Articles
In The Media: Current Articles
What happens when you say it out loud
Notes on creativity, risk, and starting anyway In the past week, I revisited some of my old LinkedIn posts. I often use LinkedIn as a space to test out blogs before I move them to my website. Around 2021, during a moment of transition between two career paths, I began...
Getting lost in the dark
This is a post I started writing ten months ago. It was after a more than two-week road trip across parts of South Africa and Southern Namibia I had (mostly) never seen. Rural roads, both tar and gravel, were traversed. I was reminded, once again, of what a beautiful,...
What South Africa can learn from South Australia about rural healthcare services
I had the joy of spending three weeks on Kangaroo Island in January 2025, an experience that deepened my understanding of rural healthcare. Kangaroo Island, part of South Australia, is the country’s third-largest island, home to around 4,500 residents. The population...
The little study that could. Every time I think about this study, it is how I want to describe it
In 2015, when I was wrapping up my PhD, I realised South Africa did not have good national, or any other, quantitative data on how late in their pregnancies adolescents present for antenatal care. While the timing of antenatal care access (relative to a 5-month...
Abundance in spring? Surprisingly, a hard winter helps
Somewhere towards the end of May this year I noticed how I had become incapable of feeling joy or excitement for a passion project which previously provided much inspiration. Where did my energy for this new idea go? Had I suddenly lost all my ambition, I wondered. My...
Pianos, creativity, and economics
Creativity has been on my mind recently. The topic was triggered by the imminent arrival of a special piano to my home. When I was 14 years old, my grand-uncle left me a shiny black grand piano in his will. Oom Boet. He was the person that most personified creativity...
The specialist generalist: Embracing a life of diverse experiences in economics
I find myself in a stage of my career where I’m taking a bit of a pause and exploring what comes next. In this stage, I find my mind wandering to questions about who I am. What are my talents and skills and how can I best contribute to the world? I often keep coming...
On time for writing
I find myself in a more flexible few months of my career. In this phase, I’m trying experiments with my time. How does a Monday work out if I start the day with activities that give me joy? One such activity is writing. This Monday morning, I decided to flip my day...
In The Media: Video & Audio
Can South Africa Afford the NHI?
Where data decides on life or death
In The Media: Writing & curiosity
(Links to some recent media publications of which I was the main or co-author)
In The Media: Recent Articles – External
(Links to recent blog posts written for the Hospital Association of South Africa)