The Mail & Guardian‘s Khadija Magardie has won this year’s general news print category of the CNN African Journalist of the Year Awards.
Magardie received the award at a ceremony at the Sandton Convention Centre this week. Susan Puren of the MNet/DStv Carte Blanche programme was announced overall winner for her moving and compelling account of China Katiti, a Ugandan war child.
Magardie won her award for gaining the confidence of the people in Upington, home of South Africa’s youngest rape victim, Baby Tshepang, and getting them to tell their story unreservedly.
Other individual winners included the SABC’s Angie Kapelianis for radio news and Sara Blecher for arts and culture.
- M&G freelance contributor Shyaka Kanuma has been awarded a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard University. Kanuma, a Rwandan national who was a winner in last year’s CNN African Journalist of the Year Awards, has written regularly for the M&G for the seven months he has been in South Africa.
- Sam Sole, formerly of the magazine noseweek, has joined the M&G. Sole is an investigative journalist of long experience who will enhance this newspaper’s investigations team.