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SATURDAY EDITION | 5 in-depth articles you must read this weekend

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SATURDAY EDITION | A trail of smoke leads up into the sky and then ends where the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on 18 January, 1986. (Photo: Getty Images)
SATURDAY EDITION | A trail of smoke leads up into the sky and then ends where the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on 18 January, 1986. (Photo: Getty Images)

What’s new to stream, happening in Formula One, or going viral across the globe? News24's Lifestyle and Entertainment Editor Herman Eloff curates a selection of lifestyle articles for you to read at leisure this weekend. 

1) Challenger: The tragic day 7 heroes died in the icy blue sky as the world watched

Seventy-three seconds after the space shuttle Challenger left its launch pad at Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, Florida on 28 January 1986, it was devoured by a massive cloud of smoke.

Read the full article here.

CHALLENGER - THE FINAL FLIGHT (L to R) The Challen
The Challenger 7 flight crew: Ellison S. Onizuka; Mike Smith; Christa McAuliffe; Dick Scobee; Gregory Jarvis; Judith Resnik; and Ronald McNair. (Photo: Public Domain/NASA)

2) Jerusalema: A timeline of how Master KG captured the world

Over 150 million YouTube views. More than 4 million Shazams. 41.4 million streams and an average of over 7.5 monthly listeners on Spotify. 238.7 million impressions on TikTok. These are the numbers garnered by Limpopo-born Kgoagelo Moagi’s Jerusalema.

Read the full article here.

Limpopo-born hitmaker Master KG has sparked a glob
Limpopo-born hitmaker Master KG has sparked a global phenomenon with his Jerusalema dance challenge. (Photograph supplied by Open Source Productions)

3) The Devil All the Time: A must-watch film to add to your list

The Devil All the Time is a multi-stranded story of two serial killer lovers, a very questionable priest, a pair of orphans and a compromised sheriff who make their way through life in a backwater town in post-war America.

Read the full article here.

Tom Holland as Arvin Russell.
Tom Holland in The Devil All the Time. (Photo: Glen Wilson/Netflix)

4) Fernando Alonso and Renault 3.0: The perfect marriage or a perfect storm?

Despite 32 wins, 22 poles, 97 podiums and two F1 titles, and double victories at Le Mans and a single at Daytona, there is no career so frustratingly fault-prone off track as that of Fernando Alonso.

Read the full article here.

PORTIMAO, PORTUGAL - JANUARY 19: Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso of Spain and Renault talks at a press conference during Formula One winter testing at the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve on 19 January 2009 in Portimao, Portugal. (Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images)

5) An ode to TV's It girls who seemingly dressed beyond their means and the stylists who made them so

To the women who spend frivolously and bargain hunt ferociously - from the 1990s to the twentysomethings.

Read the full article here. 

style icons of the 90s
Karyn parsons as Hilary 'Daddy I need $300' Banks on 1990s sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. (Image via Instagram)

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