Litnet

Sandile Ntuli, 30, describes himself as “an active dreamer”: “I believe in pursuing my dreams, as opposed to passively watching them pass me by.”

He has a twin brother, Andile, who was his first roommate before their mother kicked them out of her body. From there, the snotty-nosed boys moved into their mother’s house in Emalahleni in Mpumalanga. (Pair of freeloaders!)

“I help people reimagine their restaurant kitchens every day by giving them kitchen extraction solutions, so that they continue to realise their dreams of running a successful business while providing good food and employment,” is how Sandile describes his current job as a sales consultant in Gauteng.

The twin who clearly continues to win alternates between fiction and nonfiction writing, and his opinion pieces on a number of topics, including politics, have appeared in The Star, The Citizen, The Sowetan and Mail & Guardian. Some of his short stories have been published in Drum.

The active dreamer has also spent time behind the mic at a campus radio station in Johannesburg, where he worked as a radio producer, newsreader and show presenter. He co-hosted a weekend radio show called The twin encounterwith his twin, Andile, from September 2018 until March 2020.

His feet have hit the ground running on theatre stages at Jabulani Theatre in Soweto and the National Arts Festival in Makhanda for the productions Marat/Sade and The boy who walked into the world. (And, no, Sandile didn’t play the boy who walked into the world; he did play the boy’s grandfather, though!)

He holds a national diploma in small business management and a BTech degree in management services from the University of Johannesburg. “I am a bold Leo who writes in his spare time. When I put down my pen, I pick up a spatula in the kitchen. Germiston is my current heartland.”