Achievements

  • Two decades as a Black Sash volunteer (white women in South Africa opposing apartheid)
  • Arranged charity event for opening night of first Planet Hollywood Restaurant in Africa
  • Exceeded fundraising target to save penguins when oil tanker Treasure sank off Cape Town, endangering 40 000 African penguins and other seabirds (biggest animal rescue since Noah)
  • Setting up a substantially growing London-based Network of organisations supporting their sister entities in southern Africa – now thriving over a decade later
  • Conceptualising and founding a full-service cost-effective ghost-writing offering – includes interviews, writing, editing, proofreading, typesetting and book printing.