Let’s honour excellence!

This year’s IABC Silver Quill Awards Programme received 39 entries from nine organisations.

As always, local communicators showed that they understand how communication impacts business results, and that they have the skills to prove it. Their outstanding work in serving their organisations with innovative thinking, creative solutions and demonstrable results, lives as a testament to the best that our profession has to offer.

The panel of evaluators have awarded eleven Awards of Excellence and nine Awards of Merit.

2021 IABC Silver Quill Awards of Excellence:

• Allet Kinnear, Sappi: Empowering our unsung heroes to excel
• Caren Venter, Sappi: Inspiring stories that make us proud
• Elsabé Coetzee, Sappi: AskAlex #03 Project Mafube
• Helen Swingler, University of Cape Town: Science and the making of My Octopus Teacher
• Kirsty Niehaus, Nandos: “This Is Us” Lifting the spirit with music
• Lelanie de Wet, University of Free State: UFS April 2021 Virtual Graduation
• Lesmarie Bentley-Steyn, University of Johannesburg: The future belongs to those who reimagine it
• Liza Koen, Sappi: GBS Strategic Enablers of Thrive 25 Alignment Conference
• Lize Brand, Zutari, and Kay Muller, Assmang Khumani Mine: HR Department: Repositioning the HR Department as a true business partner
• Niémah Davids, University of Cape Town: Sub-Saharan Africa in desperate need of clinical haematologists
• Rulanzen Martin, University of Free State: UFS Deaf Awareness Campaign

2021 IABC Silver Quill Awards of Merit:

• Aloy Gowne, University of Cape Town: UCT Staff Annual Awards – 2020 (COVID-19 Edition)
• Helen Swingler, University of Cape Town: Barefooted scholar now a joint PhD candidate
• Ilse Blank, Melagrana: Altron relocation project
• Lesmarie Bentley-Steyn, University of Johannesburg: UJ 4IR website
• Mari Lee ABC SCMP, DevCom: Developing Afrivet’s Strategic Clarity and Leadership Communication Plan
• Nelia Engelbrecht, North-West University: NWU & U July 2020
• Nelia Engelbrecht, North-West University: NWU Integrated Report 2019
• Siyabonga Maphumulo, Sappi: Project Mafube League of Champions
• Vorster Brent, Sappi: Engaged to Thrive

Congratulations to all of you! You make us proud!