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Latest:
Estacio Valoi braved the insurgency-threatened north to investigate government complicity with the Chinese in illegal logging.
Tabelo Timse, Kyle Findlay and Aldu Cornelissen’s in-depth look at the “influence-for-hire” industry’s influence on elections was published in Daily Maverick: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3 coming soon…
Bheki Mashile of the Umjindi-Elukwatini Guardian in Barberton has published his expose of the local construction mafia, showing how brazen their operation is. Greg Arde has published with Amabhungane his major investigations into the construction mafia: Taxi bosses, the construction industry and political murder and Business Against Crime calls for more government transparency in fight against criminal kingpins.
The Henry Nxumalo Fund gives grants to individuals and organisations to do investigative journalism of relevance to contemporary Africa. We enable journalists to have the time and resources to do reporting that might not otherwise be done, and to encourage reporting on under-covered areas of African society.
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Grants are available for journalists seeking pre-publication support for investigative reporting of public interest.
The grants are administered by the Henry Nxumalo Trust in memory of the pioneering investigative reporter Henry Nxumalo.
In 15 years of operation, the Fund has given about 80 grants totalling almost R5-million.