Secretariat of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Media Awards 2026 – YOA

Deadline: February 28, 2026

Applications are open for the SADC Media Awards 2026. The SADC Media Awards have been established in 1996 to recognise finest media work in disseminating data on SADC to assist the course of of regional cooperation and integration.

Entries are invited from the following classes:

• Print Journalism: comprising options/articles revealed in newspapers, newsletters, web sites, magazines.
  • Print Journalism submissions ought to have a minimal of 100 (100 phrases and a most of 2000 (two thousand) phrases.
• Radio Journalism: comprising broadcast materials.
  • Radio Journalism broadcast materials ought to have a minimal period of one minute and a most of 30 (thirty) minutes. All broadcast materials ought to be submitted on a CD or USB. The entries ought to be accompanied by digital transcript in phrase format for translation functions.
• Television Journalism: comprising televised materials.
  • Broadcast materials ought to have a minimal period of 1 (one) minute and a most of forty-5 (45) minutes. All broadcast materials ought to be submitted on a CD or USB. The entries ought to be accompanied by digital transcript in phrase format for translation functions.
• Photojournalism: comprising revealed photos with a caption.
  • Photographic entries ought to have one (1) photograph, or a pictorial unfold of no more than twenty (20) photographs revealed in a single difficulty/version. Each entry should be accompanied by an authentic newspaper during which photograph(s) have been revealed.

Prizes

• The first prize winner in every class receives US$2,500 and the runner-up receives US$1,000.

Eligibility

• Open to journalists from the SADC Member States.
• The entries ought to have been revealed/broadcast between January and December the 12 months previous the awards (2025) by a registered and/or approved media home or company or carried on an internet site of a registered and/or approved media home or company in any of the SADC Member States.
• The themes of the entries to be submitted for the competitors should be on points and actions selling Regional Integration in the SADC area, i.e. infrastructure, economic system, water, tradition, sports activities, agriculture, and so forth.
• All media practitioners who’re SADC nationals might enter the competitors, besides these in establishments contracted by SADC and the SADC Secretariat workers.
• All works getting into the competitors ought to be in a single of the SADC working languages, i.e. English, Portuguese, French and any nationwide indigenous language of the SADC Region and ought to be submitted along with the transcript in a single of the three SADC working languages, i.e. English, French and Portuguese. These ought to be revealed/broadcast (newspaper reducing, web sites, magazines, audio CDs, USB and newsletters.

Application

Download the entry kind:

For extra data, go to SADC Media Award.