Winston Frederick Sterzel, also known by his YouTube pseudonym SerpentZA, is a South African vlogger and video producer. He has lived in Shenzhen in the Guangdong province of China for 14 years and later moved to Los Angeles in early 2019. His videos cover a variety of topics relating to life in China from a Westerner's perspective.
Sterzel is of German-British heritage. He was born and grew up in South Africa. He moved to China in his mid-twenties to work as an English teacher after first visiting on business in 2005.
In 2019, Sterzel moved to Los Angeles because he was afraid of losing his life or being incarcerated in China following threats by ultranationalist Internet users and the government, which accused Sterzel's wife of being a spy and a threat to national security.
After leaving China and moving to the United States, Sterzel began using his new freedom to criticize the Communist Party of China, a departure from his earlier videos, where he was quiet and reserved about social issues relating to Communist Party rule. One newer video, titled "How China is slowly KILLING us all," is about the aggressive and illegal fishing practices of the Chinese government that are negatively impacting global fish populations, and it has received close to 1,000,000 views. The South China Morning Post in 2020 called Sterzel and Tye "unapologetic critics of China's authorities".
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