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The Alba Bouwer Prize (Afrikaans: Alba Bouwerprys vir Kinderliteratuur) is a prize for outstanding children's literature in Afrikaans, awarded triennially by the South African Academy of Science and Arts. [1] Works qualifying for the prize should have been published within the preceding three years, and be intended for under-12s.
Alba Bouwer was awarded the Scheepers Prize for Children's Literature in 1959 and again in 1965, and the C.P. Hoogenhout Award in 1961, 1971 and 1983. [ 5 ] Since 1989 the South African Academy of Science and Arts has presented a triennial Alba Bouwer Prize for children's literature, named in her honour.
Great South Africans was a South African television series that aired on SABC3 and hosted by Noeleen Maholwana Sangqu and Denis Beckett. In September 2004, thousands of South Africans took part in an informal nationwide poll to determine the "100 Greatest South Africans" of all time.
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. This is a list of notable literary awards awarded in South Africa.
The Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation is an award for excellence in engineering in Sub-Saharan Africa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Eight months are set aside to help the contestants. [ 3 ] The winner is awarded £25,000, with the second, third and fourth runners-up gaining £10,000 each.
24 May 1870 in Riebeek West, Swartland, Western Cape, South Africa 11 September 1950 in Irene, Gauteng, South Africa 1945 "for his efforts to end World War II and for South Africa's main role in the war of helping the allies in preventing Germany and Italy from conquering North Africa." [42] Halvdan Koht (1873–1965) Norway
The Marcus Prize: 2004: The Marcus Corporation in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: international: biennial: young architect: US $100,000 prize MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program: 1998: Museum of Modern Art in partnership with PS1 Contemporary Art Center: international: annual: young architect: Rieger Graham Prize: 2006
The Prize was established in 1961 by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (SAAWK), and was transferred to the English Academy of Southern Africa in 1972. [3] The Prize was previously sponsored by Shell South Africa, and later by FNB, [4] and under SAAWK was open only to works published in South Africa or Rhodesia by a writer from ...