Mail & Guardian journalist Khadija Magardie is among four South African finalists in this year’s CNN African Journalist of the Year award.
Magardie was last year’s runner-up in the Duma Nokwe Human Rights in Journalism award and a recent recipient of the Ameen Akhalwaya Journalist of the Year award.
The M&G’s rugby columnist, Andy Capostagno, received an award for his TV commentary on Supersport at the South African Breweries Sports Journalists of the Year gala dinner in Johannesburg this week.
And critic, novelist and literary scholar Stephen Gray has won one of the Book Journalist Awards in the competition sponsored by NB Publishers and Jonathan Ball/HarperCollins.