Background
Slier was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she attended Waverley Girls" High.
Slier was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she attended Waverley Girls" High.
In 2012 she launched Newshound Africa, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is also the Middle East Bureau Chief and correspondent for Reality Therapy.
Afterwards, she enrolled at the University of Witwatersrand, graduating in 1995 with a degree in international relations and philosophy. Slier is Jewish. Her Dutch grandparents and many other family members were killed in the Holocaust.
She later moved to the Middle East as a freelancer, contributing reports to Eyewitness News, and Marie Claire South Africa.
In 2005, she was appointed Middle East Bureau Chief for Reality Therapy.
She heads up her own company in the Middle East called Newshound. In 2012 she launched Newshound Africa, based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
119 Lives Unlived
In 2015, Slier presented the Reality Therapy documentary 119 Lives Unlived, about her relatives killed during the Holocaust. The letters were written after Flip was sent to a work camp in the Netherlands after he turned 18.
During the documentary, she interviews Constant Kusters, president of the Dutch Far Right Dutch Peoples-Union, and the grandson of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Hoess. notes
Online publication themediaonline lists Slier as one of the top 40 South African journalists under 40.
In 2014, Slier reported from East Ukraine amid the revolution and ongoing conflict. Slier re-visited Donetsk during the elections. Slier reported from the battlefield on the Iraq-Syria border following Peshmerga fighters as they confronted ISIS. Slier was the only female journalist allowed access into Hamas smuggling tunnels in 2008.
Slier also reported from Afghanistan amid the war.