My background
I started off working for The Cape Argus newspaper while I was a student at the University of Cape Town and spent more than a decade as a reporter and feature writer at national Sunday and metropolitan daily newspapers in South Africa. I specialised in writing about the impact of apartheid on individuals and communities and also wrote features about the environment, health and education.
I later freelanced and served as South African correspondent of the United States weekly The Chronicle of Higher Education and a contributing editor to The Cape Argus. I wrote for a wide range of other publications - everything from Africa Environment and Wildlife to Reader's Digest.
In 2001, I won the top prize in the South African Science and Technology Journalism Awards for a feature Arachnoid Park published in Leadership.
Among my previous roles were:
My major interests include:
I later freelanced and served as South African correspondent of the United States weekly The Chronicle of Higher Education and a contributing editor to The Cape Argus. I wrote for a wide range of other publications - everything from Africa Environment and Wildlife to Reader's Digest.
In 2001, I won the top prize in the South African Science and Technology Journalism Awards for a feature Arachnoid Park published in Leadership.
Among my previous roles were:
- head of communications for the Independent Development Trust, a major South African funding agency
- senior book editor at Focus Publishing in Sydney
- chairperson of the Sydney Freelance Journalists Group.
My major interests include:
- wildlife watching - especially in remote wilderness areas
- food - taste turns me on, I love cooking and collecting recipes
- photography - nature, landscape and macro-photography
- tweeting as @ecowrite.
