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Claremont. Cape Town Name: Lungile Tose Vendor Number: 1456 About: Lungile (a single father of two adult children aged 32 and 38) lives in Nyanga with his sister and his nephews. He is 59 years old, and he has been selling The Big Issue for 16 years.

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Our coastlines and oceans are haunted by legacies of colonial and apartheid rule which have fashioned exclusions, dispossessions, and violent forms of epistemicide (cultural genocide) of indigenous coastal residents for generations now. Artisanal and

You could say Terry Haub has travelled from [upmarket Vancouver] Howe Street to hell. But he made it back. Twenty-five years ago, the former entrepreneur and stock trader resided in Kits and was living the good life — operating his own power washing

"The impulse to write often strikes when I’m observing someone else. Something in their face or their manner grabs my attention and refuses to let go. It is rare for me to write about it immediately because I can tell that I’m only glimpsing a shadow

'A friend recently said to me "It’s better to be lucky than good.” And while I do believe that we are — for the most part — authors of our own fate, I think it would be unwise to understate the importance of fate or luck or fortune or whatever you mi

“I am writing in response to your letter of October 17 in which you indicate that you have learned of TotalEnergies' application for a production license, filed on September 5, to develop gas fields off the southern coast of South Africa. I can confi