Articles & Op-eds

Sample op-eds and articles. Lots more can be found here

Investigative journalism

How the European Union’s €1.114 billion investment to save the Danube Delta passed into the hands of a network of Romanian politicians, NGOs and businessmen. Shortlisted for the 2021 Fetisov Journalism Awards and winner of the 2022 Superscrieri press prize.

info-sud-est, 5 March 2021. Also in Süddeutsche Zeitung and NRC Handelsblad.

Reportage and 2019 National Geographic Society project

“Smokestacks dominate. The Matimba and Medupi power stations lord over shacks, farms, houses, schools, busy churches, emptying shops, and gun stores arming a vast hunting industry. There’s a McDonald’s. And, underneath the carbon dioxide plume, the coal town of Lephalale roils in anger, racism, corruption and fading hope.”

Mail & Guardian, 29 April 2020

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Opinion: the fallacy of war

Business Day, 10 August 2022
Financial Mail, July 2020
Sunday Times, 11 April 2021

Science and technology

The plans for giant seaweed farms in European waters

Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23 Sept 2022
BBC, 12 August 2022
BBC 8 August 2022

Opinion: in defence of democracy

Sunday Times, 27 Dec 2020
Mail & Guardian, 3 July 2020
Business Day, 17 May 2017

Business reporting

Sunday Times, 16 August 2020
16 June 2019

A few last words

Business Day, 31 July 2022
Sunday TImes, 27 Oct 2019
Sunday Times, 22 Dec 2019
Sunday Times, 13 Oct 2019