Award Categories

• Health Care-Givers.
  South Africans deserve sustainable, well-managed and efficient health care. The nominee must work as either a professional or volunteer to help people in South Africa receive optimum health care now and in the future. It could mean healing or caring for ill people or looking for solutions to prevent, treat and manage illness.

• Educators
  Education is still in the process of transition in South Africa. It continues to hold the key to a brighter future for our country. The nominee should work as either a professional or volunteer educating the people of South Africa. This could mean teaching, developing and/or researching programmes and methods for a better educated country.

• Socio-economic Business Developers
  South Africa has a strong entrepreneurial business culture, boasting everything from corner shops to big business. It is seen as a powerhouse of the African continent. The nominee must be a social entrepreneur, have made a significant contribution to success of a specific sustainable business or business in general throughout the year. The future prospects of the business must be encouraging.

• Good Neighbours Against Crime
  South Africa has a proud history of uplifting the community, fighting poverty and standing up for human rights to progress, but crime has become one of the most devastating social debilities in the country. In this category the focus is on the character of the nominee and her ability and achievements to prevent or reduce crime in the community. .

• Youth Movers
  South Africa has countless talented young people with the potential to achieve with the best in the world. Their potential must, however, be realised and developed. The nominee must be a voice that cultivates social change through the implementation of various progarmmes that will provide youths with skills to enable them to make a meaningful contribution to society.

  The time frame for achievement in the five categories of the Award focuses on the current and the recent past and the achievement and its impact must have occurred only up to three years prior to the Award year. Therefore between April 2008 and April 2011.
  

• Lifetime Achievement Award
  This Award will celebrate a single South African who during her or his lifetime has inspired generations through changing times and trends. The recipient must have been true to her- or himself and would have maintained integrity and commanded respect from peers. The Award will go to a South African who, through action and conduct, have inspired others and lived by the definition above.

  There is no time frame for the Lifetime Achievement Award
  

Women of the Year Winners announced!

The Shoprite Checkers Women of the Year were announced on Saturday, 23 July 2011.

Finalists Announced for 2011!

Three finalists in each of the five categories of the 2011 Shoprite Checkers Women of the Year Award were announced on 13 July 2011.