Weekend fixtures
Every Springbok test, every URC round, every Currie Cup weekend — with the UK broadcaster next to each one. Never Google how to watch again.
A weekly for Saffas in the UK
Weekend rugby fixtures with UK broadcasters. Five events worth going to. One long read. Two SA-owned businesses worth trying. And one word to help you sound less English at work on Monday.
The Friday Braai promise
Every Springbok test, every URC round, every Currie Cup weekend — with the UK broadcaster next to each one. Never Google how to watch again.
Braai Army watch parties, SA Chamber networking nights, wine tastings at Vivat Bacchus, Bergie Sundays, church socials. Curated, not aggregated.
The week's best piece of writing about home, here, or the space in between. Sometimes ours, mostly not. Always with a one-line editor's take.
Two SA-owned businesses in the UK — the butcher in Croydon, the wine importer in Bristol, the FX service that actually gives you rand at mid-market.
One bit of Saffa slang, defined properly, with an example sentence. To keep you sounding less English at work on Monday, and less British at home.
Every Friday. End of the week, start of the weekend. Read it with a cup of Rooibos and a rusk. Or don't — we won't know.
Sample issue
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Every real issue archives to the site the moment it hits inboxes. If you miss a Friday, you'll always find it here.
Boetie —
Welcome to the first Friday Braai. If you're getting this, you're one of the founding subscribers, which means (a) thank you, and (b) I owe you a beer at Twickenham if the Boks make it there in November.
Eduard
Next up on the boxArgentina v South Africa · Sat 8 Aug · 18:00 UK · Sky Sports
South Africa v New Zealand · Sat 22 Aug · 16:00 UK · Sky Sports
About BraaiPost
Nearly 300,000 South African-born people live in the United Kingdom¹ — and that's before you count the rest of us: the UK-born kids of Saffa parents, partners who married in, second-generation Saffas raised on braais and biltong, and the hundreds of thousands from Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and Zambia who grew up calling Southern Africa home.² Call it half a million people, give or take, who identify as Saffa in some form. Most of us moved here for work, family, or weather-related reasons that felt sensible at the time. What we don't have — and haven't had for years — is a weekly newspaper that treats us like Saffas in the UK instead of expats consuming Home Affairs news at a distance.
BraaiPost is a weekly newsletter, a companion website, and a WhatsApp channel. No paid subs, no display advertising, no pop-ups. Sponsored by Hadeda Mobile Ltd — the UK MVNO built for Saffas — with an editorial firewall in writing. Everything you read here is written and edited independently.
We don't cover Home Affairs. We don't do apartheid-nostalgia. We don't tell you what the rand did today. We do cover the pub in Wandsworth that will show every Test, the butcher in Croydon that gets the wors right, and the SAFFA property fund that might actually be worth your money.
The archive
Every Friday's issue archives here the moment it's sent. The daily site is live at /daily — refreshed every morning at 05:15 UTC.
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