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LOWVELD AGAINST THE ODDS A family’s tale of survival HELLO HIGH-RISE! The return of mom jeans TOP CLASS Meet equestrian royalty Jessica Moreira SHOPPING, PEOPLE AND LIFESTYLE IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD AUGUST 2017 UF003431NG GET IT CONTENTS Editor Ciska Kay 072-125-0336 / [email protected] OUT & ABOUT Features writers 2 Attend the CANSA tea, have your cake and Mellissa Bushby eat it at the Great Mpumalanga Bake Off , or 084-319-2101 / [email protected] visit the annual Lowveld Book Festival Danielle Sheedy 30 082-449-4188 / [email protected] REVIEW Photographer Nicolene Olckers 3 What’s new on the book, movie and wine 072-129-0792 scenes Layout Sandile Maluleke / Elbé Meyer WISH LIST Advertising sales consultant 4 Your shopping hotlist for August Jenni Semmens 082-342-8208 / [email protected] Subeditors SOCIAL Jess Steyn / Nakita Fortuin / Nicola du Toit 6 Celebrating craft prowess Distribution 8 This year’s Innibos festivities Monya Burger 10 Kim Kay’s celebration of the senses 083-555-4992 11 New fi rm launches in style Get it Lowveld is distributed at selected 12 A tribute to Cat Stevens outlets in the Lowveld Printers 13 Air show thrills visitors CTP Printers, Cape Town 021-929-6200 PEOPLE 14 Aim high Get it head offi ce Equestrian Jessica Moreira talks about her love National group editor of horses Kym Argo [email protected] 20 Against the odds National sales manager Supermom Karen Cleaver’s fi ght for her boys’ Shirley Frattaroli survival 083-633-6100 [email protected] FASHION 24 Denim days This season’s hottest trends HEALTH & BEAUTY SPORT & FITNESS 26 Winter hydration 42 Going places Stay supple and moisturised in the dry winter Zandri Strydom chats to us about her success months on the mountain-biking circuit FOOD TRAVEL & OUTDOORS 30 Perfecting tradition 44 Bows and arrows A Bica’s Petru Pretorius talks about inheriting a Archery in the modern world Make-up: 46 With love from Lesotho Cheril-Lee Grobler love and fl air for food of Ikon Image, 34 The personal touch Intrepid adventurer Nicola du Toit shares her 071-869-4256. The evolution of a favourite Lowveld eatery love of this humble country Visit lowveld.getitonline.co.za 36 Spice Route 50 Business travel Cindy Walker, CEO, shares some of her travel tips The unassuming cumin seed with us HOME BACK PAGE @getitlowveld Get it Lowveld 38 Be the king 64 Spoil Turning a bachelor pad into a castle This month’s fabulous gift Issue 138 August 2017 Out & About Pencil these events into your August diary right now! Join in for one of the greatest, most 3 prestigious fundraisers in the Lowveld. The Life is a Cabaret CANSA tea will be held at Emnotweni Arena in Mbombela at 10am. It promises to be a spectacular day with the performance of the Born to Diva cabaret show by the internationally acclaimed artist, Tonya Koenderman as well as lucky draws, a high-stakes auction, mystery giveaways and more. The cost is R4 300 for a table of 10, which includes platters for your tables. Limited tables are available. For bookings, contact 082-494- 4279 or visit www.finditpromo.co.za. Pulse Youth Foundation, in support 5 of Jakaranda and Louis Botha children’s homes, hosts a fundraising gala event at the Barnyard Theatre at Casterbridge outside White River. There will be live performances from Willem Botha, Liza Bronner, John-William and Pastor Cool, as well as local artists. Tickets cost R250 per person, or R1 900 for a group of eight, which includes a platter dinner and entrance. Doors open at 6pm, and the show begins at The Great Mpumalanga Bake Off takes place at i’langa Mall 6:30pm. Limited tickets available. To book, in Mbombela on the nineth. The entry fee is R100 per cake, and visit www.pulseyouthfoundation.co.za or email [email protected]. proceeds will be donated to Lowveld High School. The cake needs to be presented beautifully and four judges will do a tasting without Join Chas Everitt Lowveld as it knowing who the baker is. All cakes must be at the venue at 8am. 11 hosts its annual charity golf day at Nelspruit Golf Club. It costs R2 000 to enter There will be loads of awesome prizes to be won. For more info, contact the fourball, and includes a delicious dinner. For more info, contact 013-752-4141 or email 082-300-9908 or to enter, visit www.mpumalangashow.com. [email protected]. Radio Raps will be performed live at Emnotweni Arena in Mbombela. Known for his The Lowveld Book Festival unique and humorous outlook on life, Jonathan guarantees to have you in stitches takes place at Casterbridge 25 18-20 with his uncomplicated demeanour and hilarious life stories, an event definitely not to be Lifestyle Centre in White River. There will missed. Tickets start from R120 per person, and the show will begin at 7pm. For bookings, be various workshops, panel discussions, visit www.online.computicket.com/web/event/radio_raps/1115748664/0/80065151. poetry, and readings as well as a book fare. This year visitors can look forward to a host of interesting authors. The Lowveld is not The Mpumalanga Show is hosted at Mbombela Stadium. It will showcase only home to many of South Africa’s literary 31-3 the people, products, programmes and partnerships in the agriculture, talents, but is also the setting for a vast array forestry, tourism, wildlife and related sectors of the province. The event will offer stalls, of books and poems. Come and be inspired. exhibitions, workshops, active demonstrations and livestock competitions. There will be For more info, contact 071-134-8172 or visit fun and excitement for the entire family with play activities for kiddies, an upmarket food www.lowveldbookfestival.co.za, Facebook, court, a fresh-produce market, beer tents, arts-and-crafts stalls and an entertainment area Lowveld Book Festival. with live music. For more info, visit www.mpumalangashow.com. 2 Get It • Lowveld August 2017 Review DINGETJIES EN DRINK OLIVE BROOK GOETERTJIES MERLOT 2016 25 AUGUST • 19H00 • R120PP The 2016 oak-fermented Olive Brook Merlot is a blend of the fruit of three vineyards of Merlot. It bursts with aromas of red fruits such as plum, red SAVE FROM cherry and raspberry. Rich and % well balanced with a smooth 10 texture and great mouthfeel it is best paired with poultry, roasts, stews, grilled fi sh, pasta, Ts & Cs apply soup and cheese dishes. If kept below 20ºC the wine’s fruit will fully emerge with bottle ageing during the next four years. Serve at a cool 16ºC to experience the optimum fl avour. The Olive Brook Merlot 2016 READ INTO THE WATER truly is a generous BY PAULA HAWKINS wine with From Paula Hawkins (author of the phenomenally wonderful successful The Girl on the Train) comes another explosive fruit purity. bestseller, Into the Water. An addictive psychological TOPS at suspense about a river, a small town, and more than one SPAR. death. This is not an easy read (it’s narrated in fi rst and third person by 11 voices), but it’s certainly gripping from the fi rst page to the last. Beware a calm surface - you never know what lies beneath. WATCH DUNKIRK The event that shaped the world. The miraculous evacuation of the Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain and France, who were cut off , and surrounded by the German army at the harbour of Dunkirk, France, between May 27 and June 4, 1940 - during Battle of France in World War II. 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