Sandile dikeni biography examples

South African poet and editor (1966–2019)

Sandile Dikeni (1966 – 9 November 2019) was a South African poet and editor.

Career

Dikeni was born in the small Karoo town of Victoria West and studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand and University of the Western Cape, where he was a member of the SRC and obtained a diploma in journalism through Peninsula Technikon.^[1] While detained by the apartheid government, he began writing poetry, and later performed at political rallies, and is quoted saying:

My point of fame wasn’t really how eloquently I could articulate an anti-apartheid stance in strict political terms.

It was more [a] cultural articulation of my anti-apartheidism.^[2]

After the end of apartheid, he worked as a journalist and political commentator, started the AM Live and PM Live radio shows at SAFM in 1995,^[3] and worked as arts editor for the Cape Times, editor of Die Suid Afrikaan and political editor of