Southern African Development Community (SADC) Media Awards: 4 February

29 January 2010

Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) will launch the South African chapter of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Media Awards Competition.

The 2010 theme for the awards is, “Promoting Regional Intergration through Excellent Journalist”.  The categories for the awards are Print, Radio, Television and Photojournalism.

The details are as follows:

Date: 4 February 2010

Time:  18:00 for 18:30

Venue:  ATLAS STUDIOS, 33 Frost Avenue, Milpark, Johannesburg

The South African Chapter of the awards competition was launched during November 2003 and GCIS is the contact point for South African Media and the SADC Secretariat.

South African journalists have previously been named as winners of the television category in 2006 and the radio category in 2006 and 2009.

It is anticipated that the 2010 SADC media awards will take place in June 2010.

To RSVP contact: Takalani Mashamba at 012 314 2416 / 078 282 3722

For enquiries contact:

Bongiwe Gambu (Pretoria)
Tel: 012 314 2148
Cell: 082 714 9463

Colin Cruywagen (Cape Town)
Cell: 082 377 9916

Issued by: Government Communications (GCIS)