by rendani | Mar 18, 2016 | Taco Kuiper Awards
“We pay tribute to the muckrakers – the investigative journalists who play such an important role in our society by digging around in the dirt to hold the powerful to account.” — Taco Kuiper Judges “This was classic investigative work: careful, patient probing to find...
by rendani | Jan 25, 2016 | Taco Kuiper Awards
The Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism recognises outstanding examples of journalism, that reveal untold stories, hold the powerful to account and question those in public life. The top prize is R200 000 and the runner-up wins R100 000 The Award is open to...
by Claire Lowen | Apr 23, 2009 | Taco Kuiper Awards
Transcript of David Leigh’s speech at the Taco Kuiper Award ceremony on April 17 2009 at the Rand Club in Johannesburg I am very grateful to be asked here and I am impressed to be in this astonishing building which seems to have layers of history behind...
by Claire Lowen | Apr 23, 2009 | Taco Kuiper Awards
Citation for the overall winner of the 2008/09 Taco Kuiper Awards: Mail & Guardian – The Arms Deal The Mail & Guardian’s extraordinary commitment to the complex arms deal story is bearing fruit as they have in the last year...
by Claire Lowen | Apr 23, 2009 | Taco Kuiper Awards
Citation for the joint runner-up of the 2008/09 Taco Kuiper Awards: Carte Blanche – Hammanskraal Police Carte Blanche tackled a local story, but one that tells a national tale: that of petty police corruption with large-scale consequences. And they...
by Claire Lowen | Apr 23, 2009 | Taco Kuiper Awards
Citation for the joint runner-up of the 2008/09 Taco Kuiper Awards: City Press Hospital Tender City Press stumbled across a corruption story in the tenders for a new Soweto hospital, and then pursued it all the way to its conclusion. They had some luck in getting...
