SA leads Wan-Ifra Digital Media Awards Africa 2025 winners list

Daily Maverick won three categories in the Wan-Ifra Digital Media Awards Africa 2025, the most from South Africa and also the most of all the entries (Image supplied)

All the winners

Best Data visualisation

Project: The Road to a Just Energy Transition
Company: The Outlier
Country: South Africa

Best Fact-checking project

Project: Palesa’s Brave Discovery
Company: Food For Mzansi Group
Country: South Africa

Best in audience engagement

Project: The User Needs Impact Project 360
Company: Pulse Africa
Country: Nigeria

Best newsletter

Project: Elections ’24
Company: Daily Maverick
Country: South Africa

Best use of video

Project: Short form documentary | ’I don’t want to lose myself, ’ Carol de Swardt’s assisted suicide
Company: Netwerk24
Country: South Africa

Best digital subscription initiative

Project: Daily Maverick Shutdown
Company: Daily Maverick
Country: South Africa

#DMShutdown: Daily Maverick - Why we did it

16 Apr 2024

Best innovative digital project

Shared between:

Project: Manifesto Mayhem!
Company: Daily Maverick
Country: South Africa

Project: MwanaClick: A Digital Revolution in News and Content Access
Company: Mwananchi Communications Limited
Country: Tanzania

Best use of AI in the newsroom

Project: Hausa AI News: amplifying indigenous voices with technology
Company: Legit.ng
Country: Nigeria

Best relaunch of digital platforms

Project: Relaunch of Africa Business+
Company: Jeune Afrique Media Group
Country: Tunisia

SA and Daily Maverick dominate Wan-Ifra Digital Awards Africa 2025 finalists

2 Apr 2025

Best digital advertising product

No winner

Honourable mention:

Project: Die BurgerM Facebook Posters
Company: Media 24
Country: South Africa