Denis Herbstein

Biography

Denis Herbstein is the author of White Lies: Canon Collins and the Secret War against Apartheid. He was born in Cape Town, where he studied law and began his career as a journalist on the Cape Times. He has since worked for several Britsh newspapers. In 1976, while in South Africa reporting for the London Sunday Times and Guardian newspapers, he was deprived of his South African citizenship and expelled by the apartheid government.