{"id":29592,"date":"2024-08-13T06:58:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T06:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/?page_id=29592"},"modified":"2025-01-14T07:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T07:47:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

AmaBhungane\u2019s small team of investigators has forced information into the public domain where there was none. Our investigative stories \u2013 expos\u00e9s on institutional independence being undermined, corruption, corporate malfeasance and \u201cstate capture\u201d \u2014 have contributed to political and corporate changes that included the resignation of South Africa\u2019s president in February 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have helped others do and develop investigative journalism by hosting some 80 fellows and presenting numerous workshops. Some of our alumni went on to found centres like ours elsewhere in Southern Africa. We have supported and collaborated with those centres, and scaled up the support by spinning off a separate non-profit, the IJ Hub, which we incubated from 2019 to 30 June 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our advocacy has secured information flows for journalists and the public at large. We helped found the campaign that stopped the \u201cSecrecy Bill\u201d; secured legislative amendments including to make company ownership transparent; litigated successfully including to preserve the public status of court records and have unduly intrusive state surveillance practices struck down; and improved access-to-information law by exercising it in and out of the courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We answer to a board consisting of Nic Dawes, Dr Sithembile Mbete, Angela Quintal, Dewald van Rensburg (staff rep) and Stephen (Sam) Sole. Sam is the executive director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AmaBhungane is a part of the Press Ombud. Bringing transparency, bringing about change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AmaBhungane proudly displays the \u201cFAIR\u201d stamp of the Press Council of South Africa, indicating our commitment to adhere to the Code of Ethics for Print and online media which prescribes that our reportage is truthful, accurate and fair. Should you wish to lodge a complaint about our news coverage, please lodge a complaint on the Press Council\u2019s website, www.presscouncil.org.za<\/a> or email the complaint to enquiries@ombudsman.org.za<\/a>. Contact the Press Council on 011 4843612.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AmaBhungane\u2019s small team of investigators has forced information into the public domain where there was none. Our investigative stories \u2013 expos\u00e9s on institutional independence being undermined, corruption, corporate malfeasance and \u201cstate capture\u201d \u2014 have contributed to political and corporate changes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29592","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32189,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29592\/revisions\/32189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}