Western Region Award Winners Announced
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
(Cape Town – September 4, 2007)

 The Western Regional winners in the prestigious Vodacom Journalist of the Year 2007 Awards were announced at a function at Southern Sun Cullinan,in Cape Town.These awards, now in their seventh year, have proved a resounding success with hundreds of South African journalists and photographers serving the print and electronic media, competing for top honours.

The Vodacom Journalist of the Year remains one of South Africa’s most prestigious accolades for members of the media. The national winners will receive cash prizes of R10 000 each. The journalist whose work merits the Journalist of the Year Award will receive the grand prize of R100 000. As a leading telecommunications company, Vodacom believes that journalism provides one of the most crucial platforms for society to communicate.
The judging panel consists of well-recognised, independent professionals representing the credibility that the award deserves, both academically and professionally.

The winner Community Media:

Bernard Lamprecht from Radio Namakwaland
The judges wrote: “This category of media touches on the very coalface of our communities. Often it probes the issues that mainstream media cannot get to – particularly those daily developments and issues on the outer perimeters of the urban centres. Our winner in this category probed the responsibility of farmers and their dealings with their workers. The story had a human face and highlighted how farm owners cared for their laborers and their children as much as their own families.”

(Die produksiespan was Bernard Lamprecht en Annette Smit.  Die tegniese versorging is ook gedoen deur Annette Smit)