In 2011, he won the fourth season of the reality competition Survivor South Africa.
He then received drug rehabilitation within a maximum-security cell at the Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital, Pretoria.
[1] From 1997 and 1999, he completed a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing – Second Year, Marketing/Marketing Management General degree at University of Pretoria.
In 2004, he joined the cast of the season 13 of the television serial Egoli: Place of Gold and played the role 'Darius du Buisson' in which he won a Crystal Award.
The book deals with his drug addict life and near death at his peak in acting career, where he finally manages to rehabilitate and achieve the success after.