André Wiesner: Professional Writer • Editor  • Media Developer

Firebreak Studios
Text Box: André Wiesner is a professional writer for leading South African magazines and newspapers, and has won awards for his work. Wiesner was news editor at on online portal before teaching Media Studies at the University of Cape Town. He works in the media as well as the civil-society and corporate sectors. This site displays his portfolio. Text Box: What’s Inside

Warning: Killer on the Road
Text Box: “Investigating the Aids pandemic, my job tonight is to explore the deadly symbiosis between two industries: trucking and prostitution.” Text Box: More Features

Spirit of the Phantom City

The Dead Beat

Million Dollar Meat Hook

World Inside the Beacon’s Eye
Text Box: “The light is reached by a series of willowy, bendy ladders that rise dizzyingly higher from one platform to the next. The glass dome is a stifling capsule buzzing with flies.” Text Box: More Travel

Diamond Fever

The Karoo Star Shrine

Union Jack Bohemia

The Class War Carnival
Text Box: “’So, Brad, what have you done with your life?’ It’s the essential question at high school reunions, and opens a Pandora’s box of insecurities. This is class war between the haves and have-nots.” Text Box: More Arts/Society

Mixing It Up

Pieter Dirk Uys

The Country of Last Things

Flammable Male Friendships

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