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    Ugandan reporter takes top honours

    Investigative reporter for the Weekly Observer in Uganda, Richard Kavuma outstripped more than 1500 other African journalists to lift CNN's/Multichoice's African Journalist of the Year in Cape Town at the weekend.

    Cape Town - Kavuma was recognised for his work on Uganda's progress towards the UN's Millennium Development Goals. Kavuma started his career as a freelance journalist with The Monitor newspaper in 1996. He has since graduated to a senior staff writer on the Weekly Observer concentrating his efforts on investigative work, peace, conflict and human rights reporting. He is a graduate of Makerere University.

    Other winners were:

    Radio general news: Mandy Wiener Talk Radio 702 for a body of work including Khensani Mitileni and Makgabo Matlala
    Arts and Culture: Diana Lucas, Carte Blanche, Soweto Gospel Choir
    Health and Medical: Adri Kotze and Anna-Maria Lombard , A2 Media Productions, Carte Blanche Maternity Ward Mayhem
    Television general news and features: Nicola de Chaud and Odette Schwegler, Backyard Productions for Carte Blanche, Angel of Soweto
    Print Media, Magazine Feature: Kaizer Ngwenya, for Drum, Mad McGyvers on the Metroline
    Tourism: Mary Corrigall of the Sunday Independent, Body of Work Little India and a Slice of China.

    There were 23 finalists.

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