Career
Joubert has a master"s in science journalism from Stellenbosch University and a bachelor"s in journalism and media studies from Rhodes University. She is an author of four books: Scorched, South Africa"s changing climate, publisher Wits University Press (October 1, 2006). Boiling point, people in a changing climate, publisher Wits University Press (January 1, 2008).
Invaded, the biological invasion of South Africa publisher Wits University Press (October 17, 2009) and The Hungry Season, feeding South Africa"s cities, publisher Picador Africa (September 6, 2012).
Her first book, Scorched: South Africa"s Changing Climate (Wits University Press, 2006), blends the facts of climate change "with humour, history, vivid descriptions of people" and delivers it with "an amazing personal sense of wonder". Her second book, Invaded, the biological invasion of South Africa"s cities, documents the consequences of the introduction to alien species into South Africa.
lieutenant focuses on the story about hunger, and malnutrition, in a world where they are surrounded by food. She states that it"s the access to the food and what choices we make when we get the food.
