PITCH: Cape Town
WE NEED YOUR HELP
Nosipho needs assistance with building materials to extend her shack, buying a second-hand washing machine and obtaining a bursary to send her eldest child to college.
If you would like to assist her, contact The Big Issue office on 021 461 6690 or email info@ bigissue.org.za.
Nosipho Quphula
Family First
Words: Alicia English
A few kilometres away from Willowbridge, Big Issue vendor Nosipho Quphula’s main motivation is to see her four children succeed in life.
Nosipho, whose pitch is at the Plattekloof Road and Olienhout Drive intersection in Panorama, started selling the magazine in 2013. Originally from Tsolo Nkwaleni location near Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, the 36-year-old vendor shares an informal dwelling in Khayelitsha with her children Sisipho, Esethu, Liyanda and Esihle and it is from here that she braves the daily commute to her pitch.
Nosipho has experience as a cleaner and domestic worker and hopes to secure permanent employment to help provide for her children and pay for their education. “My family needs many things but for now we need help with building materials to extend my shack, as my family is bigger now. I would also like to send my eldest child, who has passed Grade 12, to college,” she explains.
