Big Issue - Issue 237

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INTRODUCING THE BIG ISSUE COLLECTOR’S EDITION!
More than 50 of South Africa’s best writers, chefs, thought leaders, public figures, photographers, cartoonists and illustrators.

FROM THIS ISSUE:

“Since the cancellation of News24 comments, anger-related strokes in SA have decreased by 57%, and anger-related keystrokes have declined by 3 000%” – Nik Rabinowitz

“Young Joburgers are ready to decolonise universities with the knowledge that higher learning is structured to leave them out in the cold. To them, being ’born free’ is a con.” – Kagiso Mnisi

“I love South Africa because we sing and dance when we’re angry as well as when we’re happy. Well, I don’t, but that’s because I have European genes. When I get angry I want to commandeer a frigate and attack the French, or go off and plunder a small country.” ­­– Ben Trovato

“How can you not love a country that loves its children?” – Mich Atagana

“Who was this pasty-faced Pom to sneer at my country’s president and automatically expect me to agree? Why? Just because I’m white?” ­– Darrel Bristow-Bovey

“We were a colony of ticks sticking to an old blanket. We would stand around talking about Clifton and Mrs Ball’s Blatjang and how it costs R26 for a cup of coffee.’” – Jani Allen

“I’ve heard Dr Alzheimer knocks on ageing doors. I just hope he forgets where mine is!” – Pieter-Dirk Uys

“Who am I? I am a human being, a South African, a black person who is sometime called coloured by others. I am a father, a husband, a brother.” – Ryland Fisher

“A country can’t love you back. It can’t even like you very much.” – Tom Eaton

“The women of Cape Town remind me of the grey-blue mountains that hug our shores. They are forever present.” – Zubeida Jaffer

PLUS: Proudly South African recipes from some of our country’s most famous foodies!