Author

Sniffing out South African
successes. Three books down.
Many more to come.

Journalist

Booze and banks and boardroom
tussles make for good stories.
No yawns allowed.

Speaker

Keynote speaker,
MC, facilitator, panellist.
English and Afrikaans.

SWOOPER OR BASHER?

“Tellers of stories with ink on paper, not that they matter anymore, have been either swoopers or bashers. Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done. I am a basher.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, 1997.