Oxpeckers journalists win international anti-corruption award
Oxpeckers associates Andiswa Matikinca and Tatenda Chitagu win major international award for their exposé on lithium smuggling across Southern Africa’s borders...
26 January, 2026
Oxpeckers Blogs
Power, land and secrecy
After nine months of chasing information about renewable energy land lease deals across South Africa, we share what we learned. Roxanne Joseph reports...
20 November, 2025
#PowerTracker investigates community-owned renewables
What we learnt during our interrogation of land deals and social ownership of renewable energy projects. Roxanne Joseph reports...
07 July, 2025
#PowerTracker shares a bright side of renewables
Renewable energy projects are benefitting local communities, yet few people knew that they exist – let alone what their impact is. Thabo Molelekwa reports...
01 April, 2025
Journalism for accountability
Oxpeckers and its partners in the Southern Africa Accountability Journalism Project (SA | AJP) aim to support and strengthen investigative journalism in the region...
17 January, 2025
We asked – the PMU has answered
New matchmaking platform for green energy funding offers solutions to coal-dependent communities at the frontline of SA’s energy transition, Thabo Molelekwa reports...
12 November, 2024
#PowerTracker to monitor renewables across SA
Our pioneering project gears up to track the JET journey beyond the country’s energy capital. Andiswa Matikinca and Roxanne Joseph report...
25 September, 2024
A decade of pecking at a poaching kingpin
How we tracked the notorious Mozambican syndicate leader ‘Navara’ from 2013 until he ended up in jail in 2024. By Fiona Macleod & Estacio Valoi...
29 August, 2024
Confidentiality stands in the way of JET information
Amid new promises from the government to scale up renewables, Andiswa Matikinca tracks our journey to unlock data on SA’s Just Energy Transition...
21 August, 2024
Data-driven climate journalism led to large fines for mining company
A Zimbabwe journalist working with Oxpeckers investigated how a Chinese mining company polluted local water sources. Anders Behrmann reports...
29 July, 2024