The Big Issue Magazine

A TRIBUTE TO OUR LONG-SERVING VENDORS

Hout Bay, Cape Town

Who: Joseph Klink, vendor number: 207

Location: Hout Bay

Resides in: a retirement village in Bonnievale.

almost 25 years ago. He became a vendor a year after the magazine opened in South Africa. At that time Joseph had been living on the streets for five years after he lost his job as a seaman.

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