After completing my first degree in South Africa, I came to the UK to work and study further. I obtained a PGCE in Further Education and taught Social Studies to building apprentices. I enrolled for a Masters in Social Anthropology, and went on to complete a Ph.D. on the contrasting political cultures of two neighbouring villages in Southern Italy. I spent two 'post-doc' years studying factory organisation by working on the shop floor in three engineering factories in the South East of England. My first university post was in Australia, but I decided to move to the University of Cape Town in 1983 as the momentum for change in South Africa increased. I became involved in issues of equity within the University and in the struggle against apartheid outside it. I later worked at the Universities of the Western Cape and Natal and as a full-time researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg. I simultaneously built up a practice as an equity and affirmative action consultant and contributed to the 1996 legislation on Employment Equity. I served on the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa and was a Governor of a Johannesburg Higher Education institution. Since returning to London in 2001, I have become an accredited commercial, workplace, community and child-parent mediator. I do consulting and training work on mediation and diversity, mainly for public authorities.