Luvo Loliwe is new to The Big Issue, having been selling the magazine for only three months. Before becoming a vendor, he worked as a packer at a grocery store but lost his job when his contract expired.

We get to know vendor on the pitch, lindiwe khihlana (24), who sells the big issue magazine on campground road in rondebosch.

Lavista prides himself on knowing how to greet people in many different languages. He’s been selling The Big Issue on Greenmarket Square since he first became a vendor in 2009.

“Growing up in Nyanga was and still is not easy. You must try by all means to be a better person and rise above the crime and poverty that cloud the place, while still putting food on the table at the end of the day for your family. I’m a father to four children, and selling this magazine and living a crime-free life have provided for my children,” he says.

Hendricks, 47, sells The Big Issue around District Six and entrepreneurship is nothing new to him, as he once owned a videography business.

“I started as a Big Issue entrepreneur in 2010 when I decided to close my tavern business in Town 2, Khayelitsha, which I had started in 1998. It was a success but it came with consequences, as it had burnt down twice.