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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social Dog loving socialist. Free Palestine. Cape Town is my home. My “identities” are indivisible not intersectional.
Open Secrets ZA @opensecrets.org.za Open Secrets holds the profiteers of economic crime, human rights abuses, and war to account. We go where it’s hard to disrupt networks of power.
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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social Southern Africa Correspondent at The Guardian. Brit abroad.
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Rehad Desai @rehad.bsky.social Documentary Filmmaker
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Leonie Joubert @leoniejoubert.bsky.social Science writer, journalist, disobedient woman. Quit business-as-usual to report from the frontline of the climate crisis is Africa - from a van. Follow the @StoryArkDiaries 
Caryn Dolley @caryndolley.bsky.social Tiny particle in a tiny particle. Author of Man Alone, Clash of the Cartels, To The Wolves, and The Enforcers.
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Khadija Patel @khadijapatel.bsky.social Journalist working in media finance. Still pushing words on street corners. 
Pontsho Pilane @pontsho.bsky.social Writer. Lurker. Voyeur. Researcher of things often left unsaid. Author of Power and Faith: How evangelical churches are quietly shaping our democracy.
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Raeesa Pather @raediology.bsky.social Ink spills, pencil shavings, glowing keyboard. Blank document. Investigative journalist and writer in South Africa. 
Six-Song Playlists @6songplaylists.bsky.social Music of the magnetosphere. Stress-energy tensors in the global music plasma, revealed.
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Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies @plaasuwc.bsky.social The Institute for Poverty, Land, and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) is an independent policy research hub within the Economic and Management Sciences Faculty at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
Adriana Zehbrauskas @adrianazehbrauskas.bsky.social Photojournalist
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Sam Beckbessinger @sambeckbessinger.bsky.social Novelist, creative writing lecturer & aspiring bog witch. FEMME FERAL (my perimenopausal werewolf novel) is out April 2026 🐺
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Erick Doxey @erickdoxey.com Spokane-based photojournalist.
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Geoffrey York @geoffreyyork.bsky.social Johannesburg-based correspondent for The Globe and Mail since 2009. Previously 15 years as a correspondent in Moscow and Beijing.
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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social Monitoring the press, tracking the evolving media business & encouraging excellence in journalism since 1961.
International Center for Journalists @icfjorg.bsky.social The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is a nonprofit that supports a global network of journalists. #ItTakesAJournalist
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