Ru's Rough Draft
Ruhan FourieA newsletter on South African history, culture, and politics, coming at you every second Tuesday☀️
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 6 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 3 years ago |
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#004 "Bake less cake and buy more reading material!"
The historical position of Afrikaner women is a peculiar one. In the Afrikaner nationalist hierarchy of the twentieth century, their whiteness placed them well above black South Africans, while they stood in second to white men. Initially,...
🎙️ #003 Young, Wild, and (Born) Free
Call me a failed born-free, a weak link in the Rainbow Nation ideal, but I am not one for celebrating or commemorating national holidays. This Youth Day — a day rather commemorated than celebrated — was however different. I was invited to d...
#002 Into the Belly of (the Beauty and) the Beast
Heinrich Jansen and I chatting about Loxton. 📸 Willem van der Berg
“Alcohol abuse remains a widespread problem in our community,” the slender and warm Heinrich Jansen tells me. He is the sexton of Loxton’s Dutch Reformed Church (DRC). We...
#001 Faith, Hope, and Coalitions 🫱🏽🫲🏾
In this first delivery of Rough Draft, I’m touching on two things we are often warned to avoid in everyday conversations: politics and religion. I find this quite peculiar. Politics and religion are said to be private affairs, but few thing...
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👆That’s me. 📸 by my friend Dirk Moggee
I often take fleeting thoughts for granted. They get triggered by reading, listening, chatting, watching, and even feeling something. My immediate response is “That is interesting!” and I go on with...
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