After finishing her Honors degree in Drama at the University of Pretoria as top student of her class in 1998, Mareli Minnaar started PIT Productions, a production company with its prime goal being to entertain audiences and to serve as a developmental space for artists. With a passion for new plays and new ideas, Mareli produced and performed original scripts for the KKNK for 5 consecutive years. Zef Sketse, a sketch comedy show written and performed by the key members of PIT Productions, was hugely successful and laid the groundwork for the TV series Blikskottel in 2003 (kykNET). In 2005 SABC 2 commissioned PIT Productions to create the comedy series Kompleks. Mareli was the executive producer as well as lead actress and co-writer of the series. As a firm believer in nurturing our country's youth, Mareli has also produced highly acclaimed educational programmes for matrics nationwide that have reached more than 120 000 students during the past seven years.
For the bulk of 2004-2005, Mareli lived in Singapore and explored the incredible jungles of South East Asia.
Adriaan Pelzer has been involved in music since early childhood, and his schooling was dominated by formal music training, Symphony Orchestras, Marching Bands and Wind Bands. After school he satisfied his love for the applied sciences by studying Electronic Engineering at the University of Pretoria. In his final year he wrote a well-received thesis on the perceptual differences between analog audio on Vinyl Records and digital audio on Compact Disc, called High-Fidelity perception of Digital Sound (University of Pretoria, 1996). During this time he and Simon Kruger met as founding members of the Avant Garde Rock band Nothing. From 2004 - 2006 Adriaan moved to Singapore, where he further honed his musical composition abilities and started publishing his work on the Internet. This finally led to NuL as it exists in its current form, but that's an altogether different story.
Simon Kruger spent the second half of his high school career being much more interested in music than his actual classes, and after leaving school, applied his studies directly to his career in music by studying Jazz at the Pretoria Technikon under masters like Mark Dube, Kevin Davidson, Wessel van Rensburg and others. While at the Technikon, he became involved in various diverse musical projects, all experimental in nature, including Signal To Noise, which veered from thrash metal to acapella gospel, Raboobee, an experimental jazz/rock/funk band strongly influenced by Frank Zappa, and was also the bass player for the live incarnation of the infamous Die Naaimasjiene, who specialised in some of the most over the top shows ever to grace the stages of South Africa. Around this time, he and Adriaan Pelzer met in the seminal Avant Garde Rock Band Nothing. After Nothing broke up, while he and Adriaan Pelzer continued to experiment with electronic music, Simon Kruger became involved in Sshhh, a more mainstream, but still experimental and very conceptual trip hop band, who achieved a margin of commercial success, including the release of an album entitled Listen produced by Craig Dodds. After Sshhh broke up, Simon Kruger moved to the UK for two and a half years, where he continued to experiment with music and honed his composition and productions skills.
After completing his studies at the University of Pretoria, Chris Erasmus began his career at Edunet - a satellite based broadcast channel. Amongst other things, his duties included audio and video control (mixing) as well as operating studio cameras in a live environment. In his role as Technical Studio Manager Chris headed up a team of technologists responsible for the planning and installation of 50 remote VSAT up-links. For the next seven years he focused his skills on the IT industry before returning to Television.
During 2006 an unexpected opportunity arose and he became involved in the production of a successful TV series. Back behind the camera, Chris was lucky enough to be working with some of the best videographers in the industry. His first field assignment was in the form of a nature conservation program titled Wild Limited hosted by local celebrity Michelle Garforth. The series allowed him to hone his skills and he filmed approximately 20 episodes of the series as the second camera operator. Following Wild Ltd, Chris has filmed various variety and magazine programs, live performances, music videos, performance art projects, award shows and drama productions.