Award Categories

• Health Care-Givers.
  South Africans deserve sustainable, well-managed and efficient health care. The nominee must work as either a professional or volunteer to help people in South Africa receive optimum health care now and in the future. It could mean healing or caring for ill people or looking for solutions to prevent, treat and manage illness.

• Educators
  Education is still in the process of transition in South Africa. It continues to hold the key to a brighter future for South Africa. The nominee should work as either a professional or volunteer educating the people of South Africa. This could mean teaching, developing and/or researching programmes and methods for a better educated country.

• Corner Shop to Big Business Makers
  South Africa has a strong entrepreneurial business culture, boasting everything from corner shops to big business. It is seen as a powerhouse of the African continent. The nominee must as an entrepreneur, manager or worker have made a significant contribution to the success of a specific sustainable business or business in general throughout the year. The future prospects of the business must be encouraging.

• Good Neighbours
  South Africans have a proud history of uplifting the community, fighting poverty and standing up for human rights to progress, but crime has become one of the most devastating social illnesses in the country. In this category the focus is on the character of the nominee and her ability and achievements in combating the root causes of crime. She must take a stance against crime and the focus of her work must be on the perceived things in the community that sparks crime.

• Youth Movers
  South Africa has a floodgate of talented young people who has the potential to achieve against the best in the world. Their potential must, however, be realised and they must be helped towards achievement away from crime. The nominee must work on youth issues or fight to correct social injustices that take young people off the straight and narrow.

  The time frame for achievement in the five categories of the Award focuses on the current and the recent past and the achievement and its impact must have occurred only up to three years prior to the Award year. Therefore between April 2007 and April 2010.
  

• Lifetime Achievement Award
  This Award will celebrate a single South African who during her or his lifetime has inspired generations through changing times and trends. The recipient must have been true to her- or himself and would have maintained integrity and commanded the respect from peers. The Award will go to a South African who, through action and conduct, have inspired others and lived by the definition above.

  There is no time frame for the Lifetime Achievement Award
  

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