In The Zone Vol 3 June 2020 The class of 2020 vs 1976 How do the teens of today match up with those of yesteryear Are you coping? Mechanisms for coping with lockdown and stress Local is lekker Take our South African music quiz Strike me a drink The Unicorn invents a new drinking game The Voice of the Valley CONTENTS June 2020 Welcome To Shorties Blue Bottle Noordhoek Blue Bottle Liquors has been operating successfully since the year 2000. We carry huge Music 101 - Forever Young ranges of wine, malt whiskies, and are geared for all functions. Our emphasis is on personal Would you like fame, fortune, and a Number One hit - all before the service in a safe environment, promoting responsible drinking. age of 21? Well these artists managed to get it right. We pride ourselves in quality products. We haven’t left it there though!! We have now extended our operation and set up a Traders Association involving several very successful independent liquor stores who understand their customer’s needs and are extremely aware of promoting responsible drinking. They have revamped their stores for a better, secure and Page 34 informative shopping experience. Being part of the Blue Bottle membership means we offer better prices, professional advice and don’t forget the personal touch of the owner. Features 22 36 6 One beachhead at a time Something to smile about The Class of ‘20 vs ‘76 Ron Douglas looks at the les- Taking care of your lips this winter. We compare the youth of 2020 sons we can learn from D-Day. to the youth of 1976. 26 38 The Perfect 10 Click on the link on the left to Local is lekker quiz 14 At the 1976 Olympics Nadia visit our website. Test your knowledge of South Comăneci achieved something Are you coping? African music with our quiz. never done before - perfection. Judy Roberson looks at coping mechanisms in these uncertain 28 40 Strike me a drink and stressful times. Age means nothing The Unicorn invents a new Experience comes with age. drinking game. 16 No-one explain that to these You heard it first... 30 champions and record breakers. The new songs played on Zone The youth of today 44 Radio this May. The Two Grumpy Old Men wonder just how bright the The Great Curry Cook Off 20 youth of today are. What happens when an inexpe- Pirates of the beat - old school rienced person judges a curry Copying music is nothing new. 32 competition. They were doing it back in In The Zone food column 46 1976. Chef Tony Zola’s tips and a de- licious soup recipe. Did you know? 3 you about my house. It was originally built for a charming old man that used to From the live next door to me. He had the house built for his daughter. As I said, he was a really nice editor’s old man. But he did have a few desk flaws. First of all he was cheap. Bierman Straus So he hired the cheapest PUBLISHER o, from 1 June we move builders he could find. Sec- Hipe Media to Stage Three of our ondly, he decided to supervise Sunvalley lockdown. Already I get the building himself. The third EDITOR S problem, and a game changer in Matt Tennyson the feeling that plenty of people feel that life has now returned my opinion, was the fact that he to normal. Personally, I don’t was blind - as in 100% blind. ASSISTANT EDITOR think so. So you can just imagine how Courtney Taljaard the builders ripped him off. Bit May was a challenging month CONTRIBUTORS for me. I do two monthly mag- by bit we’ve been redoing the Gwyneth Bowman, Janine azines that I have to get out by house and fixing the mess the Cassidy, Sidney Dlamini, Ron the first of the month. However, builders caused. Douglas, Richard Griggs, I also do a quarterly magazine Last Monday morning the Promise Gumede, Stix Mkhize, that comes out in March, June, bedroom ceiling began to leak Ryan Murphy, Matt O’Brien, We are a family orientated Optometry practice, with September and December. That and a piece of it fell off. I spent Judy Roberson, Johnny Rodri- professional staff looking after the person behind the meant that this month I had to most of Monday cleaning up. gues, Matt Tennyson, John Ver- get three magazines out. Then on Friday morning at eyes. ster. Visit us at Sunvalley Mall or call us on 021 785 3141 Now if that was the end of it, 3.00 am the entire bedroom ceiling came down - on my all would be well. But no, life In The Zone is published on- head. You have no idea of how was determined to throw a few line every month. The articles Click on the above link to heavy a ceiling is until it falls more challenges at me. used in In The Zone are copyright- visit our Facebook page. on your head. It started with me having no ed and may not be used without So I spent most of Friday hot water. I had to get an elec- prior permission from the editor. trician out to remove the timer cleaning up, while suffering from concussion mind you. on the geyser. It had decided The views stated in this mag- Now I have to get the leak re- that I could only get hot water azine do not necessary reflect paired, put in a new ceiling and for about two minutes a day. the views of In The Zone, the new lights. All this while still Then the warming drawer on editor, the staff, Zone Radio, or trying to get three magazines the stove decided to pack up. It Hipe Media. stayed on the entire time. So I out on time. now had to get an electrician Talking about magazines, Hipe! out. after just two issues of In The P.O. Box 31216, Tokai, 7966 Then, walking out of my Zone we now have 40,000 read- South Africa. small office at home I tripped ers. Not too bad. Not too bad at over my own feet (hey, what all. email can I say - I’m Irish). I went [email protected] head first into the wall, as well Until next month. as twisting my knee badly. Back Issues And if all that was not bad To view any back issues of enough, the house decided to In The Zone, go to www.hipe. have a go at me. Now just to get co.za or click here. some perspective, let me tell Matt 5 Zone! cover story counterpart. from Pietermaritzburg in South Apartheid was removed from Africa. Ironically, we could the law books nearly three dec- have been one of the first coun- ades ago and since 1994 the tries in the world to get televi- Head-to-Head ANC, once the sworn enemy of sion. the 1976 ruling National Par- Television fell under the Class of ‘76 vs Class of ‘20 ty, head the government. Cyr- auspices of the South Afri- il Ramaphosa is currently the can Broadcasting Corpora- June 16 is Youth Day in South Africa and June is youth month. To celebrate this In The Zone president. tion (SABC). The only prob- has set out to capture a true comparison of how things were back in 1976 compared to Students can attend any lem being that the SABC was now. In The Zone presents the Class of 1976 and the Class of 2020. school, college or university controlled by the government. they wish, with no restrictions So you saw exactly what they based on skin colour. Howev- wanted you to see. News broad- ake a look at the average inated by the world-wide Cov- teachers had very little say in er, it is still the old case as to casts were one-sided, always teen around you today. id-19 pandemic. the curriculum and structure of whether they can afford it or showing the government in a Are they really any dif- The Political Scene education at the time. T not. good light. ferent to the teenagers of 1976? Back in 1976 the country was Many of the black youth fled Gone are the days when Programmes that captured As part of our Youth issue, In ruled by the National Party with South Africa to neighbour- young men are forced to serve the hearts of 1976 viewers in- The Zone decided to speak to BJ Vorster as president and PW ing African states, and a large in the military. The SADF is cluded The Brady Bunch, Rich both groups. Botha as his Minister of De- number of them joined MK now the SANDF (South African Man Poor Man, The Villag- Matt O’Brien and Sidney fence - and apartheid was in full (Mkontho we Sizwe - Spear of National Defence Force) and ers (a local production about a cluded hits such as Rocky, Taxi Dlamini were teens back in swing. the Nation), the armed wing of it consists of permanent force mining community), and Wil- Driver, Network, and All The 1976 while Gwyneth Bowman There were vast differences the ANC. members and a reserve force lem, another local Afrikaans President’s Men. At the Acad- and Promise Gumede are cur- between the white youth and The white youth, however, made up of volunteers. series, about a whimsical pri- emy Awards, One Flew Over rently 17 and in Grade 12. those of colour. Most amenities, had problems of their own.