Winner of the Marcom African Leadership Award, in Mauritius in December 2012, presented by the World CSR Day and the Stars of the Industry Group, in partnership with the World Brand Congress and the World HRD Congress.

Got Anglo American to sponsor South Africa’s Bid for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and, as a Member of the Board of the 2010 Bid Company, travelled with Danny Jordaan to campaign for South Africa’s bid

First African CEO of the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa, First African Editor and first black Political Editor of a formerly white newspaper in South Africa 

Finalist in the Emma Awards for Journalism in the UK, May 2002

Awarded the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship to spend two months travelling and meeting professional counterparts in the US, March 30 – May 24 2002

Awarded six-month Fellowship of the European Institute for the Media in Manchester in January 1992

Finalist in the VO Award for African Literature, 1989 and 1993

Kaizer Nyatsumba and Sandile Memela with their scrolls as Finalists in the VO Awards for Literature

Finalist in the Bessie Head/Alex La Guma Short Story Competition, 1993

Judge in the SABC Radio Artes Awards, 1994, 1995 and 1996

Judge in the COSAW Short Story Competition, 1991

Finalist in the Alan Paton Literary Competition for all high schools (blackand white) in Natal, 1982