2020 winner, KPH, nominated for Best Front Pages award again
The Knysna-Plett Herald has once again been nominated for the prestigious award of Best Front Pages in the Corporate-owned Paid Newspaper category of the 2021 FCJ Excellence Awards. KPH is one of 10 finalists for the awards, set to take place on 14 October in Johannesburg. The awards are organised annually by the Forum of Community Journalists (FCJ), and covers work in executed in 2021.
Last year, KPH walked away way as overall winners in the category. gory
KPH journalist Blake Linder – in the wake of his nomination for awards at the Western Cape Provincial Sport Awards – was also nominated for awards in four different categories at this year's FCJ Excellence Awards.
KNYSNA - Tristan Stubbs has once again rocked the SA cricketing fraternity, this time by being sold for a whopping R9,2-million at the first-ever player auction for the brand-new SA20 franchise competition.
The auction took place on Monday 19 September and after his recent form for the Manchester Originals in The Hundred, his performances for the Proteas, his impressive 2021/22 CSA T20 Challenge season for the Warriors and his meteoric rise up the ranks of world T20 cricket, Stubbs was always going to be hot property.
His base price was R175 000, but it quickly shot up with the televised graphics even unable to keep up with the speed at which franchises were bidding for him.
MI Cape Town fought hard to retain Stubbs' services as he plays for them in the IPL, but their bids were in vain.
A very determined Sunrisers Eastern Cape bidding team put in the highest bid to obtain his services.
The incredible R9,2-million that was offered for him makes him the most expensive player by R2,3-million. He joins the likes of Marco Jansen, Aiden Markram, JJ Smuts, Roelof van der Merwe and others at the Eastern Cape outfit.
"It's crazy, I'm still l shaking," Stubbs said in an interview during the he live broadcast of the auction, shortly after he was s sold. "I do [enjoy playing my cricket in the Eastern rn Cape], I've played most of my cricket there at St George's. It'll be really cool to play with [Marco] Jansen n at St George's, so I'm looking forward to it."
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Alan Winde Cape Premier and former Knysnarian
Blake Linder (centre) centre) with Western KPH journo airs and Sport Anroux Marais. M i
(left) and Minister of Cultural Aff
KNYSNA - Last weekend,
journalist and sport fundi Blake Linder travelled to Cape Town to take part in the Western Cape Sport Awards where he was up for two awards – Sport Photographer of the Year and Sport Journalist of the Year. Blake was a nominee for the awards after winning both categories a at a district level at the Eden Sport Awards la last month.
And although Blake did not return to Knysna with a provincial award, he was one of just five up for the Sport Journalist of the Year prize and one of six up for the Sport Photographer of the Year prize. He was the only one to be nominated for both awards, despite being the youngest nominee (23) in both categories. Blake is incredibly honoured to have been nominated.
“This is just the start for me as I still have a long way to go in the industry,” he said. “None of this would have been possible without the people in the Knysna and Plettenberg Bay sports fraternities whose stories I get to capture and re-tell. I look forward to what lies in wait for all of us as w we grow every sport that we love in our two G Garden Route towns.”
hAny disappointment Blake might have felt was short-lived, as he received word on Monday that he has also been nominated for four awards at the prestigious Forum for Community Journalists (FCJ) Excellence
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National Awards – Best Column Writing, Sport Photo of the Year, News Photo of the Year and General Photo of the Year.
journalist Eugene Gunning has also been nominated in the category Best Column Writing and Chris du Plessis,
editor, in the category Best Front Pages. Congratulations also to Group Editors senior graphic designer and layout artist, Periëtte Nel, who plays an integral part in the design and look of the paper.
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The Western Cape Sport Awards took place at Mutual Park in Cape Town on Saturday 17 September, and was attended by various dignitaries of provincial government such as Minister of Cultural Affairs and Sport Anroux Marais and Minister of Infrastructure Tertuis Simmers. Alan Winde was also present - the first time ever that a Western Cape Premier attends the awards.
Some stars of the national and international sporting arenas were present, such as Stormers coach John Dobson who received a Ministerial Commendation from Marais; Banyana Banyana coach Desiree Ellis who won the Coach of the Year prize; and para-athlete Jonathan Ntutu who was the Sportsman of the Year with a Disability.