In the annual National Journalistic and Media Awards event that pitted journalists’ entries from a number of stables throughout the country, journalists from The Standard dominated the scene.
Senior reporter, Nqaba Matshazi, scooped the Child Reporter of the Year award for his story on nestling babies in prisons because their mothers were convicts.
Online journalist, John Mokwetsi was the winner in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) category.
Senior business reporter, Ndamu Sandu, won the Insurance Reporter of the Year award.
Sandu had also won the Business Reporter of the Year award in 2009.
Former Deputy Sports Editor Fanuel Viriri, who has also won the same award twice in the past, won the Sports Reporter of the Year. The category was also won by the paper in 2010.
The judges lauded Viriri for highlighting the plight of sportspersons when they retire in an article headlined “The Tragic Sight of the Dancing Master.”The article focused on four-time Commonwealth boxing champion Langton “Schoolboy” Tinago’s fall from grace.
Life&Style editor, Godwin Muzari was the runner-up in the Arts and Entertainment Reporter of the Year category. Muzari won the category last year.Nkululeko Sibanda won the category for his story carried by The Standard before he left to pursue other interests.
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His winning entry was on Bulawayo artist Owen Maseko’s trials and tribulations in highlighting the horrors of Gukurahundi through art.
Winners in Environment, ICT
In August, another Standard journalist Chipo Masara was winner of the Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) Environment Reporter of the first quarter of 2011 award.
She was honoured for her story titled “Smoking Ruins the Environment” in which she outlined the dangers of smoking including the possibilities of starting veld fires.
Masara walked away with a cash prize, a trophy, a certificate and two nights’ accommodation for two at an RTG lodge in Hwange.
In November, business reporter Kudzai Chimhangwa was runner- up to the ICT Journalist of the Year 2011 at the Zimbabwe ICT Achievers awards. The ICT journalist of the year award was scooped by Paul Nyakazeya of sister publication, The Zimbabwe Independent.
The annual event, which is hosted by the Ministry of Information Communication Technology, honours individuals and organisations that would have excelled in the ICT arena.
