{"id":84349,"date":"2015-03-23T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/84349\/amazingly-african-caxton-awards\/"},"modified":"2015-03-23T11:52:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T09:52:13","slug":"amazingly-african-caxton-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/03\/23\/amazingly-african-caxton-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazingly African Caxton Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Caxton East and South division raked in numerous awards at the company&#8217;s glamorous annual function, the Caxton Awards, themed &#8220;Amazingly African&#8221;, held at the Johannesburg Theatre, on Thursday, March 19.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN&#8217;s receptionist Christina Radebe was named as a finalist in the Switchboard Operator of the Year.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Caxtonites were treated to an evening of excitement plus top class entertainment provided by the Soweto Gospel Choir, Johnny Apple, popular favourites Gangs of Ballet and up-and-coming vocalist Ashlin Gray.<\/p>\n<p>Compere Carol Tshabalala, an award winning television and radio sportcaster, who is one of the Supersport anchors, was styled by Wayne Stafford of First Crew Productions, and dressed by Sungodess.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Awards:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Multi Media Storyteller: Carina van der Walt (Alberton Record) for their coverage of N12 mutiple accident; highly commended: Charmaine Slater (Bedfordview Edenvale News) for &#8220;Outrage over rape hotspot&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Ad Designer of the Year: Lori-Ann Strydom<\/li>\n<li>Credit Controller of the Year: Eldrie Grobler<\/li>\n<li>Best Original Idea: Daniel Seleme, Marietta Lombard, Christopher Mcinga (Joburg East Express) for their &#8220;Spelling Bee&#8221;; highly commended: Marietta Lombard and Charmaine Slater (Bedfordview Edenvale News) for &#8220;Tiles for Change&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Field Sales Person of the Year: highly commended, Elize Kluyts (Boksburg Advertiser).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Finalists from the division were:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Hard News Photograph: Fanie Mthupha (Boksburg Advertiser) for &#8220;Service delivery protest&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Switchboard Operator of the Year: Maggie Maritz (Boksburg Advertiser) and Christina Radebe (Germiston City News).<\/li>\n<li>Telesales Person of the Year: Agrineth Lebakeng (Boksburg)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Karen Watts, general manager of the Caxton East and South division, said the winners, finalists and those who were highly commended have done the division proud.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='65387ef676fb3ac8535b7819820b7794'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GCN&#8217;s receptionist makes it to the finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":84350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,7,2],"tags":[6953,1461,979,969,6954],"class_list":["post-84349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-caxton-awards","tag-fishers-hill","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-receptionist-of-the-year"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["caxton awards","fishers' hill","germiston","germiston city news","receptionist of the year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}