2006 Award Keynote Speech (Gavin Macfadyen)

Keynote Speaker at Taco Kuiper Awards 2006: Gavin Macfadyen, director of Centre for Investigative Journalism in London. Speech: What we are here to celebrate is of course Investigative Journalism! It is “uncovering something somebody wants kept...

The Judging Process (2006 Award)

The Panel of Adjudicators' Speech. Taco Kuiper Awards April 2007 Speaker: Anton Harber On behalf of the panel of adjudicators: The entries, as a whole, left us feeling positive about investigative journalism in this country. We received an excellent range of...

Taco Kuiper Award Winners 2006

Taco Kuiper Award Winners 2006: First Prize: R200 000 Beeld and Die Burger journalists Adriaan Basson and Carien du Plessis Winning story: A series of investigations into corruption at the Department of Correctional Services. The series implicated former prisons Chief...

Taco Kuiper 2006 Winners Press Release

EMBARGOED APRIL 26, 2:00 pm The first Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism – the largest South African journalism prize – has gone to two reporters from Beeld for their expose of former Commissioner of Prisons, Linda Mti....

Turning stigma into cool

Denim giant Levi Strauss is taking its Red for Life HIV and AIDS campaign a step further by getting into young people’s pants. Yes, the clothing manufacturer has discarded the “washing and care” instruction labels inside jeans and has replaced them...