Five comedy awards went to the Afrikaans series Vetkoekpaleis IV . In the same category Gilda Blacher won best actress for her appearance in the political satire Off the Record . Most of last year s drama awards went to the controversial series Yizo Yizo and this year its director Teboho Mahlatsi won best director of a one-off drama for his short film Portrait of a Young Man Drowning . A judges special mention went to SABC s Special Assignment journalist Jacques Pauw and film director and actress Katinka Heyns, who most recently directed the film Paljas that was shown at the 1999 Cannes film festival, was accepted into the NTVA hall of fame. The ceremony s major sponsor was Spoornet and similar to other years, took over five hours to be completed.
Results are available at ntva.org.za .
A new television series will put figures from South Africa s past on trial. Cleaning up Television soap operas are extraordinarily successful in South Africa. There were few surprises at this year's television awards, with Yizo Yizo coming up trumps.