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The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism is a non-profit journalism group based in Johannesburg. It specialises in public health issues in South Africa.

Its stories are published in news outlets in South Africa and internationally, and its TV programme, Health Beat, is broadcast on the independent news channel, eNCA.

In 2021, Bhekisisa was the first media group to receive the Reconciliation Award from the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation for its reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic.

History

Bhekisisa, which means "to scrutinise" in the Zulu language, was founded in 2013 by health journalist Mia Malan as the health section of the Mail & Guardian newspaper. In 2019, it became an independent nonprofit. Its founding board chair is Nicolas Dawes, the executive director of New York’s nonprofit news organisation The City.

Bhekisisa received seed funding from the German government’s Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit. It has also received funding from the Open Society Foundations, South Africa’s National Research Foundation, the International Centre for Journalists, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, the United Nations Population Fund and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Publishing model

Using the Creative Commons “open journalism” model, its articles on its website are free to republish. They appear in South African news outlets such as the Daily Maverick, TimesLIVE' ', News24, and the Mail & Guardian and internationally, including The Guardian , in the UK and El Pais in Spain.

In 2023, the South African 24-hour news channel eNCA syndicated Bhekisisa’s monthly TV programme HealthBeat.

COVID-19 Pandemic

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa , Bhekisisa reporters commented on the pandemic in South Africa and spoke to journalism organizations , about how the newsroom was covering the pandemic. In 2021, Bhekisisa was the first media group to receive South Africa’s Reconciliation Award from the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation for its pandemic reporting.

Notable Reporting

Bhekisisa journalists have won multiple journalism awards, including the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year 2016 for feature stories for its article “Diepsloot: Where men think it’s their right to rape”.

Its team won the South African National Editors’ Forum Sikuvile Awards , seven times, once for journalist of the year, twice in the op-ed category, and four times for feature stories. These include:

• Features, 2014, “The boys who lost their manhood”
• Journalist of the Year, 2015, Mia Malan
• Features, 2015, “Desperate search for answers to schizophrenia puzzle”
• Features, 2016, “Diepsloot: Where men think it’s their right to rape”
• Op-ed, 2018, “Does evil cast a long shadow?”
• Features, 2019, “Who killed Ntombizodwa Matthews? Politics, protest & corruption in the North West”
• Op-ed, 2022, The cruel logic of the Omicron bans – debunked”

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