 After four years as sociolinguistics researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council, he joined the Department of Journalism at Pretoria Technikon, where he was Head of the Department from 1989 until 1992.Between October 1993 and the end of January 2001 he was Professor and Head of the postgraduate Department of Journalism at Stellenbosch University in the Western Cape.There he established the first course in science and technology journalism at an African university and continues to teach the course.