South Africa

Heidi Swart is a South African freelance investigative journalist. She writes about espionage, security, surveillance, and data privacy issues in both the public and private spheres. She's written...

Tristen Taylor is a freelance journalist and photographer who publishes in papers such as The Christian Science Monitor, NRC, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Africa Confidential, Sunday Times, Financial Mail...

Dianah Chiyangwa is an award-winning, Zimbabwe-born photojournalist, documentary photographer, writer, poet, and curator. Her work focuses on women and children, migration, health, gender justice...

Andiswa Matikinca is an award-winning journalist with a passion for writing, storytelling, and broadcasting. She has been contracted by Oxpeckers to work on several of its projects, where she tracks...

Ashraf Hendricks is a documentary photo and video journalist working on assignment for the Oxpeckers #PowerTracker project. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, he contributes regularly to GroundUp News...

Roxanne Joseph is an experienced data journalist, researcher, and project manager with a history of working in the non-profit sector. Her interest is in renewable energy and the Just Transition in...

Thabo Molelekwa is an experienced and award-winning environmental and health journalist with a demonstrated history of working in the media production industry. Molelekwa was contracted by Oxpeckers...

Josephine Chinele is a Malawian multi-award-winning, international, investigative journalist. She has 19 years of media experience across various platforms, and she has worked in newsrooms in Malawi...

Johnny Miller is a photographer, journalist, and founder of Unequal Scenes and africanDRONE. He is interested in how to achieve healthy, prosperous and vibrant societies. He is a News Fellow at Code...

Fatima Hassan is a human rights lawyer and social justice activist and the founder of the Health Justice Initiative. She is the former Executive Director of the Open Society Foundation for South...

Simon Allison is the Africa Editor of the Mail & Guardian and Editor of The Continent.

Rosa Lyster is a writer living in Cape Town, working on a book about the global water crisis to be published by Penguin Random House (U.S.) and Jonathan Cape (U.K.) in 2022. Her work has appeared in...