Interview with Sherwin Bryce

An Eastern Cape original, born and raised in East London, Sherwin Bryce-Pease has excelled in both radio and television journalism. Sherwin started his broadcast work with RMR during his student years, and began his working career as an intern in the Marketing and Communications Division at Rhodes University, thereafter completing an internship in marketing as Rhodes University’s International Communications Liaison Officer in America. On his return to South Africa, he took up a radio position at SAfm as drivetime news anchor and bulletin writer. He then became insert producer and co-anchor of the SABC’s Weekend Live, with stand-in appearances on SABC 2’s Morning Live.

In 2008 Sherwin returned to the United States as the SABC’s US bureau chief and correspondent, based at the New York offices of the United Nations. Some of his notable interviews include US President Barack Obama, former South African Presidents Jacob Zuma, Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, former Chilean President and executive director of UN Women Michelle Bachelet, and Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer and Shirin Ebadi.

Sherwin remains a passionate Old Rhodian and trustee of the USA Rhodes University Trust. In 2016, he received an Emerging Old Rhodian Award. He has been recognised in the broadcasting category of the UN Correspondent Association Awards, and received the Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize for television and radio.