Africa Check, set up in 2012 to tackle misinformation and improve public debate across the continent, is looking for candidates from around Africa to join our Board of Trustees from January 2019, to help oversee our next stage of development. Founded as the...
The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) mourns the passing of Sibonelo Radebe, business editor at the Conversation Africa. SANEF remembers Sibonelo as an insightful journalist, with a deep understanding of various fields, especially the business and...
The 15th Annual Ruth First Memorial Lecture was delivered by Niren Tolsi on Thursday evening, on the eve of Media Freedom Day, marking the clampdown on newspapers by the Apartheid state on 19 October 1977 – at the University of the...
The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) and the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ) wish to invite you to an important event to commemorate Black Wednesday, 19th October 1977, when 18 black consciousness organisations and mainly black newspapers were...
The Sunday Time’s “Cato Manor Hit Squad” story was joint runner-up for the Taco Kuiper Prize for Investigative Journalism in 2013. We note the editor’s admission today that they “committed mistakes [in their reporting] and allowed ourselves to be manipulated by...
