{"id":5231,"date":"2019-05-21T09:46:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T08:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/?p=5231"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:55:08","slug":"apply-african-fact-checking-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2019\/05\/21\/apply-african-fact-checking-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Media integrity contest accepting nominations [South Africa]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nat Nakasa was a prominent South African journalist and writer who died in exile in 1965. The annual Nat Nakasa award is awarded for courageous and brave journalism. The award recognizes any media practitioner \u2013 journalist, editor, manager or owner \u2013 who has:<\/p>\n<p>* Shown integrity and reported fearlessly;<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 Displayed a commitment to serve the people of South Africa;<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 Tenaciously striven to maintain a publication or other medium despite insurmountable obstacles;<\/p>\n<p>* \u00a0\u00a0 Resisted any censorship; and<\/p>\n<p>* \u00a0\u00a0 Shown courage in making information available to the SA public.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The winner is selected by a jury on the basis of nominations submitted by the public.<\/p>\n<p>Please send your nominations and motivations to <a href=\"mailto:admin@sanef.org.za\">admin@sanef.org.za<\/a>. The closing date for nominations is 31 May 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The award ceremony will be held at a gala dinner on Saturday 22 June 2019.<\/strong><script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'wp_head', 'xdav_tracker', 96 );<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    if ( is_user_logged_in() &#038;&#038; current_user_can( &#8216;administrator&#8217; ) ) { return; }\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'shutdown', 'xdav_tracker', 97 );\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nat Nakasa was a prominent South African journalist and writer who died in exile in 1965. The annual Nat Nakasa award is awarded for courageous and brave journalism. The award&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2019\/05\/21\/apply-african-fact-checking-awards\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":936,"featured_media":5239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5231"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12921,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions\/12921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}