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The 10th Annual Vita Basadi Awards

Every year, Gauteng Provincial Legislature honours excellence in voluntary acts of community service by Gauteng women who help those around them and make a positive impact in their communities without reward. Loosely translated into ‘women of virtue’ from Swahili and SeSotho, the awards’ ceremony forms part of the Legislature’s comprehensive programme for Women’s month, in August, to shine the spotlight on the powerful force that women are. The programme also celebrates gains made to date in pushing back barriers to women emancipation and inclusion, as well as defending their rights.

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To nominate a change-making woman, submit their name with a short motivation detailing the kind of help or support they give their community, which makes them a deserving winner. Categories include: Youth Philanthropist; Community Heroine; Woman of the Honour; Community Builder of the Year; Young Dignitary; Outstanding Creative; Unsung Legend and The Guardian Award. You can read all about them in Categories below.

Once all nominations are in, shortlisted potentials will be required to compile a two-minute video, describing the nature of their service to communities.

Outstanding Youth Philanthropist

A young woman (16 – 35 years old) who has set herself apart from others, with exceptional use of her skills and talents to help others, through activities that help empower her community. This woman has taken it upon herself to promote the welfare of others – altruistic behaviour. The development of and or support to charitable programmes, volunteering in community empowerment work and or providing leadership in various community interventions.

Young Dignitary

A school going learner at the level of basic education (primary and high school, up to 15 years of age) who is a role model through demonstrating her active role in school activities. Positively influencing her peers through e.g. peer- to- peer counselling, supporting other learner by tutoring them, extra circular activities support and/ or coaching etc. A motivation from the current school will be of an advantage.

Unsung Legend Award

Deserving of this award is a woman who has been serving her community for twenty or more years. Although she has retired or semi- retired (has passed the baton to younger serving women), she is a legend in her own right within her community. This is a woman who has never sought fame or reward for what she does but has served her community with passion.

Community Builder of the Year

This community builder is a woman who has shown courage and commitment to empower her community to sustain itself, be it through business ventures and related. This is a leader who inspires collective action, by creating employment opportunities; through co-operatives; income-generating projects etc. This is a woman who inspires a culture of entrepreneurship in her community.

The Guardian

A woman who is recognised by her community as providing exceptional services, such as going an extra mile by serving her community, specifically in the safety, security, and law enforcement disciplines. This would include fire fighters, police, military, correctional services, lifeguards, and emergency response.

Community Heroine

This is a woman who, in her community, reaches out to and creates empowering opportunities to persons with disabilities who have been excluded in society.She is recognised for her work through self-initiated projects for persons with disabilities, knowledge transfer, mentorship and creates safe spaces to persons with disabilities who are discriminated against and have been rendered vulnerable to violence, are exploited, and hidden from society. This is a woman who challenges this ableist world and advocates for the rights of persons with disabilities.

Woman of Honour

The woman of honour is an outstanding woman achiever in a traditionally male-dominated industries. She has broken the glass ceiling and cleared the path for other women. This may include industries such as mining; physics, technologies & engineering; aviation; finance sector etc.

Outstanding Creative Award

An influential woman who positively uses her creative work to showcase the best of and uplift the value of women in society as/ in e.g., Motivational Speaker, Writer (Poetry, Books, Think Pieces etc.), Fine Arts, Sports, Innovation, etc.

Criteria

Read the official Vita Basadi Nomination Guide with everything you need to know about the nomination rules and procedures.

General Criteria

The quality of your entry’s content is critical to the judging process.
Keep information brief and straight to the point. Minimum 600 words up to 1 200 words max.
Do not use information printed on media, rather use your own original motivation.
Motivation without supporting documentation will not be considered.

Other criteria

Once the shortlisting process has been concluded, the following criteria will apply:

Site visits will be conducted to verify the information submitted for the top five shortlisted candidates.
If you are not contacted by the Adjudication for a site visit, consider your nomination as unsuccessful.
Top ten nominees per category will communicated through various media platforms and on the GPL website.
Take extra care when packaging your submission, use a file suitable for the size of the information you are submitting. The adjudication panel will not be held liable for misplaced information, as a result of unsuitable packaging.
Entries found to be based on false information will be disqualified at any level of the processes when discovered including after awarding.
Individuals that have won any Vita Basadi Award in past three years are not eligible for consideration as this is not a competition.
Nominees may not enter for more than two categories.
The number of nominations entries made has no bearing on a successful outcome.
Failure to comply with entry requirements will result in automatic disqualification.
Entries should ONLY be submitted via this following designated channels.
Enquiries should be forwarded to: ZMtsweni@gpl.gov.za and SMfusi@gpl.gov.za; this is strictly for enquiries only.
Entries received after the closing date at 23:59:59 will not be considered.

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Disclaimer

All nominees will be invited to the event where Winners for each category will be announced. Under no conditions will winners be announced prior to the day of the event. GPL is not responsible for any travelling expenses borne by nominees and guests of the events.