She also won Story of the Year in the category Investigative Journalism for a raft of work entitled Cruising nicely on VBS money and The elements of a Bank Heist. 

The works focused on the plundering of Limpopo's VBS Bank by politicians.

Van Wyk received the inaugural Sol Plaatje Media Scholarship in 2019 to study for her MBA degree at Henley Business School Africa. She says that she was 'deeply humbled' by the accolades.

"It is an honour and a privilege to be named among the best of our country's exceptional journalists," says Van Wyk. "The VBS saga had been a challenging story to tell. 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."

Henley Africa dean and director Jon Foster-Pedley says that the school was 'delighted' by Van Wyk's win.

"The Standard Bank Sikuvile Awards recognise, encourage and strengthen the kind of journalistic excellence that we need to eradicate the twin evils of corruption and corporate collusion that ultimately metastasised into state capture," says Foster-Pedley.

"When we created the Sol Plaatje Scholarship, we did it to honour one of South African journalism's greatest practitioners by giving the best of today's generation the opportunity to step out of the newsroom and into the classroom," adds Foster-Pedley.

"There has never been a more opportune time because the media had already been wrestling with its own existential crisis precipitated by the advent of the fourth industrial revolution, when COVID-19 hit," Foster-Pedley says. 

"Yet, ironically, we've never needed great journalism more than we do now," Foster-Pedley adds. "We're caught in an info-demic, awash in fake news and fake science, held hostage by opportunists and populists."

"Van Wyk was an obvious choice to be our inaugural winner of this scholarship. Her trifecta of awards this week only underscores how right our selection panel was. We look forward to the day when she can add a Henley executive MBA to her already impressive CV," concludes Foster-Pedley.

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