I don’t believe much has changed since our ancestors sat around fires listening to stories centuries ago.

Journalism, at its heart, is story-telling and I’m lucky enough to have carved out my life’s work as one of those storytellers.

In the twenty five years (and counting!) that I have worked as a journalist, starting in my home country of South Africa and moving to the Middle East and beyond, I’ve been privileged to share people’s most intimate moments: from the Djoumati family who lost their daughter Yasmin in the 2003 Algerian earthquake, to Paseka Mathlodi, a homeless South African schoolchild whose interview with me led to him being sponsored by the Thabo Mbeki fund for a three-year university degree.

The Second World War radio journalist, Edward Murrow said of TV, “This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box.”

I am humbled when people invite me into their homes to illuminate their tragedies and their joys. I take seriously my responsibility to tell their stories as accurately and honestly as I can.

Do you have a story that needs to be told? Please get in touch.