True North

by Hamilton Wende

Paperback

Published January 1, 1995

About the author

Wende is a freelance writer and television producer based in Johannesburg. He is a regular contributor to From Our Own Correspondent on Radio 4 on BBC. He has also contributed to the BBC World Service programme Letter. He is a columnist for The Star in Johannesburg and his articles have appeared in many international and South African newspapers and magazines.

He has been a guest on The Editors on SABC, and has been a guest lecturer at the Department of Journalism at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, the English Department at the University of Cape Town and at the University of the Witwatersrand, at the Durban Institute of Technology and at the Cape Town Press Club, as well as the Muthaiga Club in Nairobi. He has also appeared on a number of radio and television programmes.

On television he has worked for a number of international networks including CNN, BBC, NBC, ABC (Australia), SBS (Australia), NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), Al Jazeera English and a number of others. He has covered 15 different wars in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.