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×Show profile Hide profileCobus Coetzee is a journalist passionate about data journalism and trying out new reporting tools.
He is based at the Cape Town at the Cape Times. The newspaper has a daily readership of 200 000.
Previously, Coetzee worked at South Africa's first rural social justice wire service called African Eye News Service (AENS), where he gathered and combed through data for Open Society Foundation's first Gov 2.0 civic engagement project in southern Africa called myMPUMALANGA.
He also assisted journalists with their investigations through the Investigative Dashboard (ID) platform.
Coetzee has worked as a researcher on Richard Calland's book "The Zuma Years: South Africa's Changing Face of Power" published by Zebra Press 2013.
Coetzee also worked as a political reporter at Beeld newspaper in Johannesburg and later as a correspondent for Media 24's Africa Office. He reported on Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland and Rwanda.
Cobus Coetzee is a journalist passionate about data journalism and trying out new reporting tools.
He is based at the Cape Town at the Cape Times. The newspaper has a daily readership of 200 000.
Previously, Coetzee worked at South Africa's first rural social justice wire service called African Eye News Service (AENS), where he gathered and combed through data for Open Society Foundation's first Gov 2.0 civic engagement project in southern Africa called myMPUMALANGA.
He also assisted journalists with their investigations through the Investigative Dashboard (ID) platform.
Coetzee has worked as a researcher on Richard Calland's book "The Zuma Years: South Africa's Changing Face of Power" published by Zebra Press 2013.
Coetzee also worked as a political reporter at Beeld newspaper in Johannesburg and later as a correspondent for Media 24's Africa Office. He reported on Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland and Rwanda.


