Writer, award-winning journalist, playwright and filmmaker. Former Commissioning Editor for the SABC. Awarded Sweden’s main journalism prize by the Publicistklubben, the prestigious Nordic academy of writers and publishers. The Keeper of the Kumm, her creative non-fiction novel about Khoi-San identity, won SA’s prestigious Mbokodo Literature Award. Her short film |XAU on the profound nature of intellectual erasure was selected for the Hollywood African Cinema Connection Film Festival in in LA 2023. Nomination: Cinema for Peace Award 2021 for Jozi Gold (Co Director with Fredrik Gertten). SA Producer for the BBC TV mini-series Mandela the Living Legend. Chair of the 2018 & 2019 Alan Paton Literary Award Jury. Member of the International Emmy Awards 2018 Jury.