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Award Categories

• Arts, Culture and Communications: The nominee has developed or fostered one of the art forms and/or cultures in South Africa, or raised public awareness on important issues through the media. This could have been done through her own artistic or cultural creations, or her development of the work of others and/or her use of the media to contribute towards a better South African society.
  
  
• Business Entrepreneurs: The nominee has shown entrepreneurial skills by developing a viable, sustainable business or a group of enterprises that provides employment for others. She could also have enabled other South Africans to become entrepreneurs.
  
  
• Education: The nominee is an educator at primary, secondary or tertiary level, who has provided access to education (e.g. through libraries and schools) or who has enabled learners to benefit from a system or programme that she has developed and instituted.
  
  
• Health: The nominee has contributed to the health of communities or special groups in South Africa through the development of a programme or system, or through providing access to health care for communities.
  
  
• Social Welfare: The nominee has contributed to the betterment of society through the provision or development of basic facilities (water, sanitation, housing, electricity etc), or through initiating or developing a support structure or programme that offers information, comfort and assistance and improves the lives of communities or special groups.
  
  
• Science & Technology: The nominee is a scientist, mathematician, practitioner, researcher, technician or any other worker in this field, whose research, invention or participation in a project or programme has made a significant contribution to the progress and/or welfare of our society and/or environment.
  
  
• Sport: The nominee is an internationally ranked sports woman, or someone who has played a key role in sports administration: either by bringing sport to disadvantaged communities, playing a key role in making sport representative and inclusive, or by developing a previously unknown sport in South Africa.

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