Gus is an award-winning journalist, author, and scriptwriter. He started his career in journalism on the West Rand Times in Krugersdorp, and has worked as a feature writer for numerous publications, including the Star, the Sunday Times, Style Magazine, the Weekly Mail, and Frontline. He is an active blogger, impulsive tweeter, and analogue and digital technology fetishist. He has won awards for television criticism, feature writing, columns, and travel-writing.