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February 13, 2007

SA's richest journalism prize launched

South Africa’s richest journalism prize has been launched at Wits University. The award and fund is named after Taco Kuiper, a successful South African publisher and business analyst with a passion for investigative journalism, reports journalism.co.za. The Taco Kuiper Award will offer an annual prize of R200 000 to the best example of investigative journalism in print media and R100 000 as a second prize. The fund will provide grants of between R10 000 and R150 000 every year to support investigative projects. For more click here.