Battle of Bangui

Warren Thompson is a financial investigative journalist at the Business Day and Financial Mail. He has been at the forefront of exposing fraud and corruption in the private sector, most notably in unearthing what happened at Steinhoff. He has also contributed to the understanding of 'state capture', including the nefarious business dealings of the Gupta family with the state.

Stephan Hofstatter is an award-winning investigative journalist with a long track record of uncovering corruption at state entities. In a journalism career spanning more than two decades he has worked or written for various publications, including Business Day, the Financial Mail, Sunday Times, Mail & Guardian, Farmer’s Weekly, GQ South Africa and Der Tagesspiegel, and contributed to two books by renowned photographer Jürgen Schadeberg. Hofstatter’s stories, produced alone or as part of a team, have won many accolades. These include several Journalist of the Year awards for work on land reform and corruption in the police department and communications ministry, two Sanlam Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism and two Taco Kuiper Awards for Investigative Journalism for exposing government corruption.

James Oatway is an award-winning independent photojournalist and former chief photographer of the Sunday Times. Most of his work revolves around themes of political and social inequality, migration and conflict. His photographs of the murder of Mozambican migrant Emmanuel Sithole by South African men during a wave of xenophobic violence in 2015 sparked outrage and made international headlines.