Andiswa Matikinca
Andiswa Matikinca is an award-winning investigative journalist who is also an associate at Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism, a pioneering unit for environmental reporting in Africa using data journalism and cutting-edge geo-narrative platforms. She joined Oxpeckers in September 2018 as an associate journalist and managed the extractives data-driven digital tool, #MineAlert. She has produced several journalistic investigations based on data sourced and curated by #MineAlert, one of which earned her the Vodacom Regional Young Journalist Award for the KwaZulu-Natal region in 2019.
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