Anton Harber

Anton Harber is executive director of the Henry Nxumalo Foundation, which supports investigative reporting in Southern Africa through grantmaking, mentoring and training, and a director of the Campaign for Free Expression. Harber was founder and editor of the anti-apartheid newspaper, The Weekly Mail/Mail & Guardian and editor-in-chief of the country’s leading TV news station, eNCA. He founded and ran the Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism and the African Investigative Journalism Conference for 19 years, and organized and hosted the GIJC in Johannesburg in 2017. Harber was for 20 years the Caxton Chair of Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand as adjunct professor. He is a board member and former chair of Africa Check, the continent’s leading fact-checking agency, and vice-chair of the Centre for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ).  He has served as chair of the SA Conference of Editors and the National Association of Broadcasters. Harber is the author/editor of eight books. He has been a recipient of the Pringle Award for Press Freedom, the Missouri Medal of Honor, and the Recht Malan Award for Non-Fiction authors. In January 2024, Harber was named by New African Magazine as one of the Top 100 most influential people in Africa, and one of the top 12 in the media sector.