PEOPLE OF THE YEAR 2023 Kant of the Year: Busisiwe Mkhwebane comes back to rock Parliament with her EFF studs 3 min 23 By Marianne Thamm
PEOPLE OF THE YEAR 2023 Comedian of the Year runners-up: Coconut Kelz and Tums the Narrator 3 min 1 By Victoria O’Regan
PEOPLE OF THE YEAR 2023 Comedian of the Year: Schalk Bezuidenhout just wants to make people happy 4 min 1 By Victoria O’Regan
LETTER FROM THE DM168 EDITOR Let’s do what the ancients exhort us to do: adopt a generosity of spirit towards each other 5 min 4 By Heather Robertson
DM SPORTS TEAM OF THE YEAR RUNNER-UP 2022 Focused Stormers secure inaugural United Rugby Championship title against all odds 2 min 0 By Craig Ray
DM SPORTSPERSON OF THE YEAR 2022 Desiree Ellis for her crowning achievement of exorcising the ghosts of Wafcons past 4 min 0 By Yanga Sibembe
DM SPORTSPERSON OF THE YEAR RUNNER-UP 2022 Max Verstappen silenced his critics by dominating the F1 season 2 min 0 By Cody Hansen
DM OUR BURNING PLANET RUNNER-UP POLLUTER OF THE YEAR 2022 eThekwini mayor Mxolisi Kaunda nearly tops the pile for sewage in our sea water 2 min 0 By Asive Mabula
DM OUR BURNING PLANET RUNNER UP 2022 Mandy Rambharos gives Eskom’s coal-driven Komati new life as a renewable power plant station 2 min 1 By Asive Mabula
DM OUR BURNING PLANET POLLUTER OF THE YEAR 2022 Gwede ‘Ol’ King Coal’ Mantashe is labelled polluter-in-chief by our readers 4 min 0 By Ethan van Diemen
DM OUR BURNING PLANET WINNERS 2022 Wild Coast activists set international precedent in campaign against exploitation of the sea 3 min 0 By Kevin Bloom
DM SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF THE YEAR RUNNER-UP 2022 Bling it on – South African Revenue Service rakes in R474m as it cracks down on flashy lifestyles 2 min 1 By Daily Maverick
DM INSTITUTE OF THE YEAR 2022 Auditor-General – taking action where it counts on the trail of wasted taxpayer funds 3 min 1 By Ray Mahlaka
DM COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS OF THE YEAR 2022 Sergeant Busisiwe Mjwara, Tim de Maayer, Corene Conradie – our heroes who have selflessly helped others 6 min 1 By Mark Heywood, Estelle Ellis and Tamsin Metelerkamp
DM MOEGOE OF THE YEAR RUNNER-UP 2022 John Steenhuisen’s 'roadkill joke' reduces him to moegoe status 2 min 11 By Tim Malinzi
DM MOEGOE OF THE YEAR RUNNER-UP 2022 Mogoeng Mogoeng – no stranger to moegoe-ish behaviour has divine providence on his side 2 min 0 By Tim Malinzi
DM MOEGOE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2022 Carl Niehaus, the sanctimonious con artist and mascot to corruption and incompetence 4 min 10 By Greg Nicolson
