Fighting misinformation and holding the powerful accountable. Mpumalanga's award-winning investigative newspaper.
South Africa's mainstream media is weak. It is beholden to profit-seeking owners, and has largely lost touch with normal citizens. Its journalists pander to those with power or influence, and often shy away from difficult or complex stories. As media pundit Dan Froomkin observes, the consequences are grave: how can any democracy, especially one as young as ours, self-correct when it doesn't get the real story about what the people in charge are doing? How do we solve dire problems such as our education system or unemployment if the press lets itself be distracted and spun by the powerful and the self-interested?
Ziwaphi tries to overcome this, through fearless reporting that refuses political or commercial patronage.
To keep government honest, and to ensure that commercial companies are 'good citizens'. Ziwaphi fights to give voice to the voiceless, and to hold the powerful accountable.
Bi-weekly tabloid size newspaper
