Makes 12 slices
Preparation time: 10 min
Standing time: 1 hour
Cooking time: 30 min

PANCAKES

2 ripe bananas
80 ml (⅓ c) butter, melted
750 ml (3 c) milk
375 ml (1½ c) flour
5 eggs
30 ml (2 T) brown sugar
2 ml (½ t) vanilla essence
pinch of salt
2 ml (½ t) ground cinnamon
2 ml (½ t) ground allspice

FILLING

460 ml (2 tubs) smooth cottage cheese, softened
375 ml (1 ½ c) plain yoghurt
80 ml (⅓ c) caster sugar
2 ml (½ t) vanilla essence

TOPPING

60 ml (¼ c) dark brown sugar
15 ml (1 T) butter
125 ml (½ c) pecan nuts, toasted
125 ml (½ c) cream

1 Pancakes: In a food processor, blitz the bananas, butter and milk together. Add the remaining ingredients and blitz until well combined. Transfer to a bowl and allow to rest in the fridge for 1 hour.

2 Heat a nonstick pan over medium heat then grease. Pour a ladleful of the batter into the pan, cook undisturbed for 3 minutes or until browned and flip over to cook the other side.

3 Set aside on a plate and repeat with the rest of the batter, making sure the pancakes don’t stick together when stacked.

4 Filling: Whip the cheese until softened. Add the yoghurt, sugar and vanilla essence while beating.

5 Put one pancake on a plate, use a spatula to spread cheese mixture over and top with another pancake. Repeat with the rest of the pancakes and filling.

6 Topping: Put the sugar in a pan over medium heat until it begins to heat, add the butter, nuts and cream and whisk until well mixed and thick.

7 Spoon the nut mixture over the pancake stack and level. Serve at room temperature.

“Namuhla usuku lwami lokuzalwa,” esho ngenjabulo.

“Uma ngiqeda ukuxoxa nani ngizobe sengiyoqopha neSidingo.”

Ungafunga ukuthi yingane ejabulele ukuba sesitolo samaswidi.

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They really did look like the perfect couple. Thabo was the doting cameraman husband who only had eyes for his gorgeous, talented, actress wife but just like Winnie herself says, “Nobody knows the heat in my kitchen but me.”

Winnie (37) isn’t her normal bubbly self – she’s subdued and there’s no mistaking the pain in her eyes. We’re sitting in the cosy Generations offices, surrounded by glamorous magazine covers and pictures of happy, smiling stars, something Winnie clearly doesn’t feel.

And judging by her hesitant start as she tries to find an answer to a question as simple as “How are you doing?”, she’s clearly in a lot of pain. She takes a deep, calming breath before plunging in.

Read more in DRUM – 23 May 2013

Read more in DRUM – 23 May 2013

They were so vivid and terrifying that she woke up screaming, her body convulsing in uncontrollable spasms.

Thabiso Siswana, who’s now 24 years old, realises those horrific nightmares were all part of her calling to become a sangoma.

“I used to dream about being flung from a car or talking snakes slithering up the garden path to the front door of our home,” she says.

“As it turns out, these dreams were a sign that I should become a sangoma. For example, being flung from a car meant my ancestors were pushing me away because they were upset with me for not heeding the calling.”

Then, in her late teens, she was beset with financial problems and she had three car accidents in a short space of time.

“But the last straw was when I had another horrifying dream about my ancestors abandoning me,” she says.

“That’s when my mother took me to see a traditional healer who confirmed what I already knew – my ancestors were about to abandon me. And that’s when I decided to answer the calling to be a traditional healer.”

Read more in DRUM – 23 May 2013

South Africa is one of the top three big spenders.

Here are the ten countries with the biggest military budgets as reported by msn.com

Namibia               $407 million

Tunisa                   $709 million

Kenya                   $798 million

South Sudan      $964 million

Nigeria                  $2.3 billion

Lybia                     $2.9 billion

Morocco              $3.4 billion

Angola                  $4.1 billion

South Africa       $4.4 billion

Algeria                 $9.3 billion

Candice took the title after three years of trying and now her willpower and load of talent has finally paid off.

Candice audition for season 12

The 23-year-old beat country singer Kree Harisson at the title becoming the first female Idol winner since Jordan Sparks who won season six back in 2007.
Candice wins American Idol

Kubonakala kungathi uToya Delazy akayi ndawo. Udumo lwakhe luzwakala kuzo zonke iziteshi zomsakazo, kumaphephabhuku nako- mabonakude  kusuka kwaphuma icwecwe lakhe lokuqala, i-Pump it on.

“Ngizizwa ngibusisekile ngempela futhi ngibonga umsebenzi wami ohamba kahle,” kusho uToya Delazy sihlangane naye ezitudiyo zaseSandton sixoxa ngempumelelo yakhe.

Usephenduke isilomo kwabaningi.

Akafani neze nohlobo lwamantombazane asemakhaya ovame ukuwabona, yena wehlukile kanti futhi nomculo wakhe wehlukile unesigqi saphesheya kwezilwandle.