The National Award winners of the 2011 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards: Print Feature Sam Sole, Mail & Guardian Newspaper, Radovan Krejcir: The mobster at the gates. Stefaans Brümmer, Mail & Guardian Newspaper, Radovan Krejcir: The mobster at the gates. Ilham Rawoot, Mail & Guardian Newspaper, Radovan Krejcir: The mobster at the gates. Print News Stephan Hofstatter, Avusa, Sunday Times, Bheki Cele’s R500m police rental deal. Mzilikazi wa Afrika, Avusa, Sunday Times, Bheki Cele’s R500m police rental deal. TV Feature Asanda Magaqa, SABC, SABC News, No woman’s land and Liz Fish, Carte Blanche, Combined artists, Fracking in the Karoo. TV News Mpho Lakaje, eNews, Hate crime and Fathima Simjee, Health-e News Service, Morning Live, SABC, Positive Heroes. Radio General News Zimasa Mbewu, SABC Current Affairs, Tatane. Radio Feature Unathi Binqose, SABC, SAFM, Imfundo Financial/economic (in association with the JSE Limited) Claire Bisseker, Avusa, Financial Mail, Do or Die. Sport Sameer Naik, Independent Newspapers, Saturday Star, The Best World Cup Ever. Columnist Piet Naude, Avusa, The Herald,Meetings are a waste of time. Cartoonist Jeremy Nell, The New Age, Jeremy Nell Studio, Africa 2.0. Photography – in association with Mango Mlondolozi Mbolo, Avusa, Daily Dispatch Xhosa Rite Of Passage – Intonjan. Online – in association with Nokia Brian Hayward, Avusa, The Herald, Nelson Mandela Bay’s crumbling state healthcare. Eugene Coetzee, Avusa, The Herald, Nelson Mandela Bay’s crumbling state healthcare. Estelle Ellis, Avusa, The Herald, Nelson Mandela Bay’s crumbling state healthcare. KhanyiNdabeni, Avusa, The Herald, Nelson Mandela Bay’scrumbling state healthcare. Community Media Faatimah Hendricks, The Voice of the Cape, The Battle of Hangberg. Dorianne Arendse, The Voice of the Cape, The Battle of Hangberg. Consumer Journalism – in association with Pick n Pay Herman Scholtz, Media24, Rapport, Frozen chicken horror. Social Media in Journalism – in association with Cerebra HermanManson: Twitter breaks news, but will it breakjournalism? Editor’s Choice Pieter Steyn, Media24, Die Volksblad.
SABC journalists won four awards at this year’s Vodacom Journalist of the year.
– By Vodacom website
