Issue 297 2021

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Change is in your pocket

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The Big Issue
Derek Carelse, Desireé Johnson, Gadija Gamieldien, Marlinee Chetty Managing Director: Derek Carelse Advertising, Fundraising & CSI: Derek Carelse Email: [email protected] Office Administrator: Penelope Hawker-Mdingi Finance: Venessa Isaacs Emai
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Ed’s Letter
Walking through a fancy school library recently, I observed a large group of kids ‘hanging out’. In the group on that particular afternoon, only one child was surrounded by books, actively working. Her blazer was healthily decorated, a suit of armour
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Social Media Rules For You, Your Child And Your Teenager
• If you wouldn’t put it on a billboard don’t put it anywhere. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five seconds to ruin it. • What you need to understand is, being popular on social media is like being rich in Monopoly. It doesn’t mean anythi
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Have Your Say
Sandra Visser - I’m so glad you brought the books page back for the current issue [May]. The previous guest-edited ones were very informative but all the articles were really heavy reading. Nice to have something lighter in between. Iona Sacks – What
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Find A Friendly Vendor
The pandemic and a move to digital media has made our vendors’ lives extremely gruelling. They stand for hours at a time on the street. Each vendor has a personal story, and a life that matters; each has tenacity, perseverance and mental strength tha
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Who Took The Photo?
YOUTH DAY PROTECTING KIDS Late photographer, Dr Sam Nzima, is known around the world for taking the photograph of the dying Hector Pieterson during the Soweto uprising 44 years ago on 16 June 1976. The famous image shows the tragic scene of Soweto sc
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The Scent Of A New Book
By the time Shana Fife is 25, she has two kids from different fathers. She is alone and has no job, and she is constantly reminded about this fact by her family. She feels pretty much worthless and unlovable. Glaringly honest and unsettlingly blunt,
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Sneak Preview
When did you decide to be an author? I think that I knew at a very early age – when making up stories to play cowboys and crooks in the garden – that I wanted to be a writer but never regarded it as a fulltime career till much later in my life. After
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An Extract From One Fine Day, Translated By Maya Fowler
Zanie Arendse’s phone just rang and rang. Kristien tried again. Once more nothing but the monotonous toot-toot, toot-toot in her ears. The third time, just as Kristien was ready to give up, Zanie finally answered. “Blerrie bliksem, man.What’s going o
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What You Don’t Know About Your Child Online
The advent of social media is a double whammy for parents in the digital age, considering that the first iPhone was only introduced in 2007. Recent statistics prove that kids don’t like to talk and share with their parents what happens in the social
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Social Media: How Not To F#*! Up
In conversation with Attorney, public speaker, author and Founder of The Digital Law Company Emma Sadleir... Legally, a child can face all sorts of consequences online that are life changing and long lasting. By this time it’s too late for a parent t
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Little Issue
FEATURING STORIES IN ISIXHOSA, ISIZULU, SESOTHO, ENGLISH AND AFRIKAANS Beaks that speak to us! Find the matching pair Rescue a turtle A sample of Stories • Activities • Recipes • Jokes • Riddles • Competitions Actually, the shape and size of a bird’s
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University of Crime
Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, Tokai, Cape Town. After three months of proposals and meetings, finally the morning arrived to enter the personal cells in the Maximum B section. Above the main gate are written the words, ‘Seize the moment, touch s
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Flying Home
In January, local authorities arrested a 36-year-old man named Aditya Singh after he had spent three months living at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Since October 2020, he had been staying in the secure side of the airport, relying on the ki
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Cheerleaders At 60 Plus
Meet Japan’s senior cheer squad, Japan Pom Pom. A little different from other cheerleading squads, all members are aged 60 to 89. Originally started with five people 26 years ago, the elderly – but no less energetic or enthusiastic – troupe has just
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Exploring The Politics Of Identity
Ariot of colourful books line the walls, bright art materials cover a swath of trestle tables, and Grace Jones is singing My Jamaican Guy in the background. In the foreground, multidisciplinary artist Thania Petersen, in a funky red-patterned coat an
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Mental health Mondays
The Big Issue discovers that Miss SA 2020 uses her celebrity status to confront all forms of bullying, exposing behaviour that culminates in long-term mental health issues. Brightening Instagram’s already colour-saturated world, Shudufhadzo (Shudu) M
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State Of The Arts
Not the most stable South African sector to begin with, the performing arts industry has experienced, due to the pandemic, a quiet fallout so devastating that it has left many homeless and hungry. Meet Noah’s Art, an organisation run by a group of pr
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What’s On-line?
Fresh from the big stage of Britain’s Got Talent, master of magic and mentalism Brendon Peel presents Smoke and Mirrors, a magic show that promises mind-reading, magic tricks, incredible illusions and lots of laughs. Cocktails served from 6pm, show s
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Vendor Art
Art classes are offered to The Big Issue vendors by Elaine Millin, a process art facilitator. Support a vendor and buy an artwork on this page. Visit www.bigissue.org.za for more info.
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