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Issue #208
ON SALE TILL
24 May

ISSUE #208 ON SALE TILL 24 May

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NEWS

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Big smiles, big wins

Posted on July 16, 2012 / Comments Off

Five vendors of The Big Issue have a lot to smile about today after being announced as the winners of a competition to promote their new blue uniforms, sponsored by Fairtrade label Fairhills Wines.

Readers were asked to submit photos of their favourite vendors in the new blue uniforms over a period of three weeks. Fairhills founder Bernard Fontannaz then selected the five winning photographs.

Vendors featured in the photographs each win a R500 grocery voucher, while the readers who submitted the winning photographs each win a hamper of four superb Fairhills wines.

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School holidays ‘art jam’ to open doors for elephant protection

Posted on July 10, 2012 / Comments Off

Capetonian kids on school holidays are being invited to participate in a Paint-A-Thon with local celebrities to create awareness of the illegal ivory trade and raise funds for elephant protection.

The Paint-A-Thon is an initiative by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw), which is teaming up with creative youth programme Artjamming for the two-day Paint-A-Thon, starting tomorrow (July 11) at Cavendish Square.