Cape Times 2021-10-21

Viwe Ndongeni-Ntlebi viwe.ndongeni@inl.co.za THERE are simple exercises to help tone your body without you having to go to the gym. Want to know the best part? They can be done anywhere, any time! The glorious summer sun has many of us hustling to get healthier, explore the outdoors, and do a little more exercise. Why not start by using one of summer’s greatest “accessories” – the swimming pool. These exercises only take a few minutes to complete, require no outside equipment and are easy to master. Here are five exercises from Herbalife Nutrition you can do poolside – and in the pool! Push-ups These can be done next to the pool, the old-fashioned way. Get down on your hands and knees. Keep your arms shoulder-width apart and straighten out…

David Gandy gets regularly trolled over his looks on Instagram. The 41-year-old model has revealed he has to deal with cruel comments from people on social media when he shares snaps with his followers. As quoted by the Daily Mail newspaper’s Eden Confidential column, he said: “On Instagram, there’s this thing about age now – age is used as a weapon. I get, ‘You’re so old now, look at all your wrinkles’.” However, Gandy tries not to take offence to the comments, and he’s able to laugh off the online digs. “It doesn’t bother me, as I’ve always been an old man in a young man’s body anyway.” Meanwhile, Gandy – who welcomed daughter Matilda into the world with his partner Stephanie Mendoros in November 2018 – said life “revolves…

Lutho Pasiya lutho.pasiya@inl.co.za Halloween is all about creative costumes, fun parties, haunted houses, and lots of sweets. Don’t toss leftover Halloween sweets in the trash, when there are so many smart uses for all of those treats. Try these sweet ideas. Add leftover Halloween sweets to your baking Chocolate and sweets work well in many dessert recipes. You can chop up any kind – especially if it’s chocolate or caramel-based – and add it to basic biscuit dough, fudge, or brownie batter. Or you can crush hard sweets or peppermints and use them as toppings to decorate cupcakes, cheesecake or biscuits. Save it for Christmas pies Maybe you don’t need to get rid of your leftover Halloween sweets altogether but just take a one-month break. Saving your sweets to make…

Adele loved the contrast in snaps for her Vogue magazine photoshoot. The 33-year-old singer “had such a great time” working with the publication on her cover shoots for the November issue, and she was delighted with the range of pictures capturing different moods. Appearing on Kiis FM’s The Kyle and Jackie O Show this week, she said: “I didn’t see the final covers till everyone else did. “I had such a great time on those shoots, that I sort of knew I would glow in the photos. I was really happy and had so much fun ... I love that there was such a juxtaposition on those as well, one with my t**s out and one with me looking like Emily Blunt.” Elsewhere in the interview, things got awkward when…

From page 1 Phumzile Mvovo said while Ntuli was not a union member, he had been represented by a NUM member in the disciplinary process. He said Ntuli was moved to Megawatt Park after Eskom did not follow proper procedures in taking action against him. He added there was a continuous attempt by high ranking Eskom officials to “purge black leaders” within the company, citing poor performance issues. “We have seen 12 black managers purged and a number of white Eskom employees replacing them,” Mvovo said. He added that the alleged attack on black managers was a serious reversal of transformation gains hard fought for.…

From page 1 “The court is silencing her after she has built courage over the years to finally talk about the ordeal. “We want to understand to what extent a court is allowed to make this type of order and there is no evidence of the man being harassed by the client. We are hoping that the high court in making its determination will do so within the context of this second pandemic, which is GBV, in the country,” she said. Women and children rights group community activist Latifa Jacobs said alleged perpetrators approaching the courts to silence women had been occurring under the radar. “Sometimes the victims are so traumatised that they don’t go ahead with the rape case, especially if this was someone close to or known to…