African journalism isn’t short on courage but it is short on support.

In the sixth episode of The Media in Africa Podcast, Mamaponya Motsai—CEO of fraycollege, a journalism training institute in South Africa—tells host Georja Calvin-Smith that journalists’ safety is about more than physical danger.

Online harassment, attacks on mental health, and the pressure to self-censor can all threaten the work journalists do. And women journalists are targeted especially hard.

Protecting journalists is part of protecting journalism itself.

And you can’t have safety without more resources. Low wages and a lack of funding for African journalism feeds directly into the kind of dangers faced by the people Mamponya works with.

What do African journalists need the most right now?