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writing and editing services
With more than 20 years’ experience and a reputation for never missing a deadline, you can breathe easy outsourcing your writing and editing to me.
I work on a freelance or contract basis, as needed, and have experience in newsletters, magazines, online writing, SEO, blogs, social media, advertorials, PR, community newspapers and more. I’ve written most things from art and business to science, sport and travel. You’ll find some published writing samples below.
Water scarcity
The importance of water for economic growth in South Africa, a largely semi-arid country, was recognised as early as the 1960s when the government started an extensive dam-building programme on our major rivers to ensure a regular water supply for both agriculture and industry. South Africa’s future growth is going to be constrained as much by water, as the availability of electricity. Sharon Davis tells us more.
No Sex, Please - You're HIV-Positive
HIV/AIDS policies and programmes disregard the sexual needs of people living with the virus, claim a number of HIV-positive women who attended the third Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights held in Nigeria on 8 Feb 2008.