Andre Wiesner: Professional Writer

Firebreak Studios
Text Box: André Wiesner is a professional writer of journalism and fiction. He has freelanced for leading South African titles, winning numerous awards for his work. Wiesner served as a news editor at a major website, before taking a lecturing post at the University of Cape Town and impersonating a teacher in Media Studies. 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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