November 13 was a celebration and tribute to SA’s indigenous languages as the 25th Pendoring Awards announced 2020’s winners via a Facebook Live broadcast. If you missed it, you can find it here.
The adjudicators and jury presidents announced the winners backed by uKhoiKhoi, who are known for their live digital looping, musical performance art encompassing multilingual expressions through opera, indigenous chants and praise poetry.
“It was a joy to celebrate such diverse work and so many new voices,” said Pendoring GM Eben Keun. “Congratulations to all the winners for producing creative, innovative and relevant work during a tough year.”
Nineteen Gold and 35 Silver Pendorings, 19 Gold Craft Certificates and 22 Craft Certificates were awarded. The list of winners can be viewed here.
The prestigious Umpetha Award went to The Odd Number — Johannesburg for three radio ads titled Intsipho engapheli, Sterring sok’susa idust and Upgrade yoshukela, produced in a praise-singing style for Game. The Overall Student winner was Tanya Viljoen from The Creative Academy in Woodstock, Cape Town, for mielie, packaging design developed for Mielie Pap Kitchen & Deli.
This year saw a record number of entries in the publication design category, with multilingual and indigenous language books Pienk ceramic-hondjies by Ryan Pedro, Geure by Lientjie Wessels and Mpumi’s Magic Beads (11 language versions) all winning Gold Pendorings.
The Pendorings are not just about awards, but about education, debate and change. Part of that is the first Pendoring Business Seminar, which takes place on Tuesday in partnership with Fin24, PanSALB and the Indigenous Language Action Forum.
Register here for the webinar.
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