{"id":192,"date":"2025-10-02T03:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/boersema-jacob\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:38:10","slug":"boersema-jacob","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/boersema-jacob\/","title":{"rendered":"Boersema Jacob"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJacob Boersema<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<div class=\"addthis\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Boersema Jacob\">\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>Jacob Boersema<\/b> is a freelance journalist and a PhD student in Development Studies at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam. His PhD is on white Afrikaner identity in postapartheid South Africa. He holds Master degrees in History from the University of Amsterdam and Geography from Utrecht University. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n<div class=\"heading\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/media\/images\/broker-23\/transf-tv-p28\/65692-2-eng-gb\/transf-tv-p28_column.jpg\" alt=\"Transformative TV\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">Transformative TV<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/boersema-jacob\/\">Jacob Boersema<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDecember 07, 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tYou can leave it to South Africans to combine popular media trends with long-term development needs \u2013 and make it a success. Last year, the first reality makeover TV show on community development, Kwanda, drew over two million viewers. 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