Is your written communication easy to understand, clear in meaning and complete in what you intend to achieve for your target audience?
Whether you are a publishing house, business or entrepreneur, I can help you to produce quality text that meets the expectations of your reader and conveys your intended message clearly, correctly and consistently.
Phone:
+27 82 824 5142 (WhatsApp calls)
My name is Lize Hayward – proud founder and owner of Clear Communications.
I am an award-winning communications professional with a solid grounding in the business communications sphere. I have more than 30 years’ experience in corporate communications, public relations, media and events management, copy-editing, proofreading, writing and translation. My experience also covers production and project management of various communication tools such as publications, newsletters, company profiles, articles and other business-related messages.
I established, successfully laid the foundations and managed the Corporate Communications departments at a national and multi-national organisation for more than a decade each. I established Clear Communications in 2014. My key clients included Transnet National Ports Authority, Anglo American, Nelson Mandela University, Diamond Trading Company of Botswana and Business DNA.
Affiliations
I’m a proud member of the following professional organisations:
Southern African Freelancers’ Association
Education
- Copy-editing and Proofreading
- Internet Marketing
- Post Graduate Management Development Programmes
- National Diploma in Public Relations
Achievements
- Member of Safrea’s Oversight Committee (2025)
- Regional Chair and national Exco member of Safrea (2018-2023)
- Recipient of SA Publication Forum’s merit certificates for excellence in communication (2017 & 2021)
- Evaluator for the MACE (Marketing, Advancement & Communication in Education) Excellence Awards (2014-2021)
- Evaluator for IABC’s global Gold Quill Awards (2014-2016)
- Nominee for SA Publication Forum’s Editor of the Year finalist (2006)
- Recipient of various Transnet awards for excellence in journalism (1990-2003)
Personal attributes
According to the international bestseller book, Now discover your strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clinton, my top five strengths indicate that I am:
- Achievement orientated – I have an internal desire to achieve on a daily basis.
- Focussed – I set clear goals and prioritise, which forces me to be efficient.
- Analytical – I peel the layers until the root causes are revealed.
- Responsible – I take ownership of my commitments and follow it through to completion. My conscientiousness and ethics create my reputation as very dependable.
- Disciplined – My world is ordered and planned; I set up timelines and deadlines.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Simple can be harder than complex. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple. But once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs
As the editor of Safrea’s monthly newsletter, Lize’s superior writing and editing skills are evident. She communicates complex concepts with simplicity and clarity.
Whitemore Masudi Ngwira (Safrea Chair)