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| Meet the previous winners of the John Manyarara Investigative Journalism Award: | ||
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The winner of 2006 - Stefaans
Brummer Stefaans Brümmer is an old hand at South Africa’s premier weekly newspaper, the Mail & Guardian. He joined the staff (from the Cape Argus) at the dawn of democracy, in April 1994. He left in the late 1990s to gain experience in television production and the wider world of freelance journalism, but returned to the M&G a couple of years later to work full-time on investigations. Stefaans and his colleagues at the M&G’s small investigations team have pioneered a unique brand of structured research into the overlap of politics and money. |
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The winner of 2006 Award - Mabvuto
Banda Mabvuto Banda is an award winning journalist who has practiced for more than 12 years. He heads the investigations desk at the leading newspaper group-Nation Publications Limited. He also writes for Reuters News Agency and a contributor to Sunday Times in the UK. His writings against corruption and other political exposes have seen him arrested four times. One of his landmark work was in 2003 when he exposed a plot by then ruling party to amend the Constitution and allow the sitting president then to run for a third term in office. His investigation into how government planed to amend the constitution galvanized civil society and stopped the plot. He is also credited for his three year work on public sector corruption which saw a CEO at a petroleum firm jailed for siphoning millions of dollars into his offshore accounts. His latest work saw a cabinet minister arrested and jailed for the first time in Malawi for abuse of public funds. |
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The winner of 2006 Award Sam Sole |
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The winner of 2005 Award - Hilary
Mbobe Mbode’s article “Debts and daughters” was broadcast on “ Inter-World Radio” in June 2004 and dealt with a taboo social subject of immense public importance, namely the “ Kupimbira practice” whereby daughters are sold off into marriage to alleviate poverty and family debts. Her article relayed the experiences of a 14-year-old girl who was sold off into marriage when she was only 10 by her father who was heavily in debt. The girl told of how she was forced into marriage with a 62-year-old man in order to save her father from being imprisoned for debt. |
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The winner of 2004
Award - Jacques Pauw Jacques Pauw and the Special Assignment team brought viewers an expose of a major heroin trafficking route through Eastern and Southern Africa. During the course of this four- month investigation, the team travelled ten thousand kilometres through three countries. The result is an extraordinary one-hour documentary. |
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The winner of 2003
Award - Mzilikasi wa Africa and Jessica Bezuidenhout These two journalists of the South African daily Sunday Times disclosed a corruption scandal around the sale of the Komatiland national forests. Their findings have led to the cancellation of the sale and the dismissal of the involved state official. |
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winner of 2002 Award – Conrad Nyamutata Nyamutata (correspondent of The Daily News in Zimbabwe) has been awarded for his courageous research on the bombattack on the offices of Zimbabwe oppositionparty MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) in Harare, 11 September 2001. Nyamutata made it plausible that the police and intelligence services have placed the bomb. |
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winner of 2001 Award – Lynne Altenroxel The journalist at The Star daily newspaper, Lynne Altenroxel, has been awarded the first Manyarara Prize as a reward for her revealing a large-scale bribery in the South African health sector. Back |
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