Members of the public have until 24 April to nominate their favourite South African brands, which they feel represent the country the best.
This as the prestigious Brand Summit South Africa will be hosted in Cape Town in June.
Awards are given to any person, company, organisation or group nominated by the public.
Click here to nominate your favourite brand for an award
The theme of this year’s brand summit is “Recapturing the South African Narrative: Interrogating Africa’s Brand Potential”.
The summit hopes to change global perceptions about Africa through practical steps for generating global goodwill.
It also wants to develop future skills for a sustainable integrated African economy.
In the three years since the annual brand summit’s creation, award nominations have grown from about 20 in 2018 to over 30 in 2019.
Its geographic spread has also grown impressively, attracting nominations from provinces across South Africa as well as nine African countries in 2019.
For 2020 onwards, the organisers wish to include even more African countries.
“In 2020, we want to have a more colourful, African-themed awards evening,” said judge’s panel chairperson Tshepo Matseba.
“The awards evening will have both African and global delegates asking for more.”
The event will be held on Thursday, 4 June.
The summit will be attended by the United Nations and African Development Bank representatives.
It will also be attended by delegates from as far as Russia, USA, Canada, Finland, UK, Portugal, India, Bulgaria, Hungary and Switzerland.
“This illustrates the summit’s fast-growing brand awareness of the summit and interest from places beyond Africa’s borders,” organisers said.
Africa will, however, remain at the core of summit’s programme discussions.
“Best practice examples and other experiences will be drawn from different parts of the world. No brand exists on an island of its own. These brands can learn a lot from each other’s experiences.”
The awards
Members of the public can make nominations in the following categories:
– Corporate influencer brand
– Citizen influencer brand
– SMME/start-up influencer brand
– NGO influencer brand
– Country/continent influencer brand
– Political influencer brand
– Community builder influencer brand
– Media influencer brand
– Education influencer brand
– ‘Food value chain space’/ Agri-business influencer brand
Additional details about the various award categories and nomination procedure can be found at https://www.sabrandsummit.co.za/nominations/
To learn more about the 2020 Brand Summit Africa and to register as a delegate or to nominate your favourite brand for an award, please go to www.sabrandsummit.co.za/register/
The panel of judges will again be chaired by well-known brand reputation specialist, former PRISA president and Reputation 1st Group managing director, Tshepo Matseba.
He will be joined by three new judges.
They are Silvana Dantu (director of African Equations), Eric Leong Son (head of sustainability at Distell) and Brightness Mangolothi.
Mangolothi is a director at HERS-SA, former department head for PR at communication studies at Nelson Mandela University and programme head at the AdvTech Independent Institute of Education.
Summit convenor Solly Moeng will serve as an honorary judge.
