She managed the production team AVA which filmed Nelson Mandela's Welcome Home Rally in Durban in 1990.
[1] She has worked in the Creative Writing Department of the University of Film and Television Munich as well as a writer and director.
[3] In 2001, Sycholt made her feature film debut with Malunde, which told the story of a boy called Wonderboy who becomes friends with a former soldier in the white regime.
It received six Avanti awards including best director, and a portion of the profits went to Mandela's charity for street children.
Based on the eponymous novel by Lutz van Dijk, it is a family drama that tells the story of a young boy passionate about football and his mother who becomes infected with AIDS.