Mandy Wiener
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Category:
Speaker
Location:
Johannesburg South Africa
Preferred Language:
English
Tags:
Author,Broadcasting,Communication,Journalist,Media,Personal story,Presenter,Radio Personality,South Africa,TV & Radio,Womens Interest,Writer
Profile:
Guest Speaker 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 Cape Talk and writes a weekly column for EWN.
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 EWN from 2004 until 2014 before spending time at News24. She specialised in investigative reporting and legal matters, developing a reputation for exposing the criminal underworld.
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. The Midday Report won Best News and Actuality Show at the SA Radio Awards in 2023 and best Daytime Commercial Radio Show in 2024.
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. Her updates during the covid lockdown cemented her reputation.
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. 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. 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. Her latest 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. An updated edition was released in 2023.
Over the past decade, Mandy has trained hundreds of corporate executives, including leading CEOs, on how to be interviewed and how to make the most out of media opportunities. She is also a well sought after conference keynote speaker and has spoken on numerous stages, captivating audiences.
She is mother to Sam and Ruby, has an untreatable obsession with padel, loves to walk in the Wilds with her dogs Wanda and Cherry and colour codes her home library.
Guest Speaker 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 Cape Talk and writes a weekly column for EWN.
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
Synopsis:
PRESENTATIONS by Mandy Weiner
Try, The Beloved Country - A talk by Mandy Wiener about why the future can be better than now.
Mandy Wiener has had a front row seat to current affairs in South Africa for over two decades and has often written the first draft of our country’s history.
In this pre-election keynote, she reflects on where we have come from and what the future could look like post May 2024.
This election has the potential to fundamentally change the political landscape in South Africa. There are numerous scenarios that could play out. But what needs to happen to ensure our future is better than our reality is now? Better policy choices. Action. Active citizenship. Public private partnerships. Nurturing entrepreneurship. A meritocracy. A professional civil service. A positive attitude. Changing the narrative.
South Africans need to hear that there is a way out and we deserve better.
Mandy’s focus is on the ‘Hope Dealers’. She tells the stories of the good people who do their jobs, the civil servants who hold the line, the members of the judiciary who maintain the rule of law, the whistleblowers who feel compelled to speak truth to power, the civil society activists who step into the breach and the journalists who dig up the dirt to hold authorities to account. She considers the importance of changing the narrative of the country.
There are lessons in these stories for corporates and for individuals on what needs to be done to improve governance, to change legislation, to create a speak up culture in order to root out corruption and to play a role as responsible citizens.
Most importantly these stories will inspire the audience not to be apathetic or complacent, but to fight for a better South Africa.
Whistleblowing and Corruption – Shifting the Culture – A Societal Revolution - Mandy Wiener & Bianca Goodson
It was whistleblowers and journalists that brought down the State Capture project and helped bring widespread corruption and malfeasance into the light. Through exposing wrongdoing and dodgy deals, these brave individuals were able to hold power to account, return billions of stolen rand to the fiscus and remove a political regime.
Yet despite their heroism, whistleblowers are considered problematic, pushed to the fringes of society and treated like impimpis and pariahs. Sadly South Africa does not have a culture of celebrating or rewarding whistleblowing. In 2020, journalist Mandy Wiener published The Whistleblowers to highlight these experiences. Shortly after the publication, Bianca Goodson, a former Trillian executive, wrote to the President urging him to protect whistleblowers as they are the strongest weapon against corruption.
In this talk, these two formidable women join forces and share unique insight through personal experience and the lessons for individuals and corporates around governance, culture and processes. They emphasise the need for a societal revolution in how we treat and protect whistleblowers. Are you just ticking the box or do you truly have the requisite systems and people in place to root out corruption?
Ministry Of Crime – An Underworld Explored
In this talk, bestselling author and journalist Mandy Wiener examines the nexus between organised crime figures, corrupt police officers and powerful politicians. She traces an underworld trajectory from Kebble to Krejcir to Modack and takes you behind the scenes of her book Ministry of Crime. The talk features new revelations about high-profile, unsolved hits and about relationships between known criminals and police officers at all levels. She delves into the current power struggle between opposing factions in Cape Town’s security industry and the suspected involvement of state operatives in the bloody standoff.
Wiener has obtained unique access and on-the-record interviews with key underworld characters and police generals accused of being complicit with criminals. These help her to track the parallel narrative of the capture of law enforcement agencies and unravel how players with inexplicable political backing were able to pillage secret slush funds and abuse organs of state for their own personal benefit. The proximity of politics, law enforcement and organised crime over the past decade is frighteningly close. The story of the rise and reign of the Ministry of Crime winds its way from the depths of the underworld, via multiple mysterious unsolved murders, to the very top ranks of the country’s police force. Wiener also speaks passionately about the strength of civil society and what South Africans can do to keep the system in check and not despair.
Mandy Wiener has been reporting on the criminal justice system and the underworld in South Africa for over a decade. She has won numerous awards for her journalism and is an experienced speaker on the local circuit having addressed corporates, conferences and gatherings.
PRESENTATIONS by Mandy Weiner
Try, The Beloved Country - A talk by Mandy Wiener about why the
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TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
Mandy can do her talk with or without powerpoint.
For non powerpoint talks she requires a lapel microphone.
Fon powerpoint talks she requires a lapel microphone + screen + proxima/data projector + client to provide laptop as she brings on a memory stick. No sound is necessary.
Mandy can do her talk with or without powerpoint.
For non powerpoint talks she requires a lapel microphone.
Fon powerpoint talks she requires a lapel microphone + screen + proxima/data projector + client to provide laptop as she brings on a memory stick. No sound is necessary.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
Mandy can do her talk with or without powerpoint.
For non powerpoint talks she requires a lape
Mandy can do her talk with or without powerpoint.
For non powerpoint talks she requires a lape
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