Experience

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  Shoprite

  • Online Content Manager

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  The Shoprite Group of Companies

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Online Content Manager

    • Sep 2022 - Present
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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  Planet O

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Co-Founder

    • Mar 2019 - Present
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    Planet O is a non-profit organisation that focuses on providing a lifestyle resource for people with unique access requirements. As the Co-founder our idea is to develop a trusted, verified, reliable, and accessible online ecosystem that makes use of technology to bring together users, businesses, and resources. The core target market is people with disabilities and the focus is on cataloging places that are accessible. Our idea has been presented at an innovation summit for the university of South Africa (Unisa) in August 2019, and the idea and implementation plan was among the top 3 in South Africa. As a result, Unisa has offered some funding as seed money for the project. Since then we have assembled a board of non-executive board members a non-profit organisation under the name Planet O.Registration number: 240-926

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  Media24 (Pty) Ltd

  • South Africa
  • Media Production
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Online Editor, Huisgenoot

    • Dec 2015 - Sep 2022

    Digital editor at Huisgenoot – South Africa’s largest magazine; part of the Media24 group based in Cape Town (www.huisgenoot.com). Duties include: Manage Huisgenoot’s online properties (including creating, commissioning and trafficking content from the editorial team); Manage digital team; Liaising between the digital team and the commercial and project managers; Manage relationships with the magazine management team and sister publications; Co-create, plan, implement and manage the content strategy, vision and guidelines for online media; Oversee and create posts for social networks, community and user-generated content elements; project and production management, data-analysis; editorial direction and quality control of commercial/native advertising content; setting the editorial goals and style.

  • Social Media Coordinator, Netwerk24

    • Dec 2014 - Dec 2015

    The strategic development and coordinating of the Afrikaans language news website Netwerk24.com social media platforms as well as the Afrikaans language newspapers Beeld, Die Burger, Volksblad and Rapport within this space.

  • Multimedia Journalist, Beeld

    • Mar 2013 - Dec 2015

    Social media management – the curating and interaction on the Afrikaans newspaper Beeld’s Twitter-feed as well as the Facebook-page; Copy management (www.beeld.com – and occasionally www.volksblad.com and www.dieburger.com); Translation (at speed); News identification; Production of multimedia elements such as photo galleries, twitter-feed, and proper usage of keywords, SEO; Video- production for the mentioned websites.

  • Social Media Coordinator, Netwerk24

    • Dec 2014 - Nov 2015

    The strategic development and coordinating of the Afrikaans language news website Netwerk24.com social media platforms as well as the Afrikaans language newspapers Beeld, Die Burger, Volksblad and Rapport within this space.

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  Media24 (Pty) Ltd

  • South Africa
  • Media Production
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Layout-subeditor, Sport24

    • Mar 2010 - Mar 2013

    Designing the broadsheet pages of the sport sections in three of the country’s biggest Afrikaans newspapers (Beeld, Die Burger (two editions) & Volksblad.) as well as the national Sunday newspaper (Rapport); Sport24 is the central production-business unit that supplies all the Afrikaans newspapers belonging to the media conglomerate, Media24. Copy-editing, the writing of headlines and captions; Liaising with the monitors at the printing presses to ensure all the pages arrive at their various destinations on time and without error.

  • Lifestyle and entertainment journalist, Beeld

    • Nov 2009 - Mar 2010

    Feature writer for the entertainment, travel, youth and lifestyle sections.

  • Student Journalist

    • Feb 2009 - Nov 2009

    Reporter for the student supplement, Kampus-Beeld Tuks.

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  Private

  • Tutor

    • Feb 2008 - Nov 2010

    Second Language Afrikaans Tutor