Story on dodgy BEE fuel deal wins award for journo Grobler

FREELANCE journalist John Grobler has won this year’s Misa Namibia Journalist of the Year Award.

Grobler walked off with the main prize in the annual Namibia Media Awards in Windhoek on Saturday night. He also won the first prize in the Investigative Journalism category of the awards for a report, published in The Namibian in April last year, on the questioned award of a lucrative contract to import fuel into Namibia to a politically well-connected company, Namibia Liquid Fuel, in late 2004.Among others, photographer Francois Poolman of Republikein won the Journalism Photographer of the Year award for 2007.Photographer Tanja Bause of The Namibian won first prize in the Best Feature Photo category, while Poolman won first prize in the Best News Photo category and Namibia Sports magazine’s Helge Schutz won the Best Sports Photo award.Republikein’s Dani Booysen won in the Best Reporter: General News category for reporting on Telecom Namibia’s introduction of a mobile phone service.Insight’s Frederico Links won the Business-Finance, Tourism-Environmental, and Education and Youth Development categories.Allgemeine Zeitung’s Eberhard Hofmann won in the Feature Writer category, while Insight’s Robin Sherbourne won in the Economics category, Graham Hopwood for Best Columnist and Tangeni Amupadhi for politics.* None of The Namibian’s staff journalists entered the competition.He also won the first prize in the Investigative Journalism category of the awards for a report, published in The Namibian in April last year, on the questioned award of a lucrative contract to import fuel into Namibia to a politically well-connected company, Namibia Liquid Fuel, in late 2004.Among others, photographer Francois Poolman of Republikein won the Journalism Photographer of the Year award for 2007.Photographer Tanja Bause of The Namibian won first prize in the Best Feature Photo category, while Poolman won first prize in the Best News Photo category and Namibia Sports magazine’s Helge Schutz won the Best Sports Photo award.Republikein’s Dani Booysen won in the Best Reporter: General News category for reporting on Telecom Namibia’s introduction of a mobile phone service.Insight’s Frederico Links won the Business-Finance, Tourism-Environmental, and Education and Youth Development categories.Allgemeine Zeitung’s Eberhard Hofmann won in the Feature Writer category, while Insight’s Robin Sherbourne won in the Economics category, Graham Hopwood for Best Columnist and Tangeni Amupadhi for politics.* None of The Namibian’s staff journalists entered the competition.