About Me

At my core, I’m a broadcaster — that’s where everything started for me on 1 April 2000. I honestly thought the job offer was an April Fools’ prank, but it turned into the beginning of a career that’s taken me through all sorts of productions, studios, live events, and unforgettable moments. Along the way, I’ve picked up a pretty unique mix of creative and technical skills, simply by being curious and saying “yes” to every opportunity that came my way.

 

I’ve worked on major sporting events — Rugby, Cricket, and Football World Cups, international cricket tours, and big golf tournaments like the Nedbank Golf Challenge and the SA Open. I’ve directed news during some of the most intense moments imaginable: the Oscar Pistorius trial, Mandela’s funeral and final flight to Qunu, Presidential Inaugurations, Openings of Parliament, and a range of game shows, promos, and social projects. Live broadcasting has a way of keeping you sharp, humble, and very awake. 

 

But my creative side actually began even earlier. Back in 1999, once I had my own computer, I started designing random graphics, wallpapers, and flyers — anything I could experiment with. After finishing school and moving full-time into broadcasting, I got into video editing and motion graphics, and that really opened the door for me to start creating my own stories. There’s something special about watching an idea unfold into a finished piece, especially when you’ve built it from nothing.

 

I’ve always been someone who wants to know how things work. Even in school, I messed around with simple coding, and years later that curiosity led me into HTML, CSS, and Python. Now I use those skills to build websites, apps, and little tools for projects — basically anything that lets me tinker or automate something unnecessarily complicated.

 

Over time, I’ve built studios, configured broadcast systems from scratch, trained teams, and figured out workflows that make life easier for everyone. I love problem-solving, especially when it involves equipment, lights, cables, or complex setups. Working in high-pressure environments — from huge sports events to breaking news — taught me how to stay calm, think clearly, and keep everything running smoothly even when chaos is brewing around you.

 

These days, I’m sharpening my design process and having a lot of fun exploring what AI can add to the creative world. I use it for the repetitive bits — quick mock-ups, colour ideas, basic edits — so I can focus on the parts that actually excite me. I’ve been learning prompt engineering too, and it’s pushed me to explore wilder, more experimental styles and visuals.

 

At the end of the day, I’m driven by curiosity. I love learning new things, building new things, breaking things and fixing them again, and finding better ways to tell stories or solve problems. With the mix of experience I’ve gathered along the way, I try to stay grounded, keep improving, and share what I’ve learnt with others.

 

That’s the spirit behind TechPunk — creating, exploring, experimenting, and always staying just a bit hungry for the next challenge.

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5. Time to go

 

Dealing with, let’s be frank, morbid topics constantly, I felt I needed to get out and try find something else to do instead of watching and hearing about deaths, people striking, homelessness, bad economy and natural disasters. I took some time out because it affected me mentally to be honest, I was starting to hate society and the people in it. I kept thinking how do we treat each other this way?

 

Even though I loved what I was doing, I was dealing with conflicting views about humanity and I jumped. I couldn’t do it day in and day out. I needed to step back. I took a few months and then started a furniture upscaling business where I could still be creative but I still missed the broadcast and design elements. I had stopped designing in my spare time and I had lost myself in the depressing topics and thoughts.

 

 

 

 

I then joined a friend, and my brother in-law, who was trying to launch a new Futsal league that was going to be broadcast into 60+ stores nationally. Naturally this excited me as I love being at the front of new ideas and technology. We started a league of 8 teams and 11 players and coaching staff, score keepers and technical crew to get this up and running. We ran games 7 days a week and it was cerated with the idea that people in betting shops could have something else to bet on during the week as sports was mostly the weekend.

 

It did well and created a lot of jobs for mostly unemployed individuals who could play a good game. We had open day trials for players from all over the country at different locations, and chose around 90 players to represent 8 teams. We named these after their location and a famous EPL team’s nickname, like Polokwane Blues. Players would play in league games that lasted a period of 2 weeks and the winners would get a pay-check and bragging rights. Some of our players represented South Africa in the Futsal World Cup, coming 3rd after losing to Brazil on extra time penalties. We had done our people proud and represented our country incredibly well with some players receiving international contracts in Belgium. Liking what you’re reading? Checkout the next post for more!