Andiswa Matikinca

Andiswa Matikinca is an award-winning journalist with a passion for writing, storytelling and broadcasting. She works with Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism on several of its projects, where she tracks, monitors and investigates wildlife and other environmental crimes, as well as the status of renewable energy projects and the Just Energy Transition in South Africa.

She became an Oxpeckers associate in 2018, when she was appointed as the project manager for #MineAlert, a geojournalism tool that tracks and maps mining and water licence applications. She has also worked as a journalist and researcher for Viewfinder Accountability Journalism contributing on several broadcast-based investigations.

Andiswa won the Vodacom Regional Young Journalist Award for the KwaZulu-Natal region in 2019 in recognition of a body of work done while working in a newsroom for less than three years and showing commitment to the vocation of news well above the norm.

Basic information

Name

Andiswa Matikinca

Title

Data journalist

Expertise

wild life, environmental crimes, energy transition, mining

Country

South Africa

City

Durban

@andee_mat

Links

Supported projects

Burning Skies: Behind Big Oil’s Toxic Flames

Climate
Energy
Environment

EU / AFRICA / MENA – Five European oil and gas majors rank among the top 10 largest polluters in Africa and the Middle East when it comes to gas flaring, reveals this investigative series. These companies include Shell, BP, ENI, TotalEnergies and Perenco, as revealed by the Environmental Investigative Forum (EIF) and the media network European Investigative Collaborations (EIC), Daraj Media, SourceMaterial and Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism.

Inside 25 years of GMOs in Africa

Agriculture
Corruption

This transnational three-part investigation looks at agricultural biotechnologies, better known as Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) from the African perspective using Burkina Faso, South Africa and Uganda as case studies.

Tracking South Africa’s mining millions

Environment
Industry

PRETORIA - Mining companies publicly listed in the United Kingdom must disclose the payments they make to governments, including taxes, royalties, and license fees. But this is not always the case in South Africa. A data investigation by a team of journalists and activists highlighted how these large royalty payment amounts are reported, while miners have no way of knowing where billions of dollars paid went.