Discovery Health journalist of the year - Ina Skosana from Mail & Guardian
Ina Skosana won two other categories Discovery Foundation Nation Builder Award and Young Up and Coming Journalist and was a runner up in the Health News Reporting category. While she covered in depth the now familiar dysfunctions of the public health care system which costs and ruins lives she also covered the functional and service excellence in some paths of the public health system which demonstrate that despite the bleakness there is a future for a life affirming public health system in South Africa. Skosana demonstrates all of the qualities of excellence in journalism, well researched facts, excellent writing, probing of issues, providing context and using of a diversity of informative experts and sources.