Villagers wait to board an overcrowded boat in Lambara village, Sokoto state, north-west Nigeria. The state has been affected ...

The land is disappearing at an alarming rate. Ghana’s coastal erosion causes the sea to progress inland at an average rate of ...

In April 2024, unusually heavy rain in south-western Burundi caused a landslide that flattened nearly 500 homes in the village of Gabaniro, Rumonge province. A young child was killed, 2,500 people ...

The Wits Centre for Journalism is delighted to announce the availability of 12 health reporting grants of US$2,000 each, open to all investigative journalists based in Africa. Follow the steps below ...

All South African and South African-based journalists are invited to submit entries for the 2025 Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism. The award recognises outstanding examples of ...

A special and exciting programme to develop a new generation of investigative reporters, a partnership between Wits Journalism, Rhodes School of Journalism and Media Studies and the Open Society ...

Two permanent judges represent out funders the Valley Trust, Wits Centre for Journalism and the international media. They are assisted by judges appointed each year. Tom Cloete is a Judge of the ...

Click here for twelve of the data classes. From how to use social media for your investigations, to mapping and visualisation to how to extract information from PDF’s and docs.

We gather to honour the best of South African journalism and to highlight once again how important and valuable is the work of our investigative reporters. But you will see from the entrants that we ...

Over seventy Taco Kuiper grants have been made between 2007 and 2017, with a total value of oR2.7m. These have gone to individuals, both employed and freelance, groups of journalists, editors for a ...

Siyabonga Africa is a digital media specialist at the SABC and executive chair of the Johannesburg chapter of Hacks/Hackers. He has a curiosity about the future of journalism and an interest in data ...