Mofokeng went on to complete his PhD in 2025 with his thesis, Sol T. Plaatje’s Ink: Exploring the nascent Setswana public ...

The Wits Centre for Journalism and African Women in Media recently hosted a webinar exploring the debates, best practices and ethical roadmaps for deploying artificial intelligence in African ...

The Wits Centre for Journalism (WCJ) and Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) are delighted to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, amplifying a common goal in working to ...

The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF), in proud partnership with Sanlam, invites nominations and entries for the prestigious Nat Nakasa Awards for Courageous Journalism 2026. At a time ...

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 ...

The Wits Centre for Journalism is pleased to welcome Dr Collen Chambwera, a seasoned educator in the media space who joins the team as a senior lecturer and researcher. “When an opportunity arose at ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Wits Centre for Journalism (WCJ), Fojo Media Institute and Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications (AKU-GSMC) are jointly supporting the development of the Africa ...

AI chatbots are also emerging as an alternative news source, with 12% of younger audiences in our global sample using them to get information about current event South Africa has one of the highest ...

The International Association for Literary Journalism Studies invites submissions of original research papers, abstracts for research in progress and proposals for panels on Literary Journalism for ...

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 ...