Speaker, the ANC congratulates the following two distinguished women who lifted our country's flag higher by scooping up the awards at the highly contested CNN MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year Awards that was held in Sandton recently, namely Melini Moses of the SABC and Lindile Mpanza of e.tv. Melini Moses won the category Radio General News Award with the title: Hillbrow - Den of Iniquity. Lindile Mpanza won the category Television General News - Feature/Current Affairs - with the title: Silence of the Innocents, the Ukuthwala story in the Eastern Cape.
The ANC also recognises that the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year Awards is the only event of its kind on the African continent that has rewarded outstanding journalism for the past 16 years.
These awards have encouraged journalists to tell the stories of Africa with pride, integrity, excellence and, above all, hope. These stories inspire, educate and inform. Without our own stories, Africa will not have its own voice. The ANC therefore also congratulates MultiChoice and encourages them to support these awards. In so doing they are playing their part in building a better Africa. Thank you. [Applause.]