Sylvia Vollenhoven
Writer, TV Producer & International Media Trainer
Born 22-10-1952
in District Six
South Africa
Director: VIA - Vision In Africa (Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg; Knight Journalism Fellow - Ghana; Director: Dream Weaver Trading (Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg; Director: Khetha Media (Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg
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Achievements
Awards
Knight Fellowship | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | 2009
Awarded a Knight Fellowship to lead a project to improve coverage of poverty and development issues in Ghana. The Fellowships make tangible changes that improve the quality and free flow of news in the public interest. The project was a programme of the International Center for Journalists in Washington DC.
Knight Fellowship | International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ)
Special Citation | Canadian Association of Journalists
Journalism & Media Award | SA Women for Women
Journalist of the Year Award | Publicist Klubben (Nordic Academy of Writers & Editors)
International Visitor's Grant | US Government
Journalism Exchange Programme | SA Council of Churches
media exposure
A Writer's Last Word | Baxter Theatre | 1999
Co-authored a play based on the life of the renowned South African writer Richard Rive. Premiere: National Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown (Main Festival). Described by one critic as "one of the most fascinating productions on the Main Festival."
Author | Ms Magazine | 1993
An in-depth feature article that explored the role ordinary and well-known women were playing in bringing about the end of apartheid.
Author | Mother Jones Magazine | 1987
A feature article that explored the nature of collaboration for apartheid's Uncle Toms.
Author | Third World Review | 1983
Wrote a definitive article for the UK based think tank, Third World Review and Quarterly, predicting the negotiated settlement that happened in South Africa a decade later.
Other Achievements
My Dear Sisters | SABC TV Documentary Film | 1995
Video postcards from ordinary South African women to the delegates who went to the 1995 UN conference in Beijing.
Steel Valley | SABC TV Documentarty | 1995
A steel plant pollutes the ground water. The story forces a major inquiry into the iron and steel corporation, Iscor.
Getting Away With Murder | SABC TV Documentary Film | 2008
A tough look at the role the apartheid media played in gross human rights abuses.