South Africa

Laura Grant, co-founder of the South African data journalism team the Media Hack Collective (MHC), is a data journalist with 20 years of experience in South African media as a journalist, copy editor...

October 9, 2024

Alastair Otter is a journalist, programmer, and designer with more than 20 years’ experience in print and digital media. He is the co-founder of the Media Hack Collective (MHC), a data journalism team...

Godwell Nhamo is a professor and Exxaro Chair in Climate and Sustainability Transitions at the University of South Africa (UNISA). He is a National Research Foundation researcher and subject...

Barry Christianson is a freelance documentary photographer and journalist from Cape Town, South Africa. Before entering the journalism field in 2019, he spent 17 years working as a web developer. He...

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...