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Francois Lion-Cachet

Francois Lion-Cachet is an assistant curator of the Constitutional Court Art Collection. He is editor of the Afrikaans online magazine Klyntji.com which features a variety of African artists, musicians and writers to the ends of moving towards a more inclusive and accepting society through celebrating diversity and relaying of alternative narratives. He holds a master’s degree in media law.

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The parable of the lost Afrikaner son

by Francois Lion-Cachet 27 June 202125 June 2021

I am a white, Afrikaans-speaking queer, the antithesis of what my family and church stood for. My identity crisis led to my identity formation

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