Rouxnette Meiring

Rouxnette grew up in Calitzdorp in the Little Karoo, a town known for chickens in the main road and the best Port in the world.  There she wrote and published her first poetry collection. She started playing the concert flute at the age of 6 and matriculated with music as subject.  She completed a B.Dram degree and a post graduate teaching diploma at the University of Stellenbosch and taught at Stellenbosch High School for two years.

Rouxnette wrote her first stage play and directed and produced various plays during her years at the University of Stellenbosch. After a year of travelling and working in France, she presented a children’s programme for the SABC, worked as screen writer for Marula Pictures (Generations) in Johannesburg, and as dubbing translator/actor (French to Afrikaans).  She moved to Cape Town in 2000 to raise four children.  In Cape Town she wrote two radio dramas broadcast on RSG and founded of The Futurechild Trust (www.futurechild.co.za).

Since 2009 she has been writing the youth section for the Full Circle Magazine.  She has been accepted to do a Masters in Film and Media Theory at UCT in 2011.  She has always loved the sound of the cello and has finally decided to take it up as a third instrument.  She is now a beginner with Marian Lewin, a woman famous also for her great patience.  Rouxnette has been with FMR since 2008.