13/12/2024
Let’s meet one of South Africa’s Wildest….
Tatum Rijper from (Deventer, The Netherlands)
She is such a lekker “Cherry”, born in the Western Cape. Growing up in Malmesbury, she loved the Hip Hop culture and found herself pursuing her dancing career at the age of 15; From an advert on SABC 2, her mother enrolled her into the Dancing World Champs where she represented South Africa across the globe. This sparked her dream to live in Europe; She continued to live in Kaapstad, becoming a Primary school teacher for 10 years when she left school. In 2011, she married a Dutchie after experiencing a “love at first sight” moment with him at the waterfront in Cape Town, and they have 2 kwai kids together today. She moved to the Netherlands with her young family in 2022 to spend time with her father-in-law and embrace her earlier dream of living abroad. She works for an education charity called FuseSchool Global creating stem content on YouTube (science, mathematics, chemistry, physics) for teachers to use in their classrooms; with her teaching experience, she writes her own content, creating her own videos and audio, on all educational aspects for students aged 5 – 24, from the comfort of her own home.
She misses her family and friends in South Africa, and the pop of colour our people bring; her favorite South African foods are the infamous garage pie & chip roll with guilty pleasures of endless coffee and ‘Belinda Louw’ (Black Label beer)
She is excited to explore her new home with her husband & kids, to embrace the infinite opportunities the world has to offer; she is a proper South African gal with a heart of gold and she is here with us today to tell her story.
She is freaking hilarious and such a soulful child