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Qualifications:
BJourn (Rhodes), Certificate of Management (Gordon Institute of Business Science)
Room 110 Africa Media Matrix
Upper Prince Alfred Street
Makhanda
School of Journalism and Media Studies
Rhodes University
PO Box 94
Makhanda 6140
2012-2014 Head of business and content development at CNBC Africa.
2007-2012 Head of programming at BDTV, main news and interviewing anchor
2000-2007 Junior, senior and then executive producer of features at BDTV
Freelance web and copywriting experience
Freelance writer for Financial Mail
JMS1: Digital Storytelling
JMS3: Television production
Writer with the Makhanda Circle of Unity Communications hub at the onset of lockdown with work published in Grocott’s Mail, 2020
Set up a pilot digital storytelling programme for Rhodes University Community Engagement in 2017, facilitates workshops with community partners, students and academics (2017-2020)
Member of the South African Freelancers’ Association (SAFREA)
Constructive journalism
Epistemic justice
Digital storytelling for social change
Participatory video
MA in Media Studies: how personal digital storytelling can facilitate epistemic justice for a specific community in Makhanda who are challenging South Africa’s current literacy crisis.
Contributed content towards the Guidebook for social innovation: digital storytelling, (2020), published by Rhodes University Community Engagement Social Innovation Hub in partnership with Erasmus+ Common Good First
From 2019:
As a freelance copywriter, editor and journalist: “Generous Makhanda citizens feed thousands in need”, Grocott’s Mail online, 24 April 2020
“Throwing a lifeline”, Financial Mail 28 November 2019: 34-35
“A city in deep crisis”, Financial Mail 18 April 2019: 30-33
From 2018: Edited and produced three videos shot by third year TV students for Rhodes University recruitment office