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GET YOUR COPY with your JOBURG MR DELIVERY order from FREE Thurs-Sat each week YOUR FREE GUIDE TO YOUR FREE TIME 05 November - 11 November ÷ Issue 28 Celebrate Diwali in Lenasia – page 3 Zebra & Giraffe go ‘Slow’ - Page 4 – page 7 Skhumba to style it up at Gold Reef City Hanks and Spielberg reunite Follow us online: @48hoursinjoburg www.facebook.com/48hoursinjoburg for spy thriller – page 8 The Next 48hOURS • Socials 16 celebrities with 16 racehorses representing 16 charities each took home a share of R1 million at the 2015 Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile EDITORIaL STaFF EditoriaL CONTRIbutors EditoriaL Address The Next 48hOURS is published by Managing Editor: Naushad Khan Jenny Morris Postal: P.O. Box 830, Rani Communications. Every effort has Publisher/Editor: Imran Khan Peter Feldman Maitland, 7404 been made to ensure the accuracy of Production Editor: Peter Tromp RoxyK the information provided. Editorial Assistant: Aisha Sieed Imran Khan Actual: 12 Main Rd. The Next 48hOURS will not be held Three Anchor Bay responsible for the views and opinions Senior Designer: Dane Torode Tel: 021 8024848 National Sales: Godfrey Lancellas [email protected] expressed by writers and contributors. All rights reserved. 2 The Next 48hOURS www.48hours.co.za 05 November - 11 November 2015 The Next 48hOURS • What’s Hot Travelling & Living with the stars n this monthly column, we chat sand hours and landed in the grey, keeping us from certain disablement What is your speciality in the kitch- to some of SA’s favourite sons claustrophobic island of England. At is a science equation some old timer en? and daughters about their travel first it was dank, damp, historical, wrote on a paper plane. Now we get Meat. I love meat. I hope there is a experiences and favourite local brick faced mundanity. But once you to get to destinations in amazingly vegan reading this, because I am a Ipastimes and haunts. got out of the grid based, narrow, fast transit times and be served food, carnivore. I’m the kind of eater that This week we feature the human traffic poisoned cities and get some magazines and ordered around by makes you queasy - top of the food laugh factory that is DUSTY RICH. of the north inland countryside my 65kg men and women wearing some chain carnivore. I’ll eat a shark in its Catch the funnyman along with the Irish heritage came flooding out like sort of a neck scarf. It’s an absolute natural habitat if I could grill un- likes of John Vlismas, Deep Fried fiddle folk music. That climate spoke miracle and we complain that there is derwater. I would uppercut a North Man and Jason Goliath at the Ban- to something bygone in my DNA. I not enough Wi-Fi? I love flying. American brown bear for a good nister Hotel Basement for the risky, felt comfortable. So I drank many salmon. I respect animals, but must edgy and politically incorrect Fire In Guinness beers and sang bar songs, What has been your favourite cui- apologise for evolution - we invented The Hole segment of The Johannes- swore a lot and then came home. sine that you have discovered on the braai before you did. Snooze, you burg International Comedy Festival. Gratefully. your travels? lose. Now let me put barbecue sauce The Festival features a mixture of 42 Mauritius has rum that they pro- on everything. International, continental and South What is the first thing you usually duce on the island. A guy with a African comedians who will trans- do when you arrive at your desti- little wagon in front of a tree grabs Describe your ideal night in, and form Jozi into a comedy paradise nation and you’re trying to get ac- a coconut produced from right be- out. from Friday to Sunday, November 6 climated? hind him, chops off the top with a In: Cricket ball-sized meatballs and to 8. I’ll always get out of the hotel ASAP very unhygienic machete, throws in spaghetti; my lady draped on me and take a walk. Take in the atmo- a little paper umbrella, a straw and a like a nice smelling blankie; a slap- What is your favourite travel desti- sphere, soak it into my skin, get the generous lashing of indigenous Rum. stick comedy movie with Will Ferrel. nation, and why? smells and the air onto my clothes. I know it’s not food, but I lived off Later some…then reading a Chuck I have traveled extensively in our Feel the temperature. You know, like of those for a few days. I wanted to Palahniuk anything. Some late night beautiful little piece of the earth’s a dog rubs himself on the grass just try the dodo but apparently I just YouTube “Fail” videos. Then to sleep soil. Internationally, I’ve done a few after a grooming. missed it. where the seven monkeys go get me tourist umbrella infested islands, dreams from all over the galaxy. a few grey European cities. For me What for you is usually the best You’ve got exactly R48 in your wal- Out: Stand-up comedy - let the though it’s not the destination; it’s way to soak up the culture you’re let. Where do you go for lunch in monkeys go play. the vibrations you get from the place. in? The irrepressible Dusty Rich Jozi, and what do you have? I like calmer places. My mind is like I will often go and sit at a coffee Wolves, in Ilovo, Sandton. The What makes life worth living? seven monkeys, on psychotropic shop or something and watch the burger,fries and secret sauce they My lady. Stand Up Comedy. Discov- narcotics washed down with sugary people of this new and confusing have there will make you consider ery. Knowledge. Search. Video games. pop drinks while going berserk on a land. I draw an incredible amount of did a tribal fertility dance in a South your existence. It’s a meal that puts jungle gym during a dub step lazer knowledge from people’s demean- American Jungle. Trying to explain you into another dimension. You’ll * Tickets to the Johannesburg In- show. So I like calm places, like the ors and interactions with each other. to 38 village woman that I’m just not be so far up in the heavens the only ternational Comedy Festival can be mountains. Like a scientist I observe, remark and into them can be a task. way you’ll be able to order another purchased at www.webtickets.co.za, evolve my own attitude to the desti- one is holding up a sign to Nasa’s www.jicf.co.za or the Festival Face- What was your first international nation as to fit in from an outsider’s Flying – love it, or hate it? Hubble space telescope and asking if book page with prices ranging from trip, and what do you remember perspective. I’ll even maybe join in, Flying is a miracle of modern sci- Matthew Mahogany in a space suit R150 to R250. most vividly about the experience? although I wouldn’t always suggest ence. We are suspended thousands would like one too. I flew for what seemed like a thou- that as I learned when I unwittingly of meters in the air. The only thing 23 years of fun, festivity and fireworks in Lenasia The ever-popular HCC Diwali Festival, expect the most extravagant culmina- as possible. The entertainment and ac- which has set a national precedent the tion of the day’s colourful festivities tivities will commence at 3.30pm. last two decades, will be held at the Le- and fun celebrations. Security, safety and contingency is nasia Stadium on Saturday, November The variety of food and other stalls paramount to the HCC, so rest assured 7. With more activities and prize give- will yet again provide a special treat that every precaution will be taken to aways than ever before, the fun, festivi- to everyone seeking to enjoy or ac- ensure the peace of mind of revelers ties and entertainment begins at 2pm quire that special bargain. Food will be and that every compliance will be met. and continues late into the night. available in abundant variety and most Lenasians and everyone coming to definitely designed to please just about * There will be a nominal entrance fee the HCC Diwali Festival 2015 can look every taste. of R10 per person and as per tradition forward to a dynamic program com- The HCC Diwali Festival is a commu- all senior citizens and children under prised of tons of local talent. nity family fun day, with usually high the age of 12 will be allowed free en- This year, as always, Milans is spon- attendance figures, so make sure that trance. soring the fireworks and the public can you are a part of the fun from as early Get into the spirit of Diwali this weekend E X T E N D T H E TA L E B Y OV E RW H E L M I N G D E M A N D ! 05 November - 11 November 2015 www.48hours.co.za The Next 48hOURS 3 The Next 48hOURS • Theatre Buzz Pitfalls of cyber dating explored in hilarious fashion SHOW: VIOLET ONLINE she is meticulous about grammar and CAST: LYNITA CROFFORD the correct use of the apostrophe. DIRECTOR: MEGAN FURNISS Her struggles with finding the VENUE: AUTO & GENERAL THEATRE right clothes for a date, her midlife ON THE SQUARE, NELSON MANDELA Brazilian wax discovery and crossing SQUARE, SANDTON, UNTIL NOVEMBER 7 the colour line for the first time all REVIEWER: PETER FELDMAN come into the comic mix of the play.