Good day
I am responding to your call for writers from South Africa.
It is not clear from your advert why you particularly want South African writers - is this because the articles you need written deal with specifically South African issues?
As an experienced academic and journalist in South Africa, as well as abroad (I have also worked in the UK, Australia and Switzerland), I am confident that I am able to provide you with competent, clean texts.
As your brief does not indicate either the subject matter of the articles you require, or how much information will be provided to inform them, I have bid an hourly rate of US$40. In other words, my bid of $400 is for 10 hours of work.
I will include, in a personal message, a piece of arts reportage I wrote for a South African newspaper a few years back. Please let me know if you would like to see more samples of my work.
Thanks for your consideration; I look forward to hearing from you.
Helen