The Taco Kuiper Award judges have requested that Mzilikazi wa Africa, Stephan Hoffstatter and Rob Rose return their awards after aspects of their story - for which SundayTimesZA has since issued a retraction and apology - were disputed.
Johannesburg - The panel of judges at the Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism has requested three winning journalists at the Sunday Times to return their 2012 awards for the Cato Manor unit story.
''In October 2017, we received a letter from General Johan Booysen, former regional head of the Hawks and a subject of the story, asking us to reopen our deliberations on the award. The same week, and before we could respond, the Sunday Times published a retraction and apology for the Cato Manor article and two others.
''However, the prize went to the individual journalists involved, rather than the newspaper. Some of these individuals, and the then-editor, Ray Hartley, criticised the decision to withdraw the story, leaving its status in dispute. After extended deliberation, we have reached the dismaying conclusion that while there was a legitimate story around the Cato Manor unit, the reporting, writing and editing was shoddy and amateurish, leading to serious errors and gaps in the report.
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