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insight for executives on the movejanuary 2016
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Touching down in Tshwane Happy new you Travelogue Bespoke tours Are you a Smombie?
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Can Africa avoid a full-blown water crisis? pg.40
january 2016celeb
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Can we keep the glass half full?
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Changing the tideNew years are normally new starts, but this one seems to have us slogging behind us many of the hardships and fears of 2015, tainting our bright and shiny second chance. Our economy drags even though many other countries are seeing positive change, and the war on terror sees no progress, making it hard to feel safe, even at the very tip of Africa. But the starkest reality for South Africans has been water scarcity. As is the common human affliction, our water was not appreciated while it was in surplus, but in the wake of ruined livelihoods, we have a new-found appreciation for this lifeblood of our world. In this time of hopelessness, our only resort has been praying for rain. But the truth is that Mother Nature does provide – it is the human penchant for wastefulness that trips us up, not only at the upper echelons of water management and distribution, but at home too. Really take a minute to examine your contribution: are you truly doing everything you can to conserve water and prevent needless waste? Ideally, we should all be able to answer yes to this question. So for this wonderful new year, still heady with new possibilities, let’s forget about resolutions of weight loss and exercising – let’s resolve to make a tangible difference in the problems faced by this beautiful country. Even if it is just fixing that leaky tap.Happy New Year.
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EXECUTIVE DECISION44 Paradigm shiftWhy leaders need to change their thought processes48 Ask the expertPregnancy and labour law50 Tee timeTshwane Open preview52 Get smartThe latest apps and gadgets
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Roxette Live in SATo celebrate their 30th anniversary, Roxette kicks off their world tour right here in SA. It’s been four years since we saw them last – when they sold out six shows. This time, they perform at four venues around the country. 31 January 2016 at
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ICC Durban (KZN) 5 February 2016 at Nelson
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Madame Zingara: The CelebrationAn all-new production, cast and structure to commemorate the show’s 15th anniversary. 4 November 2015 to
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J&B MetCombining sports and fashion, the J&B Met is considered by many as the most prestigious horserace
in South Africa. Bet on one of 16 Thoroughbreds and be sure not to miss the notorious after-party. 30 January 2016 Kenilworth Racecourse (CT)i www.facebook.com/JBMet
Cape Town Minstrel CarnivalThis age-old traditional New Year celebration provides lots of music, colourful costumes, dancing and entertainment for the whole family to watch and enjoy. 2 January 2016 Cape Town Cityi www.sa-venues.com
Swan Lake on IceThe Imperial Ice Stars bring this classic to the ice, with beautiful choreography, gorgeous costumes, and new manoeuvres performed to the music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. 14 January 2016 Artscape Opera House (CT)i www.computicket.com
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Dinos AliveChildren will enjoy the fun activities while learning about prehistoric animals. Tickets are R100 to R120. Till 17 January 2016 Suncoast Casino (DBN)i www.dinosalive.co.za
The Queen ShowListen to Queen’s greatest hits, performed by a tribute band, for R250 a ticket. 10 December 2015 to
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New Year’s DayIt’s the start of a brand-new year and South Africans will be contemplating their resolutions and thinking of the year ahead. We wish you an amazing 2016! 1 January 2016
Rodriguez Live in SALegendary musician, Rodriguez, returns to our shores after selling out his previous tour in minutes. His unique story of fleeting fame and second chances resonates with music-loving South Africans. 27 and 29 January 2016 at
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The combination of Airlink’s new direct Cape Town to Maun service alongside the airline’s other services, namely Johannesburg to Maun; Johannesburg to Kasane; Livingstone to Nelspruit/Kruger; Nelspruit/Kruger to Cape Town; and Skukuza to Cape Town, will provide the global leisure-tour-product industry with a complete, fully flexible, integrated travel circuit from which to structure guests’ itineraries.
Airlink’s direct flights will give travellers the opportunity to minimise time spent in transit and maximise time spent at the various world-renowned tourism destinations, which South Africa promotes so successfully to the global travel market.
Additionally, the inclusion of short Airlink ‘lodge-link’ flights will allow travellers the opportunity to connect directly to the well-known bush lodges of the Sabi Sands, thanks to connections that operate between Airlink’s iconic Skukuza Airport and the Nelspruit/Kruger gateway to the lodges. Travellers are also able to take advantage of the opportunity to include a Mozambican beach holiday at Bazaruto or Benguerra Island by putting Nelspruit/Kruger to Vilanculos in their itinerary.
Airlink will initially operate the Cape Town to Maun service using one of its 18 Embraer ERJ 135 37-seat regional jets. Capacity will in time be increased using one of the airline’s 12 Avro RJ85 83-seat regional quad jets, in line with market demand.
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New strapless bra inspired by gecko feetWomen who have experienced awkward evenings spent hitching up a strapless bra from their midriff, may soon have relief – and it’s all thanks to the stickiness of gecko feet! Start-up firm, Kellie K Apparel, has used the glue-like qualities on the lizard’s appendages as inspiration for its strap-free bra called The Alice.
Geckos can climb a wide variety of surfaces, including smooth glass, using their ‘sticky feet’. They use adhesive pressures of between 6.8kg and 13.6kg per square inch for each limb, meaning that a gecko can hang its entire body by one toe. A gecko’s toe is made up of a microscopic hierarchical structure of stalk-like setae. From individual setae, a bundle of hundreds of terminal tips called spatulae (like hairs) branch out and contact the climbing surface. These hairs create an electrostatic force known as Van der Waals, which causes neighbouring molecules to be attracted to each other. The effect is multiplied by thousands of tiny hairs that
cover a gecko’s toes, allowing it to stick firmly to surfaces.
Kellie K is using the same theory and physical mechanism to form the lining of the bras that they are launching.
Source: Daily Mail
T E C H N O L O G Y
Google builds virtual London museumGoogle has built a virtual recreation of the British Museum that lets people from across the world see more than 4,500 priceless exhibits at the click of a mouse. The tech giant’s Cultural Institute spent a night in the museum digitising its famous halls, so that they could be explored using Street View.
A huge number of cultural treasures have also been photographed in exquisite detail. To mark its digital dawn, the British Museum has set up several online exhibitions focusing on Celtic Iron Age Britain and Ancient Egypt.
One of the most important virtual exhibits now on Street View display is the Admonitions Scroll, an ancient document so fragile that it can only be shown in the real museum for a few months a year.
Source: Mirror.co.uk
B I Z A R R E
Stag party prank lands man in hot water
A man was recently left red-faced after
a stag party prank that
he was planning for his friend led to him being detained by airport security. The Australian traveller was held at Gatwick Airport after
his flight from Dusseldorf,
because he was found to be carrying a large hunting knife and a series of notes regarding kidnapping. The unnamed 25-year-old man’s joke backfired after the items were detected as he passed through security.
On questioning, the prankster stated that he enjoyed spending time outdoors and did not realise that the
T R A V E L
Sandton Sun Hotel gets R210 million makeoverTsogo Sun’s iconic Sandton Sun Hotel reopened following an investment of R210 million into its recently undertaken refurbishment.
The 31-year-old hotel is situated in a prime location within the busy and exclusive business and retail hub of Sandton, and has been repositioned as a gateway into the Sandton City shopping centre.
With the refurbishment, the number of hotel rooms has reduced by eight to 326 spacious, luxurious rooms and suites, with all the necessary conveniences and comfort.
The refurbishment was jointly funded by the property owners, Pareto and Liberty, with responsibility for the design concept and implementation, as well as the operational issues of the refurbishment, being handled by Tsogo Sun.
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16cm knife was too large for UK law – which allows knives of up to 7.5cm.
The printed kidnap notes, which were along the lines of “The best way to kidnap someone”, were later discovered to refer to the stag party plan. The knife was seized by Gatwick police.
Source: Daily Mail
C U LT U R E
And the word of the year is …Smartphone users are often known to irritate passers-by as they walk along streets staring at the small screens in front of them, and now German youngsters have given them the name ‘smombies’.
Last November, a jury named the portmanteau (a combination of ‘smartphone’ and ‘zombie’) its young people’s word of the year in Munich. A smombie is defined as someone who walks through life with no knowledge of what is going on around them because they are so absorbed in using their smartphone.
The competition for
word of the year is run by Langenscheidt, a publishing house for language resources, to promote its special edition dictionary, containing “100% teenage slang”.
Source: iol.co.za
B I Z A R R E
Wake-up callA robotics enthusiast has engineered an alarm clock that repeatedly strikes someone’s head with a rubber hand to wake them up.
Called The Wake-Up Machine, it is made using a traditional alarm clock mounted on the wall, with a motorised arm. Positioned above the bed, the arm whips around to repeatedly slap the slumbering person in the face when the alarm goes off. It was designed to “make bed a little bit less comfortable”.
Simone Giertz (25) built the torturous device on her houseboat in Sweden. While the invention is a sure-fire way of forcing someone to wake up swiftly, the prototype does have some setbacks. For example, Giertz’s hair got tangled up in the mechanism in an experience she described as “more humiliating than painful”.
Source: Daily Mail
T E C H N O L O G Y
Can a bedtime mode improve sleep?A British doctor, Professor Paul Gringras, has called on technology firms to develop an automatic bedtime mode for
those at the blue-green end of the spectrum – can disrupt the system. Professor Gringras, from Evelina Children’s Hospital in London, was part of a study published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health, which analysed the light emitted by devices.
It concluded there was a clear trend for devices to be bigger, brighter, have higher levels of contrast and emit more blue light. The professor of children’s sleep medicine said: “That is great for use in the day, but awful for use at night. There is converging data to say if you are in front of one of these devices at night-time it could prevent you falling asleep by an extra hour.”
Source: Daily Mail
smartphones to stop them disturbing sleep patterns.
The blue light emitted by smartphones, tablets and e-readers disrupts body clocks, according to experts. It mimics normal daylight and means that users, particularly children, are kept awake. In addition to disrupting sleep, it means that children are drowsy and tired during the day, thereby negatively affecting their performance at school.
Gringras says that screens need an automatic setting that triggers at the end of the day and filters out the blue light that delays one’s natural body clock.
As it gets darker, the body starts to produce the sleep hormone melatonin. However, certain wavelengths of light –
The amount of water that is used in an average dishwasher cycle
40ℓThe year Rand Water believes demand for water in South Africa will outstrip supply
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The average rainfall for South Africa per annum; the global average is 985mm
The percentage of South Africa’s water used for agricultural purposes
492mm 60%
E C O N O M Y
BMW pours billions into SA economyBMW is set to invest more than R6 billion in the carmaker’s South African operations to start production of the newest model of its X3 sport-utility vehicle.
The X3 will replace the
assembly of the German company’s 3-Series sedan at the Rosslyn plant north of Pretoria. It will be the first time the SUV is produced outside the United States, and the model will be sold locally and exported, including to other African countries.
South Africa’s automotive-incentive programme has
H I S T O R Y
Who is buried under the Great Pyramid?It may be more than 4,500 years old, but it seems the Great Pyramid of Giza still hasn’t revealed all its secrets.
Experts scanning the huge monument in Egypt think there could be a royal tomb concealed deep inside it after thermal cameras detected higher temperatures in stones at its base.
They could be caused by internal air currents, a different type of stone or the presence of a secret chamber, said the international team of scientists behind the research.
Source: Daily Mail
B I Z A R R E
Bagpipe music used to drive away homeless peopleAn English municipality is playing the ear-piercing sound of bagpipe music
attracted companies such as BMW, Ford Motor and Volkswagen to set up and invest in factories in the country. BMW will spend more than R3 billion on the Rosslyn factory, plus an additional R3 billion on suppliers, startup costs and training.
Source: iol.co.za
S P A C E
New Venus-like planet discovered
A Venus-like planet has been discovered in a solar system relatively close to our own, in what some astronomers are describing as
arguably the most important ‘exoplanet’
found orbiting a star other than the sun. The rocky planet, called GJ
1132b, is slightly larger than the Earth and, like Venus, its surface
is too hot to support liquid water. However, scientists believe that the planet will be invaluable in the search for extraterrestrial life.
At 39 light years away, GJ 1132b is the nearest rocky exoplanet yet discovered. Its relative proximity to Earth means that astronomers now have an important test bed to study the atmospheres of other far-away planets with telescopes that could detect the first chemical signatures of life beyond the solar system – such as atmospheric methane.
Source: iol.co.za
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The percentage of South Africa’s water used for domestic purposes
11.5%
started being pumped out over the speakers between midnight and 6:30am. “It seems to be doing the job,” one station worker told the Daily Echo. “They just cannot stand it. You try getting any sleep with that going on,” he added.
It’s not known where the sleepers have gone, and the scheme has drawn criticism from some locals. “What a daft idea – all that will do is send them elsewhere – these people need practical help,” one said.
Source: Daily Mail
in a bus station at night to drive away homeless people from sleeping there.
More than a dozen homeless men and women used to congregate by the station’s restrooms in Bournemouth, Dorset, according to local newspaper, Daily Echo. They would bed down there all night and reportedly intimidate passers-by and hurl drunken abuse at women, according to the paper.
But they’ve since moved elsewhere after the shrill sound
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The amount of water that is actually allocated per person per day in South Africa
The percentage of your brain that is made up of water
25ℓ 85%
E N V I R O N M E N T
The most electric place on EarthVenezuela’s Lake Maracaibo has earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the highest concentration of lightning, with 250 lightning flashes per square kilometre each year. The storms ease off in the drier months of January and February, and are most spectacular at the peak of the wet season around October. At this time of year, you can see an average of 28 lightning flashes each minute.
Experts have sought reasons for the area’s uniquely intense
long-distance athletes.Researchers at the University
of Bath say that stirring table sugar into a water bottle before a big physical event could be the difference between success and failure. In a new study, they assessed the impact of endurance exercise on liver glycogen levels. The team tested various drinks to see how different carbohydrates could help avert the decline of liver glycogen levels and fatigue.
Their experiment, conducted on long-distance cyclists, showed that ingesting carbohydrates in the form of either glucose or sucrose can achieve this. Both sucrose – in the form of table sugar – and glucose are important carbohydrates often referred to as simple sugars.
Source: Daily Mail
storms for decades. In the 1960s it was thought that uranium deposits in the bedrock attracted more lightning strikes. More recently, scientists suggested the conductivity of the air above the lake was boosted by the abundance of methane from oil fields below.
Neither theory has been proved though, so for now this record-breaking light show is attributed to a potent combination of topography and wind patterns.
Source: BBC.com
H E A LT H
Is sugar the key to athletic success?Ditching some sports drinks for a spoonful of sugar could make exercise easier for weary marathon runners and
T E C H N O L O G Y
NASA develops super-robotA ‘superhero robot’ is being designed by NASA to help astronauts on a mission to Mars. Named Valkyrie, or R5, the 1.9m, 125kg humanoid machine has been under development by the space agency for a number of years.
NASA has teamed up with two leading universities to develop the machine’s dexterity and artificial intelligence
for deep space missions.Each leg has seven joints.
Instead of feet, there are grippers, each with a light, camera and sensor for building
3D maps. A robot could stay out in the vacuum of space for days, weeks or even months.
Source: Daily Mail
B I Z A R R E
Spider gets neighbours in a frenzyA man in Australia got so upset about a spider in his home that his neighbours thought he was murdering a woman, police said.
Concerned residents called cops after they heard hysterical screams, furniture thrown and a man cursing at a home in Wollstonecraft, Sydney, the New South Wales police revealed on Facebook. He was heard shouting, “I’m going to kill you! You’re dead! Die! Die!”
But his anger was actually directed at an arachnid that had entered his property, police confirmed. Neighbours feared that he was attacking and trying to kill a woman – possibly his girlfriend or wife. Police said several patrol cars raced to the home, where the “out-of-breath” and “rather flushed” man answered the front door.
A report said officers asked him where his wife or girlfriend was, but he said he didn’t have one, and that he lived alone. “Come on, mate, people clearly heard you yelling you were going to kill her.”
“It was a spider, a really big one!” he said. Australia has a reputation for being home to some of the world’s most dangerous spiders – including the funnel-web and the redback.
Source: Huffington Post
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“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.” Rainer Maria Rilke
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.”TS Eliot
“As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.” Criss Jami
“One can begin so many things with a new person – even begin to be a better man!” George Eliot
“The key to a better life isn’t always a change of scenery. Sometimes it simply requires opening your eyes.” Richelle E Goodrich
“The best endings are the ones that lead to new beginnings.” Mathangi Subramanian
“Forget everything you’ve done. Start over.” Marty Rubin
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Could your finger or hand die if you sleep on it?Ivan Kok, Johannesburg
N o, that is impossible. You can wake up with pins and needles in your hand or
arm because a nerve was pinched. However, a body part can only die off when the blood supply is almost completely closed off for a longer period and this will never happen when you lie on it. A nerve can get damaged when it has been pinched for a long period. Usually, you will move around enough in your sleep to prevent this. But with people who are very drunk or under the influence of drugs this moving around is sometimes suppressed. The singer of heavy metal band Megadeth, Dave Mustaine, fell asleep with his arm over a chair in 2002. A nerve was damaged to the extent that he needed 4 months of physiotherapy before he could play his guitar again.
How is it possible that we have images of our entire galaxy?Bronwen Strydom, Free State
T hat is not possible. What you may have seen are not photos but probably artist
impressions. These are images created by an artist to create an impression of how the galaxy would look from the outside. The galaxy looks very different from Earth. All stars that we can detect with the naked eye are part of the galaxy.
The closest are seen as loose stars. We can see stars at a greater distance as a luminous belt in the sky when it is dark enough. Why do we see a belt and isn’t the sky completely lit? That’s because the shape of the galaxy is more or less like a disc. The majority of the stars are found on the flat surface.
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This stunning wildlife image by Andrey Gudkov is part of the 51st Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition currently on show in Cape Town. Wildlife Photographer of the Year is the most prestigious photography event of its kind, providing a global platform that showcases the natural world’s most astonishing and challenging sights for over 50 years. Launched in the UK in 1965 and attracting 361 entries, today the competition receives over 42,000 entries from 96 countries, highlighting its enduring appeal. This year there are 13 images by South African finalists and winners for the various categories featured.
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The airport’s name stems from a landmark in Pretoria – the wonderboom, a fig tree that has been growing near the airport for 1,000 years and is now protected
in a reserve nearby. In 1936, Wonderboom Airport was opened for commercial purposes, but during the Second World War, the South African Air Force took over operations of the airport. As such, many Second World War pilots were trained at Wonderboom for both the British and South African air forces. Since 2003, it has been under the guidance of the Tshwane City Municipality.
Initially, management focused its attention on attracting businesspeople, ambassadors and diplomats, who have used their services often. But it seems to have
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being from Pretoria, I was looking forward to talking to Hendrik Kleynhans, acting executive
director of Tshwane Airport Services, about Wonderboom Airport. That’s because for many who have lived in this part of the world, including myself, Wonderboom Airport is a prominent feature in the landscape of Tshwane North.
Wonderboom Airport Dominique Drake finds out why Pretoria’s very own airport is
welcoming, convenient and perfect for the business traveller
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spread its wings to the tourism industry, with many tourists booking leisure flights. The airport facilitates private operators as well as chartered companies.
In August this year, Airlink in partnership with SAA launched the Pretoria to Cape Town route. The main focus for this service is to enhance economic growth in Pretoria, which is greatly supported by the Tshwane City Municipality. Currently there are three daily return flights to Cape Town during the week. On weekends Airlink operates one flight on a Saturday and two on a Sunday.
Why use Wonderboom Airport?For those who travel often using OR Tambo, you may be wondering, why use a smaller airport such as Wonderboom? Well, here are a few reasons to help you make your decision:
ConvenienceWonderboom is located in relation to all industrial and business areas in the Tshwane district. It is only 11km from the city centre, which includes more than 130 embassy and trade missions. It is also only a 15-minute drive from universities and tertiary education institutions.
AccessibilityRegional passengers from other provinces, such as travellers from Polokwane, the North West Province, Madibeng and Mpumalanga, won’t have to travel that extra distance to Kempton Park to reach OR Tambo.
In the late 1970s, upgrades were done to the airport to allow it to accommodate aircraft that may have to be diverted from OR Tambo. This first occurred in early 1980, and it was a Boeing 727
At your serviceNot only is Wonderboom a fully functional
airport, but it hosts 184 businesses on its
premises. A few that you would find on
the list are:
• Fixed-wing pilot training
• Helicopter pilot training
• Advanced pilot training
• Flight school
• Pilot shop
• Freelance pilots
• Aircraft maintenance operations
• Skydiving for professionals
• Aircraft parts
• Aerial imagery
• Private aircraft charters
• Game capturing
• Airborne geophysical surveys
The time it takes to park, check in and board your flight
45 minutesThe number of steps it takes you to get from the parking lot to the airport entrance
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Travel timeDue to the airport’s location, travelling in traffic will be a rare occurrence, as it is in the opposite direction to the peak-hour traffic of the daily commute of hundreds of thousands of people driving to Johannesburg. The team at Wonderboom actually did a test run and found that when you travel from Pretoria from an area such as Woodlands or Menlyn to Wonderboom Airport, versus travelling from anywhere in Johannesburg or
Pretoria via the highways to OR Tambo, that the time that it takes you to leave the house, travel, find parking and check in at OR Tambo Airport is the same time it will take you to drive to Wonderboom, check in and land in Cape Town.
ServiceYou will experience quick, friendly and personal assistance from the Airlink staff. The check-in process is an appealing one – from arrival, parking, checking in and boarding your flight, it will only take 45 minutes out of your day. Check-in is required 30 minutes before departure.
The arrival process is even better. In fact, it will take you seven minutes from departing the aircraft to collecting your luggage.
Epicurean feastVilla San Giovanni Pizzeria and Terrace forms part of the Wonderboom Airport complex. It is an eatery that boasts a stunning menu filled with classic Italian fare, including melt-in-the-mouth slow-cooked osso buco with tomato salsa, homemade lasagne – light as a feather and with the right balance of sauces and cheese – and some of the
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best gourmet pizzas in town, with a low GI crust if you prefer and their prices are extremely reasonable as well. With a perfect view of the runway, you could enjoy your meal while viewing the landing and take-off of many aircraft and helicopters. It may even provide you with your very own Casablanca moment.
Villa San Giovanni is child-friendly, and your little ones can keep themselves busy creating their own pizzas or in the well-equipped play park. Contact: 012 543 0501Website: www.vsg.co.za
Onsite HotelVilla San Giovanni Hotel, is a four star hotel that is conveniently located at the airport. It offers quick and easy access to the city and is safe and secure. Each of the 11 en suite bedrooms ensure that you will enjoy the luxuries from home such as air-conditioning, TV
and a daily cleaning service. An added bonus is the uninterrupted views of the runway by day and night from the rooms. Meals aren’t included but with a short walk to the restaurant breakfast could be enjoyed on the restaurant’s terrace. Contact: 012 543 0501Website: www.vsg.co.za
Moving forwardWonderboom Airport would like to expand its operations to include a number of initiatives to enhance general aviation at Wonderboom Airport. Due to the scheduled flights from Airlink, it is possible to have other aviation services, such as private chartered flights and the like, use the same air space safely. According to Kleynhans, their next biggest challenge will be to re-establish an international status to be able to service the regional market and then serve the African continent. This application was submitted in October 2012 and has gone through a thorough assessment process. A reply from parliament is expected in the new year.
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We actually put it to the test. After the interview I waited for an incoming plane that was scheduled to land at 17:00. At 16:52 I saw the Avro 85 touchdown and taxi to its parking bay. At 16:56 the doors opened and the first passenger disembarked at 16:57. At the luggage carousel the first passenger received their luggage at 17:00 and strolled out the door.
Check-inThinking of catching a convenient early morning flight to
Cape Town. Why not stay overnight at the Villa San Giovanni
Hotel before heading to the Mother City.
This includes the following:
• Overnight stay at the four-star hotel: R790 (no meals
included)
• Breakfast at Villa San Giovanni, the onsite restaurant:
R80
• 48-hour parking: R72
• Total cost: R942
*Prices are estimated averages
• Business lounge
• 11-room four-star hotel
• Voyager Miles are applicable
• VIP business lounge to be
completed early in 2016
• Tourism information
What you pay for 48 hours parking at Wonderboom Airport
R48The short distance you need to travel to get to the city centre, home to 100+ diplomatic missions
11km
Facilities on offer
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often Zimbabwe makes the news for the wrong reasons,
which overshadows the many attractions of this landlocked country. It is known for its dramatic landscapes and diverse wildlife, much of it within parks, reserves and safari areas.
TravelogueSights and sounds of Zimbabwe
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You are forgiven if you think this is a street in
Pretoria. These blooming jacaranda trees are
actually found in Milton Avenue, Harare
A colourful lizard enjoys the warmth of the sun in Mana
Pools National Park
Tame the king of the jungle in one of Zimbabwe’s many
national parks
An aerial view of the capital city, Harare. With
more than 1.6 million residents, it is the most
densely populated city in the country
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Statuettes carved from stone displayed in a marketplace near Victoria Falls
Bright colours and expressive dance moves are very much a part of Zimbabwe’s culture
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A stunning landscape view of the granite hills in Domboshawa.
The granite hills are a national monument of Zimbabwe and have some examples of cave paintings
that date back almost 6,000 years
Remnants of a glorious past Wildlife gets right of way in this part of the country
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southern Africa is an enticing
tourism destination that offers authentic experiences found nowhere else on Earth. Here are just a few unique offerings that one can enjoy in the region.
Tailor-made travelUnique experiences in South Africa
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Cruise to the Knysna HeadsVisitors to the Garden Route can enjoy a wonderful eco-experience on the Knysna Lagoon. Travellers begin the adventure with a cruise to the Knysna Heads in a ferry, followed by a 4x4 vehicle drive up to the Featherbed Private Nature Reserve. A guide will provide information on the history of the area, including the fauna and flora. Travellers can also choose the optional guided 2.2km walk through the coastal forest and fynbos.
Stargaze in SutherlandSutherland in the beautiful Karoo is one of few locations in the world that are ideal for stargazing. This once-in-a-lifetime experience allows travellers to see the natural beauty of the stars and the remoteness of the landscape. The famous Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is located in Sutherland. SALT can be visited Monday to Saturday from 10:30am to 2:30pm, and tourists can book a guided tour at the visitor centre.
Walk with elephantsThe Elephant Sanctuary provides an opportunity for people to interact with elephants up close. There are three Elephant Sanctuaries across southern Africa at Hartbeespoort Dam, Plettenberg Bay and Hazyview. The Elephant Sanctuary in Hazyview started in 1999 with five elephants and has grown to a total of 12. Visitors can walk hand-in-trunk with the elephants and experience an elephant-back ride or bare-back elephant ride. Visitors are guided through an unforgettable experience. The Elephant Sanctuary is open Monday to Sunday from 8am to 3:30pm.
Return to the place of originMaropeng, meaning ‘returning to the place of origin’ in Setswana, is the official visitor centre for the Cradle of Humankind and the Sterkfontein Caves. The Cradle of Humankind has received World Heritage Site status owing to the wealth of human ancestor fossils that have been discovered in the area. Families and visitors can enjoy a self-guided tour that begins with an underground boat ride and ends with a fossil display that changes regularly. The facilities at Maropeng include a restaurant, a state-of-the-art conference centre and a boutique hotel. Maropeng is open every day from 9am to 5pm.
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Turtle seasonEach year, from mid-October to December, magnificent loggerhead and leatherback turtles come ashore to lay their eggs along the beach in iSimangaliso Wetland Park. The turtles hatch from late December through to March. Guests visiting Wilderness Safaris’ Rocktail Camp get front-row seats to one of the world’s most fascinating spectacles and can enjoy a Turtle Drive led by an experienced guide, during which they may have the once-in-a-lifetime experience of seeing the tiny hatchlings making their way to the ocean for the first time. The remote northern KwaZulu-Natal coastline represents one of the most important western Indian Ocean breeding sites for both the loggerhead and leatherback turtles.
The Extreme 19thThe Extreme 19th at Legend Golf and Safari Resort in the Entabeni Safari Conservancy, Limpopo Province, is the world’s longest and highest par three. Accessible only by helicopter, the tee is situated atop Hanglip Mountain with a 361m shot to the green, located 400m below the tee. Golfers staying at the resort can experience this incredibly unique hole along with the 18-hole Signature Golf Course. Iconic people who have experienced this extreme hole include Lewis Hamilton, Morgan Freeman, Frik du Preez, Naas Botha, Morné Steyn and South African golfing legend, Gary Player, who opened the Extreme 19th.
Kayak with dolphins Dolphin Adventures offers guided sea kayaking journeys from Central Beach to Plettenberg Bay. Visitors will enjoy views of the Tsitsikamma Mountains and Robberg Nature Reserve while gliding across the unique coastline, encountering marine life such as dolphins up close and personal. Visitors will be supplied with a kayak
and will be in the company of an experienced guide. The tours depart at 6am, 9am, 12pm and 3pm in summer and at 10am and 2pm in winter.
Travel with musiciansTravel is not only about adrenaline activities anymore. Increasingly, it is about meeting people, discovering cultures and having unique experiences. Rock the Route is a small tour operator specialising in road trips. One of its unique road trips on the Garden Route sees travellers following a music band as they travel along from venue to venue. On the road, travellers will get to meet and befriend some talented musicians and hang out with them after their shows. It could be a small flamenco band from Argentina or an international rock band doing an acoustic tour, and travellers will be on the bus with these artists and see their shows every night.
Zip-line tourCape Canopy Tours and Cape Nature, a public institution promoting and ensuring biodiversity conservation within the Western Cape, offers a zip-line through the Hottentots Holland Nature Reserve, about 90km south-east of Cape Town. The one-hour tour is suitable for ages five to 75. Visitors will slide along steel cables and move from one platform to another, while taking in all the views of the reserve. Two professional guides accompany each group, ensuring strict safety standards while providing an enlightening and educational experience, with interesting facts about the nature and geology of the area.
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It is the randomness and horror of such terrorist activity, designed to promote fear and a sense of insecurity among the public, that make it such a potent weapon. It immediately creates a climate of anxiety that begins to threaten even day-to-day life, resulting in people clinging to the familiar, reluctant to even travel locally, let alone internationally.
It could be said that these incidents have created a heightened sense of unease among prospective and confirmed travellers, leading to them cancelling bookings or even reconsidering possible destinations due to security concerns. We in South Africa have long been exposed to aspects of negative publicity – particularly in terms of violent crime and, recently, the visa debacle – and have had to develop ways of dealing with this.
They remain facts that we must both acknowledge and accept, but generally we are able to find some compensatory factors that can be promoted to counter the apprehension expressed by our travel customers. This is patently obvious since South Africa remains a popular destination for many thousands every year.
As such, we must acknowledge that there will be disruption to travel and inconvenience to travellers in some instances, and at some destinations this may even be quite considerable. But forewarned is forearmed and, if people are sufficiently prepared for what they are likely to encounter in terms of inconvenience, they will be less inclined to blame those in the travel industry for their discomforts.
Having confronted this rather gloomy scenario, is there anything on the horizon that might bring us some cheer?
Well, there is a rumour circulating among some economists that the price of crude is set to fall further, and lower fuel costs are always a boon to the travel industry – it is, after all, part of our lifeblood. Nassim Taleb’s 2007 book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable described the extreme impact that certain rare and unpredictable events could have on economies. As Taleb puts it, the idea is centred on “our blindness with respect to randomness, particularly large deviations.”
At a recent economics conference in Kilkenny, Ireland, he ventured the opinion that oil prices were headed dramatically downwards. He further suggested that the Saudi economy was far from robust, and could even go broke. The consequences of this would put crude into free-fall.
Now while that isn’t a brilliant scenario for the oil-producing countries, it would have a positive and uplifting impact on global travel, because as any elementary economics student will tell you, there is a very direct correlation between price and demand: the higher the price, the less the demand, and conversely, make things cheaper and more people will buy them. You only have to look at the success of Michael O’Leary’s Ryanair venture (now Europe’s biggest independent airline) to know that the formula works. So we might yet see a boom in business in the not too distant future.
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Linda Pampallis is Chief Executive Officer of Thompsons Africa. With over 40 years' experience in the industry, Linda is leader in her field, highly regarded and respected, with an in-depth understanding of tourism
the events in Paris, Beirut and Mali late last year have had a cascading effect on global society at many levels. The
attacks have highlighted issues such as migration and refugees in Europe, increased security checks on travellers of every description and, naturally, on the prospects for foreign travel everywhere.
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Waiting for a silver lining Is there any light at the end of the tunnel?
Achieve financial wellness by starting
your planning now
great achievements start with a plan. A financial plan that
will help you reach your personal and financial goals is well worth the effort. Here are 10 ways to kick 2016 off to a good start:
1 Know your finances: Let this be a ritual where you know exactly how much money is coming into your account and how much of your income is
financing bad debts such as clothing store cards, loans and hire purchases.
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Cash flow
Nelisiwe Ndlovu is an associate consultant at Alexander Forbes Financial Services
8If you receive a bonus, first pay off any outstanding debt and then put extra money into a savings account. Try investing in a tax-free savings account.
It is a simple, flexible, affordable investment that you could use to save for a goal. You can save up to R30,000 a year and R500,000 over your lifetime, tax-free. You should leave your money for the long-term to benefit from compound interest and to increase your tax saving.
9Make sure you have a valid, up-to-date will in place. If not, then this should be on your list of things to do in 2016 to complete your journey to
holistic financial wellbeing.
10Consult with a registered financial advisor, as a good financial advisor will provide investment advice to help you grow your money.
In order to eliminate financial stress and start working on becoming wealthy in 2016, it is imperative to stick to a budget and live within your means. Starting off the new year with a good financial strategy can encourage savings, diminish spending and grow your finances.
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2Now that you know how much debt you owe, you can start on your plan to pay it off. Always pay off higher-interest debts first.
3Start thinking about your financial goals. Do you want to save more for your retirement, save for a deposit on a house, or maybe start saving for your
child’s education? Write down these goals and estimate how much you want to save each month to reach them.
4Review your risk policies. You might find that you are over-insured and need to cancel some policies, which in turn saves you money.
5The younger generation should make sure that their risk cover is escalating to keep up with their growing assets and liabilities. As you grow older,
your wealth also grows, hence your assets and liabilities are bound to grow.
6If you have children, open a savings account to set aside money for the holidays and for school fees and uniforms.
7 While you plan your holiday, keep your financial plan in mind. Reassess your decision to go on holiday if you are falling short of your savings target.
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But when it comes to setting goals, which of these things really matter? If you set goals for everything you want, or think you want, you may easily become completely overwhelmed, as the list becomes unmanageable. So how can you focus on the goals that really matter? Here are a few pointers:
1Make some time for yourself. Grab a pen and some paper and list all the things you want to achieve this year. Don’t edit or prejudge, just write them all down;
everything from the chance to have a lie-in in the morning to that dream home or dream car. To help, try asking yourself questions like: “What do I want to do?”, “Who do I want be with?”, “Where do I want to live or visit?”, “How do I want to feel?” and “What do I want to own?”
2Keep the list simple. If, for example, a Ferrari is your dream car, just write ‘a Ferrari’ with no further details for now.
3From your list, try to identify how long it will take to attain each thing and then break them down into short-term (up to one year), medium-term (one to
three years), and long-term (four years and beyond). Try to ensure you have a balanced list of three to five goals in each category. If you find you have lots of long-term goals, it may indicate that you are putting off going for what is really important to you, or if they are all short-term, maybe you have not decided on what you really want in life.
4Next, put some detail into the remaining things on your list, so that your goals are as precise as possible – so for that Ferrari, add the colour, the engine spec,
the model, what the interior is like, and so forth.
5Identify why you want those things. Without a genuine reason, you may find that they are not that important after all and not worthy of setting a goal for.
6Think about how attaining the things on your list will make you feel. If you don’t have an emotional response, then setting a goal to get them will be
harder to do.
7Discard those for which you cannot identify a genuine reason why and that do not have an emotional response. It is unlikely that they are things
that you really want as you move forward to the life you desire.
8You should now have a balanced list of short-, medium- and long-term goals for which you can set a plan of action and start working on.
Make 2016 the year that you finally achieve your ultimate ambitions
what do you want in life? Chances are you could come up with a pretty long list of things if you
set your mind to it. There are probably things relating to your job or career, your fitness and health, your relationships, and many other aspects of your life.
ChecklistFocus on the goals that really matter
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You will now have goals that really matter to you and upon which you can focus. But be sure to review them regularly – on at least a weekly basis – to ensure that they are still important to you and that you are taking the steps necessary to bring them to fruition. Only you know what truly matters.
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It is impossible to downplay the importance of water for human individuals, societies, and the natural environment. We depend on it for food, energy and the natural functioning of ecosystems. Ignoring the problem or praying for rain will not solve Africa’s water insecurity.
There is a much harder task ahead – building resilient communities that acknowledge water’s political nature while working together to govern it.
A bleak outlookThe overall security of global freshwater resources is bleak. Places as diverse as São Paulo, California, Zimbabwe, and more recently South Africa, have all recently experienced drought conditions, severely disrupting living conditions. Globally, there is a growing chasm between availability and supply, our awareness of water’s preciousness, and our ability to govern it. Add in the upheaval from changing weather patterns due to climate change, and the complexity deepens.
Unless things change, by 2030 the world will face a 40% shortfall between availability and demand. This is because trends around climate change and economic
african water resources are under increasing stress, and
the continent is likely to face significant water shortages by 2030. Population growth combined with climate change and continued economic development will put further stresses on water resources and infrastructure. Effectively and equitably governing Africa’s water resources is vitally important. One of the most effective solutions will be for industry, civil society and all levels of government to join forces.
HydrosolidarityWhy Africans must join forces to protect scarce water resources
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development in the least developed and emerging economies are converging. The authors of a recent UN report on water write: “This convergence is certain to intensify the water insecurity of poor and marginalised people in low-income countries and add to the urgency for new approaches to the allocation of water resources for development.”
For Africa, already struggling with water insecurity, these deeply vexing challenges will only intensify over time. Sub-Saharan Africa’s population is expected to increase to 2.4 billion by 2050. Africa’s urban population is expected to double by 2030, and the movement towards cities will also exacerbate water stress. Already the number of people who can rely on piped water to their premises has decreased from 42% to 34%. Safe drinking water in urban areas will continue to be a major problem in cities across the continent.
Unpacking the politics of waterWater problems are political problems and require political solutions. Increasingly, scholars from a range of disciplines are focusing on governance as a key variable in the quest for increased water security. Governance requires a toolbox of rules, procedures, norms, and a recognition of particular power dynamics. There is also a focus on how alliances will overcome complex problems that need integration and co-ordination.
Water clearly intersects with a range of social and environmental issues that, at first glance, bear no connection. Working together can plug the gaping holes in governance that emerge from top-down management. It also reflects our growing networked society, where a decision in one sector can have a knock-on effect in intended and unintended ways.
Most crucially, collaborative water governance can overcome the gaps that come from weakened or illegitimate centralised political authorities.
Common groundBecause water is infused with politics, it can lead to deep divisions between competing communities. Equally, it can generate the necessary will to co-operate. Several approaches grounded in local contexts but built on a common spirit of hydrosolidarity need to be pursued.
It is crucial that NGOs, traditional communities and business interests are all included in partnerships with various levels of government to ensure water is managed effectively.
Including a diversity of stakeholders in the political process has a number of positive effects. Technical knowledge of local water resources is spread, effective resolution of conflict is found, legitimacy is increased,
Staying ahead of the water challengeBy 2025, about 1.8 billion people will be living in regions or countries with absolute
water scarcity. Clean water and adequate sanitation is still far from reach for
many of the world’s poorest. At the same time, more water is needed to produce
food and energy to satisfy the rising needs of the Earth’s growing population.
Securing water is a multifaceted issue, and if we add the extra uncertainty brought
on by climate change, we can be certain that securing water will not be properly
managed unless we find ways to stay a step ahead. What are our options?
• First, we need to develop tools and global solutions that are innovative and
forward-looking. We need to bring solutions to countries to help them anticipate
the future in order to shape their investments and policies accordingly. Truly
innovative solutions can be transformational. For example, using satellite
technologies such as Remote Sensing can help farmers identify and predict
areas where more or less water is needed, and unlock the potential of rural
areas, thus diminishing poverty. Sophisticated climate-change tools can be used
to guide the design of water infrastructure precisely to factor in climate change
as well as other challenges, and deliver benefits for generations to come.
• Second, we need to push for greater integration across sectors to
enable countries to better explore the linkages between water, energy,
food and the environment, and make decisions based on trade-offs and
synergies. We cannot deliver water supply and sanitation to the poor
without taking into consideration that the same water sources will be
needed in energy, industry, agriculture and to sustain our ecosystems.
• Third, we need to support programmatic approaches with multi-year
engagements in strategic deltas, basins and countries. This way, we will be
able to work with countries on the type of strategic planning and investments
that will make dramatic economic improvements in the long term. Our work
in the Mekong Delta and the Sahel are good examples of this approach.
• Fourth, we need to strengthen water governance to help countries manage
their water resources by building institutional capacity and exploring innovative
financing options. We must ensure that we can build long-lasting institutions
that can govern and manage across several political administrations.
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and costs are cut. Regional co-operation is also absolutely essential, given that there are more than 80 international rivers and aquifers across the continent.
It is also necessary to learn from and improve existing examples of collaborative water governance, including South Africa’s uMngeni Ecological Infrastructure Partnership, and the Swiss-funded Bridge Programme, which is active across the continent.
We must understand that the seeds for sustainable water security are often sown through the dirty work of bargaining, negotiation and compromise.
No silver bulletGiven Africa’s water insecurity, it may be surprising to learn that only 5% of the continent’s potential water resources are developed. There is clearly plenty of opportunity for growth. The challenge will be to sustainably manage that growth. There is no miraculous technological innovation that will guarantee water security and no package of funding from multilateral donors or national coffers that will fully alleviate water shortages.
Water security involves a number of interrelated pieces: the population, food, energy, land, sanitation, infrastructure, social development, international relations and environmental integrity. A focus on building collaborative governance is a necessary step to increasing water security.
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95% of the continent’s potential water resources are yet to be tapped into
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Leaders need to learn to scan below the surface, assess these threats to the company’s internal capacity, and develop strategies that build confident and engaged employees.
Ultimately, an organisation’s capacity to perform is a function of individual human behaviour and it is the invisible challenges related to this that can affect the success of the organisation. Strategy, integrated processes and operating models are clearly defined and leaders spend significant time over-communicating these elements and implementing scorecards to ensure adherence.
It isn’t wrong to focus on visible perils, but it is important that an equal amount of time is taken to focus on the elements that aren’t as detectable.
business leaders tend to focus on
the more obvious issues and often fail to account for the underlying challenges that can cause irreparable damage to the company. It is these matters that inform the culture of an organisation.
New directionIt’s not about change, it’s about leadership
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Tough call Challenges that bubble below the surface can include employee behaviour. Behavioural challenges can hinder an organisation’s progress, yet many leaders do not focus on this as they lack the visibility of looming behavioural threats and the skills to respond quickly and effectively.
Hard change is not a mystery, and when done correctly can yield impressive results for the business. For hard change or, as I call it, level three change to be brought about, a focused leadership strategy, based on sound principles, is necessary. The end goal of a level three change initiative is not simply soft behavioural change, but also business performance improvement.
Getting it rightA successful change strategy has three key phases:The first phase is for senior leaders to conduct a culture assessment. The assessment will provide critical information that will produce more unified and committed leaders. The senior team will emerge from the assessment with a clear understanding of the three to five vital behaviours they must change if performance is to improve, a compelling and testable hypothesis for how these behaviours will drive improved performance, an unreserved acceptance of the absolute need for behaviour change, and a humble appreciation for the role they will play in driving this change.
In the influence strategy phase, executives learn to diagnose barriers and design influence strategies that engage each of the six sources of influence. Experience has shown that when all sources of influence support new behaviours, change becomes inevitable. It is when leaders learn to skilfully marshal all of these sources that they become world-class leaders. It is during this phase that leaders are able to identify barriers to change and multiply their influence vocabulary. Leaders emerge with a promising change strategy and broader and deeper leadership skill set.
The longest phase of level three change is implementation. It is during this phase that executives develop an overwhelming positive influence to support critical behaviours. Behaviour change and performance improvement are measured carefully to monitor the relationships between the two. Executive coaching is also undertaken at this stage, as leaders become aware of how their own behaviour can unwittingly undermine the change effort. It is now when the influence strategy takes root and begins to bear fruit.
By not relying on a single source of influence and rather identifying several sources at once, superior results are achieved. The level three change process creates a model that sustainably drives rapid change that leads to profound and measurable improvement in performance.
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The Little Chapel in Saint Peter Port (Guernsey) is possibly the smallest chapel in the world. It is a miniature version of the famous grotto and basilica at Lourdes in France. Originally built in March 1914 by religious exile Brother Déodat, it was demolished once in July 1914 and again in 1923 due to various reasons. It measures 4.82 X 2.75m.
Standing room only
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The Constitution of South Africa, the Employment Equity Act (EEA), the Unemployment Insurance Act (UIA), the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA), the Labour Relations Act (LRA), and the Code of Good Practice on the Protection of Employees During Pregnancy and After the Birth of a Child, together provide a far-reaching and comprehensive set of rights for pregnant employees. These rights cover the employee from the day she falls pregnant
until well after the birth of her child.Our constitution ensures that no person may be
discriminated against or dismissed on account of pregnancy. This is emphasised in the EEA and the LRA. The LRA prohibits the dismissal of an employee for any reason related to her pregnancy. In fact, this section makes such a dismissal automatically unfair.
This effectively means that such a dismissal breaches a basic right of the employee, can never be
it is concerning that I still receive various complaints from employees that they are losing their jobs because they are pregnant. This
is despite the fact that employers are aware that labour legislation provides substantial protection for pregnant employees.
How well do you treat your pregnant employees?Great expectation
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lvan lsraelstam is Chief Executive of Labour
Law Management Consulting. He may
be contacted on 082 852 2973, ivan@labourlawadvice.
co.za or go to www.labourlawadvice.co.za
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justifiable, and merits compensation to be paid by the employer up to an amount equivalent to 24 months’ remuneration.
In practice this means that a pregnant employee or one with a newborn baby has an inherent right to her job, provided that she behaves and works according to the employer’s standards. Retrenchment is also only justified if she has been so incapacitated due to illness or injury that she is unable to do her duties.
Fair practiceTherefore, should the employer fire the employee
due to pregnancy, or should the employer wish to use the pregnancy as an excuse for getting rid of the employee, the
courts will most likely come down very hard on the employer. The following recent
case proves this point.In the case of Mnguni vs Gumbi, the
receptionist at a medical practice claimed that she was dismissed because she
complained that she felt tired while she was in the
advanced stages of pregnancy. The employer claimed
that the employee had not been dismissed, but only sent home.
However, the Labour Court found that the employer had
employed a new receptionist the very next day. It also found that the
employer had not called on the employee to return to work when the opportunity arose.
This suggested that the applicant had in fact been fired and that the dismissal was automatically unfair. The result: the employer had to pay the employee 24 months’ remuneration in compensation. The employer was also required to pay the employee’s legal costs.
This case suggests that even where evidence of dismissal is not clear, if there is any evidence of an employee being dismissed due to pregnancy, employers cannot expect mercy from the courts.
Therefore, where such dismissals are contemplated, advice from a reputable labour law expert should be sought.
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Bigger, better and brighter, the 2016 Tshwane Open takes place from 11 to 14 February, so make sure you don’t miss out on this exciting event, which is part of the prestigious Sunshine Tour, co-sanctioned by the European Tour.
Now in its fourth year, the tournament is blazing an international name for itself as a must-play tournament attracting some of the world’s best. The Tshwane Open has helped establish South Africa as one of the most successful hosts of European Tour events globally, according to the organisers.
This year’s Open is expected to draw record crowds – attendance climbs every year – and it will also be broadcast live into more than 200 million homes. But it is also a truism that the tournament is about more than just golf: it’s a multi-dimensional City of Tshwane mega-event with a range of entertainment options on offer alongside the cracking golf.
Food, fun and a little historyThe City of Tshwane uses the event to encourage players and fans to spend a few extra days exploring Tshwane; to take time to visit, rediscover and be inspired by South Africa’s capital city.
Although Tshwane is large – home to some 2.5 million people from all backgrounds and spread across an area of more than 6,000km² – the atmosphere is sociable.
Here you will discover a unique city filled with many great experiences: it’s a city of sport, a city of art and culture; it has a lively nightlife and wonderful restaurants. In February, the late summer days are warm and welcoming, like the residents. And it is this warmth people remember long after they have left Tshwane.
The only way to really understand the people of a city is to sit down for a meal with some locals. Eateries vary from homely Mediterranean classics to the finest of fine dining. But a not-to-be-missed experience is the traditional African meal at a shebeen while listening to jazz.
The 2016 Tshwane Open takes place from
11 to 14 February at the Pretoria
Country Club
Come the second week in February, Tshwane will be in the spotlight as 156 of the world’s top golfers tee off at the magnificent Pretoria Country Club for the fourth Tshwane Open tournament.
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Tshwane is a musical city. Atteridgeville, with more than 50 clubs and numerous bands, is known as the jazz capital of South Africa, while Mamelodi (‘mother of melodies’) gave birth to malombo jazz: a combination of mbaqanga with traditional drumming, gospel music and African jazz guitar.
Of course, a visit is not complete without touring the city’s heritage sites. Every itinerary should include the impressive Freedom Park, which captures the story of South Africa from the dawn of time; the bustling Church Square in the city’s CBD with its many 19th-century buildings; the quirky mining town of Cullinan, where the world’s largest diamond was found more than a century ago; and the traditional Ndebele village of Mabhoko with its intricately decorated houses.
You need not travel far to experience the country’s wildlife. Tshwane is the only city in the world in which the Big Five roam free within municipal boundaries, at the Dinokeng Game Reserve. And it’s a malaria-free zone.
Golf courses galoreAfter watching some of the world’s best golfers in action, you may feel the urge to get out on the fairways yourself. You’ll be spoilt for choice as Tshwane is home to 16 world-class courses.
There’s the bushveld experience at the Akasia Country Club or the parklands Peter Matkovich-designed Centurion Country Club; the magnificent scenery on offer at the Silver Lakes Golf Estate or the challenging Pebble Rock Golf Course with water hazards on 11 holes.
For more information, visit www.tshwaneopen.co.za
You can also tee off at the Ernie Els-designed club at Copperleaf, venue of the inaugural Tshwane Open, or tee off at the well-known Zwartkop Country Club, which has seen a number of golfing greats striding across the green – players of the likes of Bobby Locke, Gary Player, Seve Ballesteros, Lee Trevino, Nick Faldo, Ernie Els, Nick Price and Retief Goosen.
All in all, Tshwane’s a wonderful place to explore, so join us at the 2016 Tshwane Open next month – it’s more than just golf.
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a geofence location, drag and drop the pin on the map, resize the radius using your finger, and Locale does the rest. Locale’s sophisticated sensor fusion technology combines an accelerometer, Wi-Fi, GPS and other signals for optimal accuracy, performance and battery life.
Vehicle Logbook EnterpriseVehicle Logbook Enterprise offers features with time and location recording, which makes it excellent for salespeople, fleet operators, businesses that need to track drivers and people who would like more detailed vehicle logging. It also allows you to back up and restore your database to your phone and your Dropbox account. This app can run in the background, allowing you to use other apps (music, camera, and the like) or take calls at the same time. Users can export everything into an Excel spreadsheet at the end of the month and administer the data.
MoneyWise MoneyWise is a money manager app that combines an expense manager, a bill reminder and a budget planner. It provides a rich, detailed window into your personal finances and daily money management needs. Business expenses, personal expenses and travel expenses can all be managed quickly and easily using the simple and intuitive user interface.
Kitchen storiesKitchen Stories offers aspiring and seasoned chefs alike the opportunity to hone their cooking skills and discover delicious new recipes and cooking inspiration. All recipes are easy to make and come with beautiful pictures, easy-to-follow step-by-step photo instructions, recipe videos, and clever how-to videos.
Video editorThis easy-to-use storyboard-style video editor is ideal for exporting videos to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and more. Enjoy an intuitive interface and animated interactions where you can see your images and video clips on a visual storyboard. Start a video on your mobile device and pick up where you left off on the full-featured desktop video editor.
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LocaleLocale’s advanced artificial intelligence manages settings automatically. For example, arrive at work and instantly your ringer silences and your Wi-Fi switches on. With Locale, never worry about your ringer going off accidentally again. Configuring is simple. To create
APP YOUR LIFEMake your smartphone work for you
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Every issue we review the apps that tick our boxes. Here are this month’s picks.
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Doodle awayThe 3Doodler is the world’s first 3D-printing pen. It was designed to inspire creativity while enhancing visual and tactical learning. Lift your imagination off the page and draw in 3D. The 3Doodler pen releases heated plastic filament that cools almost instantly into a solid, stable structure that can be used for science and math, 3D chemistry, art and design or engineering school projects.
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Is this the One for you?The HTC One A9 is the latest addition to the award-winning HTC One family. The first non-Nexus smartphone powered by Android 6.0 Marshmallow brings Google’s latest innovations and the simplicity of HTC Sense right out of the box. It features a 5-inch, edge-to-edge, 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass 4, full-HD AMOLED screen that cascades into the metal frame, giving you brighter and more vivid colours for brilliant graphics and gaming. Its main 13MP rear camera features optical image stabilisation (OIS), which automatically minimises hand shake and corrects vibrations to give you a crystal-clear picture every time. Price: Contract dependenthtc.com
SoundcheckWhether you choose wireless, USB or stereo-powered audio gear, you will always be one step ahead of your enemies with the Corsair RGB VOID headset. With fast-forward design, spectacular fidelity and innovative features like InfoMic and CUE Control, Corsair VOID gaming headsets enable you to command and control your gaming soundscape, without hitting pause. Price: From R1,715corsair.com
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A mother of six children, Tereza Turyatunga is a resident of Biguli in rural Uganda. Her family’s income relies entirely on agricultural production, with maize as their primary crop. Turyatunga always had to sell her grain right after harvest, as that’s when weevils and other pests become a problem. Even worse, months later she would be forced to buy grain from farmers at prices that were five times higher. This poverty trap forced Tereza and her family to struggle with hunger almost every harvest.
Her story in not unique though. There are multiple threats to food security and smallholder farmers
across the African continent. El Niño is just one of many challenges that cause food insecurity for millions. The El Niño phenomenon brings increased rain to the Horn of Africa, while simultaneously causing poor rains in other parts of East Africa and increased flooding in Kenya and Somalia. These changes in rainfall and temperature affect crop and pasture development around the world, thereby jeopardising people’s ability to produce and buy food. The current El Niño is said to be one of the strongest on record – many already struggling communities around the world will feel the impact of El Niño on their livelihoods.
Did you know that farmers in sub-Saharan Africa can lose up to 30% of their crops within the first month after harvest?
insects, rodents, moisture, mould: these
are the age-old enemies of the world’s food supply chain – the farmers’ nemeses. To combat them, the World Food Programme (WFP) has turned to a practical yet innovative solution. By addressing inadequate post-harvest handling and storage practices, the programme is transforming the lives of low-income, smallholder farmers in Uganda struggling to meet their families’ basic food needs.
Waste not, want not Ending poverty starts
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Even in years without a strong El Niño, some of the largest threats to food security are post-harvest losses. In the weeks after harvest, sub-Saharan Africa alone loses 20 million metric tons of food each year, valued at over $4 billion, according to a 2011 study by the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation. Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa can lose up to 30% of their crops within the first month after harvest. Crops can also become damaged, spoiled or lost while being harvested, handled, processed, stored and transported. Without knowledge of proper handling and storage techniques, a significant portion of crops is lost before ever making it to the market and to the table.
Smallholder farmers often use traditional storage made from straw and wood, leaving their crops vulnerable to rain and infestation by insects and rodents. While harvesting and cleaning the crops, antiquated techniques and tools can damage the grain.
For rural families like Turyatunga’s, lost food means lost land, labour, water, fertiliser and income. Lost food also deprives farmers of the opportunity to grow and strengthen their own household finances.
An end to wastageTo combat food loss and the subsequent loss of livelihoods, WFP launched the Zero Food-Loss Initiative in 2013.
Top: Maize after 90 days – traditional
storage unitAbove: Maize after 90
days – new storage unit
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At least three-quarters of the food WFP purchases comes from developing countries, stimulating local economies and reducing the time it takes to reach the hungry. WFP works with local farmers to increase the quality and quantity of food they produce and to help connect them to buyers. By working with farmers and local communities to prevent losses, WFP is building a world with zero hunger, one community at a time.
In Uganda, WFP’s post-harvest management training,
coupled with airtight storage equipment, enables farmers to reduce losses to less than 2%, a drastic 98% reduction of post-harvest losses. In just one harvest, participating farmers were able to pay off their investments in the new storage devices. On average, they could triple their income within the first year.
Size mattersTuryatunga is one of more than 2,200 people in Uganda’s Kamwenge District who participated in the farmer training, with each of them acquiring new storage units. After an initial pilot project of 200 farmers, WFP and partners rapidly scaled up, organising training on improved post-harvest handling practices, and offering subsidised storage equipment for 58,000 smallholder farmers across Uganda.
However, farming families are not the only participants to benefit from the training and improved storage equipment. “We have been using rudimentary methods to control pests by mixing ash and cow dung to put in the beans,” said Denis Tukahirwa, headmaster of the Gayaza Primary School in the Isingiro District, Uganda, one of the participating schools in the programme. “In the process, the colour and even the taste of the beans changed, causing them to turn sour. The modern silos are going to help us save time and keep our beans for over a year.”
In the Isingiro District alone, over 820 farmers as well as schools like Gayaza Primary School received training on post-harvest handling and received silos subsidised at 70% of the total cost. “The silos will enhance the School Meals Programme in Isingiro schools, and enable them to have food for the children throughout the year,” said Peninah Tumusiime, education co-ordinator for the project. “It will sustain the school feeding programme with minimal external support.”
Because of the silo that she purchased after being trained on post-harvest handling and storage, Turyatunga was able to sell her grain after four months of storage for twice the price that she would have received at the time of harvest. “I have never acquired such income from my produce,” said Turyatunga. With the increased income, she is hoping to buy two goats to start another source of income generation and meet the requirements to put her children through school.
Because of the Zero Food-Loss Initiative, many farmers will have a surplus supply of grain for both consumption and trade for the first time. Not only does this increase national and international trading opportunities for the countries, but it improves individual income and community livelihoods.
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Small scale farming holds the key to ensuring securing our food resources
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MediaRun Racist Run by Eusebius McKaiser
At a time when South African students protest against colonial symbols on university campuses, when accusations of racism erupt in cultural
spaces, and when racial tensions in towns in the USA explode, it is clear that this conversation is long overdue. In this collection of essays, McKaiser does not pull any punches in his dissection of apartheid’s racist legacy – and no one is safe from his pen.
Springbok Rugby Quiz by Pierre Francois MassynThis book examines rugby lore in an unusually entertaining way: it comprises 1,001 questions
BooksThe Age of Magic by Ben Okri
This new novel from Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri is about a group of world-weary travellers who discover the meaning of life in a mysterious Swiss
mountain village. Eight film-makers, travelling from Paris to Basel, arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of three days and two nights, the travellers find themselves drawn into the mystery of the mountain reflected in the lake. One by one, they are disturbed, enlightened and transformed, each in a different way. An intoxicating and dreamlike tale unfolds.
and answers. Rugby lovers can now enjoy some of the most outlandish anecdotes, as well as cold hard facts and statistics about this game we all love. This well-researched book covers the entire spectrum of our rugby history, from the first Test match in 1891 up to modern times. Rugby fans will certainly find more than enough challenges among the 1,001 questions included here. And, as a bonus, the author also includes his Dream Team – the best players of all time united in one super-team. Fun, informative and factual, this is a must-read for all rugby fans.
CDsLosing My Religion by Kirk FranklinLosing My Religion marks Franklin’s 11th consecutive
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unmatched; she is, inarguably, the greatest vocalist of her generation, an artist who instinctively understands timbre and pitch. And this comes through in this album.
DVDsEverestThis disaster movie focuses on a doomed ascent of Mount Everest in May 1996.
Climbers from two expeditions head towards the summit, the highest point on Earth, when an unexpected storm closes in, wreaking havoc. Stranded in a violent blizzard, the teams are pushed to the edge in a harsh battle for survival. The odds are not in their favour, and many will not make it off the mountain alive. Based on true events.
number one debut on the Billboard gospel charts. The 13-song project explores timely themes and classic sentiments, while offering renewed testimony to Kirk’s status as a Grammy-winning songwriter and producer.Kirk collaborates with a wide array of music luminaries, including stellar performances from Kim Burrell, Lalah Hathaway, Tamale Man, Tasha Cobbs, Sarah Reeves, Bacardi Cortez, and Tasha Page-Lockhart.
25 by AdeleAdele sold more than 2.5 million copies of her album within three days of release. Almost every song on 25 addresses
heartache in one form or another. Adele’s instincts as a singer remain
The MartianMatt Damon stars in this movie about a manned mission to Mars that goes awry when a fierce storm
hits. Astronaut Mark Watney is left behind, presumed dead, with few supplies and no hope of survival. He must keep his wits about him in order to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. He succeeds and NASA plans a daring rescue mission to try and bring ‘the Martian’ home, something that captures the attention of the world, who root for his safe return.
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The main reason is that the Ranger is the first of the next-generation bakkies to reach our shores, and it shows. Most of the mechanicals were carried over from the pre-facelift model, but the changes are so significant that it almost feels like a new car.
Yes, from the rear, it looks exactly the same, but that new front-end is stunning. I’m not particularly fond of the orange colour that you can order in Wildtrak specification, but in blue or white, it looks epic. It looks American, and that’s not a bad thing. The American marque is not celebrated for building dynamic vehicles, but no one can accuse them of producing boring cars.
Same, only differentMechanically, the Ranger is almost the same vehicle as before, but since it was already class-leading in that regard, there really was no reason to mess with the formula too much. I’m also happy to report that the
Full rangeDoes the new Ford Ranger have what it takes to be a solid contender in the double-cab market?
This is the new Ford Ranger, and I’m not going to beat around the bush, because the only thing you want to know is whether it is the best bakkie on sale in SA. The answer is yes. There’s no doubt in my mind that this should be your choice, for the time being, if you are in the market for a double-cab or extended-cab bakkie.
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clunky gearshift problem in the previous 3.2ℓ model has been solved.
The biggest improvement, however, is the interior. That touchscreen infotainment system makes a big difference to the overall ambience, and thanks to the uprated Sync 2 system it’s a joy to use. The colour-coded segments are fairly easy to understand, and you are never more than two touches away from where you want to be.
The overall quality is good, noise levels are impressively low, and the Ranger glides along nicely in town and on the highway. That’s 90% of the dynamic abilities sorted out for most future customers.
There’s good news for those who will venture off-road as well. The Ranger, even though it can brag about its 230mm ground clearance, 800mm wading depth and impressive approach and departure angles, has never been a very good trail vehicle. We entered the Bridgestone off-road driving event in one last year,
and it was too bulky for obstacle-based precision off-roading. The updated Ranger has a new electrically assisted steering module and this makes a massive difference when manoeuvring it through tight obstacles, or on a rocky mountain pass. The inclusion of hill descent control on top-spec models also makes it much easier to come down the mountain. It firms up nicely at speed, which gives you a fair amount of confidence on a gravel road.
The updated suspension is equally impressive, and the Ranger felt secure and composed on every surface we drove on. You still get that traditional bakkie bounce on a really bad tar surface, but that’s par for the course with every double-cab.
As mentioned previously, the engines remain unchanged, and Ford gave us the opportunity to drive the 2.2ℓ and 3.2ℓ turbocharged diesel engines, the latter in automatic guise.
The updated 2.2ℓ four-cylinder diesel, now delivering 118kW and 385Nm of torque, is all the engine you’ll ever need. It picks up speed nicely and is more than happy to cruise along at 130km/h. But the 3.2ℓ five-cylinder unit remains the best bakkie engine in the business. It’s a tower of power and I don’t think any reasonable person would be able to walk away from it after experiencing its 470Nm first hand.
VerdictFord has done a lot to ensure that the Ranger stays on top for the foreseeable future, at least in the leisure segment. With so many changes, it feels unfair to call it a facelift. Sure, for the most part, it’s the same vehicle as before, but the changes make a massive difference.
So that’s the new Ranger in a nutshell. It’s the current class leader, but this could change as the year progresses.
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It’s built for a bruising, but the new Ranger’s interior is comfortable with all the right appointments
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Leisure wheels is South Africa's foremost adventure motoring magazine. For this reason Skyways has chosen to work with Leisure wheels when it comes to providing you with motoring information. For more on the topic of adventure motoring, look out for the current issue of Leisure wheels, on sale now. www.leisurewheels.com
Pork belly with a ginger and star anise sauce
For the ginger and star anise sauce:• ¼ cup light-brown sugar• ¼ cup water• 2 red chillies, sliced• 2 tablespoons fresh ginger, crushed• 4 tablespoons Thai fish sauce• Juice of a lime• 1 star anise
For the pork belly:• 500g pork belly, whole, with the bones still in • Peanut oil for roasting
MethodFor the ginger and star anise sauce:1. In a saucepan, slowly bring the
brown sugar and water to the boil. Simmer until the mixture starts to caramelise. Add the chillies, ginger, Thai fish sauce, lime juice and star anise and cook slowly for 2 more minutes.
For the pork belly:1. Preheat the oven to 160˚C. Place
the pork belly on an oven tray and cover it with foil.
2. Roast in the oven for about four hours. Remove the pork from the oven and carefully take out the bones.
3. Transfer the pork to another pan and place a similar size pan on top of it. Place something heavy on top and leave it in the fridge for three hours or until completely cool.
4. Remove the pork from the pan, trim the sides, and cut into the desired serving portions.
5. Preheat your oven to 180˚. Place the pork pieces, skin-side down, on a roasting tray that has been lightly brushed with a little peanut oil. Roast for 10 minutes on either side until nicely crisped.
6. Remove from the oven and serve with the ginger and star anise sauce. This is a very rich dish. Radishes served with it will offset the richness.
EpicureanThe Kimberley Anne Small Luxury Hotel is fast becoming known as the finest dining establishment in Kimberley. Executive chef and general manager Stephanie Smith designs each dish to perfection, going so far as to draw up the exact image of how she sees every meal presented on the plate. This month, she shares two of her own favourite recipes.
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West Coast snoek and sweet potato samoosas, served with spekboom and fresh coriander leaves
Ingredients• 1.5kg West Coast smoked snoek, deboned• 300g sweet potato, peeled• 3 medium-size onions• 10mℓ oil• 150g brown sugar• 90g butter• Bunch of spring onions (greens only), sliced• Seasoning• Samoosa pastry• Spekboom leaves and fresh coriander leaves,
to garnish
Method1. Cook the sweet potato in water until
soft, and then drain. Return it to the stove, and on a low heat, add the butter and sugar and heat until the sugar has dissolved. Mash the potato with the butter and sugar, and then let it cool.
2. Sauté the onions in the oil until soft and slightly brown. Add the snoek and sauté until all the liquid has evaporated.
3. Mix the snoek and sweet potato mixture, and then add the sliced spring onion and seasoning.
4. Fill the samoosa pastry with the mixture and fold into samoosas. Shallow-fry until golden brown.
5. For garnish, add indigenous spekboom leaves and fresh coriander leaves. Spekboom has a slight citrusy taste that pairs well with snoek.
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Butter chickenIngredients• 500g chicken breasts• 2 tablespoons each of ginger and garlic • 500mℓ cream• 2 teaspoons turmeric powder • 4 tablespoons curry powder • 2 teaspoons jeera powder • 2 teaspoons elaichi powder • 20g butter • Cooking oil• 500g fresh red tomato puree • 4 chillies• 3 onions, chopped• 10g curry leaves • 50g mint, to serve • 50g coriander, to serve
Method1. Marinate the chicken pieces with the
ginger and garlic. 2. Make a paste with the spices and cream. 3. Heat the butter and sauté the chicken on
medium heat until brown and keep aside. 4. Heat the oil and add the chilli, curry
leaves, onions and tomato puree and cook for eight minutes.
5. Add the chicken to the mixture. 6. Next, add the paste. 7. Simmer until cooked through and serve
with coriander and mint.
Spice it up
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palate. It is the ideal wine to enjoy with any red meat dish.
La Motte Pierneef Syrah Viognier 2013This wine is a blend of 90% Shiraz from the Walker Bay (65%) and Elim (35%) areas as well as 10% Viognier from Franschhoek. The Pierneef Syrah Viognier 2013 is a very versatile partner to food. Try this classic Rhône-style blend with a festively spiced whole-roasted duck.
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What made a fifth-generation Franschhoeker become the leading Chardonnay producer? And what made him choose GlenWood? If you ask him, he will tell you that it was the love of the valley, love of the owner’s driving philosophy, love of the terroir, and love of good wines.
In 1991, DP Burger joined Alastair Wood on his farm GlenWood with his well-earned Elsenburg agricultural diploma. He was about to embark on a gap year overseas. However, Wood explained to him his dream of producing simple, natural, quality wines. Burger cancelled his plans and accepted a position as general manager and winemaker. The rest is history.
To achieve that dream, only grapes from GlenWood’s vineyards – all of which Burger planted – find their way into his cellar. Here are his choices of great South African wines.
GlenWood Grand Duc Chardonnay 2013 The estate’s flagship wine shows outstanding oak and fruit integration. On the palate the wine displays a full, rich, creamy mouthfeel of almonds and vanilla, resulting in a lingering aftertaste of smoky peach and citrus. With just under 1,800 bottles produced, the Grand Duc
Chardonnay 2013 is ready to enjoy now, or if cellared under the correct conditions, will reach its full potential within the next five to seven years. It should be enjoyed with cream-based pasta dishes, roast chicken, spicy Thai foods or any seafood dishes.
La Bri Merlot 2013This Merlot has a rich garnet colour. The nose is a complex mix of black cherries, red plums and mulberries. It is a juicy and elegant entry with soft integrated tannins as well as hints of dried mushrooms and red plums on the
In 1991 DP Burger made a life-changing decision that saw him develop into one of the country’s finest winemakers
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If you can’t finish this puzzle during your flight, please take this free copy of Skyways with you. The cabin attendant will make sure that the next passengers get their own magazine, with a clean Sudoku for them to puzzle over!Puzzles taken from www.krazydad.com
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FLIGHT ROUTE DEPARTURE ARRIVAL FREQUENCY CONNECTING FLIGHT OPTIONS
Flight number Routing Departs Arrives
Arathusa lodge strip (ASS) servicing - Arathusa, Cheetah Plains, Chitwa Chitwa, Djuma Vuyatela, Elephant Plains, Nkorho, Simbambili
Flights FROM Arathusa TO:SA 8950 Arathusa via Londolozi to Nelspruit KMIA 10:10 11:00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8870 Nelspruit to Livingstone on Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat 11:35
SA 8258 Nelspruit to Vilanculos on Thu and Sun 11:35
SA 8952 Arathusa to Nelspruit KMIA 12:00 12:40 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8664 Nelspruit to Cape Town 13:15
SA 8954 Arathusa to Skukuza 13:50 14:05 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8866 Skukuza to Johannesburg 14:50
Flights TO Arathusa FROM:SA 8955 Skukuza to Arathusa 14:30 14:45 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8651 Cape Town to Skukuza 13:05
SA 8865 Johannesburg to Skukuza 14:10
SA 8953 Nelspruit KMIA to Arathusa 13:05 13:40 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8841 Johannesburg to Nelspruit 11:55
SA 8663 Cape Town to Nelspruit 12:35
SA 8945 Skukuza via Londolozi to Arathusa 11:15 11:50 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8861 Johannesburg to Skukuza 10:50
Flights FROM Londolozi (LDZ) TO:SA 8950 Londolozi to Nelspruit 10:30 11:00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8870 Nelspruit to Livingstone on Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat 11:35
SA 8258 Nelspruit to Vilanculos on Thu and Sun 11:35
SA 8940 Londolozi to Skukuza 10:40 10:55 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8652 Skukuza to Cape Town 11:20
SA 8947 Londolozi to Skukuza 14:05 14:20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8866 Skukuza to Johannesburg 14:50
Flights TO Londolozi FROM:SA 8945 Skukuza to Londolozi 11:15 11:30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8861 Johannesburg to Skukuza 10:50
SA 8946 Nelspruit KMIA to Londolozi 13:00 13:30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8507 Durban to Nelspruit on Mon, Wed and Fri 8:05
SA 8663 Cape Town to Nelspruit 12:35
SA 8841 Johannesburg to Nelspruit 11:55
SA 8948 Skukuza to Londolozi 14:40 14:55 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8651 Cape Town to Skukuza 13:05
SA 8865 Johannesburg to Skukuza 14:10
Flights FROM Nelpsruit - Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (KMIA) (MQP) TO:SA 8953 Nelspruit KMIA to Arathusa 13:05 13:40 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8841 Johannesburg to Nelspruit 11:55
SA 8663 Cape Town to Nelspruit 12:35
SA 8946 Nelspruit KMIA to Londolozi 13:00 13:30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8841 Johannesburg to Nelspruit 11:55
SA 8663 Cape Town to Nelspruit 12:35
SA 8932 Nelspruit KMIA to Ulusaba 12:55 13:25 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8841 Johannesburg to Nelspruit 11:55
SA 8663 Cape Town to Nelspruit 12:35
Flights TO Nelspruit - Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (KMIA) FROM:SA 8930 Ulusaba via Skukuza to Nelspruit KMIA 9:55 11:05 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8870 Nelspruit to Livingstone on Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat 11:35
SA 8258 Nelspruit to Vilanculos on Thu and Sun 11:35
SA 8930 Skukuza to Nelspruit KMIA 10:30 11:05 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8870 Nelspruit to Livingstone on Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat 11:35
SA 8258 Nelspruit to Vilanculos on Thu and Sun 11:35
SA 8950 Arathusa via Londolozi to Nelspruit KMIA 10:10 11:00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8870 Nelspruit to Livingstone on Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat 11:35
SA 8258 Nelspruit to Vilanculos on Thu and Sun 11:35
SA 8950 Londolozi to Nelspruit KMIA 10:30 11:00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8870 Nelspruit to Livingstone on Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat 11:35
SA 8258 Nelspruit to Vilanculos on Thu and Sun 11:35
SA 8952 Arathusa to Nelspruit KMIA 12:00 12:40 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8664 Nelspruit to Cape Town 13:15
SA 8842 Nelspruit to Johannesburg 13:35
Flights FROM Skukuza Airport (SZK) TO:SA 8930 Skukuza to Nelspruit KMIA 10:30 11:05 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8861 Johannesburg to Skukuza 10:50
SA 8945 Skukuza to Londolozi 11:15 11:30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8861 Johannesburg to Skukuza 10:50
SA 8945 Skukuza via Londolozi to Arathusa 11:15 11:50 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8861 Johannesburg to Skukuza 10:50
SA 8955 Skukuza to Arathusa 14:30 14:45 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8651 Cape Town to Skukuza 13:05
SA 8865 Johannesburg to Skukuza 14:10
SA 8948 Skukuza to Londolozi 14:40 14:55 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8651 Cape Town to Skukuza 13:05
SA 8865 Johannesburg to Skukuza 14:10
SA 8933 Skukuza to Ulusaba 14:45 15:00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8651 Cape Town to Skukuza 13:05
SA 8865 Johannesburg to Skukuza 14:10
Flights TO Skukuza Airport FROM:SA 8954 Arathusa to Skukuza 13:50 14:05 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8866 Skukuza to Johannesburg 14:50
SA 8940 Londolozi to Skukuza 10:40 10:55 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8652 Skukuza to Cape Town 11:20
SA 8947 Londolozi to Skukuza 14:05 14:20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8866 Skukuza to Johannesburg 14:50
SA 8930 Ulusaba to Skukuza 9:55 10:10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8652 Skukuza to Cape Town 11:20
SA 8934 Ulusaba to Skukuza 14:00 14:15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8866 Skukuza to Johannesburg 14:50
Flights FROM Ulusaba lodge strip (ULX) TO: Ulusaba Rock, Ulusaba Cliff and Safari Lodge, &Beyond Leadwood and Exeter, Inyati, Leopard Hills, Dulini, Savanna, Idube
SA 8930 Ulusaba to Skukuza 9:55 10:10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8652 Skukuza to Cape Town 11:20
SA 8930 Ulusaba via Skukuza to Nelspruit KMIA 9:55 11:05 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8870 Nelspruit to Livingstone on Mon,Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat 11:35
SA 8258 Nelspruit to Vilanculos on Thu and Sun 11:35
SA 8934 Ulusaba to Skukuza 14:00 14:15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8866 Skukuza to Johannesburg 14:50
Flights TO Ulusaba FROM:SA 8932 Nelspruit KMIA to Ulusaba 12:55 13:25 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8841 Johannesburg to Nelspruit 11:55
SA 8663 Cape Town to Nelspruit 12:35
SA 8933 Skukuza to Ulusaba 14:45 15:00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SA 8651 Cape Town to Skukuza 13:05
SA 8865 Johannesburg to Skukuza 14:10
Applicable fare rules apply. 20kg checked baggage, soft bag only. 7kg hand baggage, soft bag only. Free luggage storage facilities available at Skukuza Airport and Nelspruit KMIA. These exclusive services are restricted to applicable lodges and their guests.
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Jetstream 4100 - Regional Turboprop AirlinerNumber of aircraftMaximum PassengersLengthWing SpanHeightFuel capacityMaximum Operating AltitudeCruising Speed
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ERJ 135-LR - Regional Jet Airliner and Corporate JetNumber of aircraftMaximum PassengersLengthWing SpanHeightFuel capacityMaximum Operating AltitudeCruising Speed
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F L I G H T S – DomesticCape Town - George - Cape Town
SA8621 Cape Town - George 7:15 8:05 1 2 3 4 5 AR8 AirlinkSA8625 Cape Town - George 8:15 9:05 6 ER3 AirlinkSA8631 Cape Town - George 11:30 12:20 1 2 3 4 5 6 ER3 AirlinkSA8633 Cape Town - George 13:30 14:20 6 ER3 AirlinkSA8639 Cape Town - George 14:15 15:05 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 AirlinkSA8639 Cape Town - George 14:15 15:05 7 AR8 AirlinkSA8635 Cape Town - George 16:45 17:40 1 2 3 4 5 7 ER3 AirlinkSA8622 George - Cape Town 8:30 9:20 1 2 3 4 5 AR8 AirlinkSA8630 George - Cape Town 9:25 10:15 6 ER3 AirlinkSA8632 George - Cape Town 13:00 13:50 1 2 3 4 5 6 ER3 AirlinkSA8634 George - Cape Town 14:45 15:35 6 ER3 AirlinkSA8638 George - Cape Town 15:25 16:15 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 AirlinkSA8638 George - Cape Town 15:25 16:15 7 AR8 AirlinkSA8636 George - Cape Town 18:10 19:05 1 2 3 4 5 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8611 Cape Town - Kimberley 6:15 7:50 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 AirlinkSA8617 Cape Town - Kimberley 16:50 18:20 1 2 ER3 AirlinkSA8617 Cape Town - Kimberley 16:50 18:20 3 4 5 7 AR8 AirlinkSA8612 Kimberley - Cape Town 8:15 9:50 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 AirlinkSA8618 Kimberley - Cape Town 18:50 20:25 1 2 ER3 AirlinkSA8618 Kimberley - Cape Town 18:50 20:25 3 4 5 7 AR8 Airlink
SA8663 Cape Town - Nelspruit 10:00 12:35 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AR8 AirlinkSA8664 Nelspruit - Cape Town 13:15 15:55 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AR8 Airlink SA8651 Cape Town - Skukuza 10:35 13:05 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ER3 AirlinkSA8652 Skukuza - Cape Town 11:20 13:55 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8645 Cape Town - Upington 7:10 8:30 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 AirlinkSA8647 Cape Town - Upington 10:45 12:05 7 ER3 AirlinkSA8649 Cape Town - Upington 11:45 13:05 1 5 ER3 AirlinkSA8646 Upington - Cape Town 8:50 10:10 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 AirlinkSA8648 Upington - Cape Town 12:50 14:10 7 ER3 AirlinkSA8650 Upington - Cape Town 13:25 14:45 1 5 ER3 Airlink SA8670 Cape Town - Pretoria 06:45 09:00 1 2 3 4 5 AR8 AirlinkSA8672 Cape Town - Pretoria 15:00 17:15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AR8 AirlinkSA8676 Cape Town - Pretoria 17:30 19:45 1 2 3 4 5 7 AR8 AirlinkSA8675 Pretoria - Cape Town 06:45 09:15 1 2 3 4 5 AR8 AirlinkSA8671 Pretoria - Cape Town 10:30 13:00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AR8 AirlinkSA8673 Pretoria - Cape Town 17:45 20:15 1 2 3 4 5 7 AR8 Airlink
SA8531 Durban - Bloemfontein 6:50 7:55 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 AirlinkSA8533 Durban - Bloemfontein 12:00 13:25 7 J41 AirlinkSA8535 Durban - Bloemfontein 15:15 16:40 7 J41 AirlinkSA8537 Durban - Bloemfontein 16:35 17:40 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 AirlinkSA8532 Bloemfontein - Durban 8:15 9:15 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 AirlinkSA8534 Bloemfontein - Durban 13:45 14:50 7 J41 AirlinkSA8536 Bloemfontein - Durban 17:00 18:05 7 J41 AirlinkSA8538 Bloemfontein - Durban 18:00 19:00 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 Airlink
SA8515 Durban - George 9:40 11:30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ER3 AirlinkSA8514 George - Durban 11:50 13:15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8507 Durban - Nelspruit 6:45 8:05 1 3 5 J41 AirlinkSA8505 Durban - Nelspruit 13:45 14:45 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ER3 AirlinkSA8508 Nelspruit - Durban 8:25 9:45 1 3 5 J41 AirlinkSA8506 Nelspruit - Durban 15:10 16:10 1 2 3 4 5 6 ER3 AirlinkSA8510 Nelspruit - Durban 17:40 18:40 7 ER3 Airlink SA8427 Johannesburg - Kimberley 16:30 17:40 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 AirlinkSA8428 Kimberley - Johannesburg 18:20 19:30 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 Airlink
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Cape Town - Nelspruit - Cape Town
Cape Town - Upington - Cape Town
Cape Town - Pretoria - Cape Town
Durban - Bloemfontein - Durban
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Johannesburg - Kimberley - Johannesburg
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Cape Town - Skukuza - Cape Town
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SA8823 Johannesburg - Nelspruit 7:00 7:50 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 Airlink
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SA8838 Nelspruit - Johannesburg 6:55 7:50 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 Airlink
SA8824 Nelspruit - Johannesburg 8:25 9:15 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 Airlink
SA8836 Nelspruit - Johannesburg 8:30 9:25 6 ER3 Airlink
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SA8851 Johannesburg - Phalaborwa 6:25 7:35 1 2 3 4 J41 Airlink
SA8853 Johannesburg - Phalaborwa 11:45 12:55 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 J41 Airlink
SA8857 Johannesburg - Phalaborwa 16:00 17:10 5 J41 Airlink
SA8854 Phalaborwa - Johannesburg 13:15 14:35 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 J41 Airlink
SA8858 Phalaborwa - Johannesburg 17:30 18:50 1 2 3 4 5 J41 Airlink
SA8801 Johannesburg - Polokwane 6:35 7:25 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 Airlink
SA8809 Johannesburg - Polokwane 10:50 11:40 1 2 3 4 5 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8809 Johannesburg - Polokwane 10:50 11:50 6 J41 Airlink
SA8817 Johannesburg - Polokwane 14:15 15:15 6 J41 Airlink
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SA8802 Polokwane - Johannesburg 7:55 8:50 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 Airlink
SA8810 Polokwane - Johannesburg 12:00 12:55 1 2 3 4 5 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8810 Polokwane - Johannesburg 12:10 13:05 6 J41 Airlink
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SA8816 Polokwane - Johannesburg 18:00 19:05 1 2 3 4 5 7 AR8 Airlink
SA8747 Johannesburg - Pietermaritzburg 7:00 8:00 1 2 3 4 5 AR8 Airlink
SA8735 Johannesburg - Pietermaritzburg 12:15 13:15 1 2 3 4 5 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8735 Johannesburg - Pietermaritzburg 12:15 13:15 6 AR8 Airlink
SA8743 Johannesburg - Pietermaritzburg 15:30 16:30 1 2 3 4 5 7 AR8 Airlink
SA8741 Johannesburg - Pietermaritzburg 17:00 18:00 1 2 3 4 5 7 AR8 Airlink
SA8739 Johannesburg - Pietermaritzburg 18:15 19:15 1 2 3 4 5 AR8 Airlink
SA8730 Pietermaritzburg - Johannesburg 6:45 7:45 1 2 3 4 5 AR8 Airlink
SA8732 Pietermaritzburg - Johannesburg 8:45 9:45 1 2 3 4 5 6 AR8 Airlink
SA8736 Pietermaritzburg - Johannesburg 13:50 14:55 1 2 3 4 5 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8736 Pietermaritzburg - Johannesburg 13:50 14:55 6 AR8 Airlink
SA8744 Pietermaritzburg - Johannesburg 17:00 18:00 1 2 3 4 5 7 AR8 Airlink
SA8742 Pietermaritzburg - Johannesburg 18:25 19:25 1 2 3 4 5 AR8 Airlink
SA8861 Johannesburg - Skukuza 10:00 10:50 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8865 Johannesburg - Skukuza 13:20 14:10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8862 Skukuza - Johannesburg 13:30 14:35 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8866 Skukuza - Johannesburg 14:50 15:35 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8761 Johannesburg - Upington 7:10 8:40 1 2 3 4 ER3 Airlink
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SA8769 Johannesburg - Upington 15:20 16:50 1 2 3 4 5 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8762 Upington - Johannesburg 9:00 10:35 1 2 3 4 ER3 Airlink
SA8768 Upington - Johannesburg 12:50 14:25 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8770 Upington - Johannesburg 17:10 18:45 1 2 3 4 5 7 ER3 Airlink
Johannesburg - Nelspruit - Johannesburg
Johannesburg - Phalaborwa - Johannesburg
Johannesburg - Skukuza - Johannesburg
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SA8755 Johannesburg - Mthatha 16:15 17:30 1 2 3 4 5 7 AR8 Airlink
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SA8771 Johannesburg - Sishen 6:30 7:50 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 Airlink
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SA8772 Sishen - Johannesburg 8:25 9:35 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 Airlink
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SA8480 Port Elizabeth - East London 7:00 7:45 1 2 3 4 5 J41 Airlink
SA8488 Port Elizabeth - East London 16:15 17:00 1 2 3 4 5 J41 Airlink
SA8481 East London - Port Elizabeth 8:05 8:55 1 2 3 4 5 J41 Airlink
SA8489 East London - Port Elizabeth 17:20 18:10 1 2 3 4 5 J41 Airlink
SA8290 Durban - Maputo 10:10 11:25 1 3 5 J41 Airlink
SA8291 Maputo - Durban 11:45 13:05 1 3 5 J41 Airlink
SA8252 Johannesburg - Antananarivo 10:00 14:10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AR8 Airlink
SA8253 Antananarivo - Johannesburg 15:00 17:40 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AR8 Airlink
SA8214 Johannesburg - Beira 11:30 13:10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ER3 Airlink
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SA8110 Johannesburg - Bulawayo 10:40 12:05 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AR8 Airlink
SA8111 Bulawayo - Johannesburg 12:50 14:25 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AR8 Airlink
SA8458 Johannesburg - Gaborone 17:05 18:00 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 Airlink
SA8459 Gaborone - Johannesburg 18:30 19:25 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 Airlink
SA8306 Johannesburg - Kasane 11:45 13:25 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AR8 Airlink
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SA8870 Nelspruit - Livingstone 11:35 13:10 1 2 3 5 6 ER3 Airlink
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SA8160 Johannesburg - Lusaka 6:35 8:30 1 2 3 4 5 6 ER3 Airlink
SA8164 Johannesburg - Lusaka 15:45 17:40 1 2 3 4 5 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8161 Lusaka - Johannesburg 9:00 11:05 1 2 3 4 5 6 ER3 Airlink
SA8165 Lusaka - Johannesburg 18:20 20:25 1 2 3 4 5 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8100 Johannesburg - Harare 6:30 8:20 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 Airlink
SA8102 Johannesburg - Harare 16:25 18:15 3 4 AR8 Airlink
SA8102 Johannesburg - Harare 16:25 18:15 1 2 5 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8101 Harare - Johannesburg 8:50 10:35 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 Airlink
SA8103 Harare - Johannesburg 18:45 20:30 3 4 AR8 Airlink
SA8103 Harare - Johannesburg 18:45 20:30 1 2 5 7 ER3 Airlink
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Johannesburg - Sishen - Johannesburg
Johannesburg - Mthatha - Johannesburg
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Johannesburg - Antananarivo - Johannesburg
Johannesburg - Beira - Johannesburg
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SA8080 Johannesburg - Sikhupe 06:50 07:40 1 2 3 4 5 6 ER3 Airlink
SA8082 Johannesburg - Sikhupe 10:05 10:55 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ER3 Airlink
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SA8083 Sikhupe - Johannesburg 11:25 12:25 5 6 7 ER3 Airlink
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SA8050 Johannesburg - Maseru 6:40 7:35 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 Airlink
SA8052 Johannesburg - Maseru 9:45 10:40 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8060 Johannesburg - Maseru 13:00 14:00 6 7 ER3 Airlink
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SA8053 Maseru - Johannesburg 11:00 11:55 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8061 Maseru - Johannesburg 14:35 15:45 6 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8063 Maseru - Johannesburg 16:10 17:05 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8300 Johannesburg - Maun 11:45 13:15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AR8 Airlink
SA8301 Maun - Johannesburg 14:00 15:40 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AR8 Airlink
SA8230 Johannesburg - Nampula 11:10 13:40 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AR8 Airlink
SA8231 Nampula - Johannesburg 14:15 16:50 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AR8 Airlink
SA8152 Johannesburg - Ndola 8:30 11:00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AR8 Airlink
SA8156 Johannesburg - Ndola 16:00 18:10 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 Airlink
SA8153 Ndola - Johannesburg 11:35 14:05 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AR8 Airlink
SA8157 Ndola - Johannesburg 18:40 20:55 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 Airlink
SA8204 Johannesburg - Pemba 11:30 14:20 1 3 4 5 6 ER3 Airlink
SA8205 Pemba - Johannesburg 14:50 17:45 1 3 4 5 6 ER3 Airlink
SA8220 Johannesburg - Tete 10:35 12:40 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 Airlink
SA8221 Tete - Johannesburg 13:25 15:45 1 2 3 4 5 ER3 Airlink
SA8260 Johannesburg - Vilankulos 11:30 13:10 1 2 3 5 6 ER3 Airlink
SA8261 Vilankulos - Johannesburg 13:45 15:30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ER3 Airlink
SA8258 Nelspruit - Vilankulos 11:35 12:50 4 7 ER3 Airlink
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In his art, Grootboom focuses on the indigenous people of South Africa – the Khoi and San. He depicts their stories in paintings, sculptures and illustrated books. He has published an installation book and a CD on an art course he designed. The former, published in 2003, was made out of recycled material such as plates and hinges. In its 32 tin pages, the book tells the story of a young Khoi-San boy. He is planning to publish another three books, as well as colouring books.
Nature as playgroundWhen he was a child, nature was Grootboom's playground. "I grew up in Coldstream. In Tsitsikamma, we used to dive in the river bottom," he says. "I remember when I was about seven years old, I picked up drift wood and allowed it to dry on my pigeons' cage. Later I used it to make sculptures."
The children would also collect black rocks, which they would burn and use as skin lotion. "We used it so that we didn't get sunburn."
Grootboom says that in high school art was not offered as a subject. He matriculated from Knysna Senior Secondary School in the Western Cape in 1992. And
although art was in his blood, he wanted to study law. "I saw a lot of bad things happening to my people, so I planned to help them in the villages as a lawyer. When I studied law at the time, I realised that things are better now in the new South Africa."
He started researching more about his ancestry, gave up on law and art became his focus.
The value of art"I was discouraged by many people that I would be a very poor person if I became an artist. A lot of people said this, because they heard this from someone. They were not exposed to these things and had a lack of
The tales of Africa’s forefathers are being told via a
novel art medium
a South African artist who tells the stories
of the country's first inhabitants and their descendants is planning to take his message to the rest of the country soon. Stanley Grootboom, who comes from Coldstream in the Eastern Cape, exhibits his art at the Cradle of Mankind cultural village at Tsitsikamma's Khoi-San village, outside Knysna, and with the Knysna Art Society.
impressionTelling ancient stories through recycled material and artwork
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information. A lot of us are uneducated about the value of art, and its cultural merits," says Grootboom.
But these cautionary words from naysayers did not dampen his passion to succeed as an artist. He was indeed motivated by art and his heritage and culture, and got a job at the Department of Arts and Culture, where he worked for 12 years. He also facilitated workshops for the Department of Social Development.
In his pursuit of the stories of his people, in 2003 Grootboom started walking with a voice recorder. He interviewed people from old forestry villages such as Krakeelriver, Coldstream, Clarkson, Gamtoos and Fairview. "I realised that there are things people still do
(traditionally) even if they do not know it was passed on from their ancestors.
"They still do the things but do not know it is Khoi. For example, they dig a hole in the ground (when sleeping outside) and throw a goiingsak over them," says Grootboom. A goiingsak is a hessian bag.
A writing workshop at the Afrikaanse Taal- en Kultuurvereniging, the institute dedicated to the study and preservation of the language, prepared him to write and do the illustrations for his books.
Giving backThe 40-year-old Grootboom also gives art classes to
Stanley Grootboom is keen to take his history lessons to the rest of the country
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underprivileged people in Knysna. His focus is mostly on people of the northern areas, but if anyone else comes who is not from that area, he does not turn them away. "My focus is on the previously disadvantaged."
By giving these art classes for free, Grootboom believes he is giving back. "You get blessings in other ways," he explains. In the past two years that he has lived in Knysna, Grootboom has taught 25 people in his art classes.
Art as rehabilitationAbout three years ago, Grootboom trained 10 teens, aged 12 to 18, through the Department of Social Development. The best repayment for that experience, he says, was that the parents of the juveniles came to visit him afterwards to give him good news.
"One mother in the beginning said that she could not get her child off dagga …
There was a time when that
boy, who is 12 years old, took dagga and drugs out of his socks, and I had him give it to the social worker," explains Grootboom.
"After the art classes, parents said that the juveniles started washing dishes at home. The children's behaviour also bettered at home: they would greet their family members and ask how their days were."
Grootboom believes that art is very therapeutic. "In school I used to have a bad temper. I thought chess would help. It was only when I did art that my bad temper went away. These days you will struggle to get me angry."
There is a need for uniqueness in your art, he adds. "You have to identify what is important. It's not going to help you any way if you imitate someone. If your artwork is really good, it will make someone stop in their tracks. There should be emotional content in your artwork. The theme, consistency and technique [are] important.
"You should bring something that is close to you, then you can bring out the emotion. If you work hard enough in art, you can make it work," concludes Grootboom.
Text | Melissa Javan Photography | Supplied
Above: Grootboom is giving back by
teaching teenagers in his community
his methods of art
Below: This form of art is not only inspiring,
it is also therapeutic.
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1. Al Pacino was the first ‘face’ on Facebook.2. 600,000 hacking attempts are made to Facebook
accounts every day.3. You can change your language on Facebook to
‘Pirate’.4. Several people have been murdered for
unfriending someone on Facebook.5. Facebook tracks which sites you visit, even after
you have signed out.6. In 2014, a burglar in Minnesota was caught
after he logged into his Facebook account on the home’s PC and forgot to log out.
7. Facebook is primarily blue because Mark Zuckerberg has red-green colour blindness.
8. There are about 30 million dead people on Facebook.
9. In Britain, a woman was given 20 months in jail for creating fake Facebook profiles for her family members in order to send abusive messages to herself and frame them for it.
10. The ‘Like’ button on Facebook was originally going to be called ‘Awesome’.
Text | Arno Visagie Photography | Shutterstock
10 fascinating facts you probably didn’t know about Facebook
In June 2015, Facebook was worth an estimated $215 million
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if you were listening to music in the ‘80s, American singer/songwriter Martika’s Toy Soldiers will be well known to
you. If you are a little bit younger, you might be more familiar with Eminem’s 2004 song Like Toy Soldiers, in which he samples the Martika hit.
While Martika is widely known as a one-hit wonder, her one hit song did make a great impact. Toy Soldiers appeared on Martika’s self-titled debut album in 1988, and was released in 1989 as the third single from the album. The song wasted no time in shooting up the charts. It spent two weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and also spent two weeks in the top position in New Zealand. It reached number five in both the United Kingdom and Australia. In true one-hit-wonder style, it was Martika’s only number one single in the United States, and the song that performed the best for her in the United Kingdom. The artist herself was overwhelmed by her success, beating the likes of Madonna to the number one spot: “I was busy doing promotion work when it happened, and I was told that the song had gone number one. I had to sit down and just breathe and take in the moment,” she said in an interview.
At least for a one-hit wonder, she did extremely well. In March and April 2009, VH1 did a countdown of the 100 greatest one-hit wonders of the ‘80s and Toy Soldiers placed at number 67 on the countdown.
Humble beginningsMartika (her real name is Marta Marrera) started out as a child actor before launching her career as a singer. Her most notable performances were in the movie Annie in 1982 and in the TV series Kids Incorporated, which ran from 1984 to 1986.
Martika’s involvement in Kids Incorporated explains the distinct child-like sound of Toy Soldiers’ chorus. This American television series revolved around a group of children and teenagers who performed in their own rock group. It was aimed at the youth and included musical performances in every storyline. So, when Martika needed some extra vocals on Toy Soldiers, she
Martika was only 22 when she “retired” from the music business. By that time she had already been doing it for 10 years
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knew just who to call – her singing colleagues from her television days. Martika is the only one who sings throughout the whole song, but on the chorus she is joined by her former castmates, Renee Sands, Rahsaan Patterson, Devyn Puett, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Stacy Ferguson. Interestingly, Stacy Ferguson is today better known as Fergie, vocalist for the Black Eyed Peas.
The fight against addictionDrug abuse is a popular theme in music, most probably because of the strong emotions this destructive lifestyle can cause in both the addict and their loved ones. Around the time Toy Soldiers was released, people were becoming more aware of drug abuse in the youth. It is also the case with Toy Soldiers, as it was written about a friend of Martika who was addicted to cocaine. She was a bit unsure about writing a song with a more serious theme: “I was a little hesitant, because I had only written two songs before, and they were light songs,” Martika said. “This was the first time I got the nerve to write about something that was scary for me to talk about.” Toy Soldiers was featured on an episode of VH1’s Pop-Up Video, and here it was said that the friend referred to in the song did eventually conquer their addiction.
The symbolic use of toy soldiers in the song is also a
point of interest, and can be interpreted in several ways. Firstly, drug addiction usually has a strong grip on its victim, and it controls you – much like children control their toys (this also features prominently in the Metallica song Master of Puppets). Alternatively, soldiers represent strength and the ability to fight – but in this case it isn’t real, because the soldiers in question are just toys. This again alludes to the fight against addiction, in which the victim is sometimes not strong enough to win the battle. This is emphasised in the lyrics: “Bit by bit/ Torn apart/ We never win/ But the battle wages on/ For toy soldiers.”
Where is she now?After 10 years in the entertainment industry, Martika ‘retired’ – at the age of only 22. Having made plenty of money, she wanted to take a break, having worked from the age of 12. The break ended up lasting for 20 years! “I spent several years just being a professional slacker,” Martika said in an interview. “I guess I had a delayed childhood. It wasn’t meant to be too long, but a month turned into two years, and then I just stopped wanting the pressure.” Martika returned to the music industry in 2012, but Toy Soldiers remained her biggest hit.
Text | Noleen Fourie Photography | Shutterstock
The song title is an apt description of how the grips of addiction
can have you on a puppet string
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What major tech advances will we see this year?
New ways to recharge your devicesRunning out of juice? Not to worry. You can walk or run in your shoes, breathe a la Darth Vader-style, use your body heat, stop by a street sign, or use water: take your pick.
Interactive clothesWhen fashion and technology collide, things can get pretty interesting and fun. With the debut of a dress that displays tweets in real time, we’re just waiting for it, along with programmable T-shirts and colour-changing and size-altering clothes to be produced en masse.
Waste not, want notIn an effort to help save the Earth, waste could become ‘clean energy’ or the likes of it – so as to lessen pollution – don’t you think? Maybe our poo can become a source of electrical power or fuel for vehicles.
Spill-proofed everythingUsing your phone in the toilet, and dropping sauce or beverages onto paper and your clothes, would soon be worry-free events. With companies developing superhydrophobic coatings, compounds for paper, and non-stick coatings, everything would become waterproofed – making stains or wetness non-existent.
Mind-controlled gadgetsAs a step forward in the shoes of the fictional character telepath, Professor X of X-Men, humankind has created mood-controlled tails, and mind-controlled animal ears and skateboards. We’re expecting more mind-controlled devices in the future; but will these devices that pick up brainwaves soon make us all pseudo-telepaths?
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if you were to believe the storyline of the classic Back to the Future franchise, then by
now we should be flying over the streets on hoverboards, with pills that replace our three-course dinners. But we are not quite there yet. However, there are a few tech trends that could very well be making their debut in 2016. Here are our picks:
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Track to the futureWill we see these tech revolutions in 2016?
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The percentage of household water used for baths and showers
The amount of water used by a family of four per day
32% 300 to 800ℓ
Questions1. UK 1980s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s
nickname was the ‘____ Lady’?2. The Rocinha favela in Brazil is said to be the biggest
____ in Latin America: tree; carnival; bird; or slum? 3. The Clostridium botulinum bacterium causes which
commonly known but rare human poisoning? 4. Which famous line from Alexander Pope’s (1688-
1744) poem, An Essay on Criticism, written in 1709, is often used in books, films and music?
5. Which two cities each hosted a John Lennon and
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Clue to number 9
Yoko Ono week-long hotel ‘bed-in’ peace protest in 1969?
6. What is the currency of Pakistan? 7. At the end of 2012, how many cities had hosted the
modern Olympic Games three times?8. A diaspora is a dispersion of: droplets; people;
sunlight; particles; or stolen property? 9. A gilet (pronounced loosely ‘jee-lay’ – it’s French) is a
jacket or blouse without: buttons; sleeves; pockets; or stitching?
10. What foodstuff, meaning ‘fat liver’ in French, is made from the liver of a duck or goose that is fattened traditionally by force-feeding?
11. Where on the female body is a snood worn? 12. Born in October 1949, and in prison for life in France,
by what nickname is Venezuelan Ilich Ramírez Sánchez known?
13. Which country has a socialist political party whose members are called Sandinistas?
14. Infection caused by the parasitic micro-organism genus Plasmodium is known better as which disease?
15. What musical instrument has the nickname ‘the devil’s box’?
16. Which German word refers to the highest or premier league of any sport in Germany and Austria?
17. Which car/vehicle-maker has (at 2011) a logo of two chevrons, one above the other, both pointing upwards?
18. What are the two major tributaries of the River Nile? 19. A backless, usually female, shoe or slipper is
commonly called by which animal name? 20. The Greek god Dionysus is also known by which
Roman name, associated with revelry?
Answers1. Iron2. Slum (in Rio de Janeiro)3. Botulism (food poisoning)4. “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread”5. Amsterdam and Montreal6. The rupee 7. One (London, in 1908, 1948 and 2012)8. People 9. Sleeves
How do you score with the Skyways quiz?
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300 to 800ℓThe capacity of the Vaal Dam (a megalitre is a million litres). That is the equivalent of about 17,134,190,000 bath tubs (enough for each person in the world to take 24 baths)
2,570,000 megalitres
10. Foie gras11. Neck12. Carlos the Jackal13. Nicaragua14. Malaria15. Violin16. Bundesliga17. Citroën18. White Nile and Blue Nile19. Mule20. Bacchus (god of wine and related harvest and
consumption)
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BattleshipMediumEasy
SudokuChallengingEasy
Answers Intermediate Sudoku by KrazyDad, Volume 8, Book 8Sudoku #16 7 3 98 3 4 1 7 5 6 9 21 9 8 7 3 5
6 3 1 84 8 2 6 7 1 5
2 5 4 65 7 6 1 3 44 9 2 7 5 3 8 1 6
2 6 5 9
5 2 4 8 1
2 6 4
7 5 9 2 4
9 3
1 3 8 9 7
8 9 2
3 8 1 4 7
Sudoku #26 8 5 3 1
9 5 8 1 4 7 67 2 6 5 95 8 9 4 2 1 3
4 3 6 8 99 1 8 3 2 5 74 9 6 3 21 6 2 9 4 7 58 7 1 6 4
4 7 9 2
3 2
1 4 3 8
7 6
2 1 7 5
6 4
5 7 8 1
3 8
3 5 2 9
Sudoku #33 9 6 4 2 8 51 4 6 7 8 2 9
1 9 5 3 45 3 6 4 12 7 9 5 6 3
4 1 2 9 73 2 6 8 9
7 6 8 5 3 2 41 7 4 2 6 3 8
7 1
5 3
8 2 7 6
8 9 7 2
8 1 4
6 5 3 8
4 1 7 5
1 9
9 5
Sudoku #45 9 1 6 4 31 8 2 4 6 76 3 8 1 9 22 5 1 3 8 44 8 9 6 2 1 33 1 8 2 7 97 5 2 8 3 69 6 2 5 8 1
3 1 6 7 4 5
2 7 8
9 3 5
4 7 5
7 9 6
5 7
6 4 5
9 1 4
4 3 7
8 9 2
Sudoku #52 6 3 5 8 43 4 7 1 5 6 28 5 9 2 3 7
6 2 1 37 2 5 9 8 66 5 1 8
8 4 7 6 1 51 7 2 6 9 3 8
6 3 1 8 7 4
1 7 9
8 9
4 6 1
4 9 8 7 5
1 3 4
3 4 2 9 7
9 2 3
4 5
5 9 2
Sudoku #65 3 9 7 4 8
8 1 3 9 5 6 27 2 4 1 9
5 3 4 8 1 97 4 9 8 2 6 5
8 9 6 3 2 44 6 5 1 8
6 1 2 7 8 9 32 8 4 5 7 6
2 6 1
4 7
6 8 3 5
2 6 7
1 3
5 1 7
3 7 9 2
5 4
9 1 3
Sudoku #74 9 7 1 2
6 7 2 8 1 5 95 1 2 8 7
2 8 3 7 5 1 97 5 1 2 3
9 1 6 8 2 4 72 8 3 6 11 5 7 8 9 3 49 3 1 4 5
8 3 5 6
3 4
9 6 4 3
4 6
6 4 9 8
3 5
4 9 5 7
6 2
7 6 2 8
Sudoku #83 2 5 7 16 9 5 7 1 2 8
1 4 9 8 3 6 59 2 6 8 4 3
2 3 9 4 6 54 5 6 3 7 19 3 8 5 6 2 7
4 1 8 3 9 2 66 7 1 4 8
8 4 6 9
3 4
7 2
1 7 5
8 1 7
8 9 2
4 1
5 7
2 9 5 3
Answers Challenging Sudoku by KrazyDad, Volume 8, Book 8Sudoku #14 8 7 5 2 3 61 2 7 4 8 9
9 1 8 4 7 21 8 4 2
3 7 5 2 1 9 6 4 86 5 1 3
8 6 1 9 7 52 3 5 8 9 69 4 6 2 7 8 3
9 1
3 6 5
6 5 3
9 3 6 5 7
2 4 8 7 9
3 2 4
7 4 1
5 1
Sudoku #22 1 4 8
9 6 8 3 5 77 1 5 6 9 3 41 5 2 4 9 6
2 4 3 5 6 1 87 8 6 1 2 3
5 3 9 2 7 6 81 2 4 5 7 3
7 1 8 5
5 3 7 6 9
4 2 1
8 2
3 7 8
9 7
4 9 5
4 1
8 6 9
6 9 3 2 4
Sudoku #32 3 4 8 9 79 5 7 2 1 46 4 9 8 1 54 6 2 3 5 1
5 8 6 9 77 2 9 8 3 4
8 7 4 5 2 92 4 6 1 7 3
7 6 9 3 5 1
1 5 6
8 3 6
7 2 3
9 7 8
3 1 4 2
1 5 6
1 3 6
5 9 8
8 2 4
Sudoku #42 9 3 8 4 51 7 8 3
7 4 3 9 13 9 5 7 1 6 4 87 6 9 8 2 5 15 8 1 6 3 4 2 7
3 2 8 7 61 6 5 9
4 7 2 1 8 3
1 6 7
4 5 2 9 6
6 8 5 2
2
4 3
9
9 1 5 4
8 3 4 7 2
5 9 6
Sudoku #55 7 6 4 3
7 5 8 4 9 29 6 4 1 2 8 56 8 2 9 5 7 37 3 2 6 9
4 6 3 1 2 8 78 3 7 6 1 9 41 7 8 4 3 54 5 6 9 3
2 1 8 9
3 6 1
3 7
4 1
1 4 8 5
5 9
2 5
9 2 6
1 7 2 8
Sudoku #61 9 8 4 2
2 4 7 6 9 35 3 8 1 4 6 9 74 9 3 7 5
6 4 5 2 95 3 8 6 4
8 6 4 5 2 3 7 19 6 3 8 4 22 1 8 5 6
6 3 7 5
5 1 8
2
8 2 1 6
1 7 8 3
9 7 2 1
9
7 5 1
3 4 7 9
Sudoku #73 1 2 6 7 8
6 2 5 7 8 37 1 8 5 4 6 98 2 1 9 53 5 4 2 9 7 8 6 1
7 9 6 3 24 6 5 1 7 9 3
3 7 6 4 8 55 9 8 4 3 2
9 4 5
9 1 4
3 2
6 4 3 7
1 8 5 4
8 2
2 1 9
7 1 6
Sudoku #85 4 8 3 2 74 1 9 6 5
8 2 1 5 7 3 95 9 8 2 1 42 7 9 8 5 1
4 7 3 9 8 29 5 6 7 2 1 47 1 8 9 34 3 1 5 2 9
6 9 1
3 7 2 8
6 4
6 7 3
3 4 6
1 6 5
8 3
2 4 5 6
6 7 8
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Clue to number 15
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That’s great, but what about the rest of the year? Why not start your new life in March? Nobody ever pays attention to humble March – yet it used to mark the first day of the new year back in the Middle Ages. The Aztecs favoured 23 February, which seems entirely random, but it’s as good a day as any to start afresh. Nigerians celebrate their Odunde Festival on 2 June (‘Odunde’ means ‘Happy New Year’ in Yoruba) – a great time for a party considering we’re given six months to recover from Christmas, and not much else happens in June.
This raises another question: what’s up with this festive season rush of celebrations? Did some Westerner decide to cram all our major celebrations into two weeks to keep business on track for the rest of the year? Let’s face it, commerce (aside from
frenzied shopping) seems to grind to a halt over the ‘holiday’ season, which in spite of a multitude of cultural differences, impacts most of the planet.
But I digress; we were starting afresh. Can you do it in August? If not, why not? If you need to lose 10kg, must the diet start on Monday, or could you simply skip the slab of chocolate you were planning to eat this afternoon? As a society, we seem designed to defer action to some milestone moment in the future. Until then, we’ll discuss those new beginnings at length to make sure we get them exactly right. Nothing worse than a new life that’s as bad as the old one.
That’s not to say that it’s not wise to plan ahead – diving into the deep end can certainly lead to disaster if you have no idea what you’re in for. Why wait for January though? Start planning immediately. If you see the need to lose those kilos, change that job, start that project – do it at once! Life is short, but more importantly, it’s utterly unpredictable. You could get struck by a stray meteor at any moment.
Happy New Year!
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A stitch in time saves nine. So begin a new
chapter of your life now
a new year is almost always a time of fresh starts. The
phrase ‘new year, new you’ peppers most media, while many of us see January as a time to change jobs, start diets or launch new projects.
Starting afreshWhy wait for January?
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