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  • The Big Issue Magazine2 min read
    What's On?
    Broadcasting legend John Maytham and acclaimed actor Emma Kotze star in a story of shattered lives and dark truths that will slither under people’s skins. The haunting tale in Writer, Director Louis Viljoen’s The Sin Drinkers may not be for the margi
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    Laundry Offers Free Showers To Homeless People
    For three years now, a unique, self-sufficient laundry has been successfully running at the Streetscapes Urban Farm in Cape Town’s city centre. It uses solar power and reuses water in a closed system. The water is cleaned using a biological treatment
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    IN CONVERSATION WITH Jonathan Kellerman
    Are there specific elements that you believe define your approach to storytelling? My interest in writing novels is to explore human behaviour and to provide entertainment for my wonderful readers. I’m an intensely curious person, and have been so fo
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    Tricks in Vegas
    Entertainers Brendon Peel and Li Lau have done what hundreds of magicians could only dream of - they beat world-famous magician duo Penn and Teller at their own game in the USA recently. In the hit US reality show, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, aspiring ma
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    A Worthwhile Smile
    Buy The Big Issue from vendors in the suburbs of Cape Town, or from select Spar, CNA or Pick n Pay stores nationally. MAKE A VENDOR’S WISH COME TRUE Get in touch with us at placements@bigissue.org.za Vendor name: Bongani Pholo Vendor number: 1280 Fin
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    What's Needed In Your Life?
    All artworks featured on this page are for sale. Email info@bigissue.co.za to buy a specific piece or to donate items for art classes. For more information visit www.bridgingpolarities.co.za
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    To Shock and Surprise
    “A story sings when there is a plot twist that is emotionally devastating for the characters and completes their journey. It’s what I always aim for. And I think that if the reader feels the same emotions as the characters, the twist works. It’s that
    The Big Issue Magazine3 min read
    Eco Advocates
    When Patlego Machete lived with her grandmother in rural Mpumalanga, she couldn’t wait to escape to the bright city lights. It was only years later that she realised the bush had always been calling her back – and now she is imparting this rekindled
    The Big Issue Magazine4 min readCrime & Violence
    How The Mighty Fall
    Former Western Cape judge president John Mandlakayise Hlophe has become one of the fi rst two members of South Africa’s judiciary to be impeached since the country became a constitutional democracy in 1994. A vote in parliament in late February strip
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    More Rationing Of Essentials
    Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s 2024 budget speech makes me wonder whether anyone really cares about our people. Our fellow citizens were either starving or cutting their spending on food, electricity and water – all essentials for life – before
    The Big Issue Magazine4 min read
    An Enigma In Her Own Right
    I first met Shado at the SAfm studios in April 2013. The moment I clapped eyes on her, I instinctively knew I had to know more. Our interview addressed the very first Fashion Revolution campaign and we arranged to meet again shortly after. Fast forwa
    The Big Issue Magazine5 min readGender Studies
    Curbing GBV early
    Dr Ntombifikile Mtshali is the Chief Executive Officer of Shout-It-Now, a South African NPC that delivers youth-friendly, community-based HIV prevention, sexual and reproductive health and related services in the Gauteng and North West provinces. As
    The Big Issue Magazine4 min readDiscrimination & Race Relations
    Time For A Feminist Movement?
    South Africa has notoriously high levels of violence against women. The latest police figures show that 10,818 rape cases were reported in the first quarter of 2022. [Statista reports almost 53 900 South Africans reported being a victim of a sexual c
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    Mother Earth = Life
    Many of our readers have admitted they currently face hardships of all kinds. South Africa herself faces all kinds of trials and abuse. When the odds are stacked against us, keeping on with minimal fuss trumps all. Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius w
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    [ Playtime ]
    7. Relating to the sea (6) 8. Standard, usual or typical (6) 9. Scented toilet powder (4) 10. Person who is present at a specified event (8) 11. Person trained to compete in sports 13. Spiritual being (5) 15. Heart, liver or pancreas (5) 16. Assortme
    The Big Issue Magazine1 min read
    The Big Issue
    BOARD OF DIRECTORS Derek Carelse, Desireé Johnson, Gadija Gamieldien, Marlinee Chetty Managing Director: Derek Carelse Advertising, Fundraising & CSI: Derek Carelse Email: derekcarelse@mweb.co.za Office Administrator: Penelope Hawker-Mdingi Office As
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    Farewell And Thank You
    Fresh from school armed with my Social Work degree, I was so scared to be practising as a social worker for the first time. Like every fresh graduate, I’d always wondered what my first job would be like, and where I would be working, and I’d really h
    The Big Issue Magazine1 min read
    Silly Jokes And Riddles
    What am I? There is a faraway place That has both light and dark sides Its gravitational pull Affects the Earth’s tides The moon What colour do cats like best? Purr – ple! Say this 10 times fast Six silly skeletons sewing HELP RONG GET BACK TO HIS SP
    The Big Issue Magazine1 min read
    Finding Hope In Nature
    All artworks featured on this page are for sale. Email info@bigissue.co.za to buy a specific piece or to donate items for art classes. Visit Elaine’s website at www.bridgingpolarities.co.za
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    Fight Climate Change At Home
    The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) tells South Africans to prepare for the coming hardship of drought with El Niño predicted to be sweeping through early in 2025. We may have dodged Day Zero, but now more than ever, we need to create
    The Big Issue Magazine3 min read
    Seeking Workshop Volunteers
    If you would like to support our vendors you can contact Melody at The Big Issue at placements@bigissue.org.za. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated. Former South African president Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon w
    The Big Issue Magazine1 min read
    About The Book
    The English naturalist William Burchell arrived in Cape Town in June 1811 to explore the flora and fauna of the vast southern African interior. Over a four-year period, and travelling in a custom-built ox wagon, he amassed an astonishing 63 000 speci
    The Big Issue Magazine2 min read
    Feeling Fulfilled
    Over 82 000 delicious baked goods – rusks, brownies, chocolate chip and ginger cookies – are made daily by the women of Khayelitsha Cookies, and it is all done by hand. The company started in 2005 with two women and American entrepreneur Alicia Polak
    The Big Issue Magazine4 min read
    Vulture extinction
    Vulture numbers in Africa have plummeted so severely that every individual bird counts, to reduce the risk of extinction. One of the biggest threats to the endangered birds is collisions with powerlines. A new facility has opened in the Eastern Cape
    The Big Issue Magazine4 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
    Journalism In The Year 2024
    COURTESY OF INSP.NGO The world is in a state of flux. That we cannot deny. Political, economic, social, and technological change seems to be accelerating – or, to put it another way, change is the only constant. For those of us in the journalistic wo
    The Big Issue Magazine3 min readDiscrimination & Race Relations
    6 Ways Inequality Holds Back Climate Action
    Rolling out the solutions to climate change (electric vehicles, solar power, heat pumps) will require confronting the enormous gulf in wealth and resources separating the richest and poorest people – both within countries and between them. Why inequa
    The Big Issue Magazine1 min read
    Plant Warriors For The Planet
    Green activists unite … It’s predicted that El Niño will sweep through South Africa early in 2025 bringing with it the effects of drought, which could mean drier taps, a keen reminder of the drought that persisted in the Western Cape from 2015 to 201
    The Big Issue Magazine1 min read
    Citizen's poet
    Go-getter Lindokuhle Mathenjwa is a 23-year-old law student at Varsity College and an entrepreneur. She self-published her first book in 2021 and founded her comprehensive freelancing and publishing company PBL in the same year. With an undying passi
    The Big Issue Magazine1 min read
    The Big Issue
    BOARD OF DIRECTORS Derek Carelse, Desireé Johnson, Gadija Gamieldien, Marlinee Chetty Managing Director: Derek Carelse Advertising, Fundraising & CSI: Derek Carelse Email: derekcarelse@mweb.co.za Office Administrator: Penelope Hawker-Mdingi Office As
    The Big Issue Magazine2 min read
    Drive Buy
    Buy The Big Issue from vendors in the suburbs of Cape Town, or from select Spar, CNA or Pick n Pay stores nationally. MAKE A VENDOR’S WISH COME TRUE Get in touch with our Social Worker Melody at placements@bigissue.org.za Vendor Name: Siphokazi Magob

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