Feature Archives – Page 2 of 11 – The Big Issue South Africa

May 26, 2023

ChatGPT trained to lie

If you haven’t already signed up and tried ChatGPT, then it’s important to understand that the platform does not deal in truth and facts. Elon Musk has his sights set on developing a rival AI platform called TruthGPT. Musk is a serial entrepreneur and investor, founding PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX. Having seriously disrupted the banking sector, the car industry and space travel, he is artful in his craft ...

April 21, 2023

Welcome to our CSI edition

Ian Kilbride, Guest Editor for The Big Issue and Chairman of Spirit Invest and Spirit Foundation, and Honorary Professor at Stellenbosch Business school writes …

March 20, 2023

Save Our Oceans

March 9, 2023

Obie Oberholzer – SA’s legend of the lens

Eminent South African photographer Obie Oberholzer, former professor of photography at Rhodes University’s Department of Fine Art, now travels extensively and produces quirky pictorial travel books; no mean feat in a country ravaged by many wrongdoings.

October 24, 2022

How to tackle the debt monster

Debt repayments taking up a chunk of your budget? Maya Fisher-French, Personal Finance Journalist and author of Money Questions? Answered! has some valuable insight.

September 21, 2022

A place called home

South African photographer and journalist Masixole Feni captures homes, both lost and found, to promote social awareness.

August 23, 2022

Worrier State

Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa, (Wits University Press), by Nicky Falkof delves into the culture of fear in South Africa. Anxieties about security and identity are examined with candid pragmatism that South Africans will relate to and understand.

July 19, 2022

Re-engineering the masculinity crisis

“Encouraging vulnerability among Big Issue male vendors, enhancing their wellbeing, and that of others is vital for fostering better parenting skills”, says our social worker Tshepiso ‘Tshepi’ Nhemachena.

June 21, 2022

Star Quality

Reading about Jonathan Roxmouth’s theatrical accolades is jaw-dropping. Watching him perform live on stage, electrifying. More than a quadruple threat, he possesses elusive star quality, playing to sell- out audiences around the world. The Big Issue chats to him.