Ayal Belling
Founder at the SA jobs party, Progress and unemployed people's organisation, Organising for Work (www.ofw.org.za). Live between South Africa and Germany.
@brianmc.bsky.social
Host: TECHMEME RIDE HOME podcast. Author: HOW THE INTERNET HAPPENED. GP: RIDE HOME FUND.
@satess.bsky.social
Married old cat lady who's also into data, plants, nature, wildlife, books, art, kindness and genuine curiosity. 💚 Human rights belong to all humans, not just the ones you approve of ♿✊🏾✊🏿🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️⚧️ Be an Ally. She/her
@thandis.bsky.social
Head of Programmes at Media Monitoring Africa www.mma.org.za ll @mediamattersza Media, media freedom, digital rights, internet governance and freedom of expression.
@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.
@axolilenotywala.bsky.social
Organiser. Activist Politician. RISE Mzansi Western Cape Provincial Convenor & National Leadership Collective GOOD Party City of Cape Town PR Councillor
@spotlightnsp.bsky.social
In-depth, public interest health journalism from South Africa. Reporting and analysis on TB, HIV, NCDs, health systems, and much more. www.SpotlightNSP.co.za
@robynporteous.bsky.social
Intersectional Feminist. Writer. Runner. Bibliophile. Anti-Racist. She/Her. Disinformation destroys democracy. #BlackLivesMatter. Views my own.
@wandilesihlobo.bsky.social
Agricultural economist from South Africa. Author, “The Uncomfortable Truth about South Africa's Agriculture (2025)”, “A Country of Two Agricultures (2023)”, + more. www.wandilesihlobo.com
@kerrycullinan.bsky.social
Health journalist. Passionate about nature, social justice & people's right to live with dignity. Deputy editor of Geneva-based Health Policy Watch. https://healthpolicy-watch.news/ Based in Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦
@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. https://linktr.ee/opensecrets_za
@charles257.bsky.social
Progressive journalist, editor, podcaster, card-carrying Joburger, Arsenal fan, amateur DJ and obsessive record collector. Unfortunately no gofund requests will be considered — I’m a poor journo.
@arfness.bsky.social
Opinions. Comms. OSINT. Analysis. Marketing strat. Some snark. Radical apanthropist. NB: It's probably more complicated than you think - whatever it is.
@nickbudlender.bsky.social
Urban policy researcher working on housing, cities and urban development. Everyone deserves a safe and decent home! 🇿🇦
@clivesimpkins.bsky.social
Anti Trump-Musk-MAGA 🇿🇦 SouthAfrican veteran strategic communications coach. Still helping folks make the most of their best. Whether interpersonally, in any media, presenting, or public speaking. Love what I do, do what I love. #RescueCatDadx3
@reditlhabi.bsky.social
Award winning broadcaster, author, moderator. South African. http://racialequity.atlanticfellows.org. http://ModerateThePanel.Com. Ex BBC, Aljazeera. MA: IR
@ukhanyisilemlambo.bsky.social
A social scientist with the skills of a five year old, I write, laugh & cry. Reads mainly foreign policy, & more recently agriculture & developmental studies.
@groundup.org.za
GroundUp brings you #NewsThatMatters. We report human rights stories across South Africa. Visit https://groundup.org.za/
@zackieachmat.bsky.social
Dog loving socialist. Free Palestine. Cape Town is my home. My “identities” are indivisible not intersectional.
@thinkfrombelow.bsky.social
Free Palestine always Dr of struggle and other things Antifascist
@drlandislife.bsky.social
African feminist, researcher & author researching land grabs, food, labour, politics & feminism in West Africa & Global South| https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8681-8476
@johnedwinmason.bsky.social
Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa, UVA. Usually found in Virginia, longing for Cape Town.
@ayeshaomardr.bsky.social
British Academy International Fellow• SOAS University of London• Senior Lecturer•University of the Witwatersrand•Intellectual History• Comparative Political Theory•Africa/ South Africa• M&G 200 YSA• Theoria• Gardening• Calligraphy
@aloner.bsky.social
Senior editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk | Co-host, The Prospect Podcast | Ex: NS, Haaretz, TBI | UK, Israel/Palestine, feminism, politics, Ursula K Le Guin | Sign up to my newsletter: http://thebacklash.substack.com |
@sarahelizacollins.bsky.social
Assistant ed and columnist at Prospect Magazine. Writer for The Week, The Guardian
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
jester of goodwill (journalist, author, radio person, etc) marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
@zoegrunewald.bsky.social
Freelance political journalist & broadcaster | Westminster Editor at the Lead UK | Presenter on Fubar Radio | Chatting on Oh God What Now | Find my work and commission me here: https://www.zoegrunewald.com/
@zoecrowther.bsky.social
• reporter at PoliticsHome ✍📱 • “internet shepherd” of Bluesky • social media, tech, health & mental health • X: @zoenora6 • threads: zoe_crowther • https://www.politicshome.com/news/author/zoe-crowther.htm
@meganekenyon.bsky.social
associate editor (spotlight) @ new statesman - covering policy & politics (& occasionally other things) 🦦🌿
@swordsjew.bsky.social
journalist, author, sword collector, schmoe. newsletter: buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich buy my new book!! https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/ contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
@alexvont.bsky.social
Historian, screenwriter, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
@janinegibson.ft.com
Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
@helenlewis.bsky.social
Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 and Strong Message Here | Doom scroller, the internet
@lottelydia.bsky.social
Historian. Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin, 2023). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024). Work stuff here: https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley repped by Carrie Plitt @ FBA pronouns are she/her and views are my own 💫
@danaelkurd.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Profile by Molly Crabapple • Header my grandfather's publications danaelkurd.com to contact
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social
Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
@gabyhinsliff.bsky.social
Guardian columnist & writer, author of Half a Wife, sometimes on telly/Guardian Politics Weekly podcast. No, I didn't write the headline. Event host & speaker https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=2705
@lizziedearden.bsky.social
Contributing reporter to the New York Times in London, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed' Website: https://www.lizziedearden.com/
@indiabourke.bsky.social
BBC enviro journalist, writing & editing for Future Planet. Reviews in @resurgencetrust.bsky.social . Prev @newstatesman.com , AFP & others. (Currently on mat leave with River)
@monicamarks.bsky.social
Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA. 14 years writing on Tunisia. Religion & democracy. Tango & bizarre travel enthusiast. Perpetually craving Istanbul.
@nadinebh.bsky.social
📻 Broadcaster 🖊️ Reporter at PoliticsHome 🎭 Actor, represented by RED Talent Mgmt ✍️ Send me stories🕵🏽 #BCFC 💙 ASOIAF & LOTR enthusiast ✨ Views my own 💭
@jesstud.bsky.social
CEO, @wearenewlocal.bsky.social Politics, policy, local government, devolution, place, community power, public service reform, inequality & feminism. Always searching for good coffee.
@ursulakleguin.com
Official account for the celebrated author of novels, short stories, poetry, children’s books and essays. https://www.ursulakleguin.com/
@ladyhaja.bsky.social
✍🏻 Journalist: The Guardian, Observer, elsewhere 📖 Buy: The Joy of Small Things amzn.to/3EBFgqz 🗣️Posting: politics, arts, mental health, media, ⚽️, 🏳️🌈 📧 Your emails can find me well at: hannah.jane.parkinson@theguardian.com
@lisang.bsky.social
Europe Editor, New Lines Magazine (newlinesmag.com). Also quite a bit about the Middle East. lgoldman@newlinesmag.com