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8 August 2024

You South Africa

South Africa's best-selling English language magazine covering general interest topics.

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EDITORIAL TEAM021-406-4552 you@you.co.za you.co.za ACTING EDITOR Shanaaz Prince DEPUTY EDITOR Wendy Stelzmann ASSISTANT EDITORS Sandy Cook, Jane Vorster CREATIVE DIRECTOR Anton Sassenberg ACTING NEWS EDITOR Siphokazi Zama(news@you.co.za) CONTENT EDI
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Letters
LOOKING out of my office window at the dreary, grey skies and relentless rain, I’m more than ready for the arrival of warmer, sunnier days. The persistent gloom and chill here in Cape Town doesn’t exactly spark joy in me and I’m sick of all the layer
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A Puzzle Bonanza!
We have good news, crossword fans – the new issue of YOU Blockbusters is here! Issue No 36 is on sale now and features all your favourite brain games – crosswords, photo blockbusters, codebreakers, anagrams, crypto quotes, sudoku, sudoku-x-words and
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In The News
Kids to control philanthropic future IN A surprising turn of events, billionaire businessman Warren Buffett has decided to leave his massive $130-billion (R2,3 trillion) fortune to a charitable trust instead of the Gates Foundation, as he previously
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Weight To Go!
IT’S still one of the most memorable moments of her iconic talk show: Oprah Winfrey rolling out a wagon containing 30kg of animal fat to illustrate how much weight she’d lost. Of course, that was three decades ago and many of the kilos she’d shed cre
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He Died Where He Was Happiest
LIKE any parent who has a child working overseas she was counting down the days until her son returned home for a visit. Lualle Bezuidenhout and 20-year-old Ben would message each other every day while he was in Greece where he worked as a deckhand o
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I’ve Embraced My True Self
WE KNOW her as the Miss South Africa who became Miss Universe, married a hunky American footballer and moved to the States to set up a new life. But Demi-Leigh Tebow has added something else to her repertoire: she’s an author – and the memoir she’s w
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My Eight Hours Of Hell
HER mornings used to be filled with the lively sounds of children as she prepared breakfast and got them ready for school. Siba Mbasana’s home was always bustling with activity as her kids, Lifalethu (12), Anele (10) and Buhle (7), prepared for their
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Connie’s Comeback
SHE’S like a machine in the gym, throwing ropes, performing one-handed push-ups, doing crunches, skipping with dazzling speed and skill, lifting weights, running, jumping, boxing . . . It makes you tired just to look at her but for Connie Ferguson ex
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Retire? Why Would I Do That?
HE’S the guy who spawned countless memes and several parody Twitter accounts, the guy who had us all saying, “I put it to you”, the guy who appeared on our TV screens every day as the biggest trial the country had seen in a long time played out. It’s
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Ruben’s Menagerie
FANS can’t get enough of the videos he posts of his menagerie. From meerkats to mongooses, warthogs to baboons, there’s never a dull moment on this farm in Namibia. But it’s not just the wildlife that has millions of people hooked – the young cattle
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FABULOUS Fish
t – teaspoon/s T – tablespoon/s c – cup/s SERVES 4-6 / PREPARATION TIME: 30 MINS / BAKING: 25-30 MINS A perfect supper dish. ROSTI TOPPING ◗ 4 large potatoes◗ 15ml (1T) finely chopped small capers◗ salt and black pepper◗ 15ml (1T) chopped parsley
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Lift Your lashes
Having certain vitamins in your diet will help your eyelashes grow. Aim for more forms of vitamin B – B5, and B12 – which can be found in nuts, eggs, avocados and oily fish. You can top up your intake with a otin supplement – try Gold Biotin 500mg (6
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Wrap Up Warm
Unless yarn specified is used, Saprotex cannot accept responsibility for the finished work. Elle Seasons (100g ball): 7 balls each colours of your choice A & B (we used Rainfall 005 A and Sandy Beach 720 B) 4,5mm crochet hook ± 120cm x 200cm The inst
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Why Am I Sore In My Jaw?
MAYBE you’re biting into your lunch and you notice your jaw is clicking, or perhaps you wake up in the morning unable to open your mouth without pain. Most of us have experienced clicking, grinding, tension and possibly even pain, and if jaw pain is
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Ask Dr Louise
Write to Dr Louise, PO Box 39410, Moreleta Park 0044, or email info@drlouise.co.za. Q My sister is two years younger than me – she is 16 and I am 18. Although I’m attractive, my sister is stunningly beautiful with dark hair, blue eyes and a fantastic
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9 Money Tips For Shopping Addicts
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. THE temptation to shop just never stops. These days it’s not just the stores at your local mall that are
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Yes, Your Pooch Has Feelings!
HAS YOUR dog ever let on that you’ve hurt his or her feelings? They’ve probably tried, but you may very well have missed the signals. Turns out our four -legged friends experience feelings – emotions such as happiness, anxiety and fear – just like us
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Chuckles
A guy goes to a fancy French restaurant and orders a bowl of soup. The waiter brings it over to his table and the guy starts eating. But after a minute or so the guy discovers a fly in the soup. Disgusted, he calls the waiter over and informs him of
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CHILL Out
Five years after the town of Little Kilton was rocked by the murder of schoolgirl Andie Bel (India Lillie Davies) – seemingly at the hands of her boyfriend, Salil Singh (Rahul Pattni), who killed himself – Pip Fitz-Amobi (Emma Myers) suspects there’s
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Nonstop Drama
By JAMES PATTERSON AND NANCY ALLEN Century Stafford Lee Penney is the top lawyer in Biloxi, Mississippi. He has never lost a case. His latest client is Dr Caro, who’s accused of murdering a young woman. The case against Caro seems watertight, but Pe
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You Puzzles
Keyword clue: SPEAK SOFTLY Starting with clue No 1, fill in the grid in a clockwise direction with four-letter words working your way to the centre of the spiral puzzle. The last letter of each word becomes the first letter of the next. If you have
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The Galápagos Islands
THERE’S a group of islands off the coast of Ecuador in South America so remote they’re sometimes called “the end of the world”. These volcanic islands inspired a famous scientist to develop a theory that forever changed our understanding of biology.
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Logging Endangers Isolated Tribe
DEEP within Peru’s Amazon rainforest, the Mashco Piro, an indigenous tribe, live in complete isolation from modern civilisation. As hunter-gatherers, they rely primarily on hunting wild animals and gathering plants for sustenance. This lifestyle, unt
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The Marine Iguana
YOU wouldn’t call them pretty. In fact, they’re pretty ugly, with their smashed-in faces, small heads, rough skin and clumsy movements on land. But what they lack in looks they more than make up for with their unique adaptation to their environment.
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Kids’ Games & Activities
The words in the list below are all hidden in the grid – horizontally or vertically, backwards or forwards. Find and circle them. Find the shadow 5
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Win At All Costs
IN A maroon-carpeted conference room at a suburban Frankfurt hotel, 80 people are on their feet, clapping and swaying as a motivational-speaking coach sings a cover of Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You spliced with unintelligibly fast German rap. One by one,
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It’s How She Rolls!
TAKE thousands of kilograms of sugar, add a gazillion hours of hard work and piles of passion and what do you get? Some truly innovative creations that totally take the cake. From a portrait of Beyoncé made out of Oreo biscuits and a fruitcake sculpt
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The Rebel Princess
THE wedding had all the components of a fairytale: a beautiful bride in a diamond-encrusted gown, a handsome groom, a venue adorned with hundreds of snowy white roses and a towering seven-tier cake sliced into with a ceremonial sword. The who’s who o
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Sizzling Sacha
THERE are plenty of bright young things in the world of sport – players with skill and speed who make it all look so easy. But every now and then someone comes along who stands out even among this prestigious pack. And right now that person is Sacha
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Prince Of Romance Returns
HE’S been in the game for decades – but time has done nothing to dim the come-hither appeal of those dreamy dimples and that smooth, velvety voice. Now Harry Connick Jr has fans all a-froth again following the release of his new Netflix movie, Find M
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Vive La France!
THE opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is always a showcase for the host nation, and this year’s spectacle in Paris was just wow! France really showed off its capital and its heritage as flag-waving athletes from around the world floated down the
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Katy’s Comeback Crash
KATY Perry is well-known for some of the biggest anthems of pop music, so when she recently released her much-anticipated seventh studio album expectations were high. But, alas, what was supposed to be a hard launch of her new single and upcoming alb
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Jlo’s Bridgerton Birthday
Lady Whistledown would’ve had a field day if she’d attended JENNIFER LOPEZ’S Bridgerton-themed birthday party in the Hamptons. JLo might have been the belle of the ball at her 55th birthday party, where she was joined by family and friends, but the o
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5 THINGS We’re Talking ABOUT This WEEK
She might be part of the Baldwin dynasty but now that she’s pregnant HAILEY BIEBER (27) is more focused on building her own family with husband JUSTIN BIEBER (30). Speaking to W Magazine, Hailey, daughter of Stephen Baldwin and niece to Alec, said th
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Meet The Stars Of The Shakedown
With local acting royalty in the line-up, viewers are in for a treat when The Shakedown airs on Prime Video on 8 August. The comedy crime caper, South Africa’s first Amazon Original film, follows the fortunes of Justin Diamond, a medical broker who’s
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DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE WORLD PREMIERE
The movie’s lead actor, Ryan Reynolds, kept it simple and suave in a classic black suit with a crisp, white shirt. Ryan’s main co-star, Hugh Jackman, looked dapper in an all-black suit and shirt. Actress Brianna Hildebrand wore a strapless floor-leng