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.

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.