For the past 13 years, I have run my own communications enterprise after, in 2000, retiring a 20-year shareholding and directorship in a public relations consultancy to concentrate on a wide gamut of written communications: news releases, features, internal or external company literature, advertising copy and video scripts, for companies such as SABMiller, Bidvest and others. Before 2000, I spent 35 years in journalism on newspapers in South Africa and Britain, and in leading public relations companies in South Africa.