AMABHUNGANE

Launched in 2010, amaBhungane (isiZulu for "the dung beetles") is an independent, non-profit newsroom based in South Africa. We develop investigative journalism to promote free, capable media and open, accountable, just democracy... AmaBhungane's small team of investigators has forced information into the public domain where there was none. Our investigative stories - exposés on institutional independence being undermined, corruption, corporate malfeasance and "state capture" - have contributed to political and corporate changes that included the resignation of South Africa's president in February 2018... 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.