Pearlie Joubert

Pearlie Joubert

Biography

Pearlie Joubert is an acclaimed investigative journalist starting her career in 1989 at the only Afrikaans anti-apartheid newspaper in South Africa. Having spent years as a news producer for ITV, Channel 4, Sky News and the BBC, Pearlie ended her journalism career blowing the whistle on the biggest Sunday newspaper in South Africa's complicity in enabling the then corrupt state president’s attempts to loot the fiscus. Her latest documentary MOTHER CITY will have its European premiere at the African Film Festival Cologne.

Filmography

MOTHER CITY (2024): Direction