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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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M: +27 (0)74 700-1144


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Sylvia Vollenhoven's Professional details

Current Position(s)

Editorial Board Member | Journal of African Cinemas
Johannesburg | 2007 - present

Chief Executive | Human Bondage Project
International | 2006 - present

Managing Director | VIA - Vision In Africa (Pty) Ltd
Johannesburg | 2006 - present

Previous Position(s)

Knight Fellow | Development Journalism Fellowships | ICFJ - International Center for Journalists
Washington DC, United States of America | 2009 - 2011

Broadcast Media, Multimedia and Film


Jury Member | Ghana Journalists' Association Annual Awards Committee
2010 - 2010

Member of the 2010 Jury that will decide the prestigious Annual Ghana Journalism Awards


Africa Representative | Thomson Foundation
United Kingdom | 2007 - 2009

Director | Khetha Media (Pty) Ltd
Johannesburg | 2006 - 2009

Chairperson | Dream Weaver Trading (Pty) Ltd
Johannesburg | 2006 - 2009

Lead Tutor | Thomson Foundation
United Kingdom | 2008 - 2008

Head of Genre | Content Hub | South African Broadcasting Corporation
Johannesburg | 2004 - 2006

Advisory Board Member | African Women's Media Centre
Dakar, Senegal | 1999 - 2005

Executive Producer | TV | South African Broadcasting Corporation
Johannesburg | 1994 - 2004

Editor | Women's Edition
Washington | 1998 - 2003

Educational history

Tertiary

Argus Journalism School

Completed 1976

Diploma

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.

Activities

community

Catholic Action for Street Children

Volunteer, 2010 - present

Using Storytelling to reintegrate homeless kids

Insight Training Centre

Member, 2004 - present


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