SA Heroes Awards Organizing Committee: Priscilla Klein - Marketing Manager, Amanda Matshaka - Founder & Organizer, Lauren Klein - Social Media Specialist and Linda Njotini- Creative Director.

Nominations Open for South African Heroes Awards 2024

March 15, 2024April 2, 202496 Views 3 min read

The South African Heroes Awards (SAHAs) are bringing the 6th instalment in a bigger and better fashion. SAHAs 2024 set to take place on September 21, 2024, at a yet to be announced venue were launched over the weekend at 27 Boxes in Melville, Johannesburg.

The awards honour and celebrate unsung heroes who are building their communities.

Over the past five years the SAHAs have enjoyed overwhelming success with nominations coming from all provinces.

“We have had exceptional community leaders who won in the different categories that we have in the awards – some have gone on to collaborate with government and corporate on projects that further benefit their communities”, said awards founder and organiser, Amanda Matshaka.

With now 20 categories, the South African Heroes Awards are showing a steady growth. In the categories voted for by the pubic, two new categories have been added: the Community Media of the Year – carrying community empowering stories and Community Journalist of the year – covering community empowering stories.

Other categories for nominations are;

Youth Empowerment – uplifting young people through various programmes,
Business Empowerment – offering assistance to start-ups/small businesses to help them succeed,
Specialized Care – people who take care of vulnerable groups like orphans, disabled persons, abused people, widows, homeless, etc.,
Community Service – voluntary community work to benefit fellow community members; e.g. feeding programmes, community policing forums, etc.
Community Health – health centres initiated and run by community members as well as primary health care,
Rural Development – projects that uplift rural communities,
Women Empowerment – programmes meant for the upliftment and empowerment of women and
Community Builder of the Year Award – the overall winner voted for by finalists.

Honorary Awards this year are:

Green Award – honours people who run projects/programmes for environmental preservation.
Ubuntu Award – honours veteran community builders whose projects have produced other noticeable community builders and high achievers.
Art of Giving – honours those who are uplifting communities through art.
Language Preservation Award – honours those who take pride in preserving indigenous languages.
Leader of Influence – h..onours exceptional leaders who lead by example and have a trail of positive influence.
Rights Activist of the Year – gives honour to those who fight tirelessly for human rights.
Aid Giver of the Year – honours exceptional first responders in times of disaster & distress.
Iconic Impact – honours an icon who has lived and continues to live their lives giving of themselves to others to ensure they succeed in life.
Excellence in Public Service – honours those in public service who deliver with excellence and go beyond the call of duty.
International Achiever – represents South Africa with pride abroad, changing and impacting lives.

To nominate yourself or your community hero, send a motivation of what makes your chosen nominee a hero to info@sapositivenews.com nominations close on 30 April 2024.

The awards are an initiative of Kingdom Helpers of Africa in association with SA Positive News, sponsored by Mohlalefi Engineering and in partnership with Mosetsa Media.

For more information and interviews contact amanda@sapositivenews.com or call Amanda on +27 79 831 8759.