SA: ACT Awards 2020 announce winners

The ACT Awards, which comprises the Lifetime Achievement Award and ImpAct Award categories, are bestowed on individuals and organisations that have made a significant contribution to cultural life in South Africa.

The event is held annually to recognise and celebrate excellence in South African arts, culture and heritage.

"In spite of the tough economic challenges that faced South Africa in the year 2019, the arts and culture sector of South Africa continued to produce work of a high calibre," ACT said.

"With the 2020 instalment of the awards held at River Meadow Manor, a boutique hotel and venue in Irene, Pretoria, the awards continued to honour those that have created a lasting legacy within the arts through the Lifetime Achievement Awards and to recognise those young artists who not only walk in those footsteps of the old but are creating a lasting impression of their own as ImpACT Award finalists for young professionals."

The winners for the 2020 ACT Awards are as follows:

Lifetime Achievement Award

Music

• Prof Angelo Gobbato

Arts Advocacy

• Caroline Smart

Dance

• Neville Letard

Literature

• Prof Njabulo Ndebele

Theatre

• Thoko Ntshinga

Visual Art

• Avhashoni Mainganye

ImpAct Award

• Jefferson Tshabalala
• Neo Mahlangu
• Wezile Mgibe
• Phelelani Ndakrokra
• Slindile Mthembu