Correspondent
Languages
AFP / Mauro Pimentel

Broken-Foot’s adventures in the Amazon

Tuesday 4 June 2019

"After five years as a video journalist in South America, I’ve found that a healthy dose of humor is essential for the job," writes Johannes Myburgh, a video journalist based in Brazil.

"To help digest 'heavy' topics like conflict, disasters and politics, but often just to get through a dreamy assignment that goes off kilter because of one little slip."

Read more
  • AFP / Schneyder Mendoza
  • AFP / Rodrigo Buendia
  • AFP / Isac Dantes

A sign of worse to come?

Monday 3 September 2018

"It was like we were living a crime thriller," writes Johannes Myburgh, a journalist based in Brazil. "We were at the northernmost extreme end of Brazil (it felt like the end of the world) finding out what happened in attacks against Venezuelan migrants."

"Tensions boiled over on August 25, when residents of this border town destroyed makeshift camps, burned tents and possessions, and chased migrants back over the border. Over the next few days we slowly discovered the chain of misunderstandings, prejudices and frustration that led to those attacks."

Read more
  • AFP / Str
  • AFP / Rodrigo Arangua
  • AFP / Ronaldo Schemidt

Chasing Fidel's ashes

Friday 9 December 2016

"I spent a nerve-wracking week chasing Fidel Castro’s ashes, criss-crossing Cuba with my colleagues, from Havana to the other side of the island, in a reverse retracing of his momentous 1959 journey that marked his coming to power," writes Johannes Myburgh, a video journalist based in Brazil.

"Our trip ended up being much longer than Fidel’s, then or now, as we bumped along back roads, doubled up, wasted hours stuck at roadblocks or simply getting lost."

Read more