| Hard News |
| Lulamile Feni | “Birth after death”; “Dumped like a dead dog, a small piece of me died with him.”; “A shepherd and Dinosaurs.” | Daily Dispatch |
| Aron F Hyman | “Hyper-trauma’: Another young life lost, more desperate pleas in gangland.”; “Order to kill was issued in jail cell”; “Tears as Hannah’s friend faces her ‘killers’ in court” | Times Live |
| Columns/Editorial |
| Bareng Batho Kortjaas | “Hey Baxter, Bafana are not a family business for moegoes” | Sunday Times |
| Mpumelelo Mkhabela | “South Africa After Zuma” | News 24 |
| Matthew Du Plessis | “Mad Science” | Mail and Guardian |
| Carla Lewis | “Stompie moet steeds by ons spook” | Beeld |
| Pearl Boshomane | “Barbie’s pale imitation” | Sunday Times |
| Enterprise News |
| Sipho Kings | “Rich Jo’burg’s shitshow”; “20-million in SA denied clean water”; “An El Niño away from water crisis” | Mail and Guardian |
| Marianne Merten | “The Solms-Delta way, or how not to do land reform” | Daily Maverick |
| Graeme Hosken | “Serial Horror” | Sunday Times |
| Feature Writing |
| Murray La Vita | “Pirouette teen apartheid” | Die Burger |
| Mia Milan, Laura Lopez Gonzalez, Pontsho Pilane, Joan Van Dyk | “Who killed Ntombizodwa? Politics, protest and Corruption in the North West” | Bhekisisa |
| Lucas Ledwaba | “The land belongs to us!” | Mail Guardian |
| Zanele Mji | “Those graves were our tittle deeds” | Amabhungane |
| Simon Allison | “The Boy Scouts Keeping the Peace in the Central African Republic” | Mail And Guardian |
| Mia Malan | “Madams, myths and morals: the risky business of selling sex” | Bhekisisa |
| Hanlie Retief | “Koekie Botha” | Rapport |
| Willemien Brummer | “Bloedwerke’ van ’n speurhoof” | Die Burger |
| Aron Hyman | “The animals call for food, but we have nothing” | Times Select |
| Investigative Journalism |
| Poloko Tau | “Medical Mayhem” | City Press |
| Bongani Fuzile | “Broadband Lies” | Daily Dispatch |
| Sipho Masondo and Dewald Van Rensburg | “VBS” | City Press |
| Pauli Van Wyk | “Tom Moyane: The decimation of Sars | Daily Maverick |
| Editorial Cartoons |
| Carlos Amato | “A Matter of Degree” | Mail and Guardian |
| Jack Swanepoel, John Curtis and (Dr Jack & Curtis) | “Sugar and Spice”; “Respect to Aretha”; “Hang on a Minute”; “Defusing tension”; “Putting words in this mouth” | City Press, Eyewitness News |
| Fred Mouton | “They just keep on gorging, but don’t want to fly”; “Earthling, take me to your leader.” | Die Burger |
| Graphic Journalism |
| John Mccann | “Portfolio of 10 infographics and illustrations” | Mail and Guardian |
| Costa Phuti Makola | “Get water to Cape Town” | The Citizen |
| Cobus Prinsloo | “Insight – die jongste besoeker op Mars”; “Is it a plane? Is it a chopper? No, it’s a sky taxi!”; “Latest visitor to Mars” | Die Burger, City Press, Netwerk24 |
| Popular Journalism |
| Tamlynne Thompson | ‘Women speak up” | The Capetowner |
| Athandiwe Saba | “Teflon ‘convict’ lands another job” | Mail And Guardian |
| Mhie Silangwe | “Zuma’s wife Disowned” | Sunday Sun |
| Lesley Mofokeng | “Too black for Miss SA 60thparty” | Sowetan |
| News Photographs |
| Ayanda Ndamane | “Mimic” | African News Agency |
| Esa Alexandra | “Zuma Exit” | Sunday Times |
| Alon Skuy | “The horror of gender violence-to kick a woman when she’s down” | Sunday Times |
| Theodore Jeptha | “Joe Slovo Protest” | Son Newspaper |
| Oupa Mokoena | “Mother of the Nation laid to rest” | The Star |
| Jacques Nelles | “Eersterust Erupts” | The Citizen |
| Feature Photographs |
| Mpumelelo Buthelezi | “All hail the trash gods”; “The raw lifestyle of the hostel dwellers” | City Press |
| Phandulwazi Jikelo | “Not letting Osteoporosis defeat her” | African News Agency |
| Rosetta Msimango | “A republic of Misogyny” | City Press |
| Oupa Nkosi | “Passion Project: Resistance Heroes” | Mail and Guardian |
| Alon Skuy | 1%ers…a rare glimpse into an outlaw “Motorcycle Club”. | Sunday Times |
| Presentation |
| Alon Skuy and Keith Tamkei | “Knights of the open road” | Sunday Times |
| John-Grant Munro | “Koebaai, Nr 1”; “Die bose Z is weg” | Die Burger |
| Multiplatform stories |
| Sethembiso Zulu | “Limpopo people living with day zero”; “Soshanguve people left stranded after heavy rains”; “Boipatong Community living with raw sewage for over 5 years” | Eyewitness News |
| Abigail Javier | “One, two…five! SA welcomes the Buthelezi quintuplets”; “Sinkhole Alley” - why Centurion looks like Swiss cheese”; “Koster: Residents take charge of town killed by graft” | Timeslive |
| Anthony Molyneaux | Hanna Cornelius - “Kidnapping, mapping the murder and the killers” | Timeslive |
| Lifestyle |
| Phumlani Sithebe | “In memory of the CD” | City Press |
| Simon Allison | “Pilgrimage to Africa's King of Chilli” | Mail and Guardian |
| Ritha Fick | “Legendariese roadhouse herleef” | Beeld |
