The panel of judges

The panel of judges

A single panel of five judges will consider both the annual award and applications for grants. These are the members of the panel:

Tom Cloete is a Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein. He is also one of the five trustees of The Valley Trust, a trust set up by the late Taco Kuiper to promote investigative journalism.

Cloete studied law at Rhodes University and at Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He was admitted to the South African bar in 1975 and also practised in Botswana and Swaziland.

In 1991, two years after becoming Senior Counsel, Cloete was appointed to the Johannesburg High Court. He was the Senior Judge of the Commercial Court in Johannesburg until he was elevated to the Appeal Court.

He has also served on the High Court of the Kingdom of Swaziland and as an ad hoc Judge of Appeal in Seychelles.

 

 

Anton Harber is the Caxton Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He was the founder and editor of the Weekly Mail (now the Mail & Guardian); executive producer of the television series Ordinary People and Hard Copy; chief executive of Kagiso Broadcasting; and editor of The A-Z of South African Politics (1st and 2nd edition).

Harber is chair of internet publishing company BIG Media, a director of the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism, and a Trustee of the Anthony Sampson Foundation and the Phil Harber Trust for Jazz Education. He chairs the judging panel for the Sanlam Awards for Financial Journalist and serves on the advisory board of the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Journalists.

Harber is a recipient of the Pringle Award for Press Freedom and the Missouri Medal of Honour. Harber writes a column in Business Day and on News24.com and a blog at www.theharbinger.co.za. Read more

 

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an award-winning journalist with more than 40 years in the industry, extending her work at various times to all media.

For six years Hunter-Gault was CNN's Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent for Africa. In 2005, she accepted a position as Special Correspondent for National Public Radio, a US broadcasting network which Hunter-Gault had already worked for before joining CNN.

 

 

 

 

Justice Malala is a magazine and newspaper columnist, former newspaper editor and media entrepreneur.

Malala currently consults for Johncom on business strategy, writes regular weekly columns for the Sowetan (Malala on Monday) and Financial Mail magazine (Food for Thought) and is the resident political analyst for independent television channel e.tv.

Malala was an executive producer on Hard Copy I and II, a ground-breaking television series on SABC 3 which recently won the Golden Horn Award for best television series.

Malala was founding editor of ThisDay, the quality, upmarket South African daily newspaper which was launched on October 7 2003 and folded a year later.

 

 

Margaret Renn has just joined the Department of Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, as senior fellow in Investigative Journalism.

Renn has 25 years experience as an investigative journalist in the UK, where she worked with the celebrated British investigative journalist Paul Foot on his weekly column in the Daily Mirror. She then moved to Rough Justice, the BBC's flagship investigative television programme, dedicated to uncovering miscarriages of justice.

Since 2000 she has been making radio programmes for the BBC World Service and UK domestic stations.

Before coming to South Africa she also ran the Centre for Investigation Journalism, based at City University, London, which provides training for investigative journalists.