OUR AWARDS

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SANEF makes two awards each year. The Nat Nakasa Award is made to individuals working in the broadcast, online or print media who show exceptional integrity and courage in their work. And the SANEF-Wrottesley Award is given to a SANEF member for excellent service to the organisation.

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The Nat Nakasa Award

Nat Nakasa was a South African journalist who died in exile in 1965 at the age of 28, after a brief but dynamic career characterised by his journalistic courage and integrity. In the South Africa of the 1960s, the press was not free. Angry black voices were heard in the townships and in shebeens, but never in print. Today, the written word has a platform without restriction. The Nat Nakasa Award is awarded annually by Print Media SA, the South African National Editors’ Forum and the Nieman Society in recognition of any media practitioner – journalist, editor, manager or owner – who has:

Shown integrity and reported fearlessly
Displayed a commitment to serve the people of South Africa
Tenaciously striven to maintain a publication or other medium despite insurmountable obstacles
Resisted any censorship
Shown courage in making information available to the South African public
Any combination of the above

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The Sanef-Wrottesley Award

The SANEF-Wrottesley Award is given in recognition of excellent service to the organisation. It is presented to a SANEF member for extraordinary commitment to work towards the achievement of the association’s goals.

Stephen Wrottesley, chief of staff for Independent Newspapers, was the former news editor of the Cape Argus and had achieved renown as a top crime reporter with that newspaper. He was a recipient of the Stellenbosch Farmers’ Winery Journalism Award for his reporting on illegal whaling. He was instrumental in the formation of the South African National Editors’ Forum and was a member of its executive committee for a number of years. He died in hospital after a car accident in Cape Town in 2003 at the age of 47.

Previous winners have been Joe Thloloe, Raymond Louw, Mary Papayya and Mathatha Tsedu. Raymond Louw has the distinction of having twice been a recipient. The award is given to nominated candidates who fulfil all the following criteria:

A SANEF member in good standing
Active in SANEF for at least five years
Shown both practical and leadership commitment, often behind the scenes
Stepped in when Sanef has had difficulties
Worked towards the achievement of SANEF’s strategic goals
Contributed significantly towards the achievement of SANEF’s project objectives over a number of years
Shown initiative in helping to solve problems

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About Us

The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) is a non-profit organisation whose members are editors, senior journalists and journalism trainers from all areas of the South African media.

We are committed to championing South Africa’s hard-won freedom of expression and promoting quality, ethics and diversity in the South African media.

Sanef promotes excellence in journalism through fighting for media freedom, writing policy submissions, research, education and training programmes.

MEDIA ETHICS AND CREDIBILITY INQUIRY

SANEF has launched an Inquiry into Media Ethics with a panel of commissioners headed by retired judge Kathleen Satchwell, including panelists Nikiwe Bikitsha and Rich Mkhondo. The aim of this Inquiry is to investigate what went wrong with some of our journalism in recent years and how we can fix these gaps and loopholes so that trust and alliances between us and the public can be built.