I AM
ONE OF THE ONLY SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNALISTS WITH AFRICAN EXPERIENCE
MY BIO –
CRYSTAL ORDERSON
From Mitchell’s Plain in the Cape Flats, Crystal travelled the world for a decade, reporting from conflict zones in Africa, spent time in Dakar, Senegal before returning to South Africa to work in various media newsrooms. Orderson cut her teeth as a television and radio reporter South African Broadcasting Corporation, SABC and later as the Bureau chief based in Dakar, Senegal. Orderson cut her teeth as a television and radio reporter for the South African Broadcasting Corporation, SABC and later as the Bureau chief based in Dakar, Senegal. Orderson was also the regional editor for the pan African magazine The Africa Report, and has worked for Aljazeera English, Turkish Radio and Television, the Economist TV, ABC News. She has also written for publications including The Guardian, Vrye Weekblad and Independent newspapers. Journalism has taken Crystal to countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Libya, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, India, China, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Orderson was a Duty Editor at South Africa’s leading 24-hour news channel, eNCA based in Johannesburg. She is currently News Editor at Eyewitness News for the PRIMEDIA Group which includes 702 and 947.
Orderson is a regular contributor on African issues for 702 and has been interviewed by the BBC, SABC, eNCA and TRT World on African politics.
