Mandy Wiener

 

Mandy Wiener is one of the country's best known and most credible journalists and authors. She currently hosts the Midday Report on 702 and writes a weekly column for News24.

With a BA degree from Rand Afrikaans University (now UJ), Mandy launched her career at RAU Radio before interning at the 702 traffic desk and screening listeners' calls in the middle of the night. She then became a news reporter at Eyewitness News and after being held at gunpoint on her first story, she did not look back.

Mandy worked as a multi award-winning reporter with Eyewitness News from 2004 until 2014, filing reports for Talk Radio 702, 567 Cape Talk, 94.7 Highveld Stereo and Kfm radio stations. Mandy specialises in investigative reporting and legal matters, having extensively covered both the corruption trial of former national police commissioner Jackie Selebi and the Brett Kebble murder trial. She has also earned a reputation for her work exposing South Africa's 'Underworld' reporting extensively on Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir, Teazers boss Lolly Jackson and other mysterious murders.

She has won a number of National and Regional Vodacom 'Journalist of the Year' awards, has been 'The CNN African Radio Journalist of the Year' and has received several commendations in the Webber Wentzel 'Legal Journalist of the Year' awards. In addition, she has received the National Press Club award in the Radio Category and the Social Media category and was awarded the 'Rising Star - Women in the Media' award in 2011. With over 300 000 followers on Twitter, Mandy has also broken new ground for live tweeting court cases and stories on the social media platform. She is considered to be amongst the country's premier Twitterati.

On the writing front, Mandy was short-listed in the prestigious 'Alan Paton Sunday Times Literary Awards' for her book, 'Killing Kebble' which was a local publishing phenomenon, selling in excess of 100 000 copies. It was also chosen as Jenny Crwys-Williams' 'Book of the Year' in 2011. Mandy's second book, 'My Second Initiation', written with former head of the NPA Vusi Pikoli, was also short-listed for the Alan Paton award and was Crwys-William's non-fiction book of the year in 2013. In addition, Wiener is the series editor of 'The Youngsters' which features several young South African voices. In 2014, she published 'Behind The Door: The Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp Story' with her colleague Barry Bateman. The book was released internationally and contained new, exclusive information about the trial. Mandy’s book ‘Ministry of Crime’, about organised crime and the relationship with the police, was released in 2018 and sold over 10 000 copies.

Her new book The Whistleblowers was released in October 2020 and advocates for a societal revolution in how we treat and protect those who speak truth to power in South Africa. It profiles several whistleblowers who have courageously come forward to expose corruption and wrongdoing.

She is mother to Sam and Ruby, has an untreatable obsession with sushi, loves to walk in the Wilds with her dog Wanda and colour codes her home library.

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