Managing Editor
I am a journalist and Head of Digital at Group Editors, the leading media house in the Southern Cape, based in George, South Africa.
Often questioning the accepted order of things, I can be surprisingly gullible.
Just after the turn of the millennium, I had to dye my hair fire-engine-red after losing a bet against my co-host on live radio when I refused to believe the match-fixing allegations against the then South African cricket captain, Hansie Cronjé. That very night - just 10 days after my 34th birthday on 1 April - Hansie phoned his boss Ali Bacher to confess.
Red headed April fool…
In spite of often getting things wrong, I enjoy talking and writing about life, the universe and everything, and music is my daily fix. Years ago, I performed in several musicals in Gauteng and received encouraging reviews for my cabaret 'A drink with Ilse'. Ignoring the fact that I’ve never even ‘arrived’, every now and then I threaten to make a comeback. After all, those in the know claim it's all about the journey. But, as I’m all talk and no action, audiences in George are safe.
Apart from stage fright, I am told that I also suffer from fear of success, hence my affinity for the following quote by essayist Logan Pearsall Smith: “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
I secretly love living up to the passionate characteristics of my birth signs, Aries and Fire Horse, and have always believed that my perfect travel companion will one day arrive. And, as we've been together for three years and have red-hot arguments, it seems he has…. Touch wood!
