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Kim Harrisberg
@kimharrisberg.bsky.social
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Journalist with www.context.news
Covering (mainly) climate change, tech and inequality in Southern Africa
Proud Joburger, mama, aspiring luddite
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In what sounds like a Black Mirror episode, South African grant beneficiaries are having their bank accounts surveilled and millions are being unfairly rejected based on an automatic test misclassifying them as having more money than they do. My latest article here: www.context.news/digital-divi...
How is South Africa's welfare algorithm failing the poor? | Context by TRF
Millions of South Africans lose out on welfare grants because of a flawed application system, including an automated means test
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July 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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From South Africa to the Philippines, Ukraine to Nigeria, frontline workers are scrambling to plug gaps left by USAID funding cuts. Can these temporary measures last? Latest @contextnewsroom.bsky.social story with @jogill.bsky.social Bukola Adebayo & Mariejo Ramos www.context.news/money-power-...
USAID cuts: HIV frontline workers battle funding 'nightmare' | Context
From South Africa to the Philippines, Ukraine to Nigeria, healthcare workers are scrambling to plug gaps left by U.S. aid cuts
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April 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The world’s richest man claims his birth nation’s Black ownership laws are preventing him from rolling out his internet service. @kimharrisberg.bsky.social has the story for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social
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Musk's Starlink stalls in South Africa over equity laws | Context
The world’s richest man claims his birth nation’s Black ownership laws are preventing him from rolling out his internet service
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March 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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South Africa's domestic and foreign policies have angered Trump, putting jobs, aid and trade on the line. @kimharrisberg.bsky.social explains why on @contextnewsroom.bsky.social
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First aid, now trade: Will Trump axe South Africa AGOA trade deal? | Context
South Africa's domestic and foreign policies have angered Trump, putting jobs, aid and trade on the line
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February 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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South Africa's new land act has angered the U.S president and divided South Africans. For @contextnewsroom.bsky.social , @kimharrisberg.bsky.social explains why.
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The South African land law that has enraged Trump | Context
South Africa's new land act has angered the U.S president and divided South Africans. Why?
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February 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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For @contextnewsroom.bsky.social , @kimharrisberg.bsky.social went to last week's African Mining #Indaba conference in Cape Town and this is what she found.
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Reporter's Notebook - Inside Africa's mining 'speed dating' event | Context
As the world races for critical minerals in places like the Democratic Republic of Congo, activists warn of new mining injustices.
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February 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Entrepreneurs, victims, or criminals? Artisanal miners could reinvent themselves as the world flocks to Africa's critical minerals @kimharrisberg.bsky.social reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social
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Africa's artisanal miners may benefit from global renewables push | Context
Entrepreneurs, victims, or criminals? Artisanal miners could reinvent themselves as the world flocks to Africa's critical minerals
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January 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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If you read anything today about mining/critical minerals - read this from @kimharrisberg.bsky.social
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Reporter's Notebook - Inside Africa's mining 'speed dating' event | Context
As the world races for critical minerals in places like the Democratic Republic of Congo, activists warn of new mining injustices.
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February 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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As the world shifts towards renewable energy, fueling appetite for Africa's critical minerals like cobalt and lithium, will informal miners be part of the new value chain or be sidelined by bigger corporate players? www.context.news/just-transit...
Africa's artisanal miners may benefit from global renewables push | Context
Entrepreneurs, victims, or criminals? Artisanal miners could reinvent themselves as the world flocks to Africa's critical minerals
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January 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Gen Z and millennials protested in Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria and Mozambique in 2024 - and some analysts expect this activism to intensify in 2025.

✍️ Nita Bhalla, Bukola Adebayo, Kim Harrisberg and Samuel Comé

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January 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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New from @contextnewsroom.bsky.social - Inditex, Zara’s parent company, has hugely increased use of dirtier, more expensive airplanes to ship clothes.

Air shipping uses 35 times more carbon than sea shipping and adds pressure to already-stressed workers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfrE...
December 11, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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Kenyan police fire teargas at protesters marching against femicide - "The protesters in Nairobi were peaceful and it was not clear why the police intervened. The national police spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment." www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Kenyan police fire teargas at protesters marching against femicide
Kenyan police fired teargas and arrested at least three people on Tuesday as hundreds protested against a wave of femicides, a Reuters reporter and human rights activists said.
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December 10, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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President Joe Biden made a last-minute dash to Africa this week. On the agenda? Critical minerals. @kimharrisberg.bsky.social reports for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social from Johannesburg www.context.news/just-transit...
Biden makes last dash to Africa, showing the power of minerals | Context
Biden's visit to Angola highlights a world hungry for Africa's natural resources...and a big fight to come
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December 5, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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Biden's 11th hour visit to Angola highlights a world hungry for Africa's natural resources...and a big fight to come www.context.news/just-transit...
Biden makes last dash to Africa, showing the power of minerals | Context
Biden's visit to Angola highlights a world hungry for Africa's natural resources...and a big fight to come
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December 5, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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Serious problems in the UN’s World Food Program’s response to the Sudan crisis are hampering the organization’s ability to alleviate hunger in the war-torn country and damaging its reputation with donors, according to a recent internal report seen by Reuters reut.rs/3VjB2hy
Exclusive: World Food Program’s troubles in Sudan hurt hunger relief, alienated donors - internal report
Serious problems in the United Nations World Food Program’s response to the Sudan crisis are hampering the organization’s ability to alleviate hunger in the war-torn country and damaging its reputation with donors, according to a recent internal report seen by Reuters.
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December 4, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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The shocking story of the tiny children taken from their mothers in Belgium's colonies because they were mixed race.

Now five women have taken the Belgian government to court, alleging crimes against humanity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo
Over 70 years ago, thousands of mixed-race boys and girls were torn from their mothers by order of the state. This week five survivors hope a court will censure Belgium for crimes against humanity
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December 1, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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The Corrupt are Messing with a Wrong Generation' - From Mozambique to Senegal, how 2024 became the year of demonstrations by young Africans www.context.news/socioeconomi...
Mozambique echoes a year of youth-led protests across Africa | Context
'The Corrupt are Messing with a Wrong Generation' - how 2024 became the year of demonstrations by young Africans
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November 25, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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If you have 10 mins this weekend, you could do worse than watch this great report from my colleague @dbaptistar.bsky.social and Rest of World's @dandiba.bsky.social looking at how #Mexico's women gig workers are pushing for more rights and protections www.context.news/big-tech/vid...
Mexico is pushing for gig worker rights. Women say it’s not enough | Context
Women gig workers in Mexico exposed to crime, road accidents and gender based violence are unionising
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November 22, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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Welcome to Context Newsroom on Bluesky - there will be more to follow, but in the meantime, follow our correspondents to read news and analysis that contextualises how critical issues and events affect ordinary people, society and the environment: go.bsky.app/Up68iNV
November 22, 2024 at 11:31 AM