African Investigative Journalism Conference
1 february 2017

For the past two years I have been in charge of the programme of the African Investigative Journalism Conference, an annual event organized by the Journalism Programme of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is Africa’s premier investigative journalism conference. The conference gives African and international investigative journalists an opportunity to learn new skills, hear about the top investigative stories and share experience. This year I will be involved in organizing the Global Investigative Journalism Conference.

Click here to check out the video we did about the conference


Webdoc One Carefree Night at the Women’s Film Festival
1 february 2017

My webdocumentary One Carefree Night was selected for the Women’s Film Festival in the USA. It will be held from Thursday, March 16th—Sunday, March 19th, 2017 in Philadelphia.

South African grannies in TIME Magazine
22 october 2013

My story on grandmothers in South Africa taking care of AIDS orphans was published in Time Magazine. Click here for the online version

Live on TV about Mandela
12 june 2013

Live update on Mandela in hospital for Dutch tv. On Nieuwsuur. Click here for the video

Johannesburg in vogelvlucht voor NTR
27 april 2013

Voor de NTR/School TV maakte ik samen met Bart Meijer en Bram Janssen een educatief programma over mijn stad; Johannesburg. Kijk hier

Live bij Ter Zake
21 december 2012

Click hier voor het live kruisgesprek in het Belgische actualiteitenprogramme Ter Zake, over de herverkiezing van Jacob Zuma als ANC-leider

Afrikanerblood in Le Figaro
10 september 2012

Our project Afrikaner Blood was published this weekend in the French newspaper Le Figaro. The awardwinning project has so far been published in seven different countries: Vrij Nederland (The Netherlands), The Telegraph Magazine (UK), L'Espresso (Italy), dsWeekblad (Belgium), Oslo (Norway) and the Mail & Guardian (South Africa). Click here to see the multimedia film Afrikanerblood - here for the story in Dutch and here for the story in English.

Feature on rhino poaching on EenVandaag
15 august 2012

Rhino poaching is on the increase in South Africa. For the Dutch current affairs programme EenVandaag (OneToday) I made the following story. Click here to see the video

Lecture Market Photo Workshop
10 may 2012

I am doing a guest lecture at the Market Photo Workshop, a school of photography in Johannesburg, Friday the 11th. Speaking about my multimedia Afrikaner Blood and multimedia in general.

Wrap up shoot new doc
12 april 2012

Just wrapped up shooting a new short documentary on the two first black African men participating in the Mr Gay World competition and their personal journey before and during this event.

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