My background
My work comes mostly via word-of-mouth, and I work mostly on retainer yet also on an ad hoc or a project basis.
An experienced language practitioner, I hold a Bachelor and an Honours in Philosophy, both from Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
I’m fluent in English and Afrikaans, and have some proficiency in Portuguese, French and Dutch.
I started my professional life as a proofreader and technical writer. What followed was editing, translation, copywriting, PR, feature articles, search engine optimisation, one-page proposals and screenwriting.
I have worked as a freelance and full-time writer, for agencies as well as clients.


My interests include:
American football
Anthropocene
anti-corruption
architecture
art
blockchain
the bottom of the pyramid
building community
cinema
cognition
commemoration
the commons
congruence
current affairs
decision-making algorithms
digitalisation
diversity
the Doomsday Clock
ecological overshoot
ecosystems
energy
engaged scholarship
fake news
family businesses
flow
football
framing
gender
humanism
humour
idea analysis and evaluation
Industry 4.0
initial coin offerings (ICOs)
innovation
intangibles
integration
intuition
legacy
makers
maturity
mortality
music
narrative
open source
privacy
procedural justice
public ledger
R&D
regeneration
renewables
resilience
resilience/antifragility
reversing cost externalisation
small/tiny homes
smart government
SMEs
social businesses
stand-up comedy
stigma
systems
theatre
trust
turbulence
water
(super-)wicked problems