Hedley Twidle is a writer, teacher and academic based at the University of Cape Town where is a senior lecturer. He was born in Johannesburg and studied in KwaZulu-Natal, Oxford and York before joining UCT. Twidle is widely published both in SA and abroad, and offers an entertaining and unique perspective on the ‘second transition’ of SA. His new book, Experiments with Truth: Narrative non-fiction and the coming of democracy in South Africa, was published in 2019.

More of his writing can be found at www.hedleytwidle.com

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