Jacques Pauw
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Jacques Pauw | |
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 Jacques Pauw at the launch of his 2022 book "Our Poisoned Land." | |
| Occupation | Investigative journalist |
| Notable work | The President's Keepers, Vrye Weekblad |
Jacques Pauw is a South African investigative journalist who was an executive producer of the Special Assignment current affairs programme on SABC.[1] Pauw was a founding member and assistant editor of the anti-apartheid Afrikaans newspaper Vrye Weekblad. He began his television career in 1994, specializing in documentaries around the African continent.
Throughout his journalistic career, Pauw investigated lethal criminal activities in the underworld of southern Africa and exposed atrocities committed by governments around the African continent. Affairs covered by Pauw's documentaries include the Rwandan genocide, the War in Darfur, and the police death squads in South Africa under apartheid.
In November 2017, South Africa's state security agency (SSA) brought criminal charges against Pauw because of claims made in his book, "The President's Keepers."[2] His house was raided by the South African police in February 2018.[3]
In 2014, Jacques Pauw retired from journalism. He was the Head of Investigations at Media24 newspapers at the time. He had been a journalist for three decades, before the three-year break after retirement during which he (and his wife) started and ran a restaurant. Pauw spent most of that time as the chef at the restaurant, Red Tin Roof, in Riebeek-Kasteel[4]
