After 12 years in various capacities, she presented her first TV bulletin last night, Tuesday 20 May, at 7pm on SABC2.
Viljoen was born in Pretoria and matriculated from Nico Malan High School in Humansdorp, Eastern Cape. She obtained a BA degree in political science and history from the then University of Port Elizabeth in 1992 and added an honours degree in journalism from Stellenbosch University the following year.
She joined the Port Elizabeth office of the SABC as a radio journalist in 1994. Between 1996 and 1999 she compiled, produced and presented news bulletins and current affairs programmes for radio.
In 1999 she switched to television, doing both reporting and editing for news and various programmes. She resigned from the SABC in 2005 to do communications, copywriting and lecturing journalism.
In 2008 she rejoined the SABC as a bulletin writer on the Afrikaans TV news desk in Johannesburg, where she has also acted as bulletin editor.
