Early work

My early communications work involved the production of educational and technical materials for a range of civil society organisations focussing on women’s issues, land and environment, worker education and literacy, HIV and health.

In 1976, I joined the SACHED Trust, a South African non-profit organisation, to work on Peoples College. This was educational supplement in the newspaper Weekend World, designed to support young people out of school after the Soweto uprising.
Under the guidance of subject experts, I wrote a 26-part series on health care; courses on chemistry and biology; and articles on African history and current affairs. I also worked on other SACHED publications including Working Women, which I wrote and photographed.

Launch of Working Women, Noordgesig, 1985.

Photocomic from a learner’s story, English Literacy Programme, 1988 (script and photographs).

The Reader, SACHED post-literacy magazine, 1982 (story and photographs).

Nutrition series, Learning Post, SACHED, 1979 (text and photographs).

Publication for the women’s group of the National Union of Metalworkers, 1987 (text and photographs).

Photographer Gideon Mendel and I worked on a publication to celebrate 10 years of community action on AIDS by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (2004) (text)

A narrative account of ICAP’s ground-breaking antiretroviral therapy programmes of the late 1990s (text).