Through this award the Institute would like to acknowledge and showcase the recipients' approaches and strategies to enable reconciliation, whether they originate in the spheres of politics, media, business, culture, and academia or community service.
The nomination of a person or organisation has to be based on achievements accomplished or work done in any sphere of South African society up to and including the previous year (2011).
The nominee should provide a living testimony to the values of democracy, inclusivity and non-violence, in public and private life.
In previous years, the following recipients have received the Reconciliation award: 2021: Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism[1] - 'For contributing significantly to information sharing during the COVID-19 pandemic through their news reporting.'
2005: Brigalia Bam - 'For her role in enabling peaceful democratic elections' 2004: Mary Burton - 'For her work in the Black Sash and elsewhere' 2003: Dullah and Farieda Omar - 'For their contribution to the TRC process' 2002: PJ Powers and Sibongile Khumalo - 'For singing one another's songs' 2001: Pieter Dirk Uys - 'For enabling us to laugh at ourselves' 2000: Tim Modise - 'For getting the nation talking'