With the fatigue of loadshedding and water outages and and and giving us all sorts of headaches this week, consider taking a fun time-out and putting some colour back into your life. Take the kids, any kids (no don’t do that I was just kidding!), or even just yourself (there’s no judgement here) to the cinema and get tickets to watch Minions: The Rise of Gru.

For me, it was a welcomed, and scheduled, two hours in the dark. A real escape from the world, a throwback to the start of supervillain life for Despicable...