Innehållsförteckning för Issue 8 2021 från The Little Issue

This issue is crammed with stories, holiday activities and baking. Make festive holiday cookies on page 44. Don’t forget to get a grown up to help with the oven. Find out about genetics, to help understand why people look the way they do. Follow the money on page 20 and count. Hunt for plastic objects on the beach in our pollution story on page 4. Discover the magic of dung beetles. Have you ever seen one? Turn to page 14. Enter our competitions. You could WIN all the books featured on page 3! You could also win Miss South Africa’s book, Shudu Finds her Magic. Shudu has written a true story of how she was bullied at school. Ask an adult to help you enter. Turn to page 8 to…

Read Shudu’s book to find out what happens!… Shudu Finds her Magic When Miss South Africa, Shudufhadzo Musida (Shudu) was in school, she was badly bullied. She is grown up now, and decided to write a book to help children just like you. The book is called Shudu Finds her Magic. Shudu grew up in a small village named Ha-Vhangani, in the province of Limpopo in South Africa. She was always surrounded by loving family members. One day, things took a turn for the worse. Her mum got a new job and they moved to a different province, Mpumalanga. At her new school, Shudu was bullied by the kids in her class. Shudu had to cope with being bullied and the sad feelings that she had. SHUDU SAYS: “When something…

SIZE They range from half a centimetre to 3cm long. APPEARANCE They are round in shape. Some are coppery-red, some are green and others are dark in colour. CAN THEY FLY? Some dung beetles have wings and can fly. Other types cannot. FOOD Dung beetles eat animal dung. They’re fussy eaters and pick out only the biggest, most nutritious bits. WHERE DO THEY LIVE? In Africa. Also found in Australia, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. THERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES: Rollers. Shape dung into balls and roll them away from the dung pile. Tunnellers. Work in male and female pairs. They climb into the dung pile and dig a tunnel under it. The female beetle stays in the tunnel and organises the dung that the male brings into the…

Ene e le Labobedi mme ho ne ho se na sekolo. Bana bohle ba ne ba kopane laeboraring bakeng sa letsatsi le ikgethileng. E ne e le Letsatsi la Tsebo ya ho Bala le ho Ngola la Lefatshe mme batho hohle lefatsheng ba ne ba tla bala ba be ba ngole le ho mamela dipale ka lona letsatsi leo. Neo o ne a nyakalletse haholo. Mongodi eo a mo ratang haholo, Joan Rankin, o ne a etla laeboraring ho tla bala dibukeng tseo a di ngotseng, mme ntatae one at shepisitse hore o tla mo isa ho ya mmona. Neo o ne a ng otse buka e ikgethang mabapi le yena, mme o ne a tatetse ho ya mo neha yona. Empa eitse ha Neo at soha hoseng ha Labobedi,…

We were able to double our production and distribution of magazines from 60 000 in 2020 to 120 000 in 2021, our second year of existence. For this significant achievement, we extend a BIG, Big Issue hand of gratitude to our founding funders, Bright Future Trust (UK) and Fondation Ipsen (France). We now distribute little issue to the five biggest provinces, by population, in South Africa. We also could not have achieved this milestone without the support of major national child literacy NGOs: particularly Wordworks, Shine Literacy and Help2Read. They contribute to the magazine content as well as distribute the magazine to their beneficiary communities. Their collaboration has allowed us to reach just over 300 primary schools and ECDs nationwide. Globally, Fondation Ipsen has led the way in establishing trial…

How stories began A long time ago, a woman lived with her family in a village in the Kingdom of Zululand. Every Sunday the family went down to the big ocean. The woman made food over a fire while her husband looked for wood washed up by the sea to carve beautiful things: birds, people and all kinds of animals. During the week the whole family worked hard, and in the evenings they sat around the fire. It was too dark for working or playing or carving and it was too early to go to sleep. And this was when the children asked their mother to tell them a story … ENGLISH Lees hierdie storie kaartjie. Gebruik dit om jou eie storie te vertel. Read these different story cards. Use…

Everyone should be treated equally, no matter what they look like. Hi Ada, Junior is being mean to Zuri! Yes Dany. It’s not acceptable to behave like that towards someone. He’s bullying her because she looks different from kids at her school. She has bright blue eyes and dark skin. Our mission of the day is: to help you understand what a genetic code is! Look, Junior! Zuri’s mother and father have chromosomes with blue and brown information. Brown information makes eyes brown and hides the blue colour. Zuri got only blue information from her parents. That’s why she has blue eyes. Oh? Exactly! What is a chromosome? Chromosomes store all the information about your body, before you are born. Wow, so I have blue eyes because I inherited the…

UThoko wangena kwithala leencwadi ehamba kunye noMakhulu. Walithanda kakhulu ivumba lesakhiwo esitsha. Wazithanda kakhulu iishelufa zeencwadi kunye neetafile ezibengezelayo. Namhlanje wayenethemba lokufumana incwadi ekhethekileyo aza kuyifunda. Incwadi yamabali … enemifanekiso! Wabamba isandla sikaMakhulu esishushu xa bengena kwigumbi apho zonke iincwadi zabantwana zazigcinwa khona. Inenekazi elalisedesikeni laphakamisa intloko, labajonga lancuma. Lalinxibe ibheji encinane. Kuyo kwakubhalwe, “Li-bra-ri-an” (“So-tha-la”). “UThoko angathanda ukuboleka incwadi kwithala leencwadi,” kutsho uMakhulu. “Ingaba uThoko unalo ikhadi lethala leencwadi?” wabuza usothala. UThoko wanikina intloko. “Kulungile ke, ungalifumana ikhadi lethala leencwadi uze uboleke iincwadi emva kokuba nje uMakhulu ezalise olu xwebhu,” kwatsho usothala. UMakhulu wahlala phantsi kwisitulwana esityheli esingakwitafilana eluhlaza waze waqalisa ukuzalisa uxwebhu. UThoko wahlala esitulweni esibomvu wabhekabheka. Kwakukho iitafile nezitulo ezininzi ezimibalabala. Kwakuxhonywe imifanekiso neepowusta ezimibalabala edongeni. Ezishelufini kwakukho iincwadi eziziintlobo ngeentlobo nezininzi kakhulu. “Ndiyalithanda eli thala leencwadi,”…

Pumpkin Finds Her Kindness By Bianca Flanders “Pumpkin Pie was grumpy. Her day had been the worst. She thought she’d win a prize at school but Megan had come first. Her anger started rumbling, It SIZZLED, SNAKED and GREW into a big green monster that she couldn’t quite undo. But she remembered Ouma’s words. She had to do her best. Use ‘Operation Find Her Kindness’, and put it to the test.” Elephant’s Big Secret and 19 Other Fantastic Fables By Wendy Maartens A collection of gifted, shy, cheerful, scared, angry and brave animals. What does Mrs Crab want to brag about? What is Elephant’s big secret? Did Hare outsmart the bullies? Don’t wait any longer to find out! Matt and Mia’s Adventures By Antoinette Brown There are seven different Matt…

ENGLISH isiZULU Lwando has a little sister named Oyiso. Sometimes she is very cute. But sometimes she turns into a monster. ULwando unodadewabo omncane ogama lakhe lingu-Oyiso. Kwesinye isikhathi muhle kakhulu. Kodwa ngesinye isikhathi uphenduka inunu. That’s okay, because Lwando is a monster tamer. Kulungile kunjalo, ngoba uLwando ungumthambisi wenunu. On Monday, the monster looked angry. But Lwando knew she was just hungry. NgoMsombuluko, inunu yayibukeka ithukuthele. Kodwa uLwando wayazi ukuthi ilambile. On Tuesday, the monster looked very angry. But Lwando knew she was just tired. NgoLwesibili, inunu yayibukeka ithukuthele kakhulu. Kodwa uLwando wayazi ukuthi ikhathele. On Wednesday, the monster looked even angrier. But Lwando knew she was just sad. NgoLwesithathu, inunu yayibukeka ithukuthela ngokwedlulele. Kodwa uLwando wayazi ukuthi idangele. On Thursday, the monster looked furious. But Lwando knew she…