Portfolio: Mail & Guardian articles and EWN online versions of radio stories

 I have reported on politics, court cases, health stories and have written longer newspaper features. I have been a radio reporter and worked for the Mail & Guardian website. I was also  published in the M&G  newspaper .

Screengrab of some of my M&G stories

My highlight at M&G was covering the trial of the pair suspected to have killed Terre'Blanche

Links to a selection of  my radio and Mail & Guardian stories

Court stories

I covered a week and half of the Ventersdorp trial of the pair suspected of killing Terre’Blanche.

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-10-19-underwear-mystery-plagues-terreblanche-trial/

My coverage of Judge Colin Lamont’s Equality Court ruling on singing the Dubulu I’Bhunu song

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-09-14-well-fight-them-at-the-benches-says-afriforum

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-09-12-anc-appalled-by-malema-hate-speech-ruling

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-09-13-anc-to-appeal-shoot-the-boer-ban-as-ruling-slammed

I reported on  the hearing into whether Wouter Basson would keep his medical licence

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-09-26-chemical-warfare-demons-return-to-haunt-wouter-basson/

This is my exclusive story into that I wrote during the Basson trial about the govt paying for Basson’s defence.

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-09-28-bassons-bills-a-burden-sa-has-to-bear-says-anc/

Political stories

This is an analytical piece that looks at the JSC’s involvement of new Chief Justice’s Mogoeng Mogoeng’s appointment.

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-09-05-mogoeng-interview-did-the-jsc-fulfil-its-constitutional-duty

         South African’s Muslim and Jewish community’s  reaction to Palestine’s bid to join the UN 

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-09-23-sas-muslim-community-divided-on-palestinian-un-bid                                                                                                                                                              Stories on war in Libya

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-08-22-sa-on-libya-we-dont-want-state-within-a

We were the first SA news organisation to report that SA had recognised the NTC in                                                                              Libya      

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-09-20-south-africa-finally-recognises-libyas-ntc/

Storify story- using storify to calculate tweets

It was my idea to start using Storify, a service to make a story out of tweets,  at the Mail & Guardian online.

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-10-31-mr-razzmataz-and-the-sunday-papers/

Features

My Woman’s Day feature about SA women in prison - 

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-08-09-learning-a-new-song

Muammar and Me: a Farmer reacts to Gaddafi’s death

This exclusive feature received was one of the top ten most read stories on site http://www.mg.co.za in the week it was published.

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-10-26-muammar-and-me-an-sa-farmer-laments-gaddafis-death

Covered a live-video- link up of Burmese pro-democracy activist and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi with a South African audience at the university of johannesburg.

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-10-04-aung-san-suu-kyi-hails-struggle-of-sa-individuals

Health stories

Breast is Best- The Health Minister’s new breastfeeding policy                                                        http://mg.co.za/article/2011-08-24-motsoaledi-argues-breast-is-best

Teenage sex

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-10-26-criminalising-teen-sex-is-getting-us-nowhere/

My first exclusive radio story- Traffic Light Syndicate hits Jo’burg robots.

This is shortened version.

http://www.ewn.co.za/articleprog.aspx?id=56209

The traffic light story I broke made it to the BBC website 3 days later.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12135841

Screengrab of my online work