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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.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/geoffrey-york/
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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance at UCT and author of the Blog, Constitutionally Speaking. I am not a journalist. Hopeful that everyone on this app will read before commenting.
GroundUp News @groundup.org.za GroundUp brings you #NewsThatMatters.
We report human rights stories across South Africa.
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social Dog loving socialist. Free Palestine. Cape Town is my home. My βidentitiesβ are indivisible not intersectional.
Arthur Goldstuck @art2gee.bsky.social Author (The Hitchhiker's Guide to AI, etc). Sunday Times columnist. Publisher of Gadgetza.bsky.social. Founder of World Wide Worx research. Professional speaker. Imbiber of SF, single malt, music, comics. Wits U PhD candidate. Johannesburg. South Africa. πΏπ¦
Thokozile Madonko @tmadonko.bsky.social 
Josh Budlender @joshbudlender.bsky.social Postdoc at SALDRU, University of Cape Town: Labour & Development Economics.
Firms and wages and structural transformation; programme evaluation; a bit of econ history & social policy.
And some πΏπ¦ politics :)
https://www.joshbudlender.co.za
Tim Fish @timfish.bsky.social I love my dog, Arsenal, the Proteas, books, podcasts, food and music.
Senior Legal Adviser, Economic and Social Rights, Disability Rights at International Commission of Jurists.
Ben Cashdan @jambeni.bsky.social Producer of The Big Debate in South Africa. Work on access to knowledge, medicines.
Benjamin Fogel @benjaminfogel.bsky.social Head of Publishing at Alameda, Contributing Editor at Jacobin. South African
Johan Lorenzen @johanlorenzen.bsky.social At RSI, a small South African law firm, working on community land rights, mining, and workers' and consumer health.
Aspiring occasional contributor to Africa is a Country.
Hennie van Vuuren @hennievanvuuren.bsky.social Open Secrets | Open Sesame Stop: graft/grift/greed. For secure messaging and tipoffs - pls contact me on Signal.
www.opensecrets.org.za
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Academic, Professional Dabbler
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Nick Budlender @nickbudlender.bsky.social Urban policy researcher working on housing, cities and urban development. Everyone deserves a safe and decent home! πΏπ¦
Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social Southern Africa Correspondent at The Guardian. Brit abroad.
Open Secrets ZA @opensecrets.org.za Open Secrets holds the profiteers of economic crime, human rights abuses, and war to account. We go where itβs hard to disrupt networks of power.
https://linktr.ee/opensecrets_za
Nicholas Dawes @nicdawes.bsky.social New York. Trace amounts of past lives at THE CITY, Human Rights Watch, Mail & Guardian, and Hindustan Times may be present. Slight risk of bicycles and mountains.
Africa Is A Country @africaisacountry1.bsky.social PanAfrican. Leftist. Peer Educator. Africa is a country.
Kerry Cullinan @kerrycullinan.bsky.social Cape Town-based health journalist. πΏπ¦ Passionate about people's right to live with dignity. Deputy editor of Geneva-based Health Policy Watch. https://healthpolicy-watch.news/
Nomboniso Gasa @nomboniso.bsky.social Feminist. Researcher & Writer: Land, Gender, Politics & Culture. Yogi. Available for Public Talks and Keynote. Flowers. Jazz.
Redi Tlhabi @reditlhabi.bsky.social Award winning broadcaster, author, moderator. South African. http://racialequity.atlanticfellows.org. http://ModerateThePanel.Com. Ex BBC, Aljazeera. MA: IR
Janet Heard @janetheard.bsky.social South African Journalist
Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) @parinstitute.bsky.social PARI is an African research institute affiliated to the University of Johannesburg and Wits University, providing new and original social science research, advocacy and implementation support for South Africa, the global South and beyond.
@mark-weinberg.bsky.social @mark-weinberg.bsky.social love and solidarity
Andries du Toit - School of Government, UWC @andriesdutoit-uwc.bsky.social Postcolonial statecraft; contentious politics; political belonging, deliberative practice. All this, and the polycrisis. Views not my own.
Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com Novelist, scriptwriter, imaginative futurist, recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV), Zoo City and Bridge.
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social Writer and director living in Cape Town, South Africa. New novel βThe First Murder On Marsβ out now https://www.samwilsonwriting.com/order-now.php
Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Justin-Pearce-5
Historian of 20th century Southern Africa especially Angola
Senior lecturer, Stellenbosch Uni @stellhistory.bsky.social
Senior editor, Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social
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Mandy Collins @mandycollins.bsky.social Former journalist, current content writer, life coach, author, mother, dog wrangler, reader, tea lover, baker, DIYer, needlewoman, procrastininja. Not always in that order. Depends on the day. www.reddoorink.com and www.mandycollinscoaching.com
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Old Lady Pants @oldladypants.bsky.social I wear old lady pants
Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social Author and hedgewitch.
Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social South African journalist & academic. teach/research/publish on media, journalism, archives, public health, data & research methods. Strong sideline in homicide studies + forensic pathology. Writes books and sings songs. Itβs not AI itβs automation
Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social Writer of games, film & fiction.
IGF nominated Narrative Excellence.
Father of Coco.
The Unwoven Warrior out now in South Africa. (Seeking reps in N America)
Open for consulting & commissions
Chris Roper @chrisroper.bsky.social Deputy CEO at @Code4Africa, Former Ed-in-Chief: Mail & Guardian and 24. com. Knight Fellow at ICFJ 2015-2019. He/him
Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social Website, Podcast, Radio Show. Left politics & culture, useable pasts. http://africasacountry.com
Simon Allison @simonallison.bsky.social Newspaper person. Co-founder @thecontinent.org and The Atlas (theatlasnewspaper.org)
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Raymond Joseph @rayjoe.bsky.social Journalist, fact-checker. 2021 Nat Nakasa Award for Courageous Journalism; 2022 Vodacom Journalist of the Year; Taco Kuiper Investigative Journalism Award 2022
Dan Corder @dancorder.bsky.social The Dan Corder Show πΊπΏπ¦ Mondays 9-10pm on eNCA
Natasha Joseph @tashjoeza.bsky.social A latke that cannot stop screaming // Recovering news editor // πΏπ¦ // Somehow both jaded and awed by the world // (she, they, helluva gay).
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Stephen Fry @stephenfry.bsky.social Grazer and nibbler at the outer edges of new social media platforms
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