According to the event, both were for
Scorpio and
Daily Maverick. Van Wyk also won the
Investigative Journalism category with
Cruising Nicely on VBS Money.
Commenting on the story, Van Wyk says it was a challenging story. "It required technical analysis and a difficult investigation to conclude and I am proud that I was able to do it and in the way I did it," Van Wyk says. "Thank you
Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards for helping us to strengthen journalism."
in 2019,
City Press journalists Dewald van Rensburg and Sipho Masondo won
Journalist of the Year and
South African Story of the Year for their breaking of the VBS scandal.
The Allan Kirkland Soga Lifetime Achiever Award went to anti-Apartheid and trade union movements journalist Zubeida Jaffer, who was arrested numerous times in the 1980s after she exposed police killings and was held in solitary confinement, tortured and beaten.