The last pages of our family health magazine, YOU Pulse, were on their way to the printers and the first rehearsals of Skouspel Plus had just started in Cape Town so the week was somewhat crazier than usual.
And amid all of this several big news stories broke. Controversial Survivor participant Jub Jub allegedly drove his car into a group of schoolchildren and four boys died gruesomely; SuperSport sound engineer Nick Greyling was freed after eight anxious days in the hands of Nigerian rebels; the mother of Jeannine du Plessis (the main witness in the dramatic Advocate Barbie/Cézanne Visser trial) told us she was ready to talk about her pain after her daughter’s recent suicide in Botswana.
I know it’s a good issue of YOU when I abandon whatever I’m doing to read the stories as they land on my desk! I hope you find the dramas in this week’s YOU equally absorbing.
Marco van Vuuren
Our telephones have been ringing off the hook since last week’s article on little Marco van Vuuren. So many readers have let us know they want to donate money to help the KwaZulu-Natal boy whose penis was mutilated by a doctor in a state hospital. Some readers have even started a support group on our Facebook site (which is getting more support every day).
It’s a complicated issue: you can’t donate money if there’s no registered fund; to register a fund you need a lawyer’s assistance and so on.
So we’ve decided to help all those who want to help Marco – we have a registered fund, the Ubuntu Fund. More details about this in next week’s issue.