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I spent a lifetime reading to escape the clutter of incompatibility and ended up having many work, study and life incarnations and adventures. I am a former Cape Town newspaper journalist who reported for The Argus and The Cape Times during the late 1980s, early 1990s. Recently I worked as a multimedia journalist on contract with The Cape Argus and Weekend Argus.

Born and bred in Lansdowne, I attended St Ignatius Primary and Livingstone High School in Claremont and later studied journalism at Peninsula Technikon (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Bellville).

Life highlights? Travelled to 20 countries on six continents, with only Antarctica still outstanding. Career highlights during the apartheid era were interviewing four Nobel Peace Prize laureates: Mother Teresa of Calcutta during her stay in Khayelitsha; Nelson Mandela on a roadtrip to the Boland towns Robertson, Ashton and Worcester; attending one or two press conferences with Desmond Tutu at St George’s Cathedral, and State President FW de Klerk in the garden at Tuynhuys. Having fallen into writing a book by serendipity, I hope to continue exploring my favourite topics: art, philosophical musings, travel and the environment as central themes in my stories and paintings or drawings. I live not far from Lansdowne Road (Now Imam Haron Road), a road that has run through most of my life, barring 17 years spent in Old Woodlands, Mitchells Plain and a year in Muizenberg.