CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES

Charlotte Mathews

After collecting qualifications ranging from shorthand, typing and bookkeeping to history, economics and journalism, Charlotte started at Business Day as an intern in 1988 and has since covered a wide spectrum of business sectors for different media. She has found the deep and dirty world of mining to be the most interesting.

Ed Stoddard

Ed Stoddard is a Johannesburg-based journalist with a focus on mining, resources and economic and environmental issues. Hailing from the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, Ed was a Reuters correspondent for 24 years. A regular contributor to the Daily Maverick news site, his work has also appeared in MiningMX, Business Day, the Financial Mail, Undark Magazine, Mother Jones, Salon, Slate and The Atlantic. When not casting around for stories, he likes to cast around with a fly for fish.

Liesl Peyper

Liesl Peyper is a business and political reporter from Cape Town, focusing on mining, trade and industry and infrastructure news. Liesl’s work experience includes being personal finance editor at Sake24, parliamentary reporting at Die Burger and Fin24, and teaching English in South Korea. Liesl holds an MPhil (Journalism) degree from the University of Stellenbosch.

Brendan Ryan

Brendan has been covering mining since 1982, when he joined the Rand Daily Mail. Since those days, he has worked for just about every major publication, covering mining, as well as a number of international mining publications. He intends to continue writing on mining, mainly to fund his travel and wildlife photography addictions.

David joined Business Day in 1996. He was the founding editor of Mineweb in 1999, a director of Moneyweb Holdings, and founding editor of MiningMX in 2004. After selling MiningMX to Media24, he worked as editor of Fin24 and was executive editor of Media24’s digital financial publications. He bought MiningMX back in 2013. In addition to MiningMX, David has also written for Finweek and the Financial Mail.