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- ↑ "OkayAfrica's 100 Women: Koketso Moeti". OkayAfrica . 2019. Archived from the original on October 24, 2019. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
- ↑ de Villiers, James (April 16, 2019). "A South African app builder has just become one of the first ever Obama Fellows". Business Insider . Archived from the original on December 21, 2019. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
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