GET YOUR COPY with your JOBURG MR DELIVERY order from FREE Thurs-Sat each week YOUR FREE GUIDE TO YOUR FREE TIME 07 April - 13 April 2016 ÷ Issue 47 Loyiso Gola on Life & Travel – page 3 Dowwe Dolla is back in - Page 5 Gauteng – page 3 Prime Circle to rock your weekend Rock the craft at SA on Tap Follow us online: @48hoursinjoburg www.facebook.com/48hoursinjoburg – page 10 GAUTENG ECO ADVENTURE OUTDOOR & TRAVEL EXPO 27 - 29 MAY 2016 WATERFALL POLO ESTATE, MIDRAND CNR R55 (WOODMEAD DR) & MAXWELL DR, OPPOSITE WATERFALL VIRGIN ACTIVE 200 EXHIBITS - LOTS TO SEE & DO! 4x4s, CARAVANS, TRAILERS, BOATS OUTDOOR ACCESSORIES, TRAVEL & TOURISM SATURDAY, 28 MAY LIVE ON BIG SCREEN SELF DRIVE 4x4 TRACK 3pm Stormers vs Cheetahs LIVE ENTERTAINMENT 5pm Blue Bulls vs Lions GOOD FOOD, CRAFT BEER Bring your mates. Table bookings essential: SHOW TIMES & TICKET INFORMATION: [email protected] GOOD FOOD, CRAFT BEER, BILTONG, ALL DAY FAMILY FUN! 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All rights reserved. 2 The Next 48hOURS www.48hours.co.za 07 April - 13 April 2016 The Next 48hOURS • What’s Hot SA’s favourite opinionated Travelling & Living with the stars blonde moves away from n this regular column, we chat What is the first thing you usually Cape Town and Joburg, and what to some of SA’s favourite sons do when you arrive at your des- do you have? political commentary and daughters about their trav- tination and you’re trying to get CPT: Gatsby at Golden Dish. el experiences and favourite lo- acclimated? JHB: Turn ‘n Tender. They have Ical pastimes and haunts. The first thing I do is to buy a cell lunch time specials This week we feature politicians’ phone package and then I buy a nightmare, comedian LOYISO card/ticket for the train. After that What is your speciality in the GOLA. I let all my connections know that I kitchen? am in town. Seafood pasta. Ask super funny What is your favourite travel des- Tumi Morake about my seafood tination, and why? What for you is usually the best pasta. Actually don’t; she’s been Istanbul has to be the my favourite way to soak up the culture you’re asking for the recipe. place in the world. The aesthetics in? and architecture are amazing and Walk the streets and chat to the Describe your ideal night in, and the nightlife will make you wonder people; eat the food of the place. out. if you have been partying the cor- When visiting a place you must be Night in: Netflix and chill if, you rect way all this time. open to learn new things; in oth- know what I mean. er words, unlearn your ways for a Night out: Seeing a play/PSL game/ What was your first international little. going to the cinema. And dinner trip, and what do you remember with friends. most vividly about the experi- Flying – love it, or hate it? ence? Love it. Why would I hate the What makes life worth living? New York City and London always quickest way to get a place? Do you The South African Constitution. show me a good time. NYC mainly know how long it took to get to because of the comedy scene and places before airplanes? * Keep up with Gola on Twitter: the fact that I have floor seats at @loyisogola Madison Square Garden (check my You’ve got exactly R48 in your wal- Instagram). let. Where do you go for lunch in Dowwe Dolla Dowwe Dolla is back in Gauteng. In the magnifying glass. And for the her new one woman show, ‘#dow- first time, ouma Dowwe Dolla (also wedolla’, showing at The Atterbury played by Margit Meyer-Rödenbeck) Theatre in Pretoria on Friday, April 8, also makes an appearance on the the queen of Afrikaans satire moves a stage to give a more wise and histor- little away from politics, “because it’s ical (or is it hysterical?) perspective to really boring now”, although a spur- everyday events in our country. of-the-moment swipe can some- Expect another laugh a minute times happen by accident. with the word tsunami from South Amongst the subject matter she Africa’s favourite, opinionated explores, Dolla reveals the real rea- blonde. sons why women continue to hold onto men, and analyses the South * Book at Computicket, or by send- African “braai” in detail from a ing an email to info@atterburythe- blonde, psychologist viewpoint. In atre.co.za. the process complicated subjects like The Atterbury Theatre is situated on trophy hunting, homeopathy, arach- Daventry Street 4, Lynnwood, Preto- nophobia and rabies are put under ria. Loyiso Gola GOOD FOOD TO YOUR HOOD National Call Centre: 0861 85 85 85 or order online at www.mrd.com 07 April - 13 April 2016 www.48hours.co.za The Next 48hOURS 3 The Next 48hOURS • Theatre Buzz Lively gym comedy examines the current ‘Shape’ of South Africa SHOW: SHAPE ture member of the gym, the waspy, CAST: CRAIG HAWKS, CAMILLA WALD- straight-talking Stella (a wonderful MAN, NYANISO DZEDZE, ZIMKITHA KUM- Camilla Waldman), a divorcee, who BACA has had some cosmetic work done to DIRECTOR: GREG HOMANN her face and is determined to keep VENUE: AUTO & GENERAL THEATRE ON her life on the move. THE SQUARE, UNTIL APRIL 16 A third character is Vusi (Nyaniso REVIEWER: PETER FELDMAN Dzedze), the seemingly arrogant and confident personal trainer who struts he standard and direction of around the gym like a proud pea- theatre in South Africa can cock, offering sage advice to those often be judged by the crop who have the time to listen. of new emerging voices who Adding to the proceedings is an Tbring fresh perspectives to jaded sub- intrusive and unsettling element - an jects. “invisible” entity called the “loud- Dissecting the current South Af- speaker” (Zimmkitha Kumbaca), who rican landscape, with its myriad cul- serves as the voice of conscience. She tures and creeds, not to mention the sits in the audience and barks out her hue of its people, is certainly a chal- commentary. lenging exercise for playwrights to- The sharply etched performances day, who often want to make some are welded together under the adroit kind of sense of what’s happening direction of veteran Greg Homann, on a cultural, intellectual and social who brings out the facets of com- level. mentary and comedy. Steven Boykey Sidley and Kate Si- The intellectual mix touches on dley are not exactly new to the cre- vanity, politics, race, sex and social ative firmament, having established standings, with enough meat on the themselves over the years as literary The cast of ‘Shape’: Craig Hawks, Camilla Waldman and Nyaniso Dzedze bone to stimulate conversation about giants in their own fields of expertise, where South African society, with all with a host of books and countless its ills, stands today. newspaper and magazine columns to The set reflects a modern gym their credit. with spanking new equipment ready Writing a play, however, is a dif- of the genre. or to simply keep fit and retain one’s Stewart (Craig Hawks) is an adver- to be used, and watching the players ferent kind of creative process and I am happy to report that ‘Shape’, sanity in the process. tising type who seems to be fanatical go through their routines may trigger what may sound amazing on paper, the couple’s first excursion into the The three characters we meet at an about staying healthy and develop- a response in certain circles to get up may not translate well to the stage. playwriting orbit, is a lively and of- upmarket Sandton gym all reveal ing his body and mind. He sweats and get fit. And endeavouring to enlighten and ten penetrating discourse on those something about themselves over a through the routines and seems to be entertain audiences through the me- sweaty souls who are prepared to short period of time as they furiously straining every muscle, while listen- * For bookings, visit www.strictlytick- dium of clever satire takes a special suffer for the cause, be it to meet pedal away on a bicycle that goes ing to music on his head-phones. He ets.com. understanding of the requirements new people (especially slinky “birds”) nowhere. also takes time to chat to a more ma- Joseph to don his Amazing Technicolour Joburg City Theatres appoints Dreamcoat at Montecasino Artistic Manager Coming to Pieter Toerien Theatre, the role of the narrator while Jona- Featuring a local cast of 23 mu- Joburg City Theatres has announced Montecasino, from April 29 to Au- than Roxmouth will play the role of sical theatre performers and danc- the appointment of Mr Makhaola gust 7, is the retelling of the Bibli- the Pharoah.