Freelance Portfolio

FREE-LANCE PORTFOLIO: BARBARA ERASMUS

BUSINESS

· Business schools for Africa (Mail & Guardian – August 2, 2002)

· Training corporate leaders – employment equity (Mail & Guardian – August 2, 2002)

· Corporate travel incentives (Business Travel Now – November 3, 2001)

· The pleasure principle – alternative investments (Men’s Health, Dec 2001)

· Management issues in the new millennium ( Mail & Guardian, Getting Ahead, Post-graduate education supplement, August 3^rd 2001)

· Is an MBA still relevant in the new millennium?( Sunday Business Times, January 21 2001)

· MBA’s are spoiled for choice. (Business Day, November 20, 2000)

· Techno Trends – the virtual office. (Equinox, Issue 3, 1999)

· Commercial banking – Standard Bank. (in-house publication)

· Rand Merchant Bank – a historical perspective (in-house publication)

· Deloitte Consulting adopts Pretoria Child Welfare (in-house publication)

· Isabel Jones joins forces with Telkom (in-house publication)

· New Kids on the Block – emerging business schools

· Corporate head hunters

· Rainbow Reading ( Cape Times December 12 2006)

· Something to celebrate ( Cape Times December 12 2006)

· A share in the future ( Teacher July 2006)

· Steinway stakes a claim (Cape Times March 2007)

· Blowing their own trumpets ( Teacher July 2007)

· Women novelists publish locally ( Citizen August 2007)

· An alphabet of crime (Mail&Guardian )

· Is there a leader in the pack? ( Mail&GuardianApril2008)

TRAVEL

· Do try to see Argentina (Saturday Star – Travel Section – 4 August 2001)

· Global Village – British Hills (Diversions 27, 2000)

· Japan – country of Contrasts ( Saturday Star Travel Supplement)

· Japan – A South African perspective (Saturday Star – Travel Section. September 1, 2001)

· Tips for the SA traveller in Japan (Travel Now – January 2002)

· Ulusaba – Virgin territory

· Russia by River ( Saturday Star Travel Supplement)

· A sip of Southern Spain ( Weekend Argus/ Saturday Star)

· Starry starry night ( Weekend Argus/ Saturday Star/ Alive)

· Alaska is Awesome (Weekend Argus/ Sunday Tribune)

· Redcoats, Zulus - and David Rattray ( Saturday Star - 2007)

· Modern Mauritius ( Saturday Star – 2008)

· In England’s green and pleasant midlands ( Saturday Star – 2009)

· Zagreb – cafes, cathedrals and catholics ( Weekender – 2009)

HUMOUR

· Heavy petting ( Alive)

· Bush Widow Blues (Fair Lady)

· Lucid Lies

· Travels in Wonderland

· The Blackboard Jungle ( Fair Lady)

· Sandpit saga ( Fair Lady)

HEALTH

· Autism – mind-blindness ( Mail & Guardian, May 4 2001)

· Allopathic medicine and holistic healing

· Discrimination against the mentally ill (Mail & Guardian, October 12 2001: DASG GlaxoSmithKline Media Excellence Award 2001)

· Goals in Sight ( Teacher)

MEDIA WORK

Corporate Communication Consultants -SOS Children’s Villages

· Success stories – Dorcus Mashale,Jerome Janetjies,Lucky Zwane,Audrey Mothupi

· Architecture – building dreams in concrete

· Bequests – the will to make it happen.

· Happy birthday, Herman Gmeiner!

Zebra Art Register 2002

· Street children’s art

· Absa Atelier awards

Barbara Erasmus is a nomadic free-lance journalist who has decided to grow old with a mountain view in Cape Town. Her novels Kaleidoscope and Even with Insects were published by Penguin, while her third novel Chameleon has moved into the electronic era, starting life as a Crime Beat blook and now published under the BOOK SA imprint using POD technology through Electric Book Works.







Chameleon is a story about the private face behind a public image. Leigh Franklin has it all – looks, brains and a marriage to one of Cape Town’s most successful stockbrokers. Ever the perfect wife, she exchanges her own blossoming career as a forex and hedge fund trader to become the perfect mother to her adored daughter. She struggles to maintain her up-market profile as she is forced to face the consequences of both white-collar crime and an unwanted pregnancy.