Awards

Awards aplenty for CMD

The Marketing, Advancement and Communication in Education (MACE) Excellence Awards, and the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) have recognised the Communications and Marketing Department (CMD) for the vital role it played in championing world-class communication at the University of Cape Town in 2022.

The MACE Excellence Awards recognise and celebrate excellence and the achievements of specialists and practitioners in marketing, communication and advancement in the higher education sector, while the IABC Gold Quill Awards are the IABC’s premier awards programme – recognising excellence in the field of business communication.

Collectively, CMD, which comprises the Newsroom and Video Production (NVP); Media and Social Media (MSM); Brand and Stakeholder Relations (BSR); and Online Communications (OC) units walked away with a total of 14 awards in the following categories:

• Writing for News Media: New online tool helps users learn an African language (bronze); Ground-breaking project to monitor well-being of wildlife using robotics and AI (bronze)
• Writing for Features, Documentaries and Brochures: World Oceans Day: Sustaining the ocean as a scientist and sangoma (bronze); Heritage Month: Cleansing ceremonies a powerful transformation narrative (bronze); Barefooted scholar now a joint PhD candidate (silver); Mother Earth Day: Saving endangered sandfish (silver)
• Videography Skills: VC hosts talented high school learner (bronze); Chancellor Installation highlights (bronze); Inspirational graduate Shandré Pillay (bronze); Inspirational graduate Zané Dlamini (silver); March Graduation Highlights (silver); Blind Soccer workshop (gold)
• Audio, Visual and Audio-Visual: Vice-Chancellor’s Open Lecture: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – July 2021 (silver); UCT Staff Annual Awards COVID-19 edition (merit)

These awards are testament to the department’s commitment to excellence in communication; and demonstrate colleagues’ dedication to ongoing professional development, teamwork and benchmarking their outputs in the communications and marketing sector with those of their peers, both locally and abroad.