by Stuart Dickinson | Apr 15, 2026 | Featured Story, News
The Citizen Justice Network (CJN), a community justice project of the Wits Centre for Journalism, has helped a South African police officer uncover and remedy a costly administrative error that had drained more than R60,000 from his salary in maintenance payments for...
by Stuart Dickinson | Apr 1, 2026 | Featured Story, News
Pictured: Mustapha K. Darboe (left) at the 2025 African Investigative Journalist of the Year awards; protests erupted in Banjul, Gambia following Darboe’s investigation (right) – image: The Republic. Gambian journalist Mustapha K. Darboe’s meticulous...
by WCJ Admin | Mar 31, 2026 | News
Journalists from Senegal, Mali, Togo, DR Congo, Cameroon, Guinea-Conakry and Cote d’Ivoire joined an Africa-China workshop hosted by the Wits Centre for Journalism in Dakar, Senegal on 24-26 March. The workshop, Media and Africa–China Relations in a Shifting World...
by Stuart Dickinson | Mar 30, 2026 | Featured Story, News
Jeff Wicks of News24 won the 2026 Taco Kuiper Award for his explosive book The Shadow State: Why Babita Deokaran had to die, an investigation into the assassination of whistleblower Deokaran that reveals a vast web of criminal syndicates and corrupt government...
by WCJ Admin | Mar 23, 2026 | Featured Story, News, Webinars
In a population of more than 56 million, 3.3 million people in South Africa identify as disabled or as living with a disability. On an individual level, the disabilities within this community fall across a spectrum which is as complex as the lives of everyone. Despite...
by WCJ Admin | Feb 17, 2026 | Featured Story, News
The Wits Centre for Journalism, Fojo Media Institute, and the AKU Graduate School of Media and Communications seek a Network Lead – Africa Investigative Journalism Network (AIJN). Location: Nairobi, KenyaDuty station: Aga Khan UniversityContract: 50%...
