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I have been telling stories for more than 20 years.

 

I have reported from war zones in foreign countries and from the heart of the conflict in our own. I have told big stories that made headlines and small stories that changed lives.

 

I have worked in television, radio and print.

 

My fascination with story telling began as a student when I became the coordinator of a news magazine for people with low literacy skills. My interest in “accessilbe writing” later saw me take up the job of setting up a community newspaper in the Karoo and helping to train journlists at the Peninsula Technikon Journalism School.

 

In 1992 I joined the staff of the the Afrikaans anti-apartheid journal, Die Suid-Afrikaan.

 

In 1995 I joined the SABC as a reporter and on-air producer for the radio current affairs shows, Monitor and Spektrum.

 

In 1996 I was appointed as a producer for the SABC’s  Truth Commission Special Report, a weekly round-up of the Truth Commission. The programme became a television phenomenon - consistently hit the top spot in the country’s overall television ratings and winning numerous local and international awards.

 

In 1998, I helped found the investigative television programme, Special Assignment. In later years, I was appointed as an Executive Producer and also fronted the show as its on-air Presenter. Special Assignment broke some of the biggest stories of the time, garnered record ratings and went on to became one of the most awarded news and current affairs shows in the history of local television.

 

In 2007, I left journalism and became a communications consultant to the biggest public sector turnaround project ever undertaken in South Africa. Working with a team of international business consultants, the two-year assignment at the Department of Home Affairs ended in 2009.

 

Since then, I have immersed myself in numerous public sector and corporate assignments in the field of crisis communications, media management and internal communications, working across Southern Africa.

 

 

Awards and other

 

Some of my awards include collectively winning the Foreign Correspondents Award for Excellence in Journalism in 1997 and the Pringle Award for Outstanding Journalism in 1998.

 

In 2005 I was named SA’s Environmental Journalist of the Year.

 

Over the years I have also won numerous other awards in the Vodacom Journalist of the Year, the Sanlam Business Journalist of the Year and the Weber Wentzel Legal Journalist of the Year.

 

In 2003, The Star newspaper named me one of their ten most influential media personalities.

 

 

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