
abuse saw him spiral out of control
as a young man and brought him to
the brink of death.
LaTanya (72) not only insisted he
clean up his up act but stuck by him
through that long, difficult time.
And now, as they prepare to celebrate 42 years of marriage, Samuel
and LaTanya are offering a glimpse
into their private life to drive home
one strong message: no matter how
tough things may get, don’t give up.
“It takes two people who respect
each other, love each other and look
out for each other to make a marriage work,” Samuel says.
But, he adds, there’s another reason their relationship has lasted.
The pair made a pact early on that
they would go the distance to be an
example for other black couples. “In
the beginning, we always said the
most revolutionary thing black people could do was stay together,”
LaTanya, who’s also an actor, says.
“In order to change that narrative,
we made a decision to say, ‘We’re
going to stay together no matter
what’.”
And there was plenty of “what”
along the way but LaTanya stuck to

Samuel with his
daughter, Zoe
Jackson, and wife
LaTanya.

LEFT: Samuel in Jungle Fever
with Ruby Dee. As a recovering addict he found it hard
starring in Jungle Fever and
Pulp Fiction (ABOVE) because drugs featured prominently in both movies.

her guns and Samuel admits she
changed his life. “She gave me the chance
to be the man I was supposed to be.”

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and said, ‘You can’t leave this young man
like this. Give him some help. Then if you
feel like leaving afterwards, we’ll talk
about it’,” she says.
She learnt early on that creating the
family life they wanted would require
sacrifice and hard work.
“You have to have a big heart. Because
men . . . they’re different,” she says.
“They’re cut from a different cloth.”

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RONICALLY the first role he took on
as a sober actor was as a drug addict
in the hit Spike Lee film Jungle Fever.
Samuel played Gator, the crackhead brother of Wesley Snipes’
character in the interracial romance
film. The call asking him to try out for the
role came while he was still in rehab. “All
the people in there were trying to talk me
out of it,” Samuel recalls.
“‘You’re going to be messing around
with crack pipes. All your triggers will be
there. Blah, blah, blah’.
“I was like, ‘You know what? If for no
other reason than I never want to see you
motherf*****s again, I will never pick up
another drug’. Cause I hated their asses.”
He went on to w in th e Best
Supporting Actor Award at the Cannes
Film Festival for his role in the
1991 f ilm . It wasn’t long
before Samuel cemented his
place as a Hollywood A-lister
with roles in cult hits such as
Pulp Fiction, Snakes on a Plane
and Django Unchained.
Samuel received his first and
only Oscar nomination in the
best supporting actor category
for his performance as Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction but lost to
Ed Wood actor Martin Landau.
He’s devoted most of his life to
acting but only received his first
Oscar this year. Samuel won an

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Starring in a new
TV series, The
Last Days of
Ptolemy Grey,
which he produces with his wife.

‘WE’RE GOING
TO STAY
TOGETHER
NO MATTER
WHAT’
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AMUEL and LaTanya met in
1970 while they were college
students in Atlanta, Georgia,
and were an item for 10 years
before marrying in 1980.
Their only child, a daughter
named Zoe (39), followed two years later.
LaTanya carved a career as a Broadway
actress while Samuel made a name for
himself in the movie world.
But as his career took off, so his demons took hold. He’d started experimenting with substances as a teenager
but later branched out to heroin, cocaine
and eventually crack.
Samuel admits he was a functioning
addict as he always showed up on time
for movie shoots, memorised his lines
and delivered strong performances
despite often being high as a kite.
Things came to a head in 1990 when he
returned home from a bachelor party,
planning to snort cocaine in his kitchen.
After a day of downing tequila, an intoxicated Samuel passed out before he
could take the drug.
The following morning he was found
on the floor by LaTanya and Zoe, who
was just eight at the time.
LaTanya immediately sprang into action and booked Samuel into rehab.
“I threatened to leave him if he didn’t
see the rehab through,” LaTanya recalls.
But it didn’t take much convincing for
Samuel who desperately wanted to
change. “I’d been getting high since . . .
s**t, 15, 16 years old,” he says. “And I was
tired as f**k.”
In an interview with People magazine,
Samuel praises his wife’s unconditional
support. “She didn’t have to try to fix me,”
he admits. “She could’ve just said, ‘Get
out’, let me go and be whatever I was
going to be.”
But leaving was never an option for
LaTanya, even though she describes
Samuel’s drug addiction as their “villa
in hell”.
“I felt as though God had spoken to me

honorary Academy Award for lifetime
achievement at the Governors Awards.
He was handed the glorious golden
statuette by his long-time friend Denzel
Washington in a non-televised ceremony. “Thanks to every person who has ever
bought a ticket to any movie I was in,” the
actor said during his acceptance speech,
adding that LaTanya and Zoe were “his
biggest critics and biggest fans”.
“But,” the Marvel star adds, “Oscars
don’t move the comma on your cheque.
It’s about getting asses in seats and I’ve
done a good job of doing that.”
He certainly has. Samuel’s movies have
grossed a total of $18,5 billion
(R268,25bn) worldwide and in 2019 he
was named Hollywood’s most bankable
star by Box Office Mojo.
LaTanya is a successful actress in
her own right. She’s had TV roles in Law
& Order and Grey’s Anatomy but
really made her name on Broadway. In
2014 she was nominated for a Tony
Award for A Raisin in the Sun.
The couple have now joined forces to
produce a limited series called The Last
Days of Ptolemy Grey, which will air on
Apple TV+. In the series Samuel stars as
a man suffering from Alzheimer’s, a storyline that holds a special place in his
heart as his grandfather and mother had
the neurological disorder.
Samuel admits he fears he’ll develop
the disease, given his family history, but
he’s learnt to keep his fears at bay by using his ability to “regurgitate dialogue”.
However, LaTanya adds, a little
forgetfulness helps to make their marriage work – especially when it comes to
resolving issues.
“No matter what, don’t let the sun go
down on your wrath. I’d be like this,” she
says, gritting her teeth, “’Okay goodnight,
I love you. I love you’. And I’d go to sleep.
“But you gon’ have to forget a lot.”

PRAYERS FOR THE

FROM LEFT: Rayaan Madhav, Emily
Blackburn and Neo Mere are blood
transfusion-dependent and
a need
bone-marrow transplants. BE W:
A green ribbon promotess a
ness of bone-marrow don

PERFECT MATCH
These South African families are living in hope that
donors are found for their children who desperately ne d
bone-marrow transplants BY SIPHOKAZI ZAMA PICTURES: LUBABALO LESOLLE

H

E’S only four months old
but he has already endured more medical procedures than most people
are subjected to in a lifetime. Bone-marrow extractions, blood and
platelet transfusions, two
aggressive rounds of chemotherapy –
little Rayaan Madhav of Norwood, Johannesburg, has been through it all.
The little boy was diagnosed at eight
weeks with acute myeloid leukaemia,
a form of blood and bone-marrow cancer, and his illness is consuming his
mom Arlene’s life.
Her son has spent most of his short life
in hospital and on days he is well enough
to be home he can’t even be outdoors because his immune system has been compromised by the chemotherapy.
“We’ve been confined to isolation for
months on end,” Arlene tells YOU. “But
Ray is a fighter with a strong will to live
and this gives us hope.”
The baby’s main hope is a bone-marrow
transplant. He’s on the list at DKMS
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Africa, the bone marrow registry formerly known as The Sunflower Fund.
The organisation is affiliated to the
Deutsche Knochenmarkspenderdatei,
or German Bone Marrow Donor File, an
international organisation that also has
bases in Poland, the US, the UK, Chile
and India.
Registered bone-marrow donors’ samples are processed through the centre
and potential matches are made with
patients in need. For Ray, the search continues.
Arlene and her husband, Mish, have
three other children who’ve been tested
as potential donors but aren’t suitable –
and complicating matters for the baby is
the fact that the bone-marrow registry in
South Africa is desperately in need of
people of colour to donate.
Ethnicity is a
major factor. Patients have a better
chance of finding
a match among donors of the same
ethnicity.

Ray is receiving further cancer treatment while the hunt for a donor continues and Arlene often feels like her
heart is breaking.
“Some days I feel like I’m betraying him
because I have to distract him while doctors perform yet another procedure on
him,” she says. “I would do anything to
take his pain away.”

T

IM and Natalie Blackburn
know exactly how Arlene feels.
The couple, who also live in
Johannesburg, have a fivemonth-old daughter, Emily.
Two months ago she was diagnosed with juvenile myelomonocytic
leukaemia, a rare blood cancer.
Tim and Natalie were devastated by
the news. In an instant all their hopes
and dreams were
dashed that their
only child would
have a happy, healthy and carefree
childhood.
Because the can-

‘RAY IS A FIGHTER WITH
A STRONG WILL TO LIVE
AND THIS GIVES US HOPE’

I

T TOOK Paballo and Phoebus Mere
from Centurion four years to find a
donor for their daughter, Thato (12).
She was diagnosed with Fanconi anaemia, a rare genetic disorder that mainly
affects the bone marrow.
The family was dealt another blow
when their son, Neo (7), was diagnosed
with the same condition. “We started noticing he was also bruising and getting
nosebleeds and he was very tired. Because we already knew the symptoms
with Thato, we hoped and prayed it
wasn’t the same condition,” Paballo says.
Neo was four years old when he was
diagnosed and taking care of two sick
children felt like a recurring nightmare,
their mom says. “There were days when
they were both admitted to hospital but
we were lucky – we had great nursing
staff who would put them in one room.”
Thato was given a
second chance at life
when she underwent
a bone-marrow transplant last year after
being matched with
a donor from Brazil.
But h er broth er
hasn’t been as lucky: Neo is dependent
on blood transfusions to keep his condition under control.
His only chance of living a long, healthy
life is in the hands of strangers because
75% of patients don’t find a matching
stem-cell donor in their family.
Neo, Emily and Rayaan’s parents are
sharing their stories in the hope that
more people will become donors.
“Please help my baby to live,” Arlene
pleads. “He is just too little to suffer like
this.”

GALLO IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES, SUPPLIED

‘PLEASE HELP MY BABY.
HE IS JUST TOO LITTLE
TO SUFFER LIKE THIS’

HOW TO BECOME A DONOR
Contact the SA Bone Marrow Registry
(SABMR) on 021-447-8638 or donors@
1sabmr.co.za;
or DKMS Africa (formerly The

Sunflower Fund) via dkms-africa.org or call
0800-121-082. They will send you a swab test.
Swab the inside of your cheek with the kit
provided and send the swabs back in the
specimen bags in your kit. There is no cost involved for you.

2

The swabs will then be analysed in labs to
determine your tissue characteristics – this
is used to match donors and patients. You will
then be added to the register and if there is a
match you will be informed by the registry.

3

IF YOU’RE A MATCH . . .
You’ll be contacted to make an appointment for
drawing blood to confirm if you’re the best possible match for the patient. Your sample will
also be tested for stem cells to help people in
need of stem-cell transplants.
In most cases, stem cells are taken directly
from the bloodstream. You can have this done
as an outpatient and it doesn’t require sedation
– think of it as similar to blood donation.
Bone marrow is harvested from the hipbone or
sternum (breastbone) but you will be given a local
anaesthetic to extract the marrow so it
will be painless.The
painless The procedure is
quick and you’ll be able to go about
your day immediately afterwards.

FROM LEFT: Tim and Natalie Blackburn, with baby Emily, Paballo and Phoebus Mere, with their children Neo and Thato
o, and
Arlene and Mish Madhav, with baby Rayaan, are all hopeful their kids will find bone-marrow donors.

EXTRA SOURCES: DKMS-AFRICA.ORG, CITIZEN.CO.ZA

cer weakened her immune system,
Emily developed a host of complications,
including TB and a type of pneumonia.
“We have to give her oral medication
every day for the TB and to prevent the
pneumonia from returning,” Natalie tells
us.
“We no longer see friends and family
as we keep her away from people due to
her low immune system. We order everything online to avoid going to the shops.”
Emily has been in and out of hospital
since November last year.
She desperately needs a bone-marrow
transplant, but her mom says they’ve
been unable to find a suitable donor so
far.
“She requires a 100% match and if she
had siblings, they could be a match but
she’s an only child. They didn’t test my
husband or me as we most likely
wouldn’t be 100%
match.”
The best match is
u ually a sibling as
the genetic material
is s red from both
pare ts. A parent can
a half-match but
without a 100% match there is a greater
risk of complications for the patient in
the first few months.
South Africa has two main bonemarrow registries – DKMS Africa and
the SA Bone Marrow Registry – and both
belong to the World Marrow Donor
Association, giving them access to
39 million registered donors.
However, there are only 90 000 South
African donors on both local registries
and for people of colour there’s an even
smaller pool of donors to choose from.

WHISTLEBLOWERS,
WE HAVE YOUR BACK

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Speaking out on corruption can have life-threatening consequences
but now a new organisation is offering to support and protect
the brave people who come forward BY LESEGO SEOKWANG

I

F YOU blow the whistle on state capture, you live in fear.
These are the words of Athol
Williams, a former partner at
management consultancy firm Bain
& Co. He blew the whistle on the
company in 2019, testifying
before the Zondo Commission
about how it had plundered the coffers
of the SA Revenue Service (Sars) during
the state capture years.
Athol fled South Africa after he received death threats for opening the can
of worms and is now living in hiding. Yet
although his life has been turned upside
down, he is one of the lucky ones.
Babita Deokaran (53), the acting CFO
for the Gauteng health department, was
shot dead in broad daylight outside her
Johannesburg home last year. She’d been
a key witness in the investigation into the
overpriced procurement of Covid-19
protection clothing, a scandal involving
some R330 million.
And it’s precisely because of cases like
Athol’s and Babita’s that a new organisation has been launched.
Whistleblower House (WBH) is a
non-profit organisation that aims to
provide assistance to people who want
to expose corruption.
“The reality in South Africa is that no
dedicated resource exists to support
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whistleblowers,” says Ben Theron, exec- increasingly agitated, he and other Sars
utive director of WBH.
officials were targeted and trapped in a
“They’re often adrift in accessing legal web of fake news aimed at discrediting
counsel, financial help, psychological their work.
support, assistance with the preparation
Before his name could be cleared, he
of testimonies and evaluating the risks was suspended and later resigned. He
they may face.”
now works as a private consultant for
The NPO is raising funds from donors companies and state enterprises to help
and establishing a
improve governance
panel of pro bono serand weed out corrupvice providers to cover
tion.
all the required fields,
“Without whistleincluding lawyers,
blowers, South Africa
GPs, psychologists,
would be far worse
psychiatri sts and
off than it is now. But
dentists. Access to job
they are often castiopportunities will also
gated, victimised and
be provided by WBH.
hounded,” Ivan says.
Ivan Pillay, former
“They’ve been left to
Sars deputy commisfend for themselves in
sioner, is the chairperhostile environments.
Ivan Pillay set up the Whistleblower
son of the organisaSome have even lost
House
out
of
the
need
to
provide
compretion. At the revenue
their lives.”
hensive support to whistleblowers.
service he headed
criminal investigaHEY ’ VE
tions and doggedly
al so lost
pursued high-profile
t h e i r
tax dodgers, earning
homes behimself international
cause they
recognition.
lost their
As politicians and
jobs, says Ben, who is
businessmen implicatthe former CEO of
ed by his findings grew
the Organisation

‘WITHOUT WHISTLEBLOWERS, SOUTH
AFRICA WOULD BE
FAR WORSE OFF’

T

BABITA
DEOKARAN

The acting CFO of
Gauteng’s health department, at the time, was
gunned down last year
after lifting the lid on a
R332 million PPE deal.

CHARL
KINNEAR

Kinnear was an anti-gang
cop in Cape Town who
was shot dead outside his
Bishop Lavis home in
2020, after a botched
attack 10 months prior.

ethics expert Liezl roenewald.
“Whistleblower House has been
established to ad ress the existing
lack of support by creating access to
professional services that whistleblowers
desperately need,” Ivan says.
“We’ve assembled a formidable team
and we hope state institutions, businesses and civil society will rally behind us”
South Africa’s whistleblowing act,
which is officially known as the Protected Disclosures Act, has major loopholes,
says Johann van Loggerenberg, who was
head of Sars’ high-risk investigation unit
and, like Ivan, was targeted in the fake
news campaign.
“It’s a little piece of legislation that’s not
worth the piece of paper it’s written on.
We need to seriously revamp it,” he says,
adding that solving the problem isn’t just
a matter of amending legislation but of
changing the whole system.

Undoing Tax Abuse.
“And they often can’t find new work
because they’ve been tainted by their
actions. Their bank accounts have been
zeroed and they feel like they are unable
to cope.”
WBH will, he says, be a one-stop shop
for legal, professional and personal help.
Ivan says being part of the initiative is
an honour and a privilege.
“We are presenting what we believe is
a critical initiative to ensure that good
governance, ethical conduct and the
values espoused in our constitution are
firmly entrenched in South African
institutions.”
Mosilo Mothepu, who blew the whistle
on the Gupta-linked company Trillian
Capital , says the
launch of Whistleblower House was an
emotional day for her.
After she revealed
what she knew, she
lost her job at Trillian
and was left facing
R1,3 million in legal
fees and R420 000 in
medical bills.
She also faced bankruptcy after being unemployed for two
years and now fears
Ben Theron has taken up the role of
executive director of the organisation
for her life after one of
the people she blew
the whistle on was
freed on bail.
She will be approaching WBH for
help with security,
Mosilo says.
“We are ready for
people,” Ben says.
The directors of
WBH include attorney
Martha Ngoye, former
SAA treasurer and
whistleblower Cynthia Stimpel and

‘THE REALITY
IN SOUTH
AFRICA IS THAT
NO DEDICATED,
FULL-SPECTRUM
RESOURCE EXISTS
TO SUPPORT
WHISTLEBLOWERS’

J

OHANN is one
of many who
hope the proposals made
by the Zondo
Commission
will be quickly implemented.
These include the
creation of an anti-corruption authority, tougher laws to
protect whistleblowers and measures to
force private sector
companies to act
against bribery.
It’s a good start,
Johann says.
“But it should be
seen as the genesis of
something that will
ultimately be a permanent fixture in our
anti-corruption and
fraud justice system.”
Whistleblower
House is appealing to
organisations, civil
society and South
African citizens to

assist whistleblowers wherever they can.
“It is a burden too large for the few
active NGOs,” Ben says.
Whistleblowers have to feel like someone has their backs, Ivan adds.
“It is because whistleblowers continue
to oppose theft, fraud and corruption
that we are optimistic that the tide can
be turned and that our democracy can
be saved.”
Contact details for WBH can be found
at www.whistleblowerhouse.org.

HELPING WHISTLEBLOWERS

“Whistleblowers often go public without understanding the impact of their action. There
are specific legal requirements that must be
met and without following these, they can
expose themselves to harm,” says Whistleblower House’s executive director, Ben Theron.
For example, in order to blow the whistle on
misdeeds, you must have reason to believe
information regarding any conduct of an
employer or an employee complies with one
or more of the following:
A criminal offence has been committed.
A person has failed to comply with a legal
obligation.
A miscarriage of justice has occurred.
The health or safety of an individual has
been endangered.
The environment has been damaged.
There has been unfair discrimination in
terms of the Promotion of Equality and
Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act.
A matter has been deliberately concealed.
These are the key areas where whistleblowers
often need help and with which WBH will be
able to assist:
Legal advice on what information should be
exposed and which authority should get that
information.
The counsel of an HR expert together with
legal advice to protect their job.
Legal representation if their employer
retaliates.
Counselling and medical treatment.
Financial assistance if they lose their job.

SOURCES: DAILYMAVERICK.CO.ZA, MG.CO.ZA, SAHISTORY.CO.ZA,
IOL.CO.ZA, BIZNEWS.COM, DEUTSCHE WELLE, NEWS24.COM,
NYTIMES.COM, FRONTLINE.THEHINDU.COM
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MORECHEESE,PLEASE!
Many people adore this
dairy product. Not only
does it add flavour to a
dish, it also transforms
any meal into a feast
BY ESTHER MALAN
PICTURES: MISHA JORDAAN

STICKYPORK
WHEELSWITH
APRICOTAND
BLUE CHEESE

The unmistakable
blue cheese flavour
combined with sticky
apricot jam make for
a taste sensation.
SERVES 4-6
PREPARATION: 15 MIN
COOKING: 25-30 MIN

FILLING
50g blue cheese, crumbled
60ml (¼c) sunflower
seeds, toasted and
roughly ground
5ml (1t) fresh or dried

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thyme
2,5ml (½t) freshly ground
black pepper
PORK WHEELS
8 deboned pork loin strips
salt and freshly ground
black pepper
30ml (2T) oil
60ml (¼c) smooth
apricot jam, heated
TO SERVE
any salad of your choice

Soak 8 kebab skewers
in water. Preheat the oven
to 200°C. Keep a baking
sheet handy.
1 Filling Mix all the
ingredients well.
2 Pork wheels Season
the pork strips with salt

and pepper. Brush
some of the filling on
the sides of each strip.
Carefully roll each strip
into a pinwheel, keeping
the filling intact, and
skewer.
3 Heat a little oil in a large
pan and fry the pork
wheels until golden
brown on both sides. Arrange the kebabs on the
prepared baking sheet.
4 Liberally brush apricot
jam over the kebabs
and roast in the oven
for 10-15 minutes or
until golden brown
and cooked.
5 To serve Serve with a
salad of your choice.

MACARONI
AND CHEESE
CROQUETTES

Mac ’n cheese is a
perennial favourite.
These croquettes
are the ideal cheesy
snack or light meal.
MAKES 14-16 CROQUETTES
PREPARATION: 30 MIN
CHILLING: 1-2 HOURS
COOKING: 40 MIN

MACARONI
150g butter

2 garlic cloves, chopped
2 chillies, chopped
(optional)
5ml (1t) smoked paprika
125ml (½c) flour
250ml (1c) milk
125ml (½c) cream or milk
250ml (1c) grated
Gouda cheese
salt
250g macaroni, cooked
and drained
CRUMBLE
125ml (½c) flour
2 eggs, beaten
250ml (1c) crispy crumbs
oil for deep frying

t – teaspoon/sT – tablespoon/sc – cup/s

1 Macaroni Heat the
butter in a pot. Add the
garlic, chillies (if using)
and paprika and stir-fry
over medium heat until
fragrant.
2 Stir in the flour, then add
the milk little by little,
stirring continuously
to prevent lumps.
3 Add the cream, then
simmer over low heat
for 5 minutes, stirring
continuously. Add the
cheese and stir until
melted and well
combined.

4 Remove from the heat
and mix the macaroni
into the sauce. Transfer
the mixture to a flat dish
and leave to cool completely. Cover and put
in the fridge to chill for
1 hour.
5 Roll 15ml (1T) of the
mixture into a ball in
the palm of your hand
(wet your hands if the
mixture is too sticky).
Repeat until the mixture
is done.
6 Crumble Roll each macaroni ball in the flour, dip

in the eggs, then roll in
the crumbs – make sure
each croquette is thoroughly covered. Arrange
the croquettes on a
plate and put in the
fridge to chill for at
least 30 minutes.
7 Heat enough oil for
deep-frying in a pan
or large saucepan.
Fry the croquettes in
batches until golden
brown, crispy and hot
throughout. Drain on
kitchen towel and serve
immediately.

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CREAMYBASIL,
PECORINO AND
ALMOND PESTO
PASTA

Pecorino or Parmesan cheese is ideal
for pesto but can be
pricey. Try any hard
Italian cheese or even
mature cheddar.
SERVES 4-6
PREPARATION: 15 MIN
COOKING: 25-30 MIN

PESTO
125ml (½c) toasted,
salted almonds
125ml (½c) grated pecorino or Parmesan cheese
2 garlic cloves, bruised
a handful of fresh basil
a handful of broadleaf
parsley
80ml (¹⁄₃c) olive oil
juice and grated zest of

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½ lemon
salt
PASTA
500g spaghetti or linguine
15ml (1T) butter
5ml (1t) flour
250ml (1c) sour cream
juice of ½ lemon
salt and freshly ground
black pepper
a handful of fresh rocket
chopped chillies (optional)
pecorino or Parmesan
cheese shavings (optional)

1 Pesto Put the almonds,
cheese and garlic in
a food processor
and pulse until finely
ground. Add the fresh
herbs and half the olive
oil. Pulse until roughly
chopped.
2 Add the rest of the olive
oil and pulse until well
combined. Add the
lemon juice and zest

3

4

5

6

and pulse until smooth.
Season with salt. Transfer the pesto to a clean
jar and store in the
fridge for up to a week.
Pasta Cook the pasta
in salted water until
al dente. Drain, but set
aside 125ml (½c) of
the pasta water.
Heat the butter in a
deep pan or pot and
stir in the flour. Turn
the heat down and stir
in the sour cream. Add
half the pesto and all
the pasta water. Mix the
pasta into the sauce.
Season with the lemon
juice, salt and pepper.
Mix in the rocket and
dish up in bowls.
Add more pesto on
top of each portion of
pasta and finish with
the chillies and cheese
(if using).

SCONES WITH
APRICOT JAM AND
CHEDDAR CHEESE

Jam and cheese
scones are a favourite
teatime treat. These
ones are topped with
strong cheddar and
tangy dried apricots.
MAKES ABOUT
12 MEDIUM SCONES
PREPARATION: 15 MIN

BAKING: 15 MIN

500ml (2c) cake flour
20ml (4t) baking powder
15ml (1T) sugar
2,5ml (½t) salt
125ml (½c) grated cheddar
50g dried, soft apricots,
chopped
45ml (3T) oil
2 eggs, beaten
250ml (1c) plain yoghurt
TO FINISH
15ml (1T) milk

60ml (½c) grated cheddar
TO SERVE
butter
apricot jam
grated cheddar

Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Thoroughly grease 12 hollows of a muffin tin with
nonstick spray.
1 Sift the flour and baking
powder together in a
large bowl. Add the sugar
and salt and lightly mix.

2 Add the cheese and
chopped apricots and
mix through.
3 Combine the oil, eggs
and yoghurt and add to
the flour mixture. Stir
until just mixed (don’t
stir too much).
4 To finish Divide the
mixture between the
muffin hollows and
lightly brush milk over
each scone. Sprinkle the
cheese over and bake for

12-15 minutes or until
golden brown and
cooked.
5 Set aside in the muffin
tins for 5 minutes to cool.
Carefully loosen the
edges and transfer
the scones to a wire
rack. Leave to cool
completely.
6 To serve Serve the
scones with butter,
apricot jam and grated
cheddar.
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FIG TARTLETS
WITH RICOTTA

Ricotta’s subtle
flavour complements these tartlets.
MAKES 6 TARTLETS
PREPARATION: 20 MIN
COOKING: 15-20 MIN

500g puff pastry
flour for sprinkling
250ml (1c) ricotta cheese
15ml (1T) fresh or
5ml (1t) dried thyme
a pinch of salt
5ml (1t) freshly ground
black pepper
1 egg, beaten
TO FINISH
15ml (1T) honey
6 fresh figs, sliced
to your liking
thyme sprigs (optional)

Preheat the oven to
200°C. Line a large
baking sheet with
baking paper and grease
with nonstick spray.
1 Lightly roll the dough
out on a surface sprinkled with flour. Slice
in half lengthways.
Slice each strip in
three equal squares.
2 Arrange the squares
on the prepared baking
sheet. Use a knife to
cut a collar around the
edge of each dough
square (but don’t slice
right through). Cut patterns into the dough.
3 Crumble the ricotta
into a mixing bowl and
add the thyme, salt
and pepper. Mix well
and spoon some of the
cheese mixture into the
centre of each square.
4 Lightly brush egg
on the collar of each
dough square and bake
for 15-20 minutes or
until golden brown,
crispy and cooked.
5 To finish Drizzle honey
over and finish with
fresh figs and thyme (if
using). Serve warm or
at room temperature.
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BAKED CAMEMBERT
WITH BILTONG AND
PAAPER BITES

Decadently creamy
Camembert cheese
is the ideal way to
impress guests.
SERVES 4 (AS SNACK
OR APPETISER)
PREPARATION: 15 MIN
COOKING: 20 MIN

PAAPER BITES
6 samoosa pastry sheets
oil for deep-frying
5ml (1t) paprika
2,5ml (½t) each chilli
powder and ground
coriander
5ml (1t) sea salt
CAMEMBERT
a handful fresh thyme or
rosemary
125g Camembert
60ml (¼c) biltong
powder

TO FINISH
honey for drizzling
extra fresh thyme or
rosemary

Preheat the oven to 200°C.
Keep a small ovenproof
dish and a sheet of
aluminium foil handy.
1 Paaper bites Slice the
samoosa pastry into
roughly 5cm triangles.
Heat the oil in a pot for
deep-frying. Fry the

dough in batches until
golden brown and
crispy. Drain on kitchen
towel.
2 Mix the paprika, chilli
powder, coriander and
salt. Sprinkle the spice
mixture over the paaper
bites.
3 Camembert Arrange
the thyme or rosemary
sprigs in the bottom of
the ovenproof dish. Put
the Camembert on top

and sprinkle biltong over.
Cover well with foil and
bake for 15-20 minutes
or until the cheese is
soft and the inside has
melted.
4 To finish Drizzle the
honey over the warm
Camembert and arrange
more fresh thyme or
rosemary around the
sides. Serve with the
paaper bites as a vehicle
for the cheese.
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Singaporebased influencer
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Shirt with side buttons
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German model
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a white blouse and
grey pants from
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with a beige vest,
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Ribbed ruched-bottom skirt
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Frilly pencil skirt
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British actress
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KNOW
YOUR
NECK
We’re relying on
smartphones more
than ever, so it’s time
to give our tech necks
some TLC

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HETHER we’re checking news updates, connecting with family or
sneaking one more
game of Candy Crush,
our mobiles are slowly
wrecking our necks. Craning forward
to see our screens multiplies the pressure on the neck. Along with stiffness
and pain, overindulging on tech can
also speed up skin ageing (more on this
later).
But there are ways you can ease the
tension without giving up your tech.
Best of all, you can do it while you get
a beauty fix.
“It’s super easy to incorporate massage while showering or applying products such as cleanser, serum, moisturiser or facial oils,” Australian facialist
Melanie Grant explains.
“I like to use massage in the neck
area to drain fluid and sculpt the jawline. It also stimulates blood flow,
allowing nutrients and oxygen to flow
in, promoting collagen production to
firm, brighten and refine.”
Here’s how to give your own neck
some healing hands at home, combining Melanie’s moves with some of our
favourite techniques.
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FOR THE JAW

Before you begin, wash your hands well and
remove make-up or sunscreen. This helps skin
to absorb the products you use, bringing complexion benefits along with neck relief.
“Ensure you use enough oil, serum or cream
to maintain enough slip and be careful not to
pull or tug the skin,” Melanie says.
“For puffiness, keep the pressure light as the
lymphs are just below the skin’s surface. With
fingertips, massage the middle of your chin in
tiny circles for 10 seconds. Move outwards to
the sides of your chin and repeat, before moving onto the outer jaw. Use the knuckles of your
index and middle finger to slide very slightly
outwards along your jaw and then drain to the
lymph nodes under the ears,” Melanie says.
Repeat five times. With your index finger
and thumb, lightly pinch the skin along the jawline, starting at the chin and moving outwards.
For deep muscle tension, press firmly into the
masseter (chewing) muscles for 10 seconds,
then up along the cheekbones.

TECH NECK
CHECKLIST

1
2
3

4
5

Hold devices at eye level to
avoid pain.
Take a break to reset every 20
minutes.
Lift up from the pelvis, lengthening the neck and rolling
shoulders back and down.
Hold for 10 seconds and relax.
Slowly look left and right, up
and down.
Try a cat and cow stretch: on
all fours, arch your back
inwards towards the ground
and look up, then curve the
back up and look down.

Some specialist creams are packed
with potent regenerators. But taking
care of your neck doesn’t need to be
expensive. Simply using sunscreen and
moisturiser
religiously
i t i
li i l is
i guaranteed
t d to
t
preserve your skin.
p
3

PRESS RELAX
Makeup artists use massage and pressure
techniques to relax their clients and boost skin circulation.
Here, international makeup and beauty expert Nadira V Persaud
shares two massage methods you’ll love.

1

2

NECK RELIEF MASSAGE

5
4

6
7

The neck often carries a lot of tension,
which requires careful and considerate
attention through pressure. This exercise
provides a sense of centering, as well as
relief in the neck muscles.
Smooth facial oil or cream all over
1 the neck. Position closed fingers at
the nape of neck.
Press firmly as you move down to the
2 collarbone in one continuous
movement.

FOR THE NECK

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Reversal Neck Serum 30ml R850, Dermastore
5 Avène Revitalising Nourishing Cream 50ml
R395, Clicks 6 Soil Aromatherapy Rose
Hip Oil 30ml R109,95, Dis-Chem 7 Skin
Strategy Face & Neck Mask + Serum
36g R129,95, Dis-Chem

Open out your hands. “Use gentle, upward
sweeping movements and drain toward the
lymph nodes underneath your ears,” Melanie
advises.
If you can reach, try using two hands to do
overlapping upward strokes on one side,
then the other. This boosts circulation and
feels especially good when sluggish. Now
switch back to fingertips and gently massage each side of the neck in tiny circles just
below the ears. Next, move to the base of
the neck and massage each side again, followed by the clavicle.

FOR THE SKIN

Our devices aren’t just a pain in the neck,
they’re also accelerating ageing.
“Blue light releases free radicals in the

COLLARBONE MASSAGE

With the use of gentle pressure, fluid
retention can be moved and toxins
reduced.
Using flat, closed fingers, gently
1 press along the collarbone from the
inside outwards towards the shoulder. Repeat four times.
Gently press under the collarbone
2 four times. Repeat along and under
the collarbone on the other side of
the body.

skin which degrade collagen, causing premature ageing and pigmentation,” plastic surgeon Dr Andreas Fox explains.
To protect your neck, wear sunscreen
every day, he says. Those with iron oxide will
significantly reduce the penetration of blue
light. Also try to decrease your device use,
turn down the brightness or put up a blue
light shield. To fight back, use skincare with
antioxidants (such as vitamin C, niacinamide,
etc) to neutralise those nasty free radicals.
And always add a nourishing moisturiser
because the skin on the neck is drier than
the face.

FOR THE DÉCOLLETAGE

Place an open, flat hand on the breastbone
and sweep up and over the opposite shoulder. Repeat five times and swap to the other
side.

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With so many
toothpaste varieties
on the shelves,
cleaning your teeth
has become a
complicated business
BY KAREN FITTALL

ONE are the days
when cleaning your
pearly whites was
a simple morning
ritual. Whitening,
tartar control, enamel protection – there’s
such a dizzying array
of toothpastes available these days that it can be confusing
to know what to use. Here’s what you
need to know.

SENSITIVE

Sensitive toothpastes are designed to
treat the sensitivity caused when dentine, the layer that surrounds a tooth’s
nerve, is revealed due to either thinning
tooth enamel or receding gums. They
contain a variety of ingredients that
work to seal off pores in the dentine –
called tubules – reducing sensitivity.
While most sensitive toothpastes take
a couple of weeks to be effective, some
of the newer ones claim to reduce sensitivity immediately. “Sensitive toothpastes are safe to use permanently, in
place of a regular fluoridated toothpaste,” says Professor David Manton of
Melbourne Dental School in Australia.
“But if sensitivity persists it’s important
to determine the cause and a visit to the
dentist is recommended.”

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WHITENING

A large variety of these are available and,
according to Manton, they’re safe for
long-term use unless on-pack instructions warn otherwise. "If you do choose
a whitening paste, it’s important to
ensure that it contains 1 000 parts per
million (ppm) of fluoride as well to help
prevent decay,” he explains.
As for how they work, it’s more about
stain removal than changing the colour
of your teeth.
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BRUSH UP ON

TOOTHPASTE

factured by large companies don’t have a
specific bleaching agent in them and instead work by changing the formulation
to help maximise the removal of stains,”
he says.

BAKING SODA

Also called sodium bicarbonate, baking
soda mixed with water is an old home

remedy for cleaning teeth, so it’s not surprising it’s a common toothpaste ingredient. “Baking soda acts as a mild abrasive
and as a neutralising agent against acid,”
says Manton.
“But there’s no evidence that it’s more
effective at cleaning teeth than a normal,
fluoridated toothpaste. On the other
hand, there’s also no evidence that it does

FLUORIDE CONTENT
Fluoride is a mineral that’s
commonly used to prevent
dental cavities and to treat

tooth plaque and mild gum
disease.
The usual concentration of

fluoride in toothpaste ranges
from 1 000 to 1 500 parts per
million (ppm).

THE ACIDS IN SOME
FOODS AND DRINKS
TEMPORARILY SOFTEN THE
ENAMEL ON THE SURFACE
OF THE TEETH. THIS
CAUSES RISK OF EROSION

CHILDREN

Manton says when it comes to choosing
a toothpaste, fluoride content is important – both to help toughen tooth enamel
and to stop decay.

TARTAR CONTROL

These typically contain ingredients that
help to prevent tartar from forming, such
as sodium pyrophosphate or
sodium hexametaphosphate. “There is some evidence that these are effective at helping to decrease
the formation of tartar, or
calculus as dentists call it.
But if you already have
heavy deposits of tartar
on your teeth, brushing
with a tartar control
toothpaste won’t have
any significant effect on
those – they’ll need to be
cleaned off by a dentist,”
says Manton.

REGULAR

any harm, so as long as
the toothpaste also contains fluoride and you
like the taste, use it.”

HERBAL

While some of these are
free of sodium lauryl sulphate, a foaming agent
typically found in regular
toothpastes which, Manton says, “a small proportion of people react to”,
the main difference is
that they’re usually
un-fluoridated – which
dental experts wouldn’t
recommend.

These are available in paste
or gel formulations and,
according to Professor David
Manton of Melbourne Dental
School in Australia, the
decision between which is
better largely comes down to
personal preference.
“The most important things
in choosing a toothpaste are
finding one that you like the
flavour of, so you’ll use it
regularly, and making sure it
contains the appropriate
amount of fluoride to help
protect against decay.
“That’s typically around 1 000
parts per million (ppm) for
adults, although 5 000ppm
for those at high risk of decay
is sometimes recommended.
And whichever paste you
choose, use it twice per day –
research shows this is more
effective at preventing decay
than brushing just once
daily.”

ENAMEL PROTECTORS

The acids in some foods
and drinks, such as certain fruits, wine and orange juice, temporarily
soften the enamel on the
surface of the teeth. If the
enamel doesn’t reharden,
it’s at risk of acid wear or
erosion, which affects
both oral hygiene and the
appearance of teeth. A
number of “enamel care”
toothpastes are now
available to help ensure
the rehardening process
occurs.
“Pastes that claim to
provide extra enamel
care would normally
have higher concentrations of fluoride – up to
5 000ppm,” says Manton.
Whichever toothpaste
you use, help safeguard
your tooth enamel by not

For most young children it’s important to use
an age-appropriate toothpaste that contains
less fluoride – about 500ppm – than standard
products, to decrease the risk of fluorosis associated with swallowing the paste. Fluorosis
occurs when too much fluoride is absorbed,
causing white marks on the teeth.
Brushing teeth without toothpaste is recommended until the age of 18 months, when you
should introduce a low-fluoride toothpaste
and use it until your child is six years old.
Encouraging children to use a pea-sized
amount of toothpaste and ensuring that they
spit the paste out rather than swallowing it is
also advised. If you live in an area with
non-fluoridated drinking water or if your child
is at high risk of decay, talk to your dentist.

brushing your teeth for at least 30 minutes after consuming an acidic food or
drink to allow enough time for you your
saliva to harden the softened enamel.

ANTIBACTERIAL

As well as fluoride, these toothpastes
typically contain antibacterial or antifungal agents such as triclosan, or naturally
occurring enzymes that have an antibacterial action. But Manton is sceptical
about their ability to offer superior
protection for the teeth.
“There’s no evidence that antibacterial
toothpastes have any beneficial effect
over normal fluoridated toothpastes,” he
says.
“However, they may help reduce plaque,
which may improve gum health.”
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ASK DR
LOUISE
Write to Dr Louise, PO Box 39410, Moreletapark 0044,
or email info@drlouise.co.za.

MY WIFE IS A GHOST
OF HER FORMER SELF
I’ve been married for 15 years and when
I met my wife she was a vivacious, out­
going person. She had such an attractive
personality that she would draw people to her like
bees to honey.
But when her mother and siblings died, I could
see the light slowly going out of my wife’s eyes.
Lockdown was a turning point. She became so
afraid of death and dying that she locked herself
in our home. When the hard lockdown regula­
tions came to an end she still refused to go out in
case she contracted Covid.
The result was that I went out by myself and vis­
ited friends on my own. Now she’s a hermit and
has lost all her friends because she never sees
them. She’s a ghost of her former self.
I’m very lonely and long for the person my wife
used to be. We had such fun and were not only
lovers but very good friends. Now I find I pity her
more than love her. What should I do?
Rian, email

The deaths of your wife’s mother and her siblings
were clearly very traumatic for her. The problem
is that instead of working through it, she allowed
grief to take over her life and become the focus of her
being. She was probably depressed even before lockdown happened.
It has become clear that lockdown has had a psychological effect on many people, with some suffering from
what has been termed “lockdown syndrome”. Symptoms
include depression, a degree of anthropophobia (fear of
people), social withdrawal, a reluctance to resume the
normal activities of life and a tendency to just want to
stay at home and remain isolated.
What has most likely happened to your wife is that the
depression and fear of death she experienced before
lockdown were amplified by the pandemic.
It’s vital that she consults a clinical psychologist who
can help her work through her grief and depression.
She needs to process the sorrow and fear that are
weighing her down so she can be herself again. It might
be necessary for her to be referred to a psychiatrist for
an antidepressant. You can contact the South African
Depression and Anxiety Group (Sadag) on 011-234-4837
or 0800-456-789.
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SHE DOESN’T TURN ME ON ANYMORE
Three years ago, I found out
my wife was having an af­
fair. This was devastating to
me, as I trusted her with my whole
heart and never expected it.
I even defended her when my
best friend voiced his suspicions to
me, and I ended my friendship
with him because of it.
But then I had to believe it when
I caught my wife and her lover in
my house when they thought I was
away on a business trip.
After a lot of heartache, and a
separation, we decided to try
again. The problem now, however,
is that I seem to have lost my at­
traction for my wife.
No matter what she tries, I don’t
get turned on and this is now dam­
aging our marriage. What can I do
to fix this?

Ronald, email

An inhibition of sexual desire
can be caused by subconscious
anger and the need to punish.
It may be that you still have a lot of
underlying resentment or even rage towards your wife and are trying to punish
her in some way. This is not a conscious
feeling, but rather a subconscious one.
The only way to try to resolve this is
to consult a psychologist, ideally one
who has training in hypnotherapy.
This would be a good approach to use
because it’s your subconscious mind
that is causing the problem, and
hypnotherapy is a way to access the
subconscious mind.
Remember, however, that the subconscious mind is a mind of its own,
so to speak, and may not change – no
matter how much you want to fix your
marriage.
All you can do is listen to it and
address the emotions that come up.

‘BEAUTY IS ABOUT BEING COMFORTABLE IN
YOUR OWN SKIN. IT’S ABOUT KNOWING
AND ACCEPTING WHO YOU ARE’
– ELLEN DEGENERES

MY OWN DREAM NEVER COMES TRUE
I’m always unlucky in love.
I’ve fallen in love a few
times but each time I’ve
been dumped for someone I
don’t think is much better or
smarter than me. What am I
doing wrong?
When I’m in a relationship I’m
very attentive and go out of my
way to do whatever my partner
wants to do. I try to be romantic,
to be there for her and most of all
I try to encourage her to reach her
dreams.
I always encourage my girlfriend
to better herself, believe in herself
and to be what she wants to be.
But I feel as if I end up being a
“stopover” for women to become
what they want to be and then

their next partner benefits from it.

Mark, email

While your intentions may be
noble, perhaps the women
you’ve been in relationships
with don’t quite see it that way.
Maybe they get tired of being
viewed as a project and see it instead
as you not accepting them the way
they are.
It’s clear you mean well, but people
want to be accepted for who they are.
It might help if you consult a psychologist to get to the bottom of why you
put so much focus on this.
A psychologist can also help you figure out how to get out of this habit that
appears to be damaging your love-life
in spite of your best intentions.

New job? 4 things your
contract must include

YOUR
MONEY
SORTED

Know the terms and conditions of your employment
before you sign on the dotted line

BY LETITIA WATSON

Send suggestions for topics and requests for info to yourmoney@you.co.za.
We may answer your questions in this column but won’t reply personally.

W

HETHER you’re
starting your first
job or changing
jobs, you’ll have to
sign a contract of employment.
The law requires that employers
provide their employees with a
written service contract, regardless of whether it’s a full-time or

1

JOB DESCRIPTION

This should include your
position, your most important duties, your role
in the company and the
location (place of work).
All the services you’ll be
providing your employer must
be included under your duties.
This must be as specific as possible so you have the correct
expectations of each other.
You also need to understand
how your role fits into the organisation, for example, whether
you’re part of a team or work
independently, and who you report to.The location is important too, because it indicates
whether you’ll be expected to be
in a particular place all the time
or some of the time.

2

REMUNERATION
AND BENEFITS

The contract must
fully explain your
remuneration and
benefits.The contract refers to your
comprehensive remuneration
package as “cost to company”

TIP

part-time position or you’re paid
minimum wage or a substantial
salary. The contract confirms
that you’ll be paid for the service
you deliver, and it explains
terms and conditions so you’re
aware of what’s expected of you.
Here are four things that must
be included in every contract.

or “guaranteed remuneration
package”.
This is the total amount the
employer will be spending on
you, including all benefits and
any extras – which is why this
amount is so much more than
you’ll take home every month.
Your net salary or take-home
pay is the amount that will be
paid into your account every
month, after deductions such
as tax and your retirementfund contribution.
It must also stipulate the
following: on which day of the
month your salary is paid, for
example, the 25th; whether
you’ll be earning commission;
and if you’ll be getting a bonus
or 13th cheque. Benefits such as
pension contributions and disability, life or funeral cover must
also be explained.

3

LEAVE

Employees are entitled to four types of
leave: annual, sick,
maternity and compassionate leave.
The law prescribes

a set minimum leave, for example, annual leave of one day for
every 17 days worked for permanent employees, and the
employee must be paid in full
during these leave days.
It must be included in your
contract, as well as under which
conditions leave will be unpaid,
for example, if you’ve used all
your annual days and want to
take more leave, in which case
the extra days will be unpaid.
Female employees are also
entitled to four months of maternity leave, but it doesn’t have
to be paid leave.The employer
can decide whether it’s paid
leave for a certain period, for
example three months, and
the contract needs to be clear
about this.
Many employers also grant
study leave, sabbaticals or halfday leave, but different companies have different policies on
this.The requirements for this
type of infrequent leave should
be clearly explained, as well as
when it can be taken and whether it will be paid, partially paid
or unpaid.

4

DURATION AND
TERMINATION

Employment contracts are usually
permanent or for
a set term.
Permanent contracts are basically for an indefinite term and valid until the
employee doesn’t want to work
there anymore or the contract
is ended for a legitimate reason,
for example, retrenchment. If
there’s a probation period, the

When the employer and employee both agree to amendments
in the contract’s terms and conditions, the employment contract must be adjusted accordingly.

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duration thereof must also be
stipulated.
Fixed-term contracts usually
include a start and end date. It
can also be applied to the completion of a specific project but
must still include a time frame.
If applicable, a fixed-term
contract will also indicate whether it’s eligible for renewal.
Your contract must explain
under which circumstances
it might be terminated.
The contracts of permanent
employees can be terminated
in, for example, the event of
either of the two parties (employee and employer) not fulfilling the terms of the agreement, or if you should resign.
Employees can also be retrenched if the employer can’t
afford them anymore. Make
sure you know what the notice
periods for both sides are because it might differ according
to the reason for termination.
If you resign, it’s usually one
week’s notice if you’ve worked
there less than six months, and
four weeks if longer than that.
Your contract should stipulate
which circumstances allow for
immediate dismissal.
WHERE DO INDEPENDENT
CONSULTANTS AND
CONTRACTORS FIT IN?
These are people with extensive
experience in a specific field who
are self-employed and registered
as such with Sars. They’re given
a service contract for a specific
service but aren’t employees.
A contractor can work for more
than one employer and isn’t
entitled to the same benefits
as permanent employees.

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Oprah Winfrey and Sadie, one
of her five pooches, pose for
an article in her magazine, O.

I

T’S not just humans who can be filthy
rich – some of our four-legged friends
have amassed fortunes that will make
your jaw drop! A recent study put together the world’s top 10 richest pets.
Prepare to be amazed!

1

GUNTHER VI $500 million (R7,5bn)

This handsome German Shepherd,
Gunther VI, is owned by the Gunther
Corporation which manages his estate.
His fortune goes back to 1991 when
Countess Karlotta Leibenstein of
Germany died and left her $80million
(then R216m) fortune to her German
Shepherd named Gunter III. The money
has been passed down and grown thanks
to trustees investing wisely in real estate.

NALA $100 million (R1,5bn)

This kitty is the world’s highestearning cat influen
influencer, boasting
over 4 million followers. She rakes in the
cash from eendorsement
deals, merchandise
m
and heer own premium cat
c food called
loveenalaco. She
maakes $14 410
(ab
bout R216 000)
per Instagram
post
p – not bad
for
f a rescue!
Naala lives with
Variher owners
o
siri “P
Pookie” Methac h i ttt i p h a n a n d
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Shannon Ellis in Los Angeles, California.

3

OLIVIA BENSON $97 million (R1,4bn)

4

SADIE, SUNNY, LAUREN, LAYLA
AND LUKE $30 million (R450m)

This Scottish Fold regularly features
on her owner Taylor Swift’s Instagram. But she’s also found fame in her
own right. She’s starred in several of
Tay-Tay’s music videos, has her own merchandise and has had cameos in ad campaigns for Diet Coke and Ned Sneakers.

These pampered pooches belong
to Oprah Winfrey, each of whom has its
own trust fund and, as a collective, are
set to inherit $30 million when the media
tycoon dies.

5

JIFFPOM $25 million (R375m)

6

CHOUPETTE $25 million (R375m)

This fluffy Pomeranian has a following of 9,8 million on Instagram,
has two Guinness World Record titles to
his name, has featured in Katy Perry’s
music video for Dark Horse and has published his own book called I Am Jiffpom.
He makes almost $33 000 (R495 000)
per Instagram post. Jiffpoms’ owners
choose to remain anonymous so as not
to draw attention away from their pooch.

The beloved pet of late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, this Birman
holds the title of third richest cat in
the world thanks to his besotted former
owner who described his cat as “the cen-

tre of the world”. Choupette has her own
two personal maids and travelled everywhere with him. She also modelled
on occasion. “If you saw her, you would
understand,” Lagerfeld once said.

7

PONTIAC $5 million (R75m)

8

DOUG THE PUG $1,5 million (R22,5m)

9

TUCKER $1,5 million (R22,5m)

This Golden Retriever was the pride
and joy of the late American actress
Betty White. On her death she’d accumulated a fortune of around $240 million
(R3,6bn), of which she earmarked $5 million for her dog so he could live out his
days in the comfort to which he’d grown
accustomed.
He’s a bona fide Hollywood star,
having appeared in the Oscarnominated animated movie Mitchells vs
the Machines! He’s also featured in music
videos for Katy Perry and Fall Out Boy
and has released his own book called
Doug the Pug: The King of Pop Culture
– a New York bestseller. Doug lives in
Tennessee with his owner, Leslie Mosier.
This gorgeous Golden Retriever is
a social media star who has 3,2 million followers on Instagram (which also
features his son Todd) and 4,42 million
on YouTube. He makes about $10 600
(R159 000) per Instagram post. His
owner is Courtney Budzyn,
a model and so
ocial media
influencer.

10

MARUTAARU
$1,5 million
(R22,5m)

This Shiba Inu frrom Japan
is famous than
nks to his
super-cute lookks, which
have seen him feeature in
many TV adverts. He
also has his ow
wn online shop for doggs and
humans.
Marutaru has 2,5 million devoted folllowers
on Instagram wh
ho love
watching him pllay.
His dad starteed his
account to spreead
love and joy aftter
Japan’s devastaating earthquakke
in 2022.
Tucker visits the parlour regularly to keep
his gorgeous golden locks looking good and
even had them curled with a ghd recently!

INSTAGRAM (@OPRAH, @NALA_CAT, @TUCKERBUDZYN)

We might be counting our pennies until
the next payday, but these pampered
pooches are in the money

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listen to a friend who may
either be envious or is a bit
of a know-all. News from
afar may bring joy.

no excuse for not making
progress. You could expect
an epiphany of sorts in this
whirlwind week.

LEO

SAGITTARIUS

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS
7, 23, 33, 41, 32, 20

Expect some fireworks of
the good kind between
yourself and your other half
this week. For a single Leo
looking for love, this may
well be a week of finding
that special person. But be
careful – it’s vital to distinguish between fantasy and
reality as you could easily
be falling in love with love
itself, instead of the real
person. Being generous in
matters of money may
stand you in good stead.

The infrequent conjunction
of Jupiter, your ruling planet, with soulful Neptune in
your home horoscope this
week suggests that you can
get very close to fulfilling
your idea of what a dream
home should look and feel
like. This is the time to
chase after that dream but
don’t get into a heap of
debt. Chances are that you
can do a lot more with less
if you want to.

TAURUS

VIRGO

BY PETRA DU PREEZ

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS
5, 22, 31, 36, 30, 11

For daily horoscopes
go to you.co.za.

22 JULY – 22 AUG

ARIES

21 MARCH – 19 APRIL

REACH OUT TO THE LESS FORTUNATE
This is an appropriate
time to get in touch with
your charitable side,
however you wish to
express it. Whether you
put in time or money,
you’d prefer to do so

anonymously and not to
make a big fuss of your
involvement.
On a personal note, this
can be a week of inner
revelations but also
requires some quiet time

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

ROBIN WRIGHT

8 APRIL
1966

JANET SUZMAN
9 FEBRUARY
1939

to reflect – which isn’t
something active Aries
really enjoy.
But the least you can
do for yourself is to try it.

20 APRIL – 20 MAY

DAISY RIDLEY
10 APRIL
1992

The cosmic messenger,
Mercury, settles into your
sign this week, suggesting
that you may have some
new thoughts on old ideas.
A group initiative appears
to be most inspirational but
don’t count your chickens
before they’ve hatched. A
charismatic person may
blow their own importance
out of proportion and there
may be a sense of being let
down. It’s a good time to
make new friends.
YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS
9, 33, 41, 50, 39, 10

11 APRIL
1960

12 APRIL
1969

SCHALK BURGER
13 APRIL
1983

ARIES: FITNESS AND WELLBEING
S Exercise attitude: You’ve probably tried everything
at least once.
S Preferred activity: Your best bet is running, martial
arts or gym.
S Financial fitness: You love to shop on the impulse of
the moment.
S Money: Can burn a hole in your pocket, so you need to
start saving for tomorrow.
S Your home: Might resemble a formula one pit-stop,
with everyone always on the go.
S Big night in: Slouched in front of a device, streaming
favourites.
S To destress: Burning off calories to assure sound
sleep and rest.

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23 AUG – 22 SEP

With your planet Mercury
moving into a compatible
earth sign, you may feel
more comfortable in your
skin. But the big news is in
your love horoscope, where
an unusual conjunction of
generous Jupiter and mystic Neptune can easily cast
a love spell over you. This
means you can either take a
relationship to a next level
or feel convinced that
you’ve met your soulmate.
Be quick to forgive.
YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS
1, 13, 19, 38, 17, 6

GEMINI

LIBRA

Expect a bit of a contemplative week as your ruler,
Mercury, settles into the
sign of Taurus. Time on your
own doesn’t necessarily
equate to being lonely,
especially if you can get
used to the idea of being
your own best friend. Drama at work cannot be ruled
out, especially around the
12th. If you can spot the opportunity amidst this all,
you can pat yourself on the
back for being clever.

If a work situation hasn’t
turned out as you’d expected, disappointment is understandable. Instead of
feeling sorry for yourself,
find the gift in the situation
where a new door is just
beckoning to be opened.
You may be surprised beyond your wildest dreams,
especially if you can make a
leap of faith – and your better half is being supportive.

21 MAY – 20 JUNE

JEREMY CLARKSON LUCAS RADEBE

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS
19, 30, 42, 43, 31, 26

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS
9, 16, 48, 51, 46, 14

CANCER

21 JUNE – 21 JULY

Inspiration for future travel
plans is forthcoming this
week and it could be a journey of a lifetime. Plan something that not only has a
special meaning to you, but
that will also fulfil a longtime spiritual need. Don’t

23 SEP – 22 OCT

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS
2, 19, 39, 47, 27, 5
22 NOV – 20 DEC

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS
1, 6, 14, 47, 12, 3

CAPRICORN

21 DEC – 20 JAN

Even though you’re grounded, the current combination of dreamy Neptune and
grand Jupiter in your communication horoscope
could see you literally or
figuratively become a poet
overnight. If you’re drawn to
the performing arts, now’s
the time to indulge yourself.
Focus on what pleases your
soul, not your wallet.
YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS
6, 12, 39, 45, 15, 8

AQUARIUS

21 JAN – 18 FEB

Expect the unexpected in
your finances this week.
Whether it’s a windfall or an
unexpected gift, you’re in
the mood for a spending
spree. Be mindful that this
inclination doesn’t get you
into the red, especially if
you’re using money on loan
or on credit. Chances are
that you may have developed a taste for expensive
things which may not be
sustainable.
YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 2,
17, 39, 46, 34, 10

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS
1, 24, 28, 35, 25, 21

PISCES

SCORPIO

Once again, you seem to be
the star of the show as the
meeting of your ruling planet, Neptune, with gregarious Jupiter promise a spectacular week. If you’re true
to your nature, you’ll know
just how quickly you can get
carried away by anything
glamorous. Enjoy it, but stay
grounded.

23 OCT – 21 NOV

Your creative imagination is
fired up this week and you
may be in overdrive to find
expression for all those
ideas. Give free reign to
your imagination and don’t
hold back. Another person
is playing a key role in feeding you with ideas and encouragement, so you have

19 FEB – 20 MARCH

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS
2, 23, 31, 36, 29, 11

GALLO IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES

chuckles
LETTER TO SANTA

Dear Santa,
This year all I’m asking for is a huge bank
account and a tiny body. Please don’t mix
them up like you have done every year.

BAR TALES

A man goes into a bar and admires the stuffed
lion’s head mounted above it. “Wow, that’s great,”
he says to the barman.
“I wouldn’t call it great,” the barman replies.
“That damn lion killed my wife.”
“Oh no,” says the man. “Were you on safari?”
“No,” the barman replies. “It fell on her head.”

CHUCK NORRIS

S Outer space exists because it’s afraid to be on
the same planet with Chuck Norris.
S Chuck Norris doesn’t read books. He stares
them down until he gets the info he wants.
S Chuck Norris doesn’t sleep. He waits.
S The flu gets a Chuck Norris shot every year.
S Chuck Norris doesn’t breathe – he holds
air hostage.
S What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Chuck Norris came first.

SEASONED TRAVELLERS

A flying saucer is low on petrol, so it lands at a
petrol station on a lonely country road.
On its side are the letters “UFO”. The petrol
station attendant is stunned.
“Does that stand for unidentified flying object?” he asks.
“No,” one of the travellers responds. “It stands
for ‘unleaded fuel only’. ”

LAMBS TO SLAUGHTER

A woman reading a magazine tells her absentminded girlfriend, “It says here it takes six lambs
to make one of those fleecy coats.”
Her friend replies, “Isn’t it wonderful what
they can teach animals to do these days?”

AT SCHOOL

Boy: “The principal is so dumb!”
Girl: “Do you know who I am?”
Boy: “No.”
Girl: “I’m the principal’s daughter!”
Boy: “Do you know who I am?”
Girl: “No.”
Boy: “Good!”

TWENTY QUESTIONS

S What do you call two monkeys who share an
Amazon account?
Prime mates.
S How do celebrities stay cool?
They have many fans.
S What kind of tea is hard to swallow?
Reality.
S What do you call a Frenchman in sandals?
Phillipe Floppe.

Fancy yourself a joker? Email original
jokes to chuckles@you.co.za or send
them to Chuckles, YOU, PO Box 7167,
Roggebaai 8012, and we may publish
them on this page.

S What five-letter word becomes shorter
when you add two letters to it?
Short.
S Where does a general keep his armies?
Up his sleevies.
S Why was Cinderella kicked off the football
team?
She ran away from the ball.
S What’s worse than finding a worm in your
apple?
Finding half a worm in your apple.
S What do fairies do after school?
Gnome-work.
S What do you call a row of rabbits hopping
away?
A receding hareline.
S What word is spelt incorrectly in every
dictionary?
Incorrectly.

FROM THE BAR

S A cop stops a drunken man wandering the
streets at 4am.
“Can you explain why you’re out at this
hour?” the cop asks.
The drunk replies, “If I could explain myself,
I would’ve been home by now.”
S Two drunks are walking along a railroad
track. One turns to the other and comments,
“There sure are a lot of steps here!”
The other says, “And the handrail is too low!”

WORD PLAY

S Don’t use “beef stew” as a computer password. It’s not stroganoff.
S Sign on the door of a music shop: “Gone
Chopin. Bach in a minuet.”

CURIOSITY

A heavily bandaged man is sitting on his hospital bed when his friend comes to visit. “What
happened to you?” his friend asks.
“Well, we went to a carnival and decided to
ride the rollercoaster. As we came to the top
of the highest loop, I noticed a little sign by the
side of the track. I tried to read it, but it was
very small and I couldn’t make it out.
“I decided to go round again, but we went by
so quickly I still couldn’t see what the sign said.
So I went round a third time. As we reached
the top, I stood up in the car to get a better
view.”
“What did the sign say?” his friend asks.
“Remain seated at all times.”

LITTLE JOHNNY
“Class,” the teacher asks, “if you have R20
and someone takes away R14, what would
you have?”
Little Johnny puts up his hand and says,
“A fight.”

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12:00 D SOCCERZONE
13:00 NEWS
13:30 D SELIMATHUNZI
14:00 TEENAGERS ON A MISSION
14:30 MAM’SAKHILE’S STORY
HOUSE
15:00 TEEN TITANS GO!
15:30 YO.TV
16:30 MAKING MOVES
17:30 NDEBELE/SWAZI NEWS
18:00 SELIMATHUNZI
18:30 SKEEM SAAM

05:00 D THABANG THABONG
05:30 D YO.TV
06:00 MORNING LIVE
09:00 D KLOP DIE KUNSTENAAR
10:00 D DADDY STEPS
10:30 D LEGAL MATTERS
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 FLOOGALS
15:30 RAGGS
16:00 WORDS & NUMBERS

Kids’quiz show hosted by
Denver Vraagom.
16:30 HECTIC NINE-9
17:00 DRAGON BALL SUPER
17:30 TSONGA/VENDA NEWS
18:00 7DE LAAN

Bonita encourages DeWet to
make amends with Lana.
18:30 AFRIKAANS NEWS
19:00 MUSIEK ROULETTE

John is in the dog box with
the Seakamelas again.

Game show

19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS
19:30 D THE ESTATE
20:00 GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY

20:00 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS
20:30 RELATE
21:00 MUVHANGO

Gabisile mourns her shortlived career as a columnist.
21:00 LIVING THE DREAM
WITH SOMIZI
20:30 UZALO
22:00 SIDE DISH
23:00 D MAKING MOVES
01:00 D KOZE KUSE

Azwindini calls a family meeting to discuss the next step in
his relationship with Gugu.
21:30 KWA MAMAZALA
22:00 D FATAL ATTRACTION
23:00 D DRAGON BALL SUPER
23:30 FULL VIEW
03:00 THE GLOBE

SABC1
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 UBAMBO LWAMI
10:30 D BIG UP
11:00 D IMIZWILILI
12:00 D SPORT@10
13:00 NEWS
13:30 D #ISSAVIBE
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
17:00 D INSTAPRENEURS
17:30 NEWS
18:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED
18:30 SKEEM SAAM
19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS
19:30 D THE ESTATE
20:30 GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY
21:00 UZALO

Battle lines are drawn when
Nkunzi refuses to take Vika’s
offer and wants him gone.
21:30 ONCE UPON A TIME IN
CHINA AND AMERICA
23:30 D MZANSI INSIDER

46

SABC2
05:00 D THABANG THABONG
05:30 D YO.TV
06:00 MORNING LIVE
09:00 D EMPLOYABLE ME
10:00 D BEYOND
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

Vintage crime series

15:00 FLOOGALS
15:30 RAGGS
16:00 SPARTICLE MYSTERY
16:30 HECTIC NINE-9
17:00 DRAGON BALL SUPER
17:30 TSONGA/VENDA NEWS
18:00 7DE LAAN

Ivy and Augusta are at each
other’s throats.
18:30 AFRIKAANS NEWS
19:00 PALE YA KOSA
19:30 POINT OF ORDER
20:00 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS
20:30 MEHLOMALA
21:00 MUVHANGO

Hangwani is furious that
Rendani took Susan in.

21:30 D HLALA KWABAFILEYO
22:10 D ABA KWAZIDENGE
22:40 D TKO BOXING MAGAZINE
23:10 D BOXING WORLD WEEKLY
23:40 D DRAGON BALL SUPER
00:10 FULL VIEW
03:00 THE GLOBE

7 APRIL 2022 you.co.za

05:00 D XCELLERATE
05:30 D HECTIC ON 3
06:00 EXPRESSO
09:00 D THE VIEW
10:00 D FRESH OFF THE BOAT
10:30 D 7DE LAAN
11:00 D THE ESTATE
11:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED
12:00 TROPICAL HEAT

Vintage action series

13:00 ON POINT
14:00 D UNPACKED WITH
RELEBOGILE
14:30 D WILDLIFE DEFENDERS
15:00 THE VIEW

Daytime talk show

16:00 HECTIC ON 3
17:00 UNPACKED WITH
RELEBOGILE
17:30 AFTERNOON EXPRESS
18:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED
19:00 THE ESTATE
19:30 MOTHERLAND
20:00 ENGLISH NEWS
20:30 D SUNNYSIDE

Lily tries to teach Pearl a
lesson by threatening to
expose her secret hobby.
21:00 THIS IS US

Drama series. Kevin is worried
about his romantic life, as well
as the ending to the movie he
made with acclaimed director
M Night Shyamalan.
22:00 D SURVIVOR: DAVID
VS GOLIATH
23:00 D NARCOS: MEXICO
00:00 D FIVE GUYS A WEEK
01:00 D TROPICAL HEAT
02:00 DEUTSCHE WELLE NEWS

SABC3
05:00 D THE GIRL FROM
TOMORROW
05:30 D HECTIC ON 3
06:00 EXPRESSO
09:00 D THE ESTATE
09:30 CRICKET

Build-up

10:00 CRICKET: SOUTH AFRICA
VS BANGLADESH
18:00 CRICKET

Wrap-up

18:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED
19:00 THE ESTATE
19:30 CASUAL
20:00 ENGLISH NEWS
20:30 BETTER THINGS

Comedy series. Sam deals
with some challenges while
filming her sci-fi movie
Monsters in the Moonlight.
21:00 WOKE

Comedy series. Keef grapples
with the fallout from the previous day’s events while trying
to put his life back in order.
21:30 COMEDY CENTRAL: ROAST
BATTLE
22:30 THE MASKED SINGER

Singing competition guessing
game hosted by Nick Cannon
and with panelists Jenny
McCarthy, Ken Jeong, Nicole
Scherzinger and Robin Thicke.
23:30 D FLEABAG
00:00 D UNFILTERED
00:30 D SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT
01:00 D L.A. HEAT
02:00 DEUTSCHE WELLE NEWS

E.TV

M-NET

MZANSI

05:30 THE MORNING NEWS
06:00 THE MORNING SHOW
08:30 AS DIE SKOEN PAS
09:30 ELIF
10:30 KURT EN SHURA
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 NODDY: TOYLAND
DETECTIVE
15:00 NINJAGO
15:30 TROLLSTOPIA
15:55 DINOTRUX: SUPERCHARGED
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 8PM
20:30 THE LIBRARIANS

06:00 CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS:
THE FIRST EPIC MOVIE
07:30 D YOUNG SHELDON
08:00 D THE KELLY CLARKSON
SHOW
08:30 D AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
10:00 D LEGACY
10:30 D AMERICAN IDOL
11:30 D FBI: INTERNATIONAL
12:30 D THE KELLY CLARKSON
SHOW
13:30 D AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
14:30 D NCIS
15:30 D NCIS: HAWAI’I
16:30 D YOUNG SHELDON
17:00 THE KELLY CLARKSON
SHOW
18:00 AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
19:00 LEGACY
19:30 ORDINARY JOE

06:00 D DR. PHIL
07:00 D THE TALK
08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
BAD THROW
09:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD
10:00 D THE QUEEN
10:30 D GOMORA
11:00 DR PHIL
12:00 D THE RIVER
12:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD
13:00 D THE QUEEN
13:30 D GOMORA
14:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: LOVE
SPECIALIST
15:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
THE SPOT
17:00 THE TALK
18:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: BONUS

20:30 CSI: VEGAS

19:00 THE RIVER
19:30 GOMORA
20:00 TWICE AS BOLD
20:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD
21:00 THE QUEEN
21:30 MZANSI CRIBS MAKEOVER
22:00 EHOSTELA
23:00 D DR. PHIL
00:00 D THE TALK
01:00 D MZANSI MAGIC MUSIC
SPECIAL
01:30 LOKSHIN BISKOP: PEACE
ORDER
03:10 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: RANDS
& FAMILY
04:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: IMALI
YEGAZI

Adventure series. The Librarians find the house behind the
legend of all haunted houses
and set out to destroy it.
21:30 IMBEWU: THE SEED
22:00 DEVI
22:30 D MBOBOZEBHESHU
23:00 D VIERSPEL VUURSPEL
00:00 TOKAREV

The Mustang Nicolas Cage
drives is painted the same as
Eleanor, the 1967 Mustang
GT500 that features in Gone in
60 Seconds (2000).
01:45 LEFT BEHIND
03:45 D FATAL ATTRACTION

E.TV
05:30 THE MORNING NEWS
06:00 THE MORNING SHOW
08:30 D AS DIE SKOEN PAS
09:30 ELIF
10:30 KURT EN SHURA
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 DEVI
14:30 OVER THE HEDGE

To prepare for his role as
Vincent the Bear, Nick Nolte
researched information about
bears in order to give his
character the right voice and
physicality.
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 THE LIBRARIANS

Adventure series. The librarians intervene when some
competitive high-school students start threatening each
other with witchcraft.
21:30 IMBEWU: THE SEED
22:00 FAMILY TIME WITH ANGUS
BUCHAN
22:05 END OF A GUN
00:00 SMS TO WIN
02:00 WHAT IF
04:10 D FATAL ATTRACTION

A young man who doesn’t realise he’s an alcoholic is reckDrama series season 1 ends.
lessly spending his December
Cop Joe tries to impress Amy’s bonus on liquor, using the
family.
Festive Season as an excuse.
Crime series. Grissom and
Sara’s investigation into charges against David Hodges intensifies. Meanwhile, a videogame developer’s body is
found floating in a fountain
before a gaming tournament.
21:30 HEELS
22:30 THIS IS GOING TO HURT
23:35 D SHAMELESS
00:30 D THE BAY
01:25 D LAW & ORDER:
ORGANIZED CRIME
02:15 D OUTLANDER
03:35 D BILLIONS
04:35 SPIRIT UNTAMED

M-NET

MZANSI

06:00 COME AWAY
07:30 D UNITED WE FALL
08:00 D THE KELLY CLARKSON
SHOW
09:00 D AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
10:00 D LEGACY
10:30 D STATION 19
11:30 D CARTE BLANCHE
12:30 D THE KELLY CLARKSON
SHOW
13:30 D AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
15:00 D SURVIVOR 41
16:30 D UNITED WE FALL
17:00 THE KELLY CLARKSON
SHOW

06:00 D DR. PHIL
07:00 D THE TALK
08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: HOW I
MET MY HUSBAND
09:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD
10:00 D THE QUEEN
10:30 D GOMORA
11:00 DR. PHIL
12:00 D THE RIVER
12:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD
13:00 D THE QUEEN
13:30 D GOMORA
14:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
A LIFETIME OF TEARS
15:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
THE LEGEND

Daytime talk show

18:00 AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
19:00 PIVOTING
19:30 AMERICAN IDOL
21:30 A MILLION LITTLE THINGS

Drama series. When the girls
decide to throw Katherine a
celebratory divorce party, the
guys get together to watch
the hockey game and distract
Eddie.
22:30 GHOSTS

Comedy series season 1 ends.
23:00 D LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH
JOHN OLIVER

News satire programme

23:35 D SHAMELESS
00:35 D THIS IS GOING TO HURT
01:40 D HEELS
02:35 D FBI
03:35 D LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME
04:20 PERCY VS GOLIATH

A self-proclaimed legendary
jazz saxophonist wants to relive his glory days and launches a jazz club, but under pretentious circumstances.
17:00 THE TALK
18:00 MAKOTI, ARE YOU THE ONE?
19:00 THE RIVER
19:30 GOMORA
20:00 I BLEW IT
20:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD
21:00 THE QUEEN
21:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD
22:00 D UMBUSO
23:00 D WWE: RAW
00:00 D EHOSTELA
01:00 D MZANSI MAGIC MUSIC
SPECIAL
01:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
THE TRUTH
03:05 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
A LIFETIME OF TEARS

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

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

8 APRIL / FRIDAY / TV

Vintage crime series

SABC3

OLD

M-NET SUNDAY 21:05

A vacationing family discovers that the beach where they’re relaxing is
somehow causing them to age rapidly. Starring Gael García Bernal.

05:00 D GELEZI NATHI
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

Local magazine show which
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

Traditional music show that
caters for various indigenous
music genres.
18:00 WEDDING CHEFS

Local reality cooking show
19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS
19:30 HEAVY HITTERS
20:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED
22:00 D LIVING THE DREAM WITH
SOMIZI

Reality series chronicling the
life of the flamboyant dancer,
presenter, choreographer,
singer, actor and Idols judge
Somizi Mhlongo.
23:00 KOZE KUSE

05:00 D GELEZA NATHI
06:00 D TEENAGERS ON A MISSION
06:30 D NGOMUSA
07:00 D SIYAKHOLWA
07:30 D BONISANANI
08:00 D IMVELO

Magazine show. It focuses on
African Traditional Practices
that are done at various traditional 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. 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
18:00 DANCE YO DOMO
19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS
19:30 13 WEEKS TO FIND
MR RIGHT

Comedy series. When Lesiba
catfishes Nkuli, she tells him
why she left him.
20:00 SIDE DISH
21:00 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2

The famous rock-climbing
sequence was filmed at Dead
Horse Point in Utah. Tom
Cruise was on cables which
were then digitally removed.
23:00 D GOSPEL AVENUE

05:00 D MY ANIMAL FRIENDS
05:30 D WHEN I GROW UP
06:00 D DISNEY COOKABOUT

Kids’cooking show
06:57 D OP PAD
07:00 MORNING LIVE
08:30 D MUVHANGO

Omnibus

11:00 D GIYANI: LAND OF BLOOD

SABC3
05:00 D TAKALANI SESAME
05:30 D YUM.ME

Cooking competition for
teens and tweens in which
young foodies compete
against each other to win the
weekly prize and the title of
Yum.Me champion.
06:00 D TECHNO SQUAD

Omnibus

Tech show for tweens

12:30 D KWA MAMAZALA
13:00 D FROGGER
14:00 D STAR FALLS
14:30 ODD SQUAD
15:00 THE TRIBE
16:00 ALVIN AND THE
CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED
18:00 AFRIKAANS NEWS
18:15 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS
18:30 TOP 14 RUGBY

06:30 D XCELLERATE
07:00 D THE GIRL FROM
TOMORROW
07:30 D SADHANA

Build-up

19:00 TOP 14 RUGBY

Hindu magazine show. The
programme explores the
vibrancy and colour of Hinduism in South Africa.
08:00 D AN NUR: THE LIGHT

Islamic magazine show

08:30 D AFTERNOON EXPRESS
09:30 CRICKET

Teams to be announced

Build-up

20:30 TOP 14 RUGBY

10:00 CRICKET: SOUTH AFRICA
VS BANGLADESH
18:00 ENGLISH NEWS
18:30 THE MASKED SINGER

Wrap-up

20:57 LIVE LOTTO DRAW
21:00 SUPERNATURAL

Fantasy series season 14 ends.
Sam, Dean and Castiel are
thrown into an epic battle.
Meanwhile, Jack becomes
disenchanted with all the lies,
and an old friend from the
past shows up.
23:00 D 7TH HEAVEN

Reality game show. In this
singing competition and
guessing game, celebrity
performers wear costumes to
conceal their identities. It’s
hosted by Nick Cannon and
the show’s panel of judges includes Jenny McCarthy, Ken
Jeong, Nicole Scherzinger and
Robin Thicke.

01:00 FULL VIEW
03:00 THE GLOBE

19:30 TITANIC
21:30 JOJO RABBIT
23:30 DEUTSCHE WELLE NEWS

22:00 BORN TO KILL?

Documentary series
Double bill

SABC2
05:00 D MY ANIMAL FRIENDS
05:30 D WHEN I GROW UP
06:00 D CAVE QUEST
06:30 D DERECH ERETZ
07:00 MORNING LIVE
08:30 D 7DE LAAN

Omnibus

11:00 ISRAEL UNVEILED
11:30 MUSIC AND THE SPOKEN
WORD
12:00 LADIES CLUB
12:30 RUGBY TOP 14 HIGHLIGHTS
13:00 SPORT ON 2
14:00 TRIUMPH
14:30 KILLERS IN OUR MIDST
15:00 D MOTHER OF ALL
PROFESSIONS
15:30 TRENDZ TRAVEL
16:00 REVIVAL!
18:00 AFRIKAANS NEWS
18:15 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS
18:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED
19:30 SAVING OUR MARRIAGE
20:30 SPEAK OUT
21:00 ANATOMY OF A WILDFIRE

Documentary. Wildfires shape
ecosystems, create its own
weather and power civilizations or destroy them. Learn
how wildfires as we know
them are changing and what
fuels them.

05:00 D HECTIC ON 3

Omnibus. This tween interactive show brings young viewers the best of tech inspiration, crafty DIY experiments,
and lots of fun and games!
07:30 D SADHANA

Hindu magazine show
08:00 AN NUR: THE LIGHT

12:15 INFOMERCIAL
12:30 D LITTLE BIG SHOTS:
FOREVER YOUNG
13:30 D JUST FOR LAUGHS GAGS
14:00 D CELEBRITY SCOOP
14:30 IMPACT
16:10 THE SMURFS
18:00 DATE MY FAMILY

10:00 CRICKET: SOUTH AFRICA
VS BANGLADESH
18:00 ENGLISH NEWS
18:30 SERENGETI

Nature documentary. Join an
expedition to the Serengeti.
Observe cheetahs on the
hunt, stampeding wildebeest,
and crocodile attacks with
slow-motion cameras that
capture every breathtaking
moment.
19:30 ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE
DINOSAURS
21:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED
22:00 COMEDY CENTRAL: ROAST
BATTLE

12:00 D A MILLION LITTLE THINGS
13:00 D AMERICAN IDOL
15:00 D SURVIVOR 41
16:30 DINO DANA THE MOVIE
17:30 D PIVOTING
18:00 MR MAYOR

Emily Blunt’s confession in the
Alcoholics Anonymous meeting was unrehearsed. Blunt’s
nervousness and discomfort is
completely genuine.
00:25 SMS TO WIN
02:25 BIG SKY
04:00 D FATAL ATTRACTION
04:55 E-INSERT

E.TV
05:00 D NODDY: TOYLAND
DETECTIVE
05:30 D LIFE BY DESIGN
06:00 D I AM SOUL PRECIOUS
06:35 ELEVATION CHURCH
07:00 HATFIELD CHURCH
07:25 D GROUND ZERO
08:00 GAME CHANGERS
08:30 D HOUSE OF ZWIDE

Omnibus

12:20 INFOMERCIAL
12:35 THE SMURFS
14:40 MR. BONES 2: BACK FROM
THE PAST
16:00 BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT

Reality talent competition
show presented by Declan
Donnelly of Ant and Dec
fame.

18:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED
19:00 SOUTH AFRICA TONIGHT
19:30 MODERN FAMILY

Comedy series. Alex’s company puts her up at a new luxury
apartment building with
some high-profile residents
that the family is eager to take
advantage of.
20:00 IS’PHINDISELO
21:00 THE NIGHT CREW
22:55 JUDGE FOR YOURSELF
23:25 MURDER IN A SMALL TOWN
01:05 END OF A GUN
02:40 MR. BONES 2: BACK FROM
THE PAST
04:35 D FORENSIC FILES

08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THE BOY
IS MINE
09:30 D MZANSI CRIBS MAKEOVER
10:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
MAGWINYA MONEY
11:00 D THE QUEEN

Omnibus

13:30 D THE RIVER

Omnibus

16:00 D HO LEKANE

Comedy series season 2 starts. 16:30 D OUR PERFECT WEDDING
18:30 THE CONNERS

Comedy series

19:00 YOUNG SHELDON

Comedy series. Sheldon tries
to convince Dr Sturgis to return to hier position at the
university.
19:30 AMERICAN IDOL
21:30 RIVERDALE

20:00 MR. BONES 2: BACK FROM
THE PAST
22:05 THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

06:00 D DR. PHIL

Double bill

Omnibus

19:00 SOUTH AFRICA TONIGHT
19:30 THE CARMICHAEL SHOW

Comedy series. Maxine introduces the Carmichaels to her
sister, only for Bobby to reveal
that they’ve met before.

MZANSI

06:00 D ORDINARY JOE
07:00 D NCIS
08:00 D NCIS: HAWAI’I
09:00 D GREY’S ANATOMY
10:00 D LEGACY

Reality competition show

10:20 D DURBAN GEN

Build-up

M-NET

Reality show

Omnibus

01:00 FULL VIEW
03:00 THE GLOBE

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

10:20 D IMBEWU: THE SEED

Omnibus

08:30 D PURE ACTION
09:00 D SPEECHLESS
09:30 CRICKET

23:00 D WEEKEND ROUND UP
00:00 SPORT ARENA
04:00 D THE OATH

Double bill

Omnibus

Islamic magazine show

23:00 D 7TH HEAVEN

22:00 D SUPERNATURAL

05:00 D NODDY: TOYLAND
DETECTIVE
06:00 D THE JUNGLE BUNCH
06:25 D TALL TALES
06:55 D LEGO CITY ADVENTURES
07:25 D DINOTRUX:
SUPERCHARGED
07:55 D TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS
IN DISGUISE
08:30 D SCANDAL!

SABC3

Comedy special. Celebrities
engage in a battle of verbal
onslaughts with which they
try to outwit each other.

Fantasy series

E.TV

17:30 D INGANE YAM
18:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: TAXI
QUEENS

A young girl would do just
about anything to make it and
joins the Taxi Queen gang to
make money. But how far will
this take her?
19:00 TWICE AS BOLD

Drama series. As news begins
to spread about the bombing
at the Andrews’home, Archie,
Betty and Jughead begin to
deal with mysterious side
effects from the explosion.

Reality series following twin
sisters Olwethu and Owami
Siko.
19:30 MAKOTI, ARE YOU THE ONE?
20:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: TANGO
21:30 TEMPTATION ISLAND SA

Local reality series

00:30 D GHOSTS
01:00 D THE THING ABOUT PAM
02:00 D HEELS
03:55 DARROW & DARROW: BODY
OF EVIDENCE
04:35 HAILEY DEAN MYSTERIES:
DEATH ON DUTY

22:30 D WWE: SMACKDOWN
23:30 D HOMEGROUND
00:00 D BOUNCE
00:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
SEBOLELO
02:00 D MZANSI MAGIC MUSIC
SPECIAL
02:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THABO
TURBO T
04:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
A LIFETIME OF TEARS

M-NET

MZANSI

22:30 GOMORRAH

Crime series

23:30 D CSI: VEGAS

Crime series

06:00 D PIVOTING
06:30 D YOUNG SHELDON
07:00 D MR MAYOR
07:30 D THE CONNERS
08:00 D NCIS
09:00 D AMERICAN IDOL

06:00 D DR. PHIL
07:00 ICILONGO
08:00 D GOSPEL ALIVE

Gospel talk show. Gospel stars
are in studio to lead praise
and worship sessions, and
also to field questions about
their personal lives and their
careers.

Double bill

13:00 TROLLS WORLD TOUR
14:30 D YOUNG SHELDON
15:00 D LEGACY

09:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: UKUBE
10:00 D LAUGH OUT LOUD

Omnibus

17:00 D A MILLION LITTLE THINGS
18:00 SURVIVOR 41

Omnibus

19:00 CARTE BLANCHE

Omnibus

20:00 RECIPES FOR LOVE AND
MURDER

17:00 PASTOR WANTS A WIFE
17:30 TWICE AS BOLD
18:00 DATE MY FAMILY
19:00 OUR PERFECT WEDDING
20:00 UMBUSO
21:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
MASHESHA THE
FRAUDSTER

Reality competition series.
Only five castaways remain
and must battle it out for the
title of Sole Survivor.
SA’s flagship current affairs
and investigative journalism
programme.
Local mystery drama series
21:05 OLD

The film is an adaptation of a
2010 graphic novel called
Sandcastle by writer Pierre
Oscar Lévy and artist Frederik
Peeters.
22:50 D RIVERDALE
23:50 D GOMORRAH
00:45 TO BE ANNOUNCED
01:35 D OUTLANDER
02:55 TREMORS: SHRIEKER
ISLAND
04:35 HAILEY DEAN MYSTERIES:
KILLER SENTENCE

12:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: TAXI
RIDE
13:30 D HOMEGROUND
14:00 D MZANSI CRIBS MAKEOVER
14:30 D GOMORA

Mashesha has been successfully on the run for a while,
but after stealing a nurse’s car,
his luck starts to run out and
he’s forced to consult a traditional healer.
22:00 D HOUSEKEEPERS
22:30 D EHOSTELA

Omnibus

03:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
AN HONEST LIVING
05:00 D GOSPEL ALIVE

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SABC1

MUVHANGO

SABC2 MONDAY 21:00

11 APRIL / MONDAY / TV

Azwindini (Gabriel Temudzani) wants to send
his people to Gugu’s people.

SABC1

SABC2

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 UBAMBO LWAMI
10:30 DAILY THETHA
11:30 D NGEMPELA
12:00 D SOKHULU & PARTNERS
13:00 LUNCH TIME NEWS
13:30 D RENO RACE
14:30 D MAM’SAKHILE’S STORY
HOUSE
15:00 TEEN TITANS GO!
15:30 YO.TV
16:00 BLUE COUCH
16:30 BREAKING THE SILENCE
17:00 EXPRESSIONS
17:28 D AUM
17:30 NDEBELE/SWAZI NEWS
18:00 NGO MUSA
18:30 SKEEM SAAM

05:00 D THABANG THABONG
05:30 D YO.TV
06:00 MORNING LIVE
08:00 D INSIDE THE BAOBAB TREE
08:30 D CURIOUS GEORGE
09:00 D VOETSPORE
09:30 D GOING STRONG
10:00 D RAISING BABIES 101
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

MaNtuli, Charles and Melita
unite over a common enemy.

15:00 FLOOGALS
15:30 ED AND EPPA IN THE WILD
16:00 EPIC HANGOUT
16:30 THE TRIBE
17:00 DRAGON BALL SUPER
17:30 TSONGA/VENDA NEWS
18:00 7DE LAAN

Vanessa finds it hard to be a
boss and a friend at the same
time. The Visagie-Peterson
family challenge gets going.

09:00 D THE ESTATE
09:30 CRICKET

Build-up

10:00 CRICKET SOUTH AFRICA
VS BANGLADESH
18:00 CRICKET

Wrap-up

18:30 SPEECHLESS

Comedy series. The family
spends a week at a country
club.
19:00 THE ESTATE
19:30 SURVIVOR’S REMORSE

Comedy series. The life of a
basketball star in his early 20s
changes after he signs a multimillion-dollar contract with a
team in Atlanta and brings his
whole family with him for the
move.

Reality competition series

21:30 GIYANI: LAND OF BLOOD
22:00 REVIVAL!
00:00 D DRAGON BALL SUPER
00:30 FULL VIEW
03:00 THE GLOBE

22:00 FLEABAG
22:30 D THIS IS US
23:30 D EATING WITH MY EX
00:00 D BUNDESLIGA REVIEW
SHOW
01:00 D JAG
02:00 DEUTSCHE WELLE NEWS

Tenda and James prepare for
the big presentation.

SABC2

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
08:30 D MUVHANGO
09:00 D UZALO
09:30 D SKEEM SAAM
10:00 D UBAMBO LWAMI
10:30 DAILY THETHA
11:30 D NGEMPELA
12:00 D SOKHULU & PARTNERS
13:00 NEWS
13:30 D KHUMBUL’EKHAYA
14:30 D MAM’SAKHILE’S STORY
HOUSE
15:00 TEEN TITANS GO!
15:30 YO.TV
16:30 D YILUNGELO LAKHO
17:28 D IZWI LA BANTU
17:30 NDEBELE/SWAZI NEWS
18:00 ROXIC
18:30 SKEEM SAAM
19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS
19:30 MAKOTI
20:00 GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY
20:30 UZALO
21:00 D CUTTING EDGE
22:00 D NYAN’NYAN
22:30 HAPPILY N’EVER
AFTER 2: SNOW WHITE –
ANOTHER BITE @
THE APPLE **

05:00 D THABANG THABONG
05:30 D YO.TV
06:00 MORNING LIVE
09:00 MARRIAGE RESCUE
10:00 D RAISING BABIES 101
10:30 D BACK FROM ZERO
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 FLOOGALS
15:30 EDD AND EPPA IN THE WILD
16:00 THE EPIC HANGOUT
16:30 THE TRIBE
17:00 DRAGON BALL SUPER
17:30 TSONGA/VENDA NEWS
18:00 7DE LAAN

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Lifestyle breakfast show that
covers a wide range of topics,
including home, green living,
fashion, entertainment, food,
technology and travel.

18:30 AFRIKAANS NEWS
19:00 VOETSPORE
20:00 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS
20:30 LEIHLO LA SECHABA
21:00 MUVHANGO

SABC1

2009, 75 min, PG. Animated
fantasy.

05:00 D TAKALANI SESAME
05:30 D HECTIC ON 3
06:00 EXPRESSO

DeWet is impressed with
Bonita’s romantic efforts.

19:00 GEURE UIT DIE VALLEI
19:30 OU TOPPIES
20:00 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS
20:30 NHLALALA YA RI XAKA
21:00 MUVHANGO

Tendamudzimu and James
must put their differences
aside to clinch a deal with a
construction mogul. But is
Mr Sabata all he seems to be?
21:30 GIYANI: LAND OF BLOOD
22:00 D AMERICAN BIBLE SHOW
23:00 D DRAGON BALL SUPER
23:30 FULL VIEW
03:00 THE GLOBE

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20:00 ENGLISH NEWS
20:30 UNFILTERED
21:00 SURVIVOR: DAVID VS
GOLIATH

SABC3
05:00 D YUM.ME
05:30 D HECTIC ON 3

Kids’ variety show
06:00 EXPRESSO

Breakfast show
09:00 D THE ESTATE
09:30 CRICKET

Build-up

10:00 ODI CRICKET: SOUTH
AFRICA VS BANGLADESH
18:00 CRICKET

Wrap-up

18:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED
19:00 THE ESTATE

Local drama series

19:30 SURVIVOR’S REMORSE

Comedy series

20:00 ENGLISH NEWS
20:30 SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT
21:00 NARCOS: MEXICO

Crime series. The drame series
chronicles the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American
DEA agent learns the danger
of targeting narcos in Mexico.
22:00 21 AGAIN

Reality series. Five daughters
send their mothers undercover as 21-year-olds. The moms
will be immersed in their
world, including everything
from dating and working to
activism. Will the women be
able to pull off being 21 again
in these times?
23:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED
01:00 D THE LOST WORLD
02:00 DEUTSCHE WELLE NEWS

E.TV

M-NET

MZANSI

05:30 THE MORNING NEWS
06:00 THE MORNING SHOW
08:30 AS DIE SKOEN PAS
09:15 INFOMERCIALS
09:30 ELIF
10:30 KURT EN SHURA
11:30 D HOUSE OF ZWIDE
12:00 D SCANDAL
12:30 D IMBEWU: THE SEED
13:00 D DURBAN GEN
13:30 D EKASI: OUR STORIES
14:00 PATERNITY COURT
14:30 NODDY: TOYLAND
DETECTIVE
15:00 LEGO CITY ADVENTURES
15:30 THE MIGHTY ONES
15:55 TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN
DISGUISE
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 ISONO THE SIN
21:00 IMBEWU: THE SEED
21:30 THE BLACK DOOR

06:00 TOM & JERRY
08:00 D THE KELLY CLARKSON
SHOW
09:00 D AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
10:00 D LEGACY
10:30 D A MILLION LITTLE THINGS
11:30 D SURVIVOR 41
12:30 D THE KELLY CLARKSON
SHOW
13:30 D AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
15:30 D CARTE BLANCHE
16:30 D PIVOTING
17:00 THE KELLY CLARKSON
SHOW
18:00 MASTERCHEF SA

06:00 D DR. PHIL
07:00 D THE TALK
08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: LOVE
SPECIALIST
09:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD
10:00 D THE QUEEN
10:30 D GOMORA
11:00 DR. PHIL
12:00 D THE RIVER
12:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD
13:30 D GOMORA
14:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
AN HONEST LIVING
15:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
THE PRICE OF NJABULO
17:00 THE TALK
18:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: MABENA
SECURITY

New local drama series featuring a brothel and illicit sex. It
has an age restriction of 16.
22:00 L.A.’S FINEST

Action series. With McKenna’s
help, Syd searches for Jen’s
Killer as she grieves the loss of
her friend.
23:00 D VIERSPEL VUURSPEL
00:00 THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
02:00 AGE OF THE DRAGONS
03:40 D FATAL ATTRACTION

E.TV
05:30 THE MORNING NEWS
06:00 THE MORNING SHOW
08:30 AS DIE SKOEN PAS
009:30 ELIF
10:30 KURT EN SHURA
11:30 D HOUSE OF ZWIDE
12:00 D SCANDAL!
12:30 D IMBEWU: THE SEED
13:00 D DURBAN GEN
13:30 D EKASI: OUR STORIES
14:30 NODDY: TOYLAND
DETECTIVE
14:55 DENVER
15:20 REGAL ACADEMY
15:45 POKEMON
16:10 PATERNITY COURT
16:35 JUDGE JUDY
17:00 D ISONO THE SIN
17:30 DROOMVERLORE
18:30 DURBAN GEN
19:00 HOUSE OF ZWIDE
19:30 SCANDAL!
20:00 ENEWS
20:25 ISONO THE SIN
21:00 THE POWERBALL DRAW
21:02 IMBEWU: THE SEED
21:30 THE BLACK DOOR
22:00 THE BLACKLIST
23:00 D VIERSPEL VUURSPEL
00:00 PRECIOUS THINGS **

2017, 90 min, 13VL. Thriller.
Victoria Pratt, Christina Cox.
01:35 THE NIGHT CREW **

2015, 92 min, 16VLN. Action.
Luke Goss, Danny Trejo.
03:15 SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY ***

2014, 93 min, 13SL. Comedy.
Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots.

Reality cooking competition
series with new judges Zola
Nene, Gregory Czarnecki and
Justine Drake.

20:30 GREY’S ANATOMY

After beating up and arresting
an undercover police officer,
Thabang is dismissed from his
job as a detective. He’s then
forced to take a job at a security company.

21:30 THE THING ABOUT PAM
22:30 BILLIONS
23:30 D SHAMELESS
00:30 LAST WEEK TONIGHT
WITH JOHN OLIVER
01:05 D GHOSTS
01:35 D RECIPES FOR LOVE AND
MURDER
02:35 D FBI: MOST WANTED
03:35 D FBI: INTERNATIONAL
04:35 NICK & NORAH’S INFINITE
PLAYLIST

19:00 THE RIVER
19:30 GOMORA
20:00 HOUSEKEEPERS
20:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD
21:00 THE QUEEN
21:30 D HOMEGROUND
22:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: REGRET
23:05 D EHOSTELA
00:00 D THE TALK
01:00 D MASSIVE MUSIC
01:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
RANDS & FAMILY
03:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: BAD
THROW
04:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
MASHONISA: THE DRAGON

M-NET

MZANSI

19:00 LEGACY
19:30 STATION 19

Drama series. A new chief
starts at Station 19.
Drama series. The doctors
grapple with the aftermath of
the car crash that involved
some of their own.

06:00 CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS:
THE FIRST EPIC MOVIE ***

2017, 89 min, PG.
Animated comedy.

07:30 D THE CONNERS
08:00 D THE KELLY CLARKSON
SHOW
09:00 D AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
10:00 D LEGACY
10:30 D ORDINARY JOE
11:30 D NCIS: HAWAI’I
12:30 D THE KELLY CLARKSON
SHOW
13:30 D AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
14:30 D STATION 19
15:30 D GREY’S ANATOMY
16:30 D THE CONNERS
17:00 THE KELLY CLARKSON
SHOW
18:00 AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
19:00 LEGACY
19:30 FBI
20:30 FBI: INTERNATIONAL

Crime drama series

21:30 FBI: MOST WANTED
22:30 OUTLANDER
23:50 D SHAMELESS
00:55 D BILLIONS
01:55 D THE THING ABOUT PAM
02:55 D RIVERDALE

Drama series

03:45 D CSI: VEGAS
04:35 SPIRIT UNTAMED ***

2021, 88 min, PG. Animated
adventure. In the 1900s an
American city girl moves to
a small frontier town where
she befriends a wild horse.

06:00 D DR. PHIL
07:00 D THE TALK
08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
MAMPARA
09:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD
10:00 D THE QUEEN
10:30 D GOMORA
11:00 DR. PHIL
12:00 D THE RIVER
12:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD
13:00 D THE QUEEN
13:30 D GOMORA
14:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
THE SPOT

Two ambitious friends wash
cars for a living. They dream of
one day owning a successful
carwash, but there’s someone
who’s standing in their way.
15:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
IZINTOMBI ZODWA
17:00 THE TALK
18:00 D DATE MY FAMILY
19:00 THE RIVER
19:30 GOMORA

Local drama series

20:00 ABANDONED
20:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD
21:00 THE QUEEN
21:30 NQOBILE
22:00 EHOSTELA
23:00 D DR. PHIL
00:00 D THE TALK
01:00 D MASSIVE MUSIC
01:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: THABO
TURBO T 2
03:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
THE SPOT

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

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19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS
19:30 MAKOTI
20:00 GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY
20:30 UZALO
21:00 IGUMBI LAMAKHOSIKAZI
21:30 KHUZANI BO!
22:00 SOCCERZONE
23:00 D THE CHAIR
00:00 D KOZE KUSE

Vintage crime series

SABC3

NCIS: HAWAI’I

M-NET 20:30

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

SABC1

SABC2

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 UBAMBO LWAMI
10:30 DAILY THETHA
11:30 D NGEMPELA
12:00 D SOKHULU & PARTNERS
13:00 NEWS
13:30 D CUTTING EDGE
14:30 D MAM’ SAKHILE’S STORY
HOUSE
15:00 TEEN TITANS GO!
15:30 YO.TV
16:30 THE CHAIR
17:28 D LISTEN FOR A MOMENT
17:30 NDEBELE/SWAZI NEWS
18:00 CLOVER CLASSIC
CELEBRATIONS
18:30 SKEEM SAAM
19:00 XHOSA/ZULU NEWS
19:30 MAKOTI
20:00 GENERATIONS: THE LEGACY

05:00 D THABANG THABONG
05:30 D YO.TV
06:00 MORNING LIVE
09:00 D GEURE UIT DIE VALLEI
09:30 D DEKATV
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 FLOOGALS
15:30 ED AND EPPA IN THE WILD
16:00 SIYAYA: COME WILD WITH US
16:30 HECTIC NINE9
17:00 DRAGON BALL SUPER
17:30 NDEBELE/SWAZI NEWS
18:00 7DE LAAN
18:30 AFRIKAANS NEWS
19:00 FOKUS
19:30 PASELLA
20:00 TSWANA/SOTHO NEWS
20:30 NGULA YA VUTIVI / ZWA
MARAMANI
20:57 LIVE LOTTO DRAW
21:00 MUVHANGO
21:30 GIYANI: LAND OF BLOOD
22:00 STORIES UNTOLD
22:30 D THE CALIPHATE & THE
KINGDOM
23:30 D VITAL SIGNS
00:30 D DRAGON BALL SUPER
00:00 FULL VIEW
03:00 THE GLOBE

Mpho is shocked to hear what
Zondiwe is up to.
20:30 UZALO
21:00 KHUMBUL’EKHAYA
22:00 SPORT 10
23:00 D YILUNGELO LAKHO

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 TO BE ANNOUNCED
12:00 THE LOST WORLD
13:00 ON POINT
14:00 D UNPACKED WITH
RELEBOGILE
14:30 D SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT
15:00 THE VIEW
16:00 HECTIC ON 3
16:30 TECHNO SQUAD
17:00 UNPACKED WITH
RELEBOGILE
17:30 PURE ACTION
18:00 SECRET SAUCE
18:30 IN THE LONG RUN

Comedy series

19:00 THE ESTATE
19:30 MOTHERLAND
20:00 ENGLISH NEWS
20:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED
21:00 D ENSLAVED: THE LOST
HISTORY OF THE
TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE
TRADE
22:00 D SERENGETI
23:00 D EXPEDITION WITH STEVE
BACKSHALL
00:00 D BETTER THINGS
00:30 D SPORT WRAP
01:00 D THE LOST WORLD
02:00 D DEUTSCHE WELLE NEWS

E.TV
05:30 THE MORNING NEWS
06:00 THE MORNING SHOW
08:30 AS DIE SKOEN PAS
09:30 ELIF
10:30 KURT EN SHURA
11:30 D HOUSE OF ZWIDE
12:00 D SCANDAL!
12:30 D IMBEWU: THE SEED
13:00 D DURBAN GEN
14:00 D MISS TRANS DIVA
14:00 JUDGE FOR YOURSELF
14:30 NODDY
15:00 THE JUNGLE BUNCH
15:30 DENNIS AND GNASHER
15:45 POWER RANGERS
16:10 PATERNITY COURT
16:35 JUDGE JUDY
17:00 D ISONO THE SIN
17:30 DROOMVERLORE
18:30 DURBAN GEN
19:00 HOUSE OF ZWIDE
19:30 SCANDAL!
20:00 ENEWS
20:25 ISONO THE SIN
21:00 IMBEWU: THE SEED
21:30 THE BLACK DOOR
22:00 CHECKPOINT
22:30 FORENSIC FILES
23:00 D VIERSPEL VUURSPEL
00:00 END OF A GUN **

2016, 96 min, 16. Action.
Steven Seagal, Jade Ewen.

01:35 THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN ***

2016, 112 min, 16. Thriller.
Emily Blunt.
03:35 D FATAL ATTRACTION
04:30 D FORENSIC FILES

M-NET

MZANSI

06:00 DINO DANA THE MOVIE ***

06:00 D DR. PHIL
07:00 D THE TALK
08:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: MAKOTI
09:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD
10:00 D THE QUEEN
10:30 D GOMORA
11:00 DR. PHIL
12:00 D THE RIVER
12:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD
13:00 D THE QUEEN
13:30 D GOMORA
14:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: 10 STEPS
TO MAKE HIM PROPOSE

2020, 85 min, PG. Sci-fi
adventure. Michela Luci.

07:30 D PIVOTING
08:00 D THE KELLY CLARKSON
SHOW
09:00 D AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
10:00 D LEGACY
10:30 D STATION 19
11:30 D GREY’S ANATOMY
12:30 D THE KELLY CLARKSON
SHOW
13:30 D AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
14:30 D SURVIVOR 41
15:30 D A MILLION LITTLE THINGS
16:30 D PIVOTING
17:00 THE KELLY CLARKSON
SHOW
18:00 AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
19:00 LEGACY
19:30 NCIS
20:30 NCIS: HAWAI’I
21:30 LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED
CRIME
22:30 TO BE ANNOUNCED
23:30 D SHAMELESS
00:35 D RECIPES FOR LOVE AND
MURDER
01:35 D FBI: MOST WANTED
02:30 D FBI
03:30 D FBI: INTERNATIONAL
04:30 HAILEY DEAN MYSTERIES:
A PRESCRIPTION FOR
MURDER ***

2019, 120 min, PG. Crime
drama. Kellie Martin, Viv
Leacock.

Desperate to get an engagement ring on her finger, a
young woman follows the advice of an article to get her
boyfriend to go down on one
knee.
15:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: MAKOTI
17:00 THE TALK
18:00 D OUR PERFECT WEDDING
19:00 THE RIVER
19:30 GOMORA
20:00 PASTOR WANTS A WIFE
20:30 D LAUGH OUT LOUD
21:00 THE QUEEN
21:30 WOUNDS
22:00 EHOSTELA
23:00 D DR. PHIL
00:00 D THE TALK
01:00 MASSIVE MUSIC
01:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: MAKOTI
03:00 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP: PEACE
ORDER
04:30 LOKSHIN BIOSKOP:
A FAMILY AFFAIR

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Jesse goes sailing with his daughter when they’re
attacked by pirates. Starring Vanessa Lachey.

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TV MOVIES / THURSDAY 7 APRIL – WEDNESDAY 13 APRIL
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 CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS: THE FIRST EPIC

MOVIE ★★★ 2017, 89 min, PG, M-Net, 06:00.
Animated comedy. Two boys hypnotise their
nasty principal into thinking he’s a superhero
who wears only underpants and a cape.
S TOKAREV ★★ 2014, 98 min, 16V, e.tv,
00:00. Action. After his daughter is kidnapped,
a reformed criminal rounds up his old gang
to find her. Nicolas Cage, Rachel Nichols.
S LEFT BEHIND ★★ 2014, 110 min, PG13, e.tv,
01:45. Fantasy thriller. When millions of people
suddenly vanish, those left behind try to survive
as the world is plunged into chaos. Nicolas Cage,
Chad Michael Murray.
S SPIRIT UNTAMED ★★★ 2021, 88 min, PG,
M-Net, 04:35. Animated adventure. In the 1900s,
an American city girl moves to a small frontier
town where she befriends a wild horse.

FRIDAY
S COME AWAY ★★★ 2020, 94 min, PG, M-Net,

06:00. Drama. In 19th-century England, two siblings use daydreams and fantasy to try to help
their parents deal with the death of their eldest
brother. David Oyelowo, Anna Chancellor.
S OVER THE HEDGE ★★★ 2006, 83 min,
A, e.tv, 14:30. Animated adventure. A raccoon
tricks a group of forest animals into helping
him steal food from humans.
S ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA AND AMERICA
★★★ 1997, 102 min, PG13, SABC1, 21:30. Action.
The sixth and last film in the Once upon a Time in
China series. In the early 20th century, a Chinese
martial artist travels to San Francisco to visit
a student, but a blow to the head causes him
to lose his memory. Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan.
S END OF A GUN ★★ 2016, 96 min, 16, e.tv,
22:05. Action. After a former special agent
saves a woman from her abusive boyfriend,
she asks him to help her steal $2 million from
a drug lord. Steven Seagal, Jade Ewen.
S WHAT IF ★★★ 2013, 98 min, PG13, e.tv,
02:00. Romantic comedy. After a string of failed
relationships, a man has an instant connection
with a new acquaintance, but as she lives with
her boyfriend, they agree to be just friends.
Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan.
S PERCY VS GOLIATH ★★★ 2020, 99 min,
PG13, M-Net, 04:20. True-life drama. A Canadian
farmer who saves seeds instead of buying new
ones annually is sued by a huge corporation for
intellectual-property theft after its genetically
modified crops are found in his fields. Christopher Walken, Christina Ricci.

SATURDAY
S ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS:
CHIPWRECKED ★★ 2007, 87 min, PG, SABC2,
16:00. Fantasy comedy. The third film in the series. After accidentally falling overboard during
a cruise, six singing chipmunks are marooned
on a tropical island. Jason Lee, David Cross.
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S DINO DANA THE MOVIE ★★★ 2020, 85 min,
PG, M-Net, 16:00. Sci-fi adventure. Based on the
show. A 10-year-old palaeontologist sets out to
solve a mystery. Michela Luci, Saara Chaudry.
S THE SMURFS ★★ 2011, 103 min, PG, e.tv,
16:10. Fantasy comedy. While trying to escape
an evil wizard, a tribe of little blue people find
themselves suddenly transported to New York
and must find a way home before the wizard
tracks them down. Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick
Harris.
S TITANIC ★★★★ 1997, 194 min, PG13, SABC3,
19:30. Romantic adventure. During the voyage
of the ill-fated Titanic, an unhappy aristocrat
and a poor artist fall in love. Leonardo DiCaprio,
Kate Winslet.
S MR. BONES 2: BACK FROM THE PAST ★★
2008, 101 min, PG, e.tv, 20:00. Local comedy.
A royal witch doctor must return a cursed
stone to its rightful owner to save his king.
Leon Schuster, Leeanda Reddy.
S JOJO RABBIT ★★★★ 2019, 108 min, PG13,
SABC3, 21:30. Comedy drama. During World
War 2, a young German boy who idolises Adolf
Hitler is shocked to discover his mother is hiding
a Jewish girl in their home. Roman Griffin Davis.
S THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN ★★★ 2016, 112 min,
16, e.tv, 22:05. Thriller. A recently divorced
woman becomes involved in a missing-persons
investigation that turns her life upside down.
Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson.
S BIG SKY ★★ 2015, 90 min, e.tv, 02:25.
Thriller. While travelling to a facility in the
desert to treat her agoraphobia, a teen and her
mom are attacked by two gunmen. Bella Thorne.
S DARROW & DARROW: BODY OF EVIDENCE
★★★★ 2018, 95 min, PG, M-Net, 03:55. Crime
drama. The third film in the series. An idealistic
lawyer who runs a practice with her more business-minded mom tries to help a woman convicted of murdering her husband whose body
has never been found. Kimberly WilliamsPaisley, Tom Cavanagh.
S HAILEY DEAN MYSTERIES: DEATH ON DUTY
★★★ 2019, 120 min, PG, M-Net, 04:35. Crime
drama. The seventh film in the series. A former
state prosecutor-turned-therapist helps her
investigator friend when his old army buddy
is murdered. Kellie Martin, Viv Leacock.

SUNDAY
S THE SMURFS ★★ e.tv, 12:35. See Saturday.
S TROLLS WORLD TOUR ★★★ 2020, 90 min,

A, M-Net, 13:00. Animated fantasy. The sequel to
Trolls. The queen of the trolls finds out there are
five other tribes and that another queen wants
to destroy her rival tribes’ music, so sets out to
unite all the trolls to stop her.
S MR. BONES 2: BACK FROM THE PAST ★★
e.tv, 14:40 & 02:40. See Saturday.
S REVIVAL! ★★★ 2018, 105 min, PG, SABC2,
16:00. Musical. Based on the Bible. A look at the
life of Jesus Christ. Mali Music, Dawnn Lewis.

S ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS ★★★
2009, 94 min, PG, SABC3, 19:30. Animated
adventure. The third film in the franchise. In
prehistoric times a sloth discovers and adopts
three baby dinosaurs, but when their mother
returns he gets abducted and it’s up to his
friends to rescue him.
S MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 ★★★ 2000,
123 min, PG13, SABC1, 21:00. Action. A secret
agent is sent on a mission to retrieve and destroy a genetically modified virus. Tom Cruise,
Dougray Scott.
S THE NIGHT CREW ★★ 2015, 92 min, 16VLN,
e.tv, 21:00. Action. A team of bounty hunters try
to survive the night holed up in an isolated hotel
in the desert while being targeted by enemies.
Luke Goss, Danny Trejo.
S OLD ★★★ 2021, 108 min, PG13, M-Net, 21:05.
Horror. While on holiday at a secluded beach,
a group of people begin to age rapidly.
Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps.
S MURDER IN A SMALL TOWN ★★★ 2013,
87 min, PG, e.tv, 23:25. Thriller. A woman tries
to prove that her daughter didn’t commit suicide
but was murdered by her preacher husband.
Gail O’Grady, Chris Gartin.
S END OF A GUN ★★ e.tv, 01:05. See Friday.
S TREMORS: SHRIEKER ISLAND ★★★ 2020,
103 min, PG13, M-Net, 02:55. Horror comedy.
The seventh film in the series. A group of people
try to survive being hunted by monsters on an
island. Michael Gross, Jon Heder.
S HAILEY DEAN MYSTERIES: KILLER
SENTENCE ★★★ 2019, 120 min, PG, M-Net,
04:35. Crime drama. The ninth film in the series.
A former state prosecutor-turned-therapist
tries to help a former colleague who’s been
accused of murdering a man she put behind
bars. Kellie Martin, Viv Leacock.

MONDAY
S TOM & JERRY: THE MOVIE ★★★ 2021,
101 min, PG, M-Net, 06:00. Comedy. A cat is
hired to catch a mouse causing mischief in a
hotel before a big wedding. Chloë Grace Moretz.
S REVIVAL! ★★★ SABC2, 22:00. See Sunday.
S THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN ★★★ e.tv, 00:00.
See Saturday.
S AGE OF THE DRAGONS ★★ 2011, 91 min,
PG13, e.tv, 02:00. Fantasy adventure. An obsessive dragon hunter leads a crew to find the white
dragon that slaughtered his family. Danny Glover, Vinnie Jones.
S NICK & NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST ★★★
2008, 90 min, PG13, M-Net, 04:35. Romantic
comedy. While trying to find the secret gig of
his favourite band in New York, a teen still hung
up on his ex-girlfriend encounters a girl who
asks him to pose as her boyfriend so others
won’t think she’s a loser. Michael Cera.
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The HOTTEST
things in POP
CULTURE and
ENTERTAINMENT
THIS WEEK

RADAR
1

‘I’VE NEVER
THOUGHT OF
MYSELF AS
BEING ROCK
AND ROLL IN
ANY SENSE OF
THE WORD’
Dolly told
Billboard
magazine that
she was “absolutely floored”
when she heard
her name had
been thrown in
the ring. “I guess
they judge it on
the music and the
influence certain
songs have had,
and I guess I’ve
had songs with
other people in
that realm.”

HELLO, DOLLY!

She’s a music icon and a country
legend, but a rock star she ain’t –
and that’s the word from DOLLY
PARTON herself.The singer has
taken herself out of the running to
be inducted into the prestigious
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
In a heartfelt Instagram post
Dolly (76) explained that while
she was “extremely flattered and
grateful” to be nominated, she
didn’t feel she’d “earned that right”.
“I do hope the Rock & Roll Hall of
Fame will understand and be willing
to consider me again – if I’m ever
worthy.This has, however, inspired
me to put out a rock and roll album,
which I’ve always wanted to do!”
Her husband, Carl Dean (79), is
a “total rock and roll freak” and has
always encouraged her to do a rock
album, she said. Dolly thanked the
museum located in Cleveland,
Ohio, again “for the compliment”
and signed off with “Rock on!”
But the Hall of Fame decided to
keep Dolly as a nominee alongside
Eminem, Lionel Richie and Rage
against the Machine. The finalists
will be announced in May. Many
inductees in the museum are
famous for music in other genres
– last year rapper Jay-Z was
inducted. – NICI DE WET

5 DOLLY DETAILS
Her net worth
is estimated
at a staggering
$650 million
(R9,8 billion).

1

She’s had 25
No 1 hits on the
Billboard Hot
Country Songs
chart and sold more
than 130 million albums
worldwide.

2

3
DOLLY’S NEW ALBUM WILL BE OUT SOON

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She’s the only
artist with top
20 hits across
six consecutive

decades, starting in the
’60s with Something
Fishy.
She’s only 1,52m
tall and weighs
48kg. Her most
famous assets
are said to be 36DD.

4

She’s had a career
as an actress,
opened a theme
park named
Dollywood, and in 1995
launched her Imagination
Library as a tribute to her
father, who was illiterate.

5

3
AT THE
CINEMA

2

THE UNEXPECTED FUN

OF A STAR PLAYING HIMSELF

The deliciously loopy
THE UNBEARABLE
WEIGHT OF
MASSIVE TALENT
stars NICOLAS CAGE
as a version of
himself, a creatively
unfulfilled actor
facing financial ruin
who accepts
$1 million to attend
the birthday of a
superfan (Pedro
Pascal) who’s also a

deadly drug kingpin.
Things take a wild
turn when the actor is
recruited by the CIA
and forced to channel
his most beloved
screen characters to
save himself – the
role of a lifetime.
Early reviews have
been unanimously
positive, and the
movie hits SA
cinemas on 22 April.

4
IN TOO

DEEP
There’s darkly comic
and campy fun to
be had with DEEP
WATER, a ’90s
throwback erotic
thriller that’s not
especially erotic.
BEN AFFLECK plays
the cuckolded

5

husband of ANA DE
ARMAS who might
be offing his wife’s
lovers. Directed by
Adrian Lyne (Unfaithful) and co-written
by Euphoria creator
Sam Levinson, it’s on
Amazon Prime Video.

MYANNA BURING IN SALISBURY

IN THE WITCHER

MYANNA’S MANY FACES
Swedish actress MYANNA
BURING stars in THE SALISBURY POISONINGS, a threepart mini-series based on
a horrifying true story.
In March 2018 Sergei
Skripal and his daughter,
Yulia, were found slumped
and foaming at the mouth on
a bench in Salisbury, England.
They’d been poisoned with
the deadly nerve agent
Novichok in an assassination
attempt by the GRU, the
Russian intelligence service.
They survived, but the
poison would later take
the life of Dawn Sturgess.
Despite the cloak-anddagger backdrop, the series
isn’t a spy thriller but focuses
on the lives of the people of
Salisbury in the aftermath
of the poisonings.
In June that year, Dawn and
her partner, Charlie Rowley,
became ill after she sprayed
a bottle of perfume containing Novichok on her wrists.
Charlie had given her the
perfume as a gift he’d bought
at a charity shop. He later
said it had been disguised as
a popular perfume brand and

was in sealed packaging.
MyAnna (42) was
reluctant to take the part
of Dawn, she tells YOU.
“Initially, my first response
was, ‘No I can’t do this, this
is something that has to be
done right’.
“It was an important story,
but it felt like it was in the
hands of people who were
sensitive as to how they’d
portray . . . [It was] gentle
and inclusive of all the
people who were affected.”
She was also determined
to correct misconceptions
about Dawn. “A lot of news
outlets described her as
homeless and a drug addict,
and in doing so sort of
dismissed her death as
inevitable because of her
life choices. And that wasn’t
true.
“She wasn’t homeless, she
wasn’t a drug addict, she was
a woman who’d experienced
mental-health issues and
knocks in life, which I think
all of us can relate to. She did
struggle with alcohol, but she
was working really hard to
turn her life around. She had a

LET’S TALK ABOUT X, AND 4 OTHER FUN FRIGHT FLICKS

X
Now in SA cinemas
X is the Boogie
Nights/Texas Chain
Saw Massacre
mashup no one was
really asking for, but
it’s turned out to be a
pretty fun (and gory)

’80s-style throwback
horror movie.
MIA GOTH, the
on-again, off-again
spouse of Shia
LaBeouf, does double
duty as the girlfriend
of the producer of the
film-within-the-film’s
porn movie, and as
the elderly spouse
of the farmer whose
property is used as a
location for the adult
movie.

A CLASSIC HORROR
STORY, Netflix
Strangers stranded
in the woods in a
remote part of Italy
are gruesomely
picked off one by one
until things take an
extra-weird turn.

A24, BUTTERFLY RECORDS, FREMANTLE, HULU, LIONSGATE, GALLO IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES, NETFLIX, SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES, SHOWMAX

NOW ON
BRITBOX

ANTLERS
Google Play
Teacher Julia
Meadows (KERI
RUSSELL) goes
beyond the call
of duty for a pupil
(Jeremy TThomas)
drawing terrifying
pictures of a bears

loving family, partner, friends.”
MyAnna, who also stars
in the Netflix fantasy series
The Witcher, is a homebody
when she’s not working.
She enjoys watching films,
reading and spending time
with her five-year-old son,
whose name hasn’t been
made public. “I hang out with
my kid. That’s my big hobby
and my work outside of
acting. Bizarrely, my job is
all about storytelling but
my hobbies and everything
outside of [acting] have all
to do with storytelling.”
The actress is no stranger
to South Africa, having shot
the post-apocalyptic thriller
Doomsday (2008) here,
as well as Marple (2013).
“I’ve had the privilege of
working in South Africa two
times! I’ve always worked in
Cape Town. In my first job
there I got a week off and
spent it going to places that
had been recommended by
locals. It was magic. [I was]
profoundly changed by your
country, the landscape – I’ve
never known anything like it.”
– SIYA NDLELA

eating one another.
This dark, disturbing
fairytale contains
high production values
that show the hand of
producer Guillermo del
Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth),
though it’s not quite
up to his usual grimly
beautiful standards.
The horror is shocking
and the drama is
palpable to the bitter
end, mostly carried on
the shoulders of young
Thomas, who deserves
award recognition.

– PIETER VAN ZYL

BAD HAIR DAY
Showmax
Anna (ELLE LORRAINE) gets a new
look to land a job as a
TVpresenter, but her
makeover comes at
a price in this satire.
“Bad Hair uses horror
to capture the
tragedy of conforming,” says Lorraine of
her debut movie.

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BUS STOP
Hannah and Joe try to
reignite the spark by
going back to the start
BY JACQUI COOPER

OR the first time in 25
years, Joe didn’t bring
Hannah a cup of tea in
bed. Grabbing her robe,
she hurried downstairs
in time to see the front
door close behind him.
For 25 years her morning tea in bed
had been a constant. As was the quick
– or occasionally lingering – kiss before
Joe left for work.
Not today. Maybe never again. Tears
stung her eyes as she made her own tea.
Hannah dressed for work and left the

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silent house. Although it was summer,
it seemed the rain was on for the day and
she felt chilled as she walked to the bus
stop. Cars splashed noisily through
deepening puddles as she huddled there,
staring unseeing at the traffic.
From nowhere came a memory, a long
ago summer day just as wet and miserable as this one.
She’d been 19, on her way home from
college, caught in a sudden downpour
and shivering at the bus stop. A battered
VW camper van had splashed to a halt.
She’d recognised the driver as the darkhaired boy in her history class who
seemed to sleep through all his lectures
but somehow still got top grades. He’d
rolled down the window and yelled over
the sound of Bruce Springsteen playing
on the radio. “Want a lift?”
Hannah remembered warm blue eyes,
sexy three-day stubble, a lean, fit body
and a faded Iron Maiden T-shirt. Plus a
smile that made her heart leap. She
hadn’t hesitated but had yanked the door
open and jumped right in.
Grinning, Joe had pulled out into the
traffic. And into their future.

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HEN Hannah reached
work the talk was all
about last night’s office
party. She went through
the motions and even
managed to join in a little. No one noticed her heart wasn’t in it. No one, but
Martin.
“Everything okay?” he asked.
“Fine.”
He frowned. “Are you sure?”
“I’m sure.” She couldn’t talk about this.
Not even to him. Especially not to him.
Martin persisted. “Was that Joe who
picked you up last night?”
She nodded.
“Want to talk? We could go for an early
lunch.”
“Actually, Martin, I think I’ll work
through lunch.”
After a moment’s hesitation, he left.

W

HEN Hannah took the
bus home that evening,
Joe’s car was in the driveway. Letting herself into
the house, she could
smell lasagne cooking. Her home felt as

warm and cosy as ever. Except that when
she went into the kitchen Joe was pulling
on his jacket.
“You’re going out?” she asked stupidly.
“Yes.”
“Where?”
“The gym.”
“Do you have to? I . . . I thought we
could talk.”
“So did I,” said Joe bitterly. “Apparently
I was wrong.”
He picked up his car keys and headed
for the door.
“Joe . . .” she pleaded.
“No, Hannah.” The chill in his voice
silenced her. “Maybe you want to talk but
right now I have nothing to say.”
After he had gone she slumped into a
chair. Twenty four hours ago her life had
been so different. But then, twenty four
hours ago her husband loved her.

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NXIOUSLY Hannah waited
for him to come home from
the gym. When he did, he
didn’t go straight to bed as
she’d feared, but came in to
the sitting room and sat down. Not be­
side her on the sofa, but at least in the
same room.
“Okay,” he said wearily. “Tell me.”
In a faltering voice she did. But even
to her ears her flirtation with Martin
sounded silly and childish compared to
what she and Joe had. Still, she tried.
“He looked at me,” she said finally.
“He really looked at me. He saw me as a
woman, not a wife, not a mother. Not
someone middle­aged.”
“He looked at you?” Joe asked softly.
“Close your eyes, Hannah.”
“What?”
“Close your eyes.”
She did.
“What colour are my glasses?”
“Joe this isn’t –”
“Keep your eyes closed,” he insisted.
“It’s a simple question, Hannah. What
colour are my glasses?”
“Silver. Silver­rimmed,” she said confi­
dently and opened her eyes. The frames
were black.
“I’ve had these for two weeks,” he said
sadly. “I think it’s been a while since you
looked at me.” He stood up.
“I’m going away for a few days.”
He was leaving her?

‘THEN HE PULLED OUT
INTO THE TRAFFIC.
INTO THEIR FUTURE’

“Joe. Please . . .”
“I just need some space to think, Han­
nah. We both do.”
“I put in for a transfer today,” she said
quickly. “To another office”
“Good,” he said before walking out.

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OE left the next morning, which
was Saturday. Hannah took com­
fort from the fact he had a holdall
rather than a suitcase. In the mid­
dle of the afternoon her daughter
phoned.
“Hi, Mom? What are you up to?”
Crying. “Housework. What about
you?”
“I’ve just spoken to Dad. He’s at a car
auction? I thought you two were joined
at the hip at weekends?”
They used to be. When had they lost
that?
She and Lauren chatted and when she
hung up Hannah clung to hope and the
knowledge that Joe hadn’t told their
daughter anything.
He wasn’t home by Sunday night. Nor
had he answered her calls.
On Monday Hannah somehow got
through her day at work. Going home it
was still cold and wet. Shivering at the
bus stop, she wondered if she would ever
feel warm again.
A bus pulled in, filled up and left. Hers
should be next. But instead of a bus,
another vehicle pulled into the bay.
A battered VW camper van.
The window rolled down and she was
hit by a blast of Springsteen. Joe in the
driver’s seat. Three­day stubble and
wearing a T­shirt so faded she could only
just make out the Iron Maiden logo.
His shoulders had broadened in 25
years but he was still lean and fit. It
wasn’t so much his sexy smile that made
her heart skip this time. It was the fact he
was smiling at all.
“Want a lift?” he called.
Heart singing, she climbed in, looking
around in wonder.
“This is so like the old camper van.
I’d forgotten how much fun we used to
have.”
“There’s a lot we’ve forgotten,” said Joe
quietly.
He cleared his throat. “How about we
spend some time rediscovering it?
Together?”
Tears filled her eyes as she reached for
his hand. “I’d love that.”
Joe squeezed her hand. Then he pulled
out into the traffic. Into their future.

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T HAD started innocently enough.
Martin was new to the office. He
was charming and handsome and
they had a lot in common. The
same taste in music. Books. Films.
Ordinary stuff really but she looked for­
ward to their chats more and more.
She took more care with her makeup.
She lost weight. When she tried a new
hairstyle and Martin told her it suited
her, she actually blushed. And soon their
lunches together became the highlight
of her day.
Last night had been the annual staff
party. Not everyone brought their part­
ners and Joe hated these formal events
so it was easy to go without him.
This year she had gone over budget on
a dress that showcased her new figure.
She had taken extra care over her hair
and makeup and she had danced and
laughed with Martin all evening.
Truth was, she hadn’t wanted the
evening to end. When Joe rang and of­
fered to pick her up, she told him she
would take a taxi.
She and Martin were the last ones
waiting at the taxi rank. The easy conver­
sation between them suddenly dried up.
They were already standing close. It
would only have taken a tiny step to be
closer still. Hannah knew it and Martin
knew it.
Just as she had known in that split
second that she would never, ever take
that step. What was she thinking? She
loved Joe. What she had with Martin was
a silly flirtation. Martin saw her make her
choice and dipped his head in acknow­
ledgement, maybe even relief.

A taxi drew up. Quickly, gratefully she
kissed Martin on the cheek and said
goodnight, her hand already on the car
door before she realised it wasn’t a taxi.
Joe had come to meet her anyway. She
saw his expression as he looked from her
to Martin.
“To think I was worried about you
waiting here on your own,” Joe said bit­
terly as she climbed in.
Hannah had never heard him use that
tone before, never seen that look in his
eyes. “Joe, it’s not what you think.”
“Is that so?” Joe asked quietly. “Then
tell me one thing, Hannah. Tell me you
bought that dress just for yourself.”
She couldn’t.
Silently he drove them home where he
went straight to bed and turned his back
on her.

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Bestselling author Marian
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four SA authors (BELOW).

Amy Heydenrych

Qarnita Loxton

Were there ever any arguments or differences of
opinion? “Never,” says Gail.
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But we were all very civil
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generated a lot of laughs so
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have to take her to Tashas
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That’s what her bossy daughter-inlaw would do.
Instead she grows concerned for
Matt, who has realised his mom is
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Kate has fallen and broken her leg
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ACROSS

Two sets of clues but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Sudden break to an access of
speed (5)
4 A dirigible one lodged in a
different parish (7)
8 The runner’s pain that
eventually saved nine (1,6,2,4)
10 Turn on gin mixture he is
about to have (5)
11 Is the possessor of a sort of
snow (4)
12 It is one player’s turn to
propose the motion (4)
16 With something left, time is
not hidden (5)
17 Careful thought given to the
recompense (13)
19 He is for thorough reform of
the primary (7)
20 Terrible fear of doctor
removing top of head (5)
DOWN
1 Naval holder of warrant will
put the subsidiary business
right (6,7)
2 Car will need this rubbish as
encouragement to the donkey
(3)
3 Is irritable about how one got
lost in the city (6)
4 Is hurting the church in making
gain (6)
5 He will smuggle a strip of
embroidered cloth (6)
6 They are handed down in order
to hire out weaving machinery
(9)
7 Peter, reminded of how it was
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9 Dance in to show how it is held
within (9)
13 Acid, short ounce of which is
used for 12 houses (6)
14 Lay bare the side surface of
the recess (6)
15 One may need a bit of rope to
run aground (6)
18 Reserve of diamonds (3)

QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Explode (5)
4 Dirigible aircraft (7)
8 __________ saves nine (1,6,2,4)
10 A turning device (5)
11 Admits; has (4)
12 Shift (4)
16 Public, not concealed (5)
17 Thoughtfulness for others (13)
19 Of a root (7)
20 Fear greatly (5)
DOWN
1 Since 1949 in RN, one holding
warrant (6,7)
2 Decay (3)
3 Irritable, bad-tempered (6)
4 Yearning (6)
5 Type of bean (6)
6 Objects passed down through
family (9)
7 Settled beforehand (13)
9 Held within limits (9)
13 Imaginary belt of star signs
(6)
14 Make known (6)
15 Yarn, fibre, thread (6)
18 Solid water (3)

1 Achieve (10)
6 Adviser (6)
9 Small red fruit (11)
16 Neckwear (7)
17 Fraud (9)
20 Exact copy (7)
21 Sculpture (6)
22 Marine mammal (6)
23 Separate grain (6)
27 Lion’s hair (4)
29 Elliptical (4)
31 Pester (6)
33 Slipped up (5)
35 Demolish (7)
36 Assistance (4)
38 Story for kids (7)
41 Ban on trade (7)
43 Thug (5)
45 Plump (5)
46 Go beyond the limit
(9)
50 Alteration (9)
53 Not as difficult (6)
55 Be adjacent to (6)
57 Theatrical (8)
58 Dish (5)
59 Private chat (4-1-4)
61 Much . . . About
Nothing (3)
62 Professional (abbr) (3)
63 Chains for the wrists
(9)
66Tuft of feathers (5)
69 Off with you! (3,5)
72 Group of three (4)
73 A short greeting (2)
74 Dull, heavy sound (4)
75 Big laugh (4)
77 Customers (7)
79 Incites (5)
80 Diagram used as a
study tool (7)
82 Comfort (4)
83 Pips (5)
86 Geometric figure (5)
88 Plutonium (symbol) (2)
89 Second Greek letter (4)
91 Crash (7)
92 Package (6)
94 Head of the Roman
Catholic Church (4)
96 Agrarian (5)
97 Claws (5)
98 To thine own . . . be
true (Shakespeare) (4)
99 Enemy (3)
101 Plunge (3)
102 Gather (4)
104 Notes (5)
109 Provoke (5)
112 Stallion (4)
113 Fold (6)
114 Accidents (7)
116 Slave (4)
117 Hawaii (abbr) (2)
118 A bad . . . in the
mouth (5)
121 Corpulent (5)
124 Calf’s flesh (4)
126 Tempted (7)
127 Sacred song (5)
129 Windpipe (7)
130 Outer covering (4)
131 Dull pain (4)
132 . . . and behold (2)
133 Mode of public
transport (4)
134 Penalty (8)

137 Quick (5)
138 Utter engrossment (9)
142 Body of water (3)
143 It’s no . . ! (3)
144 Hit the snooze button
too many times (9)
145 Shoulder wrap (5)
148 Pardoning (8)
149 Main course (6)
150 Signal (6)
152 Begged (9)
154 Uttered (9)
156 Media (5)
158 Accede (5)
160 Come . . . with flying
colours (7)
163 Captivate (7)
166 An attempt (4)
167 Theatre entertainment (7)
171 Surpass (5)
172 Method (6)
175 Entice (4)
176 Drag with effort (4)
178 Narrow hilltops (6)
182 Fuse (6)
183 Strong tropical grass
(6)
185 Function (7)
186 Treaties (9)
187 Particle (7)
188 Vulnerable to (11)
189 Individual (6)
190 Not pertinent (10)

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2
3
4

Boon (5)
Committee head (5)
Stirs (5)
At a . . . (uncertain
what to do) (4)
5 Scratched (7)
7 Cordlike sensory
bundles (6)
8 Speaker (6)
9 Re: kidneys (5)
10 Not as tall (7)
11 Blocks (4)
12 Discourage (5)
13 Topping for a cake (5)
14 Trite (5)
15 Froth (4)
18 Chief (4)
19 Absent (4)
24 Gardening tool for
tilling (3)
25 Have consumed (5)
26 Edge of a piece of
cloth (3)
28 Eyrie (4)
30 Electrical unit (4)
32 Alert (5)
34 Relocate (8)
37 Base of a statue (8)
38 The two (4)
39 Invaded (10)
40 Not working (3,2,5)
42 Between the devil
and the deep blue sea
(2,3,5,2,1,7)
44 Nobleman, eg (4)
45 A quarrel (4)
47 Gym exercise (8)
48 Brazilian dance (5)
49 Cut (8)
50 Words with the
opposite meaning (8)
51 Haggard (5)
52 Flat (4)

54 Eras (6)
56 Hidden . . . (unnoticed
qualities) (6)
60 Without planning
(2,3,4,2,3,6)
64 Part in a play (4)
65 Intelligent (6)
67 Wave (6)
68 Narrow channel (6)
70 Commands (6)
71 Fruit used to make
wine (6)
76 Extravagant (7)
78 Russian emperor (4)
81 Zulu regiment (4)
84 Snakelike fish (3)
85 Scandium (symbol) (2)
86 Fairylike creature (4)
87 Small hotel (3)
90 Airs (5)
93 Without company (5)
95 Nectarines (7)
100 . . . and for all (4)
103 Practical jokes (6)
104 Defame (6)
105 . . . out (allot) (4)
106 Message sent by
phone (abbr) (3)
107 Queasiness (6)
108 Hot-tasting flavourant
(6)
109 Secure (3)
110 An addict (4)
111 Rails (6)
115 To such an extent (2)
119 Confessed (8)
120 Ephemeral (10)
122 Credible (10)
123 Panicked rush (8)
124 Prohibition (4)
125 Returns (8)
127 Expression (6)
128 Academic course (6)
135 Passage (5)
136 Free State rugby team
(8)
139 Summarised (8)
140 Topic of interest (5)
141 Bombard (4)
146 Trims (4)
147 Watery part of milk (4)
151 Lyrical poems (4)
153 Chickens come home
to . . . (5)
155 Tore (5)
157 Argue without
hostility (4)
159 A thought (4)
161 Unit of electric charge
(7)
162 Drinking glass (7)
164 Neither (literary) (3)
165 Take to court (3)
167 Entwine (4)
168 Next to (6)
169 Endangered
mammals (short) (6)
170 Cylindrical object (4)
172 Sandals, eg (5)
173 Restricts (flow) (5)
174 Avoid (5)
175 Contract for renting
property (5)
177 Flog (4)
179 Furious (5)
180 Dutch cheese (5)
181 Finished (5)
182 Chair (4)
184 Brute (4)

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Public
pool
area

SA
language

Secret
agent

3rd Gk
letter

Flour
factory

Pert

62

Roar

Very dry
sherry
Simple
poem

11th Gk
letter

Arduous
journey

Fattens

Summit

Ravine
with a
stream

Combine

Tired

Serene

Belly
Wager

Rich soil

Absent
without
leave

One that
wanes

Rechargeable
battery

Shortwinded

Cease
from
doing

Pliant

Unusual

Cracked

Pottery

Adopted
(5,2)

Failure
Alone

Sedate

Ready
for use

Spinal
bone
segments

Perennial
flower

Absence
of war
Open
pastries
Having
guns

From
Thimbu

Spirited
horse
Salad
plant

Far and
away
(2,3)

Clump

Indian
dish

Customs
of a
society

Was
inactive
during
(3,2)
Most
ignoble

Taunt

Distant

Balances

Feet
bones

Main
vessel

Query

Agitate

Tooth

Advert

Amount

Those
people

Structural
beams

Tiptoe
...
Pocus

Array
Sullies

Put on
Sincere

Servomechanism
(short)

Heavily
decorated
Ostmark
(abbr)

Directs

Book
worm

Small
citrus
tree

Scholarly
world

Wake
up
Ritual

Article

Sarcasm

Utilises

Sudden
chest
pain

Mumble

SA
cattle
breed

Raw
meat
chunk

Else

Sewer

Rubidium
(symb)

Stupid
person
(slang)

Virginia
(abbr)

Major
historical
period

Age
Tripoli
is there
Assault

Monarch

Loiters
around

Shrewd
Death

Useless

Nominal
(abbr)

Form of
a word

Water
boiler

Irregularity

Cupid

Heavens

Showy
flower

Species
groups

Revived
style

Polish
money

Rotten

Single
article

Acquire

Lacking
order

Milk
products

US
taxman

Beam
Brother
(abbr)

Spanish
island

Annually

Thin
plate

Revolve
Internet
protocol
(abbr)
Ancient
Gk
market

African
antelope
Road
(abbr)

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Shoe
part

Fronded
plant

The
(French)

Frog
cousin

Removed
faults
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Indian
money

Coffee
drink

Africa
(abbr)

Supreme
being

NO 1
We are
(contr)

The same
Alert

Sweet

Put in
order

King of
the
jungle

Damask
rose
oil

N Amer
Indian

Fragrant
wood

Raises

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Skill
comes
with repetition
(8,5,7)

Hindu
teacher

Tin
(symb)

Laudability

Lacking
concentration

Change

Also

Big Five
animal

Tough

Live
(2-3)
Mistake
Wildebeest
City in
Japan

24 in
a day

Horse
gait

Crude
person

Border

Wrap in
a cerecloth

Scraped
leaves

Traffic
light
colour

Image

Fibbing

Linger

Rhode
Island

Ran
into

Baghdad
is there

Frustrate

Nasty

Device
(slang)

Re the
ear

Fill
again

Windmill
part

Pig
sound

Linger

Lemur
cousin

Vigorous
enjoyment

Please
respond

Stock
From
the US
Midwest

Proverb

Paris
underground

Open to
view

Awake

Almost

Book of
Islam

3rd
planet

Associated
Press

Boozer

Lout
Ukraine
capital

Midis

Animal
doctor

Helix

Rubs
out

Group of
eight
Regress

Inspector
General

White
oak

In case
that
Resulting

Hawk
brazenly

Watery
mud
Wading
bird

Mix
breed

Deposit

Anaesthetic

Bhutan
(www)

SA
antelope

Social
network

Japan
(www)

Prone

Corpse
stand

Preposition
(abbr)

Singlelens
reflex

Money
of Japan

Whip

... rata

Engrave

Tipple

Sheen

African
river
Adjust a
pitch
(4,2)

Charges

Pack

Reach

In this
place

Not
closed

Challenge

Young
Men's
Christian
Association

In stead
(2,4)
LSD

Floating
leaf (4,3)

Artisan
Improve

Swindle
Mountain
valley

On the Bother
top of Roman 6

Relating
to
learning

Hour
(abbr)

Suffix
Line a
ceiling

Assign
authority
to

Demand

Potato

Female
sheep

Open
valleys

Metric
measure

Go by
plane

More
tearful

Tired

Bedroom
furniture

Soaked
with
liquid

Robust
Turn
away
Rip

Astraddle
African
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Small
pit on
an organ
(anat)

Fidel ...
Bits
thrown (former
Cuba
at a
wedding pres)

Ancient
Persian
governor

Legal Escape
posses- Compesor
tently

Nominal
(abbr)
Whip
mark

Category

Irk
Entertainer

Shrewd
Cigar
leaves
Pines
(for)

Inserted
data
Tend to
the sick

Large
barrel

Become
less intense

Worn-out
(4-2)
Bambi,
eg

Unanimously
(2,1,3)
Impolite

Retailer

Pain
Behind
(nautical)
Frill

Dirt
scooperupper
(pl)

Platter
Type of
diplomat
Outline
Selfcaused
(prefix)

Wife of
Hercules
(Gk
myth)

Sample
Episode
(abbr)
Spill the
beans
loudly
(US)

Gambling
cubes

Dative
(abbr)
Dental
cleaner

Brother
(inf)
Delight
Visitor
Singing
group

Biased

Italy
(www)

Highway
division
Coal
miner

Sew
loosely

Spasms

Zest
Smell
(wine)
NZ
people

11th Gk
letter
Kilt
fabric

Gold
for
gilding

Provide
King’s
pawn
(abbr)

Harsh
S Amer
guineapig kin

Speaker
Fencing
call
(2,5)

Dreamier
Italian
dry
white
wine

Evade by
trickery
Lutetium
(symbol)
Sire
Knot

Point

Study of
wine

Cushion
trim
Most
wealthy

Obsolete
(abbr)
Wear
away

Selfish
driver
(inf)
(4,3)
Orangeflavoured
liqueur

Indian
police
baton

Craft
Slay
Leg
joint
Seabird
manure

Preface
(short)
Tread
Gives
rise to
Senseless

Ova
Lengthy
Slowly
(music)

Section
Juno to
the Gk
Browngrey hue

Thallium
(symbol)
Lower
brain
part
(short)

Gross
national
product
(abbr)
Fluorine,
eg
Drive
mad

Burn

Joule
(symbol)

Jersey
(www)
Small
duck
Authority (law)

Not
released
(4-2)

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Alone

Current
of air
Austrian
cake

Sever

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Soapy
foam

A cat
has nine
Nestling
owl

Mass
of fish
eggs
Garret

Net
asset
value
(abbr)

Show-off

Spouted
beverage
vessel

Massive

Island
in
Hawaii

Not
moving

Harden
Staircase
pillar

Be in
want of

S Asia
rainy
season

Criminal
group
Fellow
countryman (Sp)

Subdues
Open
access
(abbr)

Mil leader (Ottoman)
An uish

Ensign
(abbr)

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PAST
PUREST

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TECH

SOILS

NEON

TALES

DO GEL

SERF
RAIL
RARE

SIREN
TO RUT

VANE

SEMI TON

ORE

APES
RUSES
FINED
LIEN
STEP

TRADES

LASER
SPED AS
STONE
SEWED

MITRE

ASTER
THAW

HUBS

CANS

A TRAP

WARP

IS LED
BEETS
SAVE
HE ARC
SACS LET

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MAID

TASTE
EDGE

PELTS
CARS
THINS

MEADS

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Net

Common
bird

Excl of
surprise

Pick

Sugarcane
spirit

Leg
joint

Cut
baby
teeth

Zulu
medicine
Unknown
entity

Hesitating
sound

Fossil
fuel

Assist

Carpentry tool

Eager

Stumptown
actress
(5,8)

Unit of
capacity
Anxiety

Money
of
Moldova

And the
rest

Delay
(3,3)

Desserts
(inf)

Timber
tool

Expel
saliva

NZ rugby
chant

Applied
(abbr)

Item

Check
over

Painful
bark

Earnest
entreaty

Knife
part

Track
unit

Cat
sound

Assumed
name

Clothing

Behave
theatrically

6th note
(music)

Lover

Chemical
suffix

US city

Notice

Greek
epic
poem

Price
(abbr)

Trial
balance

Floor
cleaner

Very
small

Sailor's
disease

Petrol
extraction spot
(3,4)

Cosa
Nostra

Edit

Gaea

Male
relative

Curt

As
though
(2,2)

Sample

Vitality

Shot
that
ust fails
(4,4)

His Dark
Materials
actress
(4,6)
Back

Ordain

Sun god

Naked

Stanza
(abbr)

Unsuspected
danger

Dine at
home
(3,2)

Denunciation

Deserve
High
card

Cavalryman

Lyric
poem

Squint
(inf)

Perch

Tellurium
(symb)

Faulty
stroke

Emerald
mineral

Owing
Bones

Verso
(abbr)

Make
amends

Chasm

Aroma

Jewel

Pilot
Small
island

Nimble

Towards
the
shore

Sine die
(abbr)

Female
Minus

Last part
(4,3)

Warm
the oven

Kill by
fire

Cruel
rasping
woman
Child

Knight
Droop

Secrete
milk

Kind of
pasta

Conveys
gratitude

Sellers
of oil

More
adoring

Knockout
(abbr)
Implant
I am

Make
reference to

Try
again

Plum-like
liqueur
(4,3)

Superman &
Lois
actor
(5,8)
Ohio
(abbr)
Does not

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Spasm

Service
Level
Agreement

Sound
I have
(contr)

Tree
part

Silky
fabric

Italian
bubbly

Animal
group

Fractured
Ashen

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Irritate

Plant
stem

Grow
weary
Stores
away

Cremation pile
Cover
with gold

NO 2
Ontario
(abbr)

7th Gk
letter

Become
informed

Deeds

Eyelid
infection

Glue

Bar

Showy
flower

State of
Brazil

Pieshaped
mud
masses
(3,4)

West
Indies
Drive
mad

Brownish-grey
Barrel
(abbr)
Stargirl
actress
(3,5)

Catch
Taxi
Hops
kiln

Condiment
stand

Mercury
(symb)

For
every

Repair
(ship)

Eyot

Half
(abbr)
Endorsement
recipient

Rubbing
out

Quechua
Free

Gravimetric
volume
(abbr)

Ibidem
(abbr)

Most
reasonable

Cask tap

Trim
Piece
of flora
Pals

Music
job

Graphic
writing
symbol

Daybreak
Silver
(symb)

Emcee
Verify

Remote
region

Eating
plan

Bobby
French
money

Goodbye

Liquid
measure

Shirt
frill

Rwanda
(www)

Maize

Cricket
Club

Radian
(symb)

Rhinal

Rhodium
(symb)
Clairvoyant
Eina!

Doorcase

Fully
satisfy

Connector

Male
swan

Wine
container

Trampled
over
again

Starts of
the week

Rallentando
(music)

Peruse
Place in
a line

Antidepressant
drug

Ancient
city

Capers

A pair

Rough
edge

Unit of
speed
Until

Sound

US city

Machine
accessory

Coat of
wool

British
FBI
Rising
agent

Information
course
Girl

Ireland

Kind

Hognut

Agamid

Elk

Work
of art
(French)

Horse
hoof
sound

NCIS
actor
(4,6)

Repeats

Layer

Madam

Not
used

Radio
data
system
(abbr)

Person
about to
die
Dress

Cobalt
(symb)
Right
(abbr)

Load
shedding
necessity

Shelf

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Wheel
rubber

Gross
national
product

Pacific

GP's
nickname

Created

Facial
hair

Church
bench

Reach a
destination
(4,2)
Perish

Dieting
unit

Maple
tree

Compere

Grudge

Emma.
actor
(4,1'6)

Direct

Teaspoon
(abbr)

Regularly

Slander

Pack of
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Most
distant
General
manager
Smudge

Eager
Photos

Scatter
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Culinary
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the alphabet is
represented by
the same number
throughout
the puzzle. For
example, in the
puzzle to the
right, 11 = N, 16 = S
and is 19 = O.
Use these clues
to fill in the
matching
numbers in the
grid, then work
out the missing
words and add
the solved
letters to the
number grid
guide below
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1

26

1

19

26

19

1

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24

17

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20

1

5

17

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4

17

25

1

4

17

4

17

11

16

16

4

22

17

4

18

10

24

17

11

11

17

20

1

16

10

13

13

17
18

6

19
4

13

1

11

24

6

11

19

19

4

26

1

24

17

24

17

18

4

19

6

25

16

17

1

25

1

11

18

5

1

15

17

24

19

16

22

5

2

17

7

13

19

26

6

25

2

6

25

25

6

25

6

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10

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In 1925 an immigrant family
on the docks at
Ellis Island look
at the New York
skyline while
waiting for the
ferry to take
them to the city.
Millions of people passed
through the US’
first immigration station,
hoping for a
better life.

This iconic
American
city is a
melting
pot of

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WORLD CITIES
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EARLY INHABITANTS
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T hhe area had been inhabited by
N ative American tribes for thouNa
an
ars by the time the first European
ettlers arrived. The first Dutch families seted on what’s now called Governors Island off
e southern tip of Manhattan Island in 1624
nd, two years later, the colony of New Amterdam waas established on Manhattan Island.
When the
e English took control of the area
in 1664, it was renamed New York after King
Charles II granted the lands to his brother
James, Duk
ke of York (later King James II).
After the American Revolution (in which New
York and tthe other 12 colonies in America
fought for independence from Britain) that
took place from 1775 to 1783, the province of

COMMUNITIES

Throughout the city’s history, it’s been
a place where immigrants arrived in
America in search of a better life. They’d pass
the Statue of Liberty through the US’ first immigration station, Ellis Island, bringing a rich
and varied cultural history with them. From
1892 to 1924 about 12 million European immigrants arrived on the island. Today 37% of the
city’s population were born in other countries.
The city is divided into five municipalities
called boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens,
Staten Island and The Bronx) and is home to
many communities from various cultures,
including Indian, Irish, Italian, Chinese, Korean,
Dominican, Puerto Rican, Caribbean, Jewish,
African American and Russian.

GEOGRAPHY & BUILDINGS

New York is built on a natural harbour
where the Hudson River meets the
Atlantic Ocean. Most of it is built on three islands: Manhattan, Staten and western Long
Island. There are also smaller islands such as
Ellis and Governors. The islands are linked by
bridges, tunnels and ferries.
One of New York’s most striking features is
its abundance of innovative buildings and
skyscrapers. Two of the most famous are the
Chrysler and the Empire State Building. Built
during the economic depression of the 1930s,
these towering structures competed for the title of tallest building in the world in what was

The One
World
Trade
Center
The Statue
of Liberty

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ABOVE: The Statue of
Liberty is one the most
iconic symbols of New
York. BELOW: The city’s
skyline is dotted with
famous landmarks and
buildings. More than 800
languages are spoken here!

HERE are few large business
hubs in the world that create
as much excitement and admiration as New York. The Big
Apple, as it’s affectionately
known, iss a place of global economic
power and cultural diversity.

New York became a state and the city became
the first United States capital in 1788.
Today the city has a population of around
8,8 million people and is the most populous
city in America.

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Central Park

Social
science

The Brooklyn Bridge

The New Year’s
celebrations on
Times Square are
world famous.

called “the race to the sky”. The Chrysler Building, completed in 1930, held the title for only 11
months before the Empire State Building surpassed it in 1931. Considered the most photographed building in the world, the Empire
State Building is 102 storeys high and was the
world’s tallest building until 1970.
At 22 storeys, the Flatiron Building – designed by Daniel H Burnham and completed in
1902 – may not be the city’s tallest building, but
it’s one of the most easily recognised due to its
triangular shape. It was declared a national historic landmark in 1989 and has been featured
in movies such as Godzilla and Spider-Man.
At 541m including its spire, the One World
Trade Centre is the tallest skyscraper in New
York (and the tallest in the Western Hemisphere). It was built in remembrance of the 9/11
terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and from
the One World Observatory at the top you can
look out over the city. The site of the original
Twin Towers is marked with two artificial waterfalls surrounded by bronze panels featuring
the names of those who died in the attack.

PARKS & GREEN SPACES

THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE

One of New York’s most recognisable
landmarks is the bridge stretching
from Brooklyn to Manhattan over the East River. The Brooklyn Bridge, tthe first suspension
bridge to use steel cab
bles, was opened in
1883. Today, approximately 116 000 vehicles,
30 000 pedestrians and 3 000 cyclists cross
the bridge every day!

CULTURE

If you’ve ever wattched New Year’s Eve
celebrations on TV,
T you’ve probably
seen Times Square, whhich got its
name afterThe New YorkT
Times
newspaper moved into
oa
building on the square in
1904. This massive trafffic New York-style
cheesecake.
intersection is surrounded

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Broadway is the home of New York’s theatre
district that boasts some of world’s best shows.

by buildings with billboards, advertisements and
shops lit up at night. Half a million people passing through the area on foot on a busy day.
One of the streets that meet in Times Square
is Broadway where you can see some of the
best theatre productions in the world such as
such as Wicked and The Phantom of the Opera.
New York is also famous for its museums. At
the Metropolitan Museum of Art you can see
iconic works from artists such as Van Gogh,
Rembrandt and Monet. The American Museum
of Natural History
y is the largest natural history museum in the world
w
and occupies four city
blocks. One of its hiighlights is the display of a
nearly complete Tyrrannosaurus rex skeleton!

F
FOOD

The influe
ence of the multitude of
co
ommunitiies who call New York home
d in the city’s food. These include
Italian pizzerias, while the Jewish
commu
unity perfected the New
York bagel. New York cheesecaake invented in the 1920s by
Jewish-German baker Arnold
Reuben is another treat that’s
beccome world famous.
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In a city as built-up and densely populated as New York, it’s important to
have areas of natural beauty and open space.
Central Park may only be the fifth-largest park
in the city, but it’s the most visited park and the

most filmed location in the world. Opened in
n
1858, it was designed by Frederick Olmsted an
nd
Calvert Vaux, who won the right to design the
park in a competition. At 3,41km², the park contains a Victorian Gothic castle, eight lakes and
ponds, 93km of pedestrian paths and a zoo.
The High Line in west Manhattan is a more
recent addition to the city’s public parks. It’s a
2,3km elevated park and trail built on an old
freight-rail line. Nature, design and art elements are all part of this unique space.

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MORE

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the
e Big Apple, go to:
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Turn to
page 80

to read about
the Statue of
Liberty.

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THEE STATUE OF LIBERTY
This famous sta ue, also
called Lady L berty, is
synonymous wi h New York,
and steeped in symbolism

This speaks to
the formal name
Liberty Enlight
ening the Wo ld
and represents a
light on the path
to f eedom

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HE Statue of Liberty is a phenomenal
structure that can be seen from far and
w de The off cial name of the statue
which is on Liberty Island in New York
Harbour is Liberty Enlightening the
World but it s been shortened to Lady
Liberty
France donated the statue to
America to commemorate the two countries
close all ance during the Amer can Revolution and
Amer cas independence from Br tain n 1776 For
this reason it also symbolises the US ndependence
w th liberty being another word for freedom

CLOTHING

CONSTRUCTION

B F ench const uc ion worke s bui t he statue in
sections from September 1875 unt l July 1884

B The statue was then taken apart into 350

pieces These pieces were shipped in 2 4
c ates to New York Harbour where it arrived on
7 June 885
B The Americans bui t he pedestal on which t
stands This was completed in Ap il 1886
B Then hey start assemb ing he individual
pieces on the pedestal
B The Statue of L berty was at last completed
and unveiled to the pub ic on 28 October 1886

Lady Liberty wears
flowing obes the
kind women wo e
in Ancient Rome
and G eece The
robes indicate that
the statue is a
representa ion
of he Roman
goddess L bertas
It also symbo ises
Ancient Greece as
the bi thplace of
democ acy

CROWN

The crown (ca led a
diadem) has seven points
or rays which symbolise
the world's seven conti
nents and oceans The
message is that freedom
should be unive sal (for
everyone on Earth)
The 25 windows in the
diadem rep esent Earth's
gemstones

W NDOWS
WINDOWS

TABLET

Lady Liberty holds a tablet in her
left hand The date 4 July 1776 is
inscr bed on it in Roman nume als
the day of Ame ica's Declaration
of Independence The tablet is a
so called tabula ansate (a tablet
w th handles) t symbolises a book
of statutes (laws)

t's in the shape of a keystone
which in arch tecture is a stone that
connects and holds together other
stones W thout it eve y hing would
co lapse This symbo ises the fact
hat the law and justice are the
cornerstones and highest authority
of any nation

COLOUR

The statue which is covered in copper
used to be reddish brown but over the
years t's been tarnished into a greenish
colour due to a chemical reaction between
the sea water vapour and the metal Expo
sure to the elements also played a part

OUTER SHELL

t's made of copper and is only 2 4mm thick
about the same as two coins stacked on top
of each other

NTERNAL STRUCTURE

HEIGHT
SANDALS
N A

SANDALS

The sandals
indicate that
Lady L be ty is
a free person

DID YOU
KNOW?

The statue was
designed to look
ike
Libertas he
Roman
goddess of
freedom

TORCH

Inside the structure a giant framework
and iron pi lars and bars support the thin
outer she l There's a double spiral metal
staircase in the cent e of he structure

THEN

NOW

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WE TALK ABOUT

T’S no secret thatt
a killer asteroid
came out of the
sky and wiped
An asteroid is a rocky object that orbits the sun. There are loads of
out the dinosaurss
asteroids in our solar system. Most of them are in the main asteroid belt
but up until now no one
e
– a region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
knew for sure what happened when the huge
out. Most dinosaurs were herbithe planet’s
planets climate.
clima
space rock struck Earth.
hi h
ns they ate
Plants need sunlight to
Scientists have pieced together
plants. When the plants started
food through the process of phowhat occurred that terrible day
dying, they had nothing to eat and,
tosynthesis. Because the sulphur
and in the years following it by
ultimately, it was the global coolcloud stopped sunlight streaming
studying rock samples from deep
through, all plant life started dying ing that doomed the dinosaurs.
inside the impact crater.
According to the new research,
the chaos the asteroid caused
was much worse than previously
thought. When it hit Earth it blastThat’s how long ago the
The diameter of the Chicxulub
ed so much sulphur into the atasteroid collided with Earth,
crater in Mexico where the
mosphere it blocked out the sun.
causing the end of the era of
asteroid struck Earth. The
This caused Earth to cool for a few
the dinosaurs.
crater is about 19km deep.
years, which drastically changed

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180km

The sulphur in the atmosere eventually mixed with
watter which fell from the
sk
ky as lethal acid rain. The
sulp
phur that landed on the
ground would eventually
g
hav
h
ve washed into the
occeaans, also creating huge
damag
ge there. This explains why
it took so long for life on Earth –
especially marine life – to recover.
“We underestimated the
amount of sulphur the asteroid
impact created,” says researcher
James Witts. “The climate change
that was associated with it was
much greater than we thought
previously.”
Scientists say studying these
events helps them understand
how to prepare our planet for
threats from space.

AROUND THE WORLD

TUGAL
ISLAND HI
HIT BY HUNDREDS
OF TREMORS
The ground in São Jorge shook for
two days when the Portuguese
island was struck by multiple
tremors. Officials recorded 1 100
minor earthquakes over 48 hours
last month.
Although the quakes weren’t
very strong and caused no damage,
authorities have put emergency
plans into action while experts
investigate what caused the
quakes. São Jorge is a volcanic
island. The tremors were recorded
around a fissure, or crack, in the
earth that last erupted in 1808.

NEPAL

RANCE

HIGHEST TEA PARTY
ON EVEREST

ANCIENT BURIAL SITE
ANCI
DISCOVERED IN PARIS

A group of adventurers
has given new meaning
to the phrase high tea
when they set a new
Guinness World Record
for throwing the
highest tea party ever.
Andrew Hughes organised the get-together
at Camp 2 on Mount Everest in
Nepal – 6 495m above sea level.
The group of climbers had to make

GOOD NEWS

special arrangements to take along
their party supplies, which included
biscuits to go with their cuppa.

Several tombs and a stone coffin
have been found by accident underneath the Notre Dame Cathedral in
the French capital. Archeologists
say the burial site is thought to
date back to the 14th century and
that the coffin was made for a VIP.
The site was discovered while
workers were rebuilding the
cathedral’s spire after it was
badly damaged in a blaze in 2019.

BAD NEWS

CAN YOU
BELIEVE IT?
JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE MIRRORS
NOW ALIGNED

The James Webb Telescope has sent back it’s clearest image yet: a picture of a single star. This is an
important step in the deployment of this giant
telescope which was launched in space last year.
In the previous photo it sent to Earth, the telescope
wasn’t yet focusing properly but the latest one
shows its various mirrors are now correctly lined up.
The star captured is about 2 000 light years away.

MARS MISSION HALTED

The European Space Agency has halted its planned
ExoMars mission because of the war in Ukraine.
The mission involved launching a robotic rover, built
in Britain, with a Russian rocket this September. A
German spacecraft would then transport the rover to
Mars, whereafter a Russian lander would position it
on the Red Planet. The next opportunity to send the
rover is only in 2024, when Earth and Mars are in
good positions for it.

TTHIS
HIS IS NOT A POTATO

A New Zealand couple who thought they’d dug up
the world’s largest potato have had their dreams
turned to mash. The couple found the 7,8kg vegetable on their farm and submitted it to Guinness World
Records. Following DNA tests it was found to be a
tuber (swollen root) of a gourd (squash) and therefore didn’t qualify for the record of the largest
potato in the world. The current world recordholder
weighs just under 5kg.
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DID YOU KNOW?
South Africa’s Constitution
guarantees freedom of religion
for all South Africans. This means
you may choose the faith you
want to practice and no one is
allowed to treat you unfairly
on that basis.

LEEGISLATION

Court says hijab must go
ANY Muslim
women and girls
wear hijabs (see
Word of the
Week) because
the Islamic faith calls on them not
to dress extravagantly. But last
September teachers at a girls’
school in Karnataka, India, refused
to allow learners to wear hijabs
in their classes claiming that it’s
against the school’s dress code.
The learners felt the rules broke

M

WORD
OF THE
WEEK

their right to practice their religion
and held protests over the ban.
More schools introduced similar
rules and Hindu learners also took
to the streets to protest with the
Muslim learners.
A group of female Muslim

80%

The percentage of India’s
population that is Hindu – that’s
4 out of every 5 people. Only
14% are Muslim.

HIJAB

students eventually took the case
to the state’s high court, but the
court recently ruled the government can go ahead with the ban.
The ruling has upset many
people because they say it
discriminates against Muslims.
Muslims are in the minority in
India, where most people are of
the Hindu faith.
The Muslim learners will now
appeal the country’s supreme
court to get the ruling overturned.

PRONOUNCED: hee-jahb

A hijab is a traditional scarf Muslim women wear in public to cover
their hair and neck. It’s an Arabic word which means curtain.

NUMBERS

1,2

846

35

The weight in kilograms of a pumpkin named Barbie, grown
by Wykus Lamprecht from Meyerton. It was the biggest
pumpkin at the Goliat van Gat pumpkin festival held in
Pretoria in March. The supersize pumpkin took about 160
days to grow that large, at times gr wing about 30kg in
a day. This year’s festival drew more
p p
entries, weighing 3 234kg altogeth r

The length in metres of the skull of an ancient creatture
discovered in a desert in Peru. The skull has rows off
pointy teeth and paleontologists believe it might haave
been a new species of Basilosaurus – a ferocious
marine creature that lived about 36 million years ag
go.
It’s estimated to have been about 12m long, which iss
the length of a bus.

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T number of days American astronaut Mark
The
Vande Hei (55) would have lived in space if
V
he lands back on Earth later this month. The
h
previous record for an American astronaut
p
ccontinuously in space is 340 days. The world
rrecord, however, is held by Russian Valeri
Polyakov, who spent 438 days at the Mir
P
Space Station in the 1990s.
S

PICTURE OF THE WEEK

FIVE QUICK
QUESTIONS
1

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

4 APRIL 1968 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ASSASSINATED
American human rights
activist Martin Luther
King Junior was just 39
years old when he was
shot and killed by an
assassin in Memphis,
Tennessee, in the US.
King was a minister in
the church and stood up
for the rights of black
Americans. He did this
by organising peaceful
protests, like the Montgomery bus boycott of
1955, when black Americans stopped using
public buses to object
to separate seating for
different races.
He was also a gifted
speaker and became
known especially for his
1963 “I Have a Dream”
speech in which he made
e a moving
plea for peace and equality.
lity In 1964
he was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize for his activism.
In his last Sunday sermon, deliv-

ered the day before he died, he
encouraged his supporters to
continue fighting for fairness and
justice.
“We’ve got some difficult days
ahead but it really doesn’t matter

because He’s allowed me to go up
to the mountain,” King said.
“I’ve
I ve seen the Promised Land
Land,
I may not get there with you. But
I want you to know that we will get
to the Promised Land!”

2

Whatt iiss th
Wha
Wh
tthe
he cap
he
capital
capit
itall city
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city off
cit
Bulgaria?

3

Which public holiday
is celebrated on 27 April
in South Africa?

4

Justi
tin Trude
udeau
d au is
is the
h
prime minister of which
country?

5

Name the vitamin
found in citrus fruit
such as oranges.
ANSWERS
1 Australia
2 Sofia
3 Freedom Day
4 Canada
5 Vitamin C

Students recently
had loads of fun with
coloured powder
paint during the Holi
Festival in India. The
Hindu festival is held
at the start of spring
and is also called the
Festival of Colours or
the Festival of Lo.

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ere
will the
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sections from September 1875 until July 1884.
B The statue was then taken apart into 350
pieces. These pieces were shipped in 214
crates to New York Harbour, where it arrived on
17 June 1885.
B The Americans built the pedestal on which it
stands. This was completed in April 1886.
B Then they start assembling the individual
pieces on the pedestal.
B The Statue of Liberty was at last completed
and unveiled to the public on 28 October 1886.

B French construction workers built the statue in

CONSTRUCTION
Lady Liberty wears
flowing robes, the
kind women wore
in Ancient Rome
and Greece. The
robes indicate that
the statue is a
representation
of the Roman
goddess Libertas.
It also symbolises
Ancient Greece as
the birthplace of
democracy.

CLOTHING

HE Statue of Liberty is a phenomenal
structure that can be seen from far and
wide. The official name of the statue,
which is on Liberty Island in New York
Harbour, is Liberty Enlightening the
World, but it's been shortened to Lady
Liberty.
France donated the statue to
America to commemorate the two countries'
close alliance during the American Revolution and
America's independence from Britain in 1776. For
this reason it also symbolises the US' independence
– with "liberty" being another word for "freedom".

COMPILED BY JACQUES MYBURGH
I
: MICHAEL DE LUCCHI

This famous statue, also
called Lady Liberty, is
synonymous with New York,
and steeped in symbolism

WINDOWS

It's made of copper and is only 2,4mm thick –
about the same as two coins stacked on top
of each other.

OUTER SHELL

COLOUR

NOW

THEN

It's in the shape of a keystone,
which in architecture is a stone that
connects and holds together other
stones. Without it, everything would
collapse. This symbolises the fact
that the law and justice are the
cornerstones and highest authority
of any nation.

The crown (called a
diadem) has seven points
or rays which symbolise
the world's seven continents and oceans. The
message is that freedom
should be universal (for
everyone on Earth).
The 25 windows in the
diadem represent Earth's
gemstones.

CROWN

tue w
designed to lo as
ok like
Libertas, the
Roman
goddess of
freedom.

DID YOU
KNOW?
The sta

The statue, which is covered in copper,
used to be reddish brown, but over the
years it's been tarnished into a greenish
colour due to a chemical reaction between
the sea water vapour and the metal. Exposure to the elements also played a part.

Lady Liberty holds a tablet in her
left hand. The date 4 July 1776 is
inscribed on it in Roman numerals –
the day of America's Declaration
of Independence. The tablet is a
so-called tabula ansate (a tablet
with handles). It symbolises a book
of statutes (laws).

TABLET

This speaks to
the formal name:
Liberty Enlightening the World
and represents a
light on the path
to freedom.

TORCH

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY

93m
57m

LEANING
TOWER OF PISA

The statue faces southeast (away
from America, towards the ocean),
welcoming ships entering the harbour
from the Atlantic Ocean.

POSITION

Liberty's right foot is lifted,
like she's about to take a step.
This indicates progress or
movement into the future and
the concept that progress is a
continuous forward motion.

SANDALS

RIGHT FOOT

STATUE OF LIBERTY

324m

EIFFEL TOWER

HEIGHT

HUMAN 1,65M

The sandals
indicate that
Lady Liberty is
a free person.

SANDALS

PEDESTAL

225

The statue's
weight
(rounded off)
in tons.

The average number
of times a year she's
hit by lightning

600

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or 1
day, sev 0 hours a
en d
week fo ays a
r nine
years.

DID YOU
KNO
Thousan W?!
ds

354

The total number
of stairs from the
pedestal to her
crown

The size of the
shoe the statue
wears

879

S
INCREDIBLE NUMBER

The broken shackle and chain at Lady
Liberty's left foot symbolises America's
freedom from tyranny, as well as the
abolition of slavery in the United States
at the time.

BROKEN SHACKLE AND CHAIN

Inside the structure, a giant framework
and iron pillars and bars support the thin
outer shell. There's a double-spiral metal
staircase in the centre of the structure.

INTERNAL STRUCTURE

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Find 10 eggs in the garden
Help the chicks get to the rabbit

Count the eggs
Purple- 7, pink- 10, yellow- 11.

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As the super-rich
go to ever wilder
lengths to prolong
their lives, some
supercentenarians
weigh in and reveal
the secret to growing
(very) old gracefully
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O

LIVE oil, chocolate, the
occasional cigarette and
an after-dinner port:
these were said to be the
secrets that allowed
Frenchwoman Jeanne
Calment to live to the
ripe old age of 122,
claiming her place as the oldest human
in history.
She also swore by a “puff of powder” to
preserve her youthful looks.
When she died in 1997, she had lived
through 25 US presidents, six British
monarchs, survived both World Wars
and met the artist Vincent van Gogh.
One imagines that if Jeanne were still
alive today, she might raise a coiffed eye-

brow at the attempts of the super-rich to
catch up with her.
Discovering the elixir of life has become the latest preoccupation of Silicon
Valley billionaires who, in their desire to
live forever, are increasingly delving into
the realms of science fiction.
They’re pursuing so-called “biohacks”,
including stem-cell injections, cryogenic
freezing, even “young blood transfusions”, where plasma from teens and
early 20-somethings is pumped into the
bodies of older people.
One tech entrepreneur has paid a deposit to have his brain uploaded to a
computer (see box on page 87).
Many of the techniques are still in the
exploratory stages, and former Amazon

Frenchwoman
Jeanne Calment
lived to the ripe old
age of 122, making
her the oldest
human in history.

‘I’M TOO OLD AND
THERE ARE TIMES WHEN
I WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE.
I KEEP THINKING IT’S
TIME I WAS GONE’

CEO Jeff Bezos is reported to have
invested in Altos Labs, a Silicon Valley
company developing new “reprogramming technology” in order to extend life.
It was recently reported that pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline’s
superstar chief scientist had been
poached to run it.
Meanwhile, male supermodel Fabio
Lanzoni, known simply as “Fabio” in the
’90s when he adorned billboards across
the globe as a chiselled Adonis, has recently admitted that at the age of 62 he
has started sleeping in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, which apparently “reverses
the ageing process”.
Pop star Justin Bieber has two of them
– one in his studio and another at home.

At age 112 Ethel
Caterham is the
second oldest
living person in
Britain.

‘IT’S AGAINST NATURE.
THERE’S AN ORDER TO
THINGS AND WHEN YOUR
TIME IS UP, IT’S UP’

ANIEL Ives is one of the British pioneers in the field of
longevity. The 35-year-old
mitochondrial biologist established his business, Shift
Bioscience in 2017, focusing
on cell reprogramming.
o
He describes the science as a “black
box” waiting to be unlocked and is conb
ffident cellular reprogramming will
quickly spread from the super-rich to
q
public healthcare systems because of the
p
vvast savings it could lead to. But, he
points out, the pursuit of longer life also
p
rraises broader ethical questions.
As well as whether we actually want to
outlive all of our friends and family, how
o
much longevity, he questions, is morally
m
aacceptable? He cites the example of the
Galápagos Islands, where tourist numG
bers are restricted to preserve ecosystems.
As humans continue to rapidly expand their lifespans, over time will we
need to operate a similar policy of “one
in, one out”?
Ives also stresses that reaching an advanced age is nothing without good
physical and mental health.
“Can we maintain quality of life until
the very end?”
Ethel Caterham has a few words of advice for the tech bosses of Silicon Valley.
At 112 years old, she’s not only the oldest
person in Abbeywood care home in Surrey, England, but also the second oldest
living Briton and one of around a dozen
“supercentenarians” (those aged 110 and
above) in the UK.
“It’s against nature,” she says of the new
biohacking technology. “There’s an order
to things and when your time’s up, it’s
up.”
So, would she recommend being a
supercentenarian?
“I suppose if you could magically maintain your energy, good health and sense
of adventure then it seems a good idea,”
she concedes. “But not if you have to live
in an oxygen tent. Life is for living.”
Ethel herself remains in extraordinarily good health, besides her failing eyesight – she even shrugged off a bout of
Covid-19 early on in the pandemic – and
is nicknamed Queen Ethel by her carers
(she’s received seven birthday telegrams
from the real queen).
Settled in an armchair wearing a
bright-blue dress and sequined slippers,
she possesses a sparkling wit and razorsharp recall of a life that has spanned two
World Wars and two pandemics.
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But she also feels
that long life isn’t all it’s
cracked up to be. Occasionally she wishes her
time was already up.
“I’m too old and there
are times when I want
to be left alone,” she
says. “I keep thinking
it’s time I was gone.”
She’s outlived her
husband, Norman, who
died in his mid-60s, and
both of her daughters.
The first, Gem, died
nearly 20 years ago,
while her other daughter, Ann, died of cancer
at the age of 82 in February 2020.
Ethel had lived independently in an annex
of Ann’s house but was
forced to move into the
care home following
her death.
After Norman died, she inherited his
beloved Triumph Dolomite (off-white
with a walnut dashboard) and was still
driving up to the age of 97 – indeed she
had something of a fresh lease of life.
Even today she remains stoical but admits that being the last of a generation is
a lonely place.
“It’s a young person’s world and when
you become that old you lose touch with
what’s going on and the issues that are
affecting the majority of people,” she
says.

D

ESPITE a recent dip during
the pandemic, lifespans are
steadily increasing around
the world, including South
Africa. By 2100, it’s likely that
at least one person will live to
between the ages of 125 and 132, according to new research from the University
of Washington.
Scientists in Montreal, meanwhile,
suggest we could live to 180 by then.
Within our own lifetimes we may start to
see the effect on future generations as a
quarter of all newborn girls in 2043 in
Britain and a fifth of all newborn boys
are expected to live to at least 100.
Meanwhile with the elderly people
making up about 8% of the population
South Africa has the highest proportion
of elderly people in Africa. In 2011 there
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kept her brain active
and had a wide network of friends.
She used to enjoy the
occasional glass of
merlot or sherry, and
smoked socially early
on in her marriage, but
she never drank to excess and these days is
teetotal. “I’ve indulged
in everything, in moderation.”
Genetics only comprise around 25% of the
factors that determine
longevity, and research
has found that reducJohn Tinniswood is
ing kilojoule intake
the oldest man in
may play a part.
Britain. Despite
being 109, he still
Studies of grey mouse
enjoys going on
lemurs, a primate wideoccasional hikes.
ly used for models of
human ageing, have
shown that reducing
kilojoules by a third can extend their
lifespans by 50%. But above all, advances
in science and healthcare are at play.
Newcastle University Emeritus professor Tom Kirkwood (70), who’s researched the field of ageing and health
for nearly 50 years; published a groundbreaking paper in the ’70s that helped
redefine the idea of how we age.
Scientists had previously assumed
SA and it’s predicted that by 2030 this there was a ceiling on the human lifespan
number will have rocketed to over 15 but Kirkwood’s “disposable soma theory”
million, according to a forecast by the argued instead that our bodies aren’t
United Nations Department of Econom- programmed for death but survival, and
it’s the accumulation of cellular damage
ic and Social Affairs.
In developed countries this number in them that ages us.
As the conditions of modern life mean
will likely be even higher. Around 40
supercentenarians are believed to be we’re exposed to far less that can cause
the damage, our lifespans will continue
alive in Europe.
In Japan, the country with the most – to increase. He points to public health inand home to the world’s oldest living terventions (like improved sanitation),
person, 119-year-old Kane Tanaka – the immunisations, improved nutrition and
number grew from 22 to 146 between medical advances, which all account for
2005 and 2015 and only looks set to in- prolonged health.
The majority of Britain’s supercentecrease – partly due to the eradication of
certain diseases and advances in health- narians reside in wealthier parts of the
care, but also due to the ever more ex- country. Globally, they are concentrated
treme measures that people are going to in affluent countries.
The billionaire enclave of Monaco
in order to prolong their years.
There’s nothing in her family history to boasts an average lifespan of 89,5 which
have suggested Ethel would live so long. is considerably higher than South Afri“I’ve been fortunate,” she admits. “I’ve ca’s average life expectancy which stands
at 64,6 years.
always been slim.”
Even without biohacking technology,
Ethel kept fit by doing yoga (which she
took up at 50), often walked her dogs and the super-rich are already outliving the
tended her garden, played bridge which rest of us.

‘DEATH? I DON’T WORRY
ABOUT DEATH AND IT
DOESN’T SCARE ME. AT MY
AGE YOU DON’T WORRY
ABOUT ANYTHING REALLY’

FIVE WAYS THE SUPER-RICH PURSUE LONGEVITY
STEM-CELL INJECTIONS
Silicon Valley author and entre­
preneur Dave Asprey (49), who
launched Bulletproof Coffee which
is enriched with coconut oil and
butter, has reportedly spent
$2 million (R30m) “hacking his own
biology” in his quest to live to the
age of 180. Some of the treat­
ments he’s undergone include in­
jecting stem cells (apparently to
switch off inflammation and there­
fore ageing) into all parts of his
body, including his penis. He also
likes to bathe in an infrared light
and takes a barrage of supple­
ments every day.

YOUNG BLOOD
Parabiosis, which involves having
plasma transfusions from a young­
er person, was first experimented
with in the 1950s. It was criticised
in 2019 for lack of clinical benefit
but start­ups have recently rein­
vestigated the idea. PayPal’s Peter
Thiel (54) is said to be among
those interested, though whether
he has tried it is unconfirmed.
THE BIG FREEZE
Socialite Paris Hilton (41) is
rumoured to have signed up for
cryonics – along with her beloved
dogs.The process involves

deep­freezing the body in the hope
that future scientific advances will
allow her to be brought back to life.

THE BRAIN DRAIN
Tech entrepreneur Sam Altman
put down a $10 000 (R150 000)
deposit in a bid to have his brain
uploaded to a computer. Nectome,
a start­up based in San Francisco,
hopes to eventually offer a way of
preserving memories using a pro­
cess called aldehyde­stabilised
cryopreservation.

O2 HAVE A BLAST
When Justin Bieber (28) posted a
picture of himself in a hyperbaric
oxygen chamber, fans were baf­
fled. Each tube­like chamber is
pumped with pure oxygen, causing
the levels in the blood­
stream to increase.
The treatment is said
Paris Hilton reportedly plans
to help heal burns,
to have her
relieve infections and
body frozen
anxiety, and even
after death.
boost longevity.

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Justin Bieber in his
hyperbaric oxygen
chamber.

B

RI TAI N ’ S ol d est man ,
109-year-old John Tinniswood, has never had all that
much to his name.
Nevertheless life at the care
home in Southport, England,
where he has lived for the past decade, is
comfortable.
A retired accountant, he reads the
newspaper each morning while eating
his toast and marmalade, listens to the
radio and speaks with his daughter,
Susan, once a day.
He remains strict about his diet, indulging only in the occasional slice of
cake at 3pm and fish and chips every
Friday. Never a big drinker, he has long
avoided alcohol.
“I don’t overeat,” he says, refusing the
biscuit I offer him. He always enjoyed
walking – he and his wife, Blodwen, regularly took walking holidays on the
North Wales coast. Peering out of the
window of the care home living room, he
tells me he can still hike a good few kilometres.
Like Ethel, his greatest sadness is not
being able to share his final years with
his spouse. Blodwen, whom he married
during World War 2, died of lung cancer
after 44 years of marriage.

Following her death he was crushed
and for eight months “lived like a hermit”.
“But her last instruction to me was to
carry on as normal,” he says. “I don’t get
too emotional about her death. She
wouldn’t want me to be.”
So what are his secrets for a long life?
Limiting his kilojoule intake is, he
believes, one of them, together with
remaining temperate in his thoughts.
“At my age you don’t worry about anything really,” he insists.
Climate change?
“Not in the least because there’s nothing you can do about it.”
Death?
“I don’t worry about death and it
doesn’t scare me.”
“It’s generally true to say there’s a social
gradient in healthy life expectancy,” says
Professor Kirkwood. “To become a supercentenarian you’ll most likely not
have suffered extreme deprivation.”
But he points out that wealth is not the
only factor. The Italian town of Acciaroli,
south of Naples, has nearly 300 people
who are over 100 years old, while the village of Ogimi on the Japanese island of
Okinawa has 15 centenarians among its
3 000 population and 171 people in their

nineties.
Clearly social connections do play a
part in longevity. In Japan, for example,
the responsibility for caring for people
falls squarely on the family.
“Not to properly look after elderly relatives would be seen as a source of great
shame,” Kirkwood says.
Ethel warns the super-rich that for all
their luxury homes and many millions
stashed away, in the end, family is the
most important thing. And the older you
get, the less possessions mean.
These days she keeps herself occupied
in the care home garden, where she
enjoys listening to the birds, and last
summer watched a pair of budgies in an
aviary rear six chicks.
Mealtimes are a highlight – her favourite is poached fish and parsley sauce and
she indulges in the occasional chocolate
éclair. For her 112th birthday in August
her family took her out to tea at a hotel.
“Family is the most important thing in
life. To be able to leave memories with
your children and grandchildren,” she
says.
Possessions don’t matter a bit, in the
end. All you need is someone to look
after you
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ROUND THE
WORLD IN
22 YEARS
The Zapp family have
come to the end of an epic
global journey and they’re
already planning their next
adventure COMPILED BY ROBYN LUCAS

A

S JOURNEYS go, it’s been
epic: 22 years,
362 000km, six continents, 102 countries,
countless exotic meals –
and the birth of four children along the way.
More than two decades after the Zapp family set off on their
big adventure they’ve come full circle,
completing their voyage in their beloved
old car at the Obelisk, a monument
in their hometown of Buenos Aires in
Argentina.
It was a bittersweet moment for
Herman (53), Candelaria (51) and their
kids, Pampa (19), Tehue (16), Paloma
(14) and Wallaby (12).
“I have mixed feelings,” Herman says.
“We’re ending a dream or fulfilling a
dream. What will come now?”
The couple set off from Argentina’s
capital in January 2000 in their 94-yearold Graham-Paige, an American-made
brand of classic car, and have a trove of
memories to treasure.
“People are wonderful. Humanity is incredible,” Candelaria says. “You always
hear about the bad things going on but
there are so many people doing good
things for the world.”
Now their trip is over, their friends and
family are concerned about how they’ll
settle into their new life – but the Zapp
clan aren’t concerned thanks to a little
saying they learnt in South Africa in
2013.
“People say, ‘How are you going
to adapt? How are you going to live a
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The travelling Zapps (from left),
Candelaria, Tehue, Pampa, Paloma,
Wallaby and Herman, are finally back
home in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

normal life?’” Herman says.
“But if we worry about tomorrow, how
are we going to be happy today? I love
what they say in South Africa: ’n Boer
maak ’n plan – whatever happens, we’ll
make a plan.”

B

EFORE their travels, Herman
worked as a computer-network technician while Candelaria was a personal assistant.
The couple, who were married for six years before they hit
the road, had built themselves a home
and were planning to start a family.
“We were happy. We had everything a
young couple could want,” Herman says.
But the travel bug had bitten hard after
a backpacking trip to Alaska and when
Herman’s grandfather offered them the
Graham-Paige he used on his farm, the
seeds were sown for a round-the-world
adventure.
Herman discussed the idea with his
granddad, who gave him some advice

‘WHAT BETTER
WAY IS THERE FOR
MY CHILDREN TO
BE EDUCATED
THAN TO SEE
THE WORLD?’
about taking the car across conti
nents.
“He told me, ‘If you want to ge
far, you need to go slowly’, so wha
could be better than a vintag
car?” Herman says.
“The seats aren’t great, nor is th
muffler [a silencer that reduces th
noise from the exhaust]. It does
have air conditioning either. It’s
car you have to keep your eye o .
doesn’t look comfortable but it was marvellous,” Herman says, adding that it
drove well on sand and mud.
However, Candelaria wasn’t too keen
at first on embarking on a long trip in the
old car. “It wouldn’t even start,” she says.
Herman fixed it only to have it break
down after the first 55km of the journey.
But by then Candelaria was on board
and determined to make it work – and
Herman somehow always managed to
get the old girl back on the road.
“People think I’m a mechanic, but I
don’t know much about cars,” Herman

ith their epic jourey finally at an end,
e kids are looking
rward to making
iends, but Herman
already dreaming
f a sailing trip
ound the globe.

The family travelled in a vintage
Graham-Paige car given to Herma
by his grandfather.

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e family won’t
admit to having had any bad
experiences, they have had
challenges along the way.
Herman once contracted
malaria, the family drove
across Asia during the chronic bird flu
outbreak in 2014 and journeyed through
Africa during an Ebola outbreak.
They’ve also eaten many delicacies,
Herman says. “In South Korea, an octopus was dipped in a boiling pot of soup,
cut into pieces and offered to us.
“In South Africa, I ate blue ants. I
avoided red ones because of their stinging bite.”
The family met many people along the
way, striking up amazing friendships.
Families intrigued by the Zapps’ adventures opened their homes to them.
Herman says they spent almost 90% of
their time in strangers’ homes – around
2 000 of them – which they say was the
best part of their trip. On one occasion,
they stayed with a family in the Philippines who had only one room.
“They gave us their only piece of meat
and their only bed and when we left they
apologised for not having more,” Herman
says.
The family funded their travels using
their savings and the proceeds of two
books on their journey, Spark Your
Dream and Catching a Dream.
Now the long journey has come to an
end, the kids are excited to start their
new lives, having in-person classes and
making pals.
“What I most want to do is make a lot
of friends,” Paloma says.
But they’d better not get too settled because it seems Herman is already planning the next adventure: a sailing trip.
“People have trouble putting us in a
box,” Candelaria says.
“But we like that. We don’t belong to
any organisation or have any sponsors.
We’re just following our dream and our
dream is to explore.”
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co esse o
as o
e
o e
family when they were in SA (YOU,
21 March 2013).
“We’d pick up a stick on the side of the
road, stick it in the tank and look,” Candelaria jokes now.
The family travelled around 20 000km
a year and the car did amazingly, going
through only eight sets of tyres and suffering just two major mechanical setbacks over the 362 000km she covered.
The car, which has the words, “A family traveling around the world” printed on
its side, had a canvas on top that formed
a tent for the kids to sleep under when it

The boot acted as a
storage area, while the
heat of the engine was
cleverly used to cook or
heat food. Clothes and
tools were stored under
the seats.
“It was a small house
but with a huge backyard, with beaches,
mountains and lakes. If
A canvas on top
you didn’t like the view,
served as a tent
you could change it,”
for the kids to
Herman says.
l
The couple welcomed
ach of their children in
different country.
ampa was born in
merica, Tehue in Arentina, Paloma in
anada and Wallaby,
rue to his name, in
ustralia.
“Children are a blessng,” Candelaria says.
Children adapt. Whatver the situation, they
The Zapps added
ave to make do withtwo more family
ut the television and
members in Brazil:
PlayStation.”
a cat called Hakuna
and a dog named
The children were
Timon.
ome-schooled by
andelaria while they
soa e
e s ghts and sounds of the
globe.
“What better way is there for my children to be educated than to see the
world?” Herman says. “They’ve seen the
space shuttle take off and have learnt different words in different languages and
experienced so many different cultures.”
Along the way the Zapps added two
more family members: a dog named
Timon and a cat called Hakuna, both
acquired in Brazil.
They’ve visited North and South America, Africa, Oceania, Asia and Europe. In
2013, when they were in South Africa,

ey made stops
t the Kruger
ational Park,
he Drakense rg a n d S t
ucia.

A girl named
Katya and her
dogs made it
to Poland.

A

HANDFUL of volunteers play with a motley
group of dogs in an
overcrowded animal
sanctuary. A few foxes
huddle together in an
aviary while a lone wolf
prowls in a nearby en-

closure.
At the Home for Rescued Animals in
the city of Lviv in Ukraine, exotic creatures are now given shelter alongside
everyday pets of those who have fled
their homes since the Russian invasion
began in February.
Cats, goats and even a pet rat jostle
for attention from the volunteers, who
are doing everything they can to keep
the animals alive while missiles rain
down on their city.
By the time of going to print, at least
977 civilians, including 81 children, had
been killed. The war has also had a
devastating impact on animals.
The UN estimates more than 3,7 million Ukrainians have fled the country
since the Russian forces started their
attack. More than 2 million of those
crossed the border into Poland, ferrying
dogs, cats, parrots and even turtles.
Yet some pets have been left stranded
in the refugees’ rush to safety.
Italian citizen Andrea Cisternino has
been a firsthand witness to the destruction wrought by the war.
Andrea is a fashion photographerturned-animal shelter owner who’s
rescued all kinds of animals – from cats
and dogs to sheep and goats – in Kyiv
for the past 20 years.
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Adding to the human tragedy unfoldingg
in Ukraine is the plight of pets, livestock
horses and exotic creatures
BY PIETER
R VAN ZYL

ing and see helicopters circling overhead, he refuses to abandon the 400
animals in his care in Kyiv.
“I’ll die here for my animals. They deserve to be protected at all costs,” he says.
As refugees continue to pour out of
Ukraine, makeshift animal shelters
have popped up all around the country.
Volunteers are trying to comfort terrified
pets left behind by owners who had no
other choice.
The animals are in dire need of medical care, food and attention, says Sonja
Mortensen-Dissing, a volunteer from
Denmark.
“Many owners have left letters with
their dogs expressing hope to one day
reunite with their pets,” she says.

S

EVERAL organisations from
around the world are supporting shelters for pets abandoned in war-torn Ukraine.
But the situation is bleak,
says Livia Popów, founder of
animal rights group Fundacja Animal
Rescue Poland (Farp).
The crisis is aggravated by red tape
as authorities require documentation
such as vaccination certificates before

the animals can be taken to safety.
“Horses are stuck at the border because they don’t have paperwork. Even
prized racehorses and breeding mares
can’t be saved,” Livia tells YOU, speaking
to us via WhatsApp from the border
post at Przemysl. “Only 27 horses have
been let through so far.”
Former Capetonian Pia Cornelius,
who now lives in Sweden, works closely
with Farp to help care for Ukraine’s
animals. Pia raises funds for Farp and
makes sure the much-needed money
reaches the organisation, which secretly
moves between the two countries to
rescue animals.
“I had a Ukrainian family and their
dog living with me for four months in
quarantine,” Pia tells YOU in WhatsApp
voice notes. She’s fiercely protective of
them. “They’re too scared to tell their story. She worked in TV and he was a journalist. Russia’s reach is wide, they say.”
Farp collaborates with a range of
volunteers, including emergency personnel, firefighters, coast guards, government consultants and vets, who put
their lives on the line every time they
venture out to rescue animals.
Donations are crucial for their work,

Filippa Hertzberg, of the
Fundacja
Animal Rescue
Poland, transports supplies
for pets displaced by the
war.

A tearful
woman and a
cat at a triage
point in Kyiv.

Terrified pets and
their desperate
owners cross the
Irpin River near
Hostomel, northwest of Kyiv.

A wheelchairbound woman
and her 12
dogs in Kyiv.

says Farp’s Filippa Hertzberg. “Yesterday
I bought bulletproof vests for friends
– it cost me about R25 000. At this rate,
I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to complete my veterinary studies,” she tells
YOU.
“A colleague and I were in Korczowa
[in Poland] at 5am this morning to
transport supplies for the animals. We
heard missile attacks about 20km from
the border.
“When we arrived in Przemysl in
southern Poland, we saw troops on their
way to base. Later, on their way back,
the Russian army loaded air missiles for
shooting.
“Along the way we also spoke to a
Ukrainian man who told us the locals
in small towns are caring for pets that
have been released in the wild. It’s heartbreaking,” she continues.
“People who have so little are willing
to give.”

S

OUTH Africans have been
caught up in the chaos too.
Kobus Olivier, a former SA
cricketer, has been teaching
English and yoga in Ukraine
in recent years. He’s also the

devoted owner of dogs Ollie, Jessie,
Kaya and Tickey, who lived with him in
his apartment in Kyiv.
When the Russian bombing intensified, Kobus knew he had to leave the
country he’d grown to love, but he refused to go until he could get the dogs
out too.
He put his four rescues in the boot of
his car and fled Kyiv.
The South African, with his hounds,
sought refuge in Poland, but just when
he thought he was safe he had the rug
pulled from under his feet.
Kobus, who’s been sharing his story
on social media, was ordered to leave the
country within five days. Not being a
Ukrainian citizen, he didn’t qualify for
refugee status in Poland.
“This means I’d be deemed an illegal
immigrant and locked up before being
deported. The dogs would be taken from
me and put in a shelter,” he says.
His only hope was to get to Croatia
and apply for a Polish visa to enable him
and the dogs to stay in the country.
Kobus and his animals took to the
road again for a gruelling 11-hour drive
through Slovakia and Hungary to the
Croatian border.

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“Hopefully we can start a new life in
Zagreb,” he says. He is now safe in Croatia and waiting to hear if his visa has
been approved.
Meanwhile in SA, the National Council
of SPCAs (NSPCA) has donated R30 000
towards efforts to help Ukrainian animal shelters.
The organisation is also liaising with
colleagues overseas to establish routes
for donations that would benefit as
many Ukrainian animal welfare shelters
on the ground as possible.
NSPCA public relations officer Keshvi
Nair says the media has been inundated
with touching images of uprooted
Ukrainians who, instead of clutching
bags filled with precious possessions,
are clinging to their four-legged companions.
“Sadly, the nature of war means it’s not
always possible to save all the animals,
and many would’ve been left behind and
lost because of the war,” she says.
“We commend our brave colleagues
working at animal welfare shelters in
Ukraine, who have decided to stay behind and care for the animals living at
their shelters,” she says. “These animals
have nowhere to go.”
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RIGHT: Italian
Andrea Cisternino is stuck
in Kyiv with
his animals.
BELOW: South
African Kobus
Olivier fled the
Ukraine with
his four dogs.

IT WAS
FATE
New dad Ryan
discovered he was
pregnant while
undergoing his male
transition. Now he’s
hoping to have a
sibling for his son
COMPILED BY NICI DE WET

MERCURY PRESS & MEDIA LTD./MAGAZINEFEATURES.CO.ZA

H

IS social-media feed
is filled with photos
of his son, a cute little
boy with blond locks
and blue eyes, and
in the pictures Ryan
Sanderson is clearly
a doting dad.
Transman Ryan
He calls himself a seahorse dad,
Sanderson says
a reference to the male fish who cardiscovering he
was pregnant
ries and births its young – and it’s a
came as a shock.
fitting description because Ryan
gave birth to little Hendrick, an expeand immediately stopped his hormone
rience he describes as life-changing.
The 24-year-old dad from Greater treatments to protect his growing baby.
“When I found out I was pregnant,
Manchester in England, who was assigned female at birth, discovered nine Hendrick truly became my everything.”
weeks into his male transition that he Though his doctor was slightly worried
was pregnant. “I found out during a about complications, Ryan was lucky
doctor’s visit after being on testosterone enough to enjoy an easy pregnancy and
a straightforward birth.
for over two months,” Ryan says.
“Thankfully I had a wonderful team of
At first he couldn’t understand how
he could be expecting – he’d been taking midwives who would address me with
hormone treatment, which works to the appropriate pronouns and if they
enhance male features such as increased made mistakes they would always
body hair, muscle tone and a deeper voice. apologise,” he says.
Ryan nursed his son for several months
The hormone treatment typically
blocks ovulation too. Ryan also believed after his birth but last year he opted to
his then-partner was infertile, which fur- have surgery to remove his breasts. Howther fuelled his belief he couldn’t become ever, he’s putting off any more transition
pregnant. After the initial shock wore off, surgery in case he wants to have a sibling
he was determined to become a parent for Hendrick (now 2) one day.

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“I’d love to have a bigger family in
he future,” he says.

F

OR as long as he can remember, Ryan knew the
way he looked on the outside didn’t match the way
he felt on the inside.
Though he couldn’t put a
ame to it growing up, he experinced gender dysphoria throughout
is childhood – the feeling of discomort or distress that occurs in people
whose gender identity differs from the
gender they were assigned at birth.
Ryan felt trapped inside his body.
“I knew that I was a man from the
age of seven,” he says. “I’d struggled for so
long to become my true self, I even had
to go to a private GP to get testosterone.”
Seeing a private GP as opposed to a
doctor in a state-run clinic or hospital
afforded him more privacy and sensitivity, he says.
Soon afterwards, at the age of 19,
Ryan came out to his friends and it felt
like a huge weight had been lifted off
his shoulders.
“Since coming out I’ve felt this freedom
that I never felt as a girl,” he says. “I do
things for me instead of what society
deems certain genders should do.”

‘I’M FINALLY THE PERSON
I WANT TO BE – AND
I’VE GOT A MINI-ME’

Now living as a man,
Ryan came out to his
friends at the age of 19.

LEFT: Ryan and his toddler son, Hendrick.
ABOVE: Ryan, from Greater Manchester in
the UK, was born a female but from the age
of seven felt he was meant to be a man.

Last year Ryan opted to have his breasts removed,
after nursing his son for several months. He has
stopped transition surgery in case he wants to give
Hendrick siblings.

gender dad isn’t as uncommon as people
may think.
“More transmen need to understand
that they can get pregnant.”

R

YAN has found lots of support
in his community, but he acknowledges there is still a lot
of progress to be made as discrimination and prejudice remain rife. This is why he’s
joined Freddy McConnell in the fight
for transgender people to be legally
recognised on their children’s birth
certificates in England.
Freddy welcomed a son through IVF
in early 2018 and his journey as a transman who gave birth was documented in
Seahorse, a documentary made in 2019.

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With his family’s support, Ryan sought
help to transition into the man he always wanted to be. Before he could start
the process, he met with a psychologist
specialising in gender issues, who then
referred him to a hormone specialist for
testosterone therapy.
The final step in his journey would be
gender-reassignment surgery.
But it wasn’t quite as simple as that.
Nine weeks into his hormone therapy he
found out he was 10 weeks pregnant.
“I never thought I could get pregnant
while on testosterone,” he says. “My expartner was also under the impression
that he was infertile, but that wasn’t
the case.”
Once he realised he was expecting, he
worried about what stopping his hormone therapy may do to his body dysmorphia, but his resolve to be a parent
didn’t falter.
“I knew instantly that I wanted to have
the baby,” Ryan says. “I believed it to be
fate. I’ve never been a devout follower
of religion, but I felt like it was a sign to
have a child before I was in too deep with
testosterone treatments.”
He believes being transgender
shouldn’t be a determining factor in
whether you should be a parent and
Ryan says he’s proof that being a trans-

When he went to register the birth, the
registrar refused to register him as the
boy’s father, though he could be registered as “mother” in his male name.
Freddy, who became pregnant again
last year, has been embroiled in a fouryear legal battle to have his rights as a
father recognised. Since giving birth,
Ryan has bonded with Freddy and his
kids over their shared experience.
Meeting other seahorse dads felt like
coming home, he says. “Those moments
where we are surrounded by such kind
souls with our children playfully screaming at each other and generally being
insanely happy are special and healing.”
Ryan is a drama student who hopes to
make it big as an actor one day. He and
his partner broke up after Ryan discovered his pregnancy and raising a
child on your own while juggling studies
can be tough, he admits.
However, he can lean on friends and
family, especially his mom, Janette. He
describes his 57-year-old mother as a
superhero co-parent.
“My mum has been super supportive
the entire way through,” he says. “Without her I’d be lost. She does so much for
both Hendrick and me. She’s read all
the books and understands the way I’d
like him to be bought up.”
His parenthood journey may be unconventional but being a dad just feels
right. “I’ve had so many people stop me
when I’ve been out and about with him
who comment on me being a good dad,”
he says. “It feels incredible.”
Parenting has been a journey that’s
brought so much joy and contentment,
he adds. “I’m finally the person I want
to be – and I’ve got a mini-me to share
that journey with.”

Hendrick is his
father’s Mini-Me.
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HE chased Grand Slam
titles and won them one
after another, darting
around the court and annihilating opponents with
her signature backhand
slice.
Ashleigh Barty was on
top of her game and on top of the world,
the first indigenous Australian to reach
No 1 in the Women’s Tennis Association
(WTA) rankings.
After her historic win in the Australian
Open in January, she was a favourite to
hold the Wimbledon trophy aloft for the
second year in a row.
Which is why it came as such a shock
when she recently announced she was
retiring from tennis at the age of just 25.
It was a decision she’d been mulling
over since winning Wimbledon last year,
Barty says. Her happiness no longer
depended on her performance.
“I just know I’m absolutely spent and
physically I have nothing more to give
and that, for me, is success. I’ve given absolutely everything I can to this beautiful
sport,” she says.
Craig Tyzzer, Barty’s coach since 2016,
says her announcement was unsurprising to him as she’d been ready to hang
up her racket after winning the French
Open three years ago.
“I think it’s the right time now and I
know she’s made the right decision for
her,” he says. In an emotional interview
with commentator Casey Dellacqua (37),
her friend and former doubles partner,
Barty says the time had come for her to
“chase other dreams”.
“I’m so happy and I’m so ready. I just
know in my heart for me as a person,
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ABOVE LEFT:
How newspapers reported
tennis champ
Ashleigh Barty’s retirement.
RIGHT: With
the Australian
Open women’s
trophy.

PROUD &
FULFILLED
Aussie tennis ace Ashleigh Barty has retired at
just 25 – but she has no regrets and says she’s
ready to chase other dreams COMPILED BY NASIFA SULAIMAN
this is right.
“I had that gut feeling after Wimbledon
last year and I’d spoken to my team
quite a lot about retiring, but there was
just a little part of me that wasn’t quite
fulfilled,” she says. And when she won
the Australian Open, she knew she could
bow out in peace.

T

HIS isn’t the first time Barty
has stepped away from tennis
but she insists it will be the
last. The Queensland-born
sportswoman had a promising
junior tennis career and was

ranked the No 2 junior player in the
world after winning the 2011 Wimbledon girls’ singles title.
By 2013, Barty – by then playing in the
open division – and Dellacqua were enjoying tremendous success, reaching the
Wimbledon, Australian Open and US
Open doubles finals. But one year later,
Barty, who was then 18 and ranked outside the top 200 singles players and top
40 in doubles, announced she was taking
an indefinite break from the sport.
“It was too much, too quickly for me,”
she said at the time. “I’ve been travelling
from quite a young age and I want to

experience life as a normal teenage girl
and have some normal experiences.”
She took up cricket and signed with
26
Brisbane Heat for the inaugural Women’s
Big Bash League season. Without any
Number of top 10 players
formal cricket training she played 10
she’s defeated since her
return to tennis in 2019.
matches for the team, which she described as a truly amazing time in her
56
life.
But she also realised her heart beNumber of matches
longed to tennis and in 2016 she was
she won in 2017.
back on the court.
She won her first WTA title at the Ma11
laysian Open in 2017 and rose to No 17,
an amazing accomplishment as she’d
Number of matches she won
back-to-back before announcing
never ranked in the Top 100 before takher retirement.
ing her break.
Victory after victory followed and in
$24 MILLION
2021 she beat Czech player Karolína
(R360M)
Plíšková (30) to win Wimbledon.
“Being able to live out my dream, it’s
Her career p
prize money.
better than I ever could’ve imagined,”
she said.
By the time Barty announced her retirement,
she’d been the top-ranked
WTP player for 114 weeks,
a feat that will almost certainly cement her place in
the International Tennis
Hall of Fame.
Her character is the biggest reason for her success,
Tyzzer says.
“A lot of people talk about
her talent and her tennis, but
Ashleigh announced her
retirement in Brisbane
talent only gets you so far. It’s
with coach Craig Tyzzer
really her character that’s
by her side.
taken her to where she is.”

B

ARTY won many fans over the
course of her 11-year career,
including her peers and tennis
officials who lavished her with
praise after she announced
she was quitting.
“There’s no doubt she’s one of the great
champions,” says Steven Simon, chairman of the WTA.
“Ashleigh Barty, with her signature
slice backhand, complemented by being
the ultimate competitor, has always
led by example through the unwavering
professionalism and sportsmanship
she brought to every match.”
Czech player Petra Kvitová (32) says
she was happy to have shared a court
with Barty. “Tennis will never be the
same without you,” she tweeted.
Australian prime minister Scott
Morrison joined the chorus of praise. “I
want to say thank you, Ash, for inspiring

In action during the
Australian Open
final in which she
beat American
Danielle Collins.

‘I JUST KNOW IN MY HEART
FOR ME AS A PERSON,
THIS IS RIGHT’

She’’s done exactly that for me as well,”
he says. Barty has indigenous roots
th ough dad Robert’s side of the family.
th
thro
“I’’m a proud indigenous woman. I love
to ceelebrate my heritage,” she says.
Baarty has left her mark on and off the
courrt and is looking forward to life after
tenn
nis, even if she’s not yet ready to share
t exactlyy that will be.
She does kno
ow she’ll never put
down her racket
r
although she
won’t bee competing professionaally.
“I can’t wait to get out
theere with young girls
an
nd boys and conttribute in different
a nation.”
w
ways.”
The tennis
For now, she’s
champ says
llooking forward to
her successes
spending time with
were possiblee
heer family and her fionly because of
o
ancé, golf player Garry
the unwaverin
ng
With fiancé Garry
Kisssick (30), and enjoysupport she had
h
Kissick, whom
ing li fe away from the
along the way.
she’s been dating
since
2016.
spotlightt and the pressure.
She also paid
d tribute
“I know tthat Ash Barty the
to the women who
w came beants to
fore her, especially
i ll Evonne
E
Goolagong
G l
Cawley – the first indigenous Australian chase that don’t necessarily involve travto achieve success in tennis on the world elling, being away from my family, from
stage, with 92 pro tournament victories my home, which is where I’ve always
in the ’70s. Barty paid tribute to Cawley wanted to be,” she says. “I leave tennis
(70) at Wimbledon last year by wearing feeling proud and fulfilled. For me, that’s
a white dress inspired by her hero’s 1971 my success.
“Thank you to everyone who’s supportWimbledon outfit.
“Evonne has been iconic in paving a ed me along the way. I’ll always be grateway for young indigenous youth to believe ful for the lifelong memories we created
in their dreams and to chase their dreams. together.”
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ASHLEIGH BARTY
BY NUMBERS

HERE’S WHAT’S BEEN GOING ON . . .
HHOW
OW IITT AALL
LL STARTED
STARTED

Ye, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in
2012, strenuously objected to all Kim’s requests
for a divorce since she filed in February last year.
“I’m not giving up on my family,” the rapper
ranted in capital letters on Instagram and even
begged her to “run right back” to him during a
concert in December.
Although they initially appeared to amicably
co-parent their four children, North (8), Saint (6),
Chicago (4) and Psalm (2), things turned sour
when rumours of a romance between Kim and
Pete surfaced. They shared a kiss during a Saturday Night Live sketch in October 2021 and their
relationship has since gathered steam.

Rapper Ye has
been called out for
his controlling and
bullying behaviour
towards his ex,
Kim Kardashian.

T

HEIR divorce has dominated headlines since the
world first got wind of it.
Initially fans of Ye, formerly known as Kanye West,
and Kim Kardashian
clung to the idea that
maybe, just maybe, there
was hope for the pair.
But relations between the estranged
exes have become increasingly toxic –
and experts are saying his behaviour is
nothing short of abusive towards his ex.
Ye has spent the past few months harassing Kim and her new boyfriend, Pete
Davidson, in a series of now-deleted outbursts on social media.
He’s been criticised by several highprofile personalities, including South
African Trevor Noah, host of The Daily
Show. “You may not feel sorry for Kim
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propriates
black culture,
because she
tells women
they’re lazy . . .
whatever, you
hate her,” Trevor said during
a monologue
on the show.
“But what she’s
going through
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is terrifying to
watch and it
shines a spotlight on what so many women go through
when they choose to leave.”
Ye hit back on Instagram, rewriting
the lyrics of a folk song to include a racial
slur that was directed at Trevor.
As a result he was barred from performing at this year’s Grammy Awards,
which Trevor hosted.

Ye’s public
harassment
of his ex,
Kim K, is
getting
serious
Trevor isn’t the only one
who’s caalled Ye out on his
behaviour.
“It’s not endearing or
a sign off their undying
love – it’s controlling,
abusivee and not acceptablee,” says thera-

The rapper was then linked to a slew of
gorgeous women including models Irina
Shayk, Vinetria and Yasmine Lopez.
Following his very public whirlwind
ro
omance with actress Julia Fox (32) earlier
th
his year, he was spotted cosying up to yet
another model, Chaney Jones, in Malibu.
The curvaceous 24-year-old shares a
sttriking resemblance to Kim.

BEING
ING A BBULLY
ULLY

Ye has been trying to woo Kim
through increasingly belligerent
public gestures and statements.
On Valentine’s Day this year, he
sent a truckload of roses to Kim’s
Calabasas home. It’s not romantic,
experts say – it’s a classic example
of “love-bombing”, a type of controlling behaviour designed to

make its subject feel pressure to
respond.
Ye then aired his private
conversations with Kim online.
His sporadic rants, in now deleted
Instagram posts, ranged from
begging Kim to take him back,
to criticising her parenting for
allowing North to have a TikTok

account.
“All I’m saying about this story
is, if Kim Kardashian cannot escape
this, then what chance do normal
women have?” Trevor said on The
Daily Show.
Ye even resorted to menacing
death threats against Pete, who he
calls “Skete”.
In the music video for his song
Eazy, West depicts himself decapitating a claymation or model of
Pete and burying his head.
He’s also encouraged his fans
to scream “Kimye Forever” at Pete
if they see him in public and has
called the comedian “trash”,
“garbage” and “a d**khead”.

CANCEL OR COUNSEL?
WHAT ABOUT
THEIR KIDS?
Kim has remained relatively quiet for the sake
,
o way to
com
ld them from the fallout. “Divorce
is difficult enough
g on our children and Kanye’s
obsession with tr
control and ma ipulate
our situation so ne
is only
causin
l,” she shared in a statement on Insta
gul,
who was recentl
she’d hoped for a “healthy and supportive
coshi
nterv ew with
Variet
out how she’s handling
things.
g “I don’t think I would ever criticise
the father of my children on my V show,”
she said. “I jjust don’t think that would
ever make me feel g
good. I’m always
really respectful of what the
kids will see.”

pist Kyle McDonald..
“Control is centtral to
most dom
mestic
violencee and,
sadly, the situation
n with
K a n y e’s
behav-

He may have called out Kanye’s
“concerning online behaviour”,
b Trevor Noah has re
but
reiterated
that instead of the rapper being
ancelled”, he needs instead to
e counselled.
H ever, others feel less
How
symp
pathetic.
A ams Family actress
Add
Christina Ricci came to
Kim’s defence.
“Haraassment,
threats, public
th
humiliation, it’s
a l there,” she
shared in an
nstagram
t about Ye’s
ehaviour.
“It’s called postseparattion abuse
nd it’s happening to
one of the most famous,
on
wealthiest, pow
werful

women in the world.”
Last year Christina was granted
a restraining order against her
estranged husband, James Heerdegen, who, she alleges, beat her, spat
on her and attacked her in front of
their then-six-year-old son.
“It’s quite insidious and people
don’t necessarily recognise it as
abuse, so it becomes part of a
controlling or abusive relationship,”
Tara Hunter, director of counselling services at Full Stop Australia, says in the Sydney Morning
Herald.
The crisis unfolding between
the billionaire exes raises
awareness for everyone
watching, she adds.
“So often they are reading
this story and they think,
‘Gosh, that’s happening to
me. Wow, that’s abuse, that
is not OK’.”

iour illustrates this very clearly. The
risk of violence in abusive relationships
increases severely when the partner
leaves, because of the loss of control,
rage and jealousy.”
Aisha K Gill, professor of criminology
at the University of Roehampton in the
UK, is alarmed at how social media

platforms contribute to normalising
abuse. “West’s behaviour needs to be
called out, in terms of perpetuating
sociocultural norms that support and
facilitate different types of violence – for
instance, the belief that men have a
right to control and/or discipline ‘their’
women,” she told The Independent.

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TTHE OTHER WOMEN

S

HE was a red-headed seductress in Trading Places,
a slinky fitness instructor
in Perfect and lit up the
screen as a sultry con artist
in A Fish Called Wanda.
Toned, trim and taut by
any measure, she was a
Hollywood hottie poster child. But Jamie
Lee Curtis is over all of that.
At 63, the actress has had enough of
sucking in her gut, obsessing about her
wrinkles and worrying whether she
looks “too old”.
Now she’s looking forward to letting it
all hang out in as a decidedly unglamorous tax auditor in her latest movie.
When she was offered the role in
Everything Everywhere All at Once she
had one condition: it had to be real. No
prosthetic tummy, no concealers – she
was going to pack on a bit of weight and
the movie was going to show her fat rolls
in all their glory.
“My instruction to everybody was:
I want there to be no concealing
of anything,” Jamie explained
as she shared a photo on
Instagram of herself as
Deirdre Beaubeirdra,
sitting at a desk tucking into a pastry
with h er b el ly
protruding over
the waistband of her
pants.

For Jamie the moviie, in which a Chinese immigrant (played by Michelle
Yeoh) tries to save the world by exploring
other lives she could h
have led – including
one where she encounters Deirdre, was
a liberating experiencce.
“I’ve been su
ucking my stomach
in since I waas 11,” Jamie says.
“I very specifically decided to
relinquish and release every
muscle I h
had that I used to
clench to hide
h the reality. That
was my go
oal. I have never felt
more freee creatively.”
N THE
E past few years the
veteraan actress has been
outsp
poken about the
doublle standards Hollywood
d has for men and
womeen, blasting it as a
“very ccruel business”.
She added that she
finds it “humiliating to
see the media frenzy
that o
occurs when some-

JAMIE LEE
LETS IT ALL

HANG OUT!

Tired of Hollywood’s obsession with
perfection, Jamie Lee Curtis is showing
herself warts and all in her latest movie
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Hollywood veteran
Jamie refused any prosthetics and let her real
tummy hang out in her
new film, Everything
Everywhere All at Once.

body gets older”.
As someone who’s been in showbiz for decades she knows only too welll
about the hypocrisy
yp
y and body-shaming
y
g
th
thatt ffemale
l stars
t often
f have to endure.
Jamie shot to fame at age 19, playing
high-school student Laurie Strode in
Halloween in 1978.
After this breakthrough she landed
roles in films like True Lies alongside
Arnold Schwarzenegger, which earned
her a Golden Globe award.
She won over a new wave of fans with
her performances in comedies such as
Freaky Friday, Christmas with the Kranks
and You Again. But although roles
seemed to drop into her lap, behind the
scenes life wasn’t always easy.
In 2019 she opened up about her booze
and painkiller addiction. Jamie revealed
that for a decade she was hooked but got
an embarrassing reality check in 1989
when a friend who was visiting her
caught her slugging down five painkillers
with a swig of wine.
“I heard this voice: ‘You know, Jamie,
I see you. I see you with your little pills,
and you think you’re so fabulous and so
great, but the truth is you’re dead. You’re
a dead woman’.”
It was this exchange that inspired her
to seek help and she’s been sober ever
since. She says if she had continued popping pills she’d be “dead for sure”.
Freeing herself from her addiction
opened up a whole new world. Between
all her acting roles she’s also written
more than 10 children’s books, something she’s passionate about, and
launched her own production company,
Comet Pictures.
Jamie – whose parents are “scream
queen” Janet Leigh, who was famous
for her role in Psycho, and Hollywood
legend Tony Curtis – says she sees her life
and career as a “constant metamorphosis”.
Now a lot older and wiser, she says
she’s learnt to let go of the things that no

longer serve her –
l ike buying into
H
Hollywood’s
unrealistic notion of
beauty.
b
“I don’t want to
be punished for the
natural evolution of
th
he human being,”
sh
he says.
When she was in
heer 30s she did everyth
h
hing
i she
h could
ld to delay the ageing
prrocess, including going for Botox and
lip
posuction.
“I did plastic surgery – it didn’t work,
I hated
h
it. It made me feel worse,” she said
in an interview last year.
She says she feels happier now that
she’s stopped fighting the ageing process.
“Why do you want to look 17 when
you’re 70? I want to look 70 when I’m 70,”
she says.
Another thing she’s letting go of is her
money. Jamie and her American-British
screenwriter husband, Christopher
Guest (74), support a range of children’s
causes through the Syzygy Foundation,
a charity they founded.
“I am somebody who sheds every day,”
she says.

J

AMIE, who is the parent of two
adopted kids, says one of the biggest “old ideas” that she has had to
shed recently is the notion that
gender is fixed.
This happened after she and her
husband “watched in wonder and pride”
as their son, formerly known as Thomas,
became their daughter, Ruby.
Ruby (26) came out as transgender to
her parents and sibling, Annie (36), in

2020 and Jamie says she is learning a
lot along the way as she stands by her
daughter.
“I am proud and grateful to be the parent of a trans child and am sending
support to all of the trans families,” she
posted on Instagram recently.
She has a great relationship with both
her girls and will be officiating at Ruby’s
wedding later this year.
Jamie has always been an advocate of
accepting love in all its forms. In a recent
interview she said while reading the novel
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
she came across a line, “All of us are better when we’re loved”, and it really struck
a chord. “That killed me. Because I don’t
think I’ve really felt that much,” she says.
She had a difficult relationship with
her father and also struggled witnessing
her parents’ tumultuous partnership.
Between them Tony and Janet had
about 12 marriages and this left Jamie
with a rather jaded opinion about love.
But today she describes herself as
“a deep [and] serious romantic” – she
puts this down to her 38-year marriage
to Christopher, to whom she refers affectionately as “my one and only”.
She says the reason their union is so
successful is because it’s not based on
“delusions of grandeur” and that neither
of them is drawn to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood.
As for being an ageing woman in the
industry Jamie has made peace with the
fact that “there are some jobs that you
will lose or some jobs that you won’t get
because of your age”.
But it’s not like she’s struggling to find
work. Besides Everything Everywhere All
at Once which releases this month, she’s
set to star in Halloween Ends, the last of
the franchise, which goes on circuit later
this year.
Jamie says she’s a firm believer that
“creativity will always win”, regardless of
age.
“If you create something that they want,
it doesn’t matter how old you are.”

ABOVE: The actress with her husband of 38 years,
Christopher Guest. RIGHT: Jamie with her two children, Thomas and Annie, when they were younger.
Thomas came out as transgender in 2020 and is
now known as Ruby.

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hig
gh-school
stu
udent Laurie
Sttrode in the
horror
o
movie
Haalloween in 1978;
as Linda Drysdale
in Knives Out in
20
019; and as Jessie
Wilson in Perfect
(19
985), which also
staarred John
Traavolta.

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“Whoever
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– fully
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GEND

E MAY have recently turned 75,
but ELTON JOHN says he hopes to
continue making hits even as he
tours the world for the final time.
“I’m not usually one to look back
or get nostalgic, but 75 is such a milestone
birthday,” he says.
The legendary piano man, famous for his
flamboyant outfits and outrageous specs, has
been on the music scene since the ’70s and
recently scored his first UK number-one single in
16 years – Cold Heart featuring singer Dua Lipa.
“I feel unbelievably lucky that at 75 I still love
what I do so much – I’m still so energised about
music and excited I get to play, listen and talk
about this every single day.”
Elton’s current tour, Farewell Yellow Brick
Road, started in 2018 and will see him sing his
heart out at 300 gigs worldwide.
To mark his milestone birthday, the Rocket
Man singer shared a special letter to his sons,
Zachary (11) and Elijah (9), whom he shares with
hubby David Furnish.
“When I was young I was told to fit in, to do
what others expected even when it didn’t feel
right. Now I realise I can only be me. Being true to
myself is what gave me my voice and helped me
face my greatest fears.”
He also explains in the letter, which was
published in Time magazine, that he forged deep
friendships, “found the love of my life and
became your daddy”.

H

‘I FEEL
UNBELIEVABLY
LUCKY’

The singer is on the
road now with his
final world tour,
Farewell Yellow
Brick Road.

Elton and husband
David with their
sons, Elijah (left)
and Zachary.

1998

The year Sir Elton
was knighted by
Queen Elizabeth for
his service to music
and charity.
100

300 million

50

The number of
records he’s
sold worldwide.

The number of
years his pop
career has
spanned.

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33 million
The number of copies
Candle in the Wind, his
tribute to Marilyn
Monroe, has sold.

$212 million

The amount his tour, Farewell
Yellow Brick Road, grossed in
2019. Then about R3 billion, it’s
the second-highest tally in the
business.

1
JULIAN & STELLA
SAY ‘I DO’
Julian Assange, who’s being held in prison in the
UK, recently tied the knot with his long-time
South African love, Stella Moris.
The Wikileaks co-founder said “I do” to his
former lawyer, who wore a gown by Vivienne
Westwood, as the US looks to extradite him on
espionage charges that could see him spend
the rest of his life behind bars. The ceremony
was witnessed by two wardens and took place
under tight security in the facility.
“I’m very happy and very sad. I love Julian with
all my heart, and I wish he were here,” a tearful
Stella said after the ceremony as she cut the
cake alone.

2

5 THINGS

we’re talking
ABOUT
this WEEK

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Netflix’s new series Young, Famous and
African definitely delivers.
The show, filled with spicy drama, takes a
look at the extravagant lifestyles of an affluent
group of well-known stars from South Africa,
Nigeria and East Africa.
“We’re trending in all areas of the world,” one
of the show’s stars, Zari Hassan, shared after it
was reported that the show had almost broken
the internet. “I just want to say thank you so
much and we appreciate the love.”

STYLE
SISTERS

MEGHAN TALKS

ARCHETYPES
Streaming platform Spotify has confirmed
Meghan Markle’s debut podcast series, via her
production company Archewell Audio, will be
titled Archetypes and is set to launch in a
few months.
It’s said the actress-turned-royalturned-activist-turned-podcaster will
speak to experts and historians about the
origin of stereotypes and “investigate the
labels that try to hold women back”. It’s
been just over a year since the Duke and
Duchess of Sussex signed a $25 million
(now R375m) deal with Spotify.
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RIP TAYYLOR

Fanss and follow
wers of the Foo Fighters
were
e shocked to
o hear of the death of the
ro
ock b
band’s
d’ 50
50-year-old drummer, Taylor
Haaw
wkins. A tox
xicology report issued by
aau
uth
t orities in Bogotá, Colombia,
wh
her
e e the
e rocker died following a
giig, revealed they’d found 10
su
ubstaances – including benzodiiaz
ae
epines, THC from dagga
an
nd opioids – in his blood.
“The National Institute of
Le
egal Medicine continues
th
h
he medical studies to get
fu
u
ull clarification of the
ev
vvents that led to the
de
eath of Taylor Hawkins,”
th
h
he report said.
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Actress Eva Longoria, who cracked the
guest list for Brooklyn Beckham and
Nicola Peltz’s upcoming nuptials, recently
revealed she’ll be coordinating her outfit
with her bestie and mom of the groom,
Victoria Beckham.
She says Victoria, who created her
gown for Eva’s wedding
to José B
Bastón in
2016, is almost
a
like
her personal stylist.
“I just go
o into her
closet no
ormally,
and go, ‘I need
a dress’,“ she
h told
ld
People.

Entertainment for the evening
included a chamber-music
ensemble to evoke the feeling
of Regency era England.

AN AFRICAN SOIRÉE
LITZ, glamour
and an array
of gorgeous
gowns were
the order of
the night as streaming giant
Netflix celebrated the launch
of season 2 of Bridgerton
with an exclusive gathering,
dubbed A Bridgerton Affair.
The star-studded event with
the theme Love Doesn’t Play
by the Rules was held at the
Inanda Club in Johannesburg
and transported guests to
the sparkling charm of the

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Regency Era in which the hit
series is set with added
African flair.
The host for the evening,
former Miss Universe
ZOZIBINI TUNZI, stepped
effortlessly into the role of
Queen Charlotte, with
comedian DONOVAN
GOLIATH portraying her guard
and right-hand man, Brimsley.
And what would a Bridgerton bash be without our very
own Lady Whistledown?
The infamous character
was taken up by comedian

OUT
AND
ABOUT

Coconut Kelz who played
South Africa’s version
of the popular show’s
scandal-sheet author.
Guests danced the night
away with music performed
by a chamber-music ensemble,
followed by hits by awardwinning musician Zakes
Bantwini, who had everyone on
their feet.
The who’s who of local
celebs put their best fashion
foot forward to celebrate the
night in style as they took to
the red carpet. – SHANAAZ PRINCE
FAR LEFT: Zozibini Tunzi ruled
as the evening’s
host. LEFT: The
crowd cheered
as she took to
the dancefloor
with comedian
Donovan Goliath.

LEFT: Journalist Gabi Mbele (left)
chatted to actress Connie Ferguson.
RIGHT: Fashion designer David Tlale,
who created two of Zozi’s gowns for
the extravaganza, also attended.

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TOP: Former Miss SA Liesl Laurie-Mthombeni was
radiant in a Juan William Aria dress. ABOVE MIDDLE: Radio host Melanie Bala stood out in a Mantsho gown. ABOVE: Influencer Jessica van Heerden
chose a frock from Bride&co while her fiancé,
Brendon du Plessis, was dressed by Eurosuit.

CÉLINE’S SPECIAL

MESSAGE

RIGHT: In 2002 Céline Dion
performed during the TV special A New Day Has Come at the
Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles
to promote her first Englishlanguage album in two years.

S
She’s
been out of the
sspotligh
li ht for months as
sshe batt
ttles an unknown
illness,, but CÉLINE DION
(53) rrecently shared a
special blast from the
past with fans on
nstagram.
In
The Canadian
pop star said the
p
message behind
m
her hit song A New
h
Day
D Has Come,
which was released
w
0 years ago, “still
20
onates as strongly
reso
er”.
as eve
e trying to capture
“We’re

love around the world,”
Céline says in the video. “I
think with what happened
in the world, people are
realising how life is
precious and sometimes
you have to just go [down]
to go back up again.”
The single, which shot
to No 1 around the globe
and sold more than
12 million copies, was
released after the fivetime Grammy winner
returned from a two-year
hiatus following the birth
of her eldest son, RenéCharles Angélil, in 2001.

During the Oscar ceremony,
Will Smith strode up to Chris
Rock and slapped him after
the comedian made a remark
about the bald head of Will’s
wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

BEEFIN’ AT THE OSCARS
initially seemed to find the quip funny
but then appeared on stage to deliver
a swift slap to Chris’ cheek. “Keep my
wife’s name out of your f**king mouth,”
he shouted as he walked away.
Turns out this isn’t the first time Chris
(57) has poked fun at the Smiths. In
2016, he ribbed Jada for boycotting the
Oscars when her hubby failed to receive
a nomination for the movie Concussion.
Then in 2018 he commented on Will’s
relationship with his ex-wife, Sheree
Zampino (54), after the star wished
her a happy birthday. “Wow. You have
an understanding wife,” Chris said.
Chris declined to file a police report
following the incident – which officials
said wasn’t scrip
pted.
“The academy doesn’t condone
violence of any
form,” a statement read.
Maybe Will
was between a rock
k and
d a hhard
d pla
l e.

AWARDSSHOW
RUCKUS

SOURCES: HELLOMAGAZINE.COM, METRO.CO.UK, EONLINE.COM

Never mind the fab frocks and gongwinning celebs at this year’s Academy
Awards – the exchange between
CHRIS ROCK and WILL SMITH was
all anybody wanted to talk about.
In case you’ve been hiding under a
rock, during the show the King Richard
star stepped onto the stage, walked
towards Chris – who was presenting
the award for best documentary film
– and slapped him after the comedian
had directed a joke at Will’s wife,
JADA PINKETT SMITH.
“I can’t wait for GI Jane 2,” he said,
poking fun at Jada’s bald head. The
Matrix Resurrections actress, who’s
been sstruggling with the
autoimmune disease
opecia – which
alo
ccauses hair loss
– looked stunned.
Will (53), sitting
in the audience
with Jada (50),

Will and Jada earlier on the red carpet.
RIGHT: The actor later tearfully apologised to the academy for the incident
during his best-actor acceptance speech.
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Dune actress
Zendaya
in Valentino

Best supporting
actress winner
(for West Side
Story) Ariana
DeBose in
Valentino

tick, tick . . .
BOOM
M! star
Vanessa
Hudge
enss in
Michael K
Kors
Collecttion

Black-ish
star acee
Ellis Ross
in Carolina
Herrera

West Side Story’s
Maddie Ziegler
made her Oscars
debut.

Oscars
The stars didn’t disappoint,
bringing glitz and glamour to
the red carpet on Hollywood’s
biggest night BY MAXINE PETERS
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Singer H.E.R., who
presented the best
supporting actress
award, in Carolina
Herrera

Reality TV star
Kourtney Kardashian
(in Mugler) with her
fiancé, drummer Travis
Barker, who performed.

The Dig’s
Lily James
in Versace

The Batman
star Zoë Kravitz
channelled
Audrey Hepburn
in Saint Laurent.

Best actress
winner (for The
Eyes of Tammy
Faye) Jessica
Chastain in
Gucci

Best actress
nominee
(for Being
the Ricardos)
Nicole Kidman
in Armani Privé

Married actors Ashton
Kutcher and Mila Kunis
posed with fans. BELOW:
Pulp Fiction co-stars
Uma Thurman, John
Travolta (middle) and
Samuel L Jackson reunited for a snap backstage.

CODA’s Marlee
Matlin (in Monique
Lhuillier) and
Penélope Cruz on
the red carpet.
Actress Jamie Lee
Curtis (in Stella McCartney) spoke about
the late Betty White.

Actress Rachel
Zegler helped
co-presenter
Jacob Elordi
with his bow
tie backstage.

Singer Billie
Eilish (in Gucci) won
the best original
song Oscar for her
James Bond theme,
No Time To Die.
One of the
evening’s hosts,
Amy Schumer,
dropped onto the
stage in SpiderMan cosplay.

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West Side
Story star
Rachel
Zegler
in Dior

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American model Hailey Bieber
(in Saint Laurent) at the Vanity
Fair Oscars after-party

Ukrainian-born actress Mila Kunis
(in Zuhair Murad) mention
ned her
home country while prese
enting
g.

Comedian
Amy Schum
mer
in Oscar de la
Renta

Actress Jennifer
Garner, who presented the best
original screenplay award –
which went to
by Belfast – in
Brandon
Maxwell

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CODA star
Emilia Jones
in Dolce &
Gabbana

Singer and actress
Sofia Carson in
Giambattista Valli

The 355
star Lupita
Nyong’o
in Prada

SOURCES: HELLO MAGAZINE.COM, VANITYFAIR.COM, FOOTWEARNEWS.COM, IMDB.COM

Best actress
nominee (for
Parallel Mothers)
Penélope Cruz
in Chanel

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