Contact, staff newspaper of the City of Cape Town received top honours at the SA Publication Forum's corporate publication competition this year. The awards function was held in Midrand on Thursday, 30 August. Shireen Sedres and Beatrice Moore-Nöthnagel, both from Santam shared the top spot as Editor-of-the-Year. Santam also won the award for the best internal magazine for essence and best external magazine on a smaller budget for Santam Focus.

Sandown Pulse, entered by Hothouse Communications won best internal newsletter, while Words'Worth Publishing won best external newsletter for its title Small Capital. Other companies that excelled included New Media Publishing who won best writing for their title Mercedes and were runners-up in several categories. Words'Worth Publishing won best external newsletter for its title Small Capital. IntraNews of the Metropolitan Health Group won best electronic newsletter, Spier won best sustainability report and Sasol won the award for best annual report.

Design company Interactive Africa received top honours for best design with the Vodaworld mag. Design Achievers: 20 years, produced by the SABS Design Institute won the award for the best once-off publication.

The African Motion Picture Company produced six finalists in the corporate DVD section and received top honours for the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Council DVD. Standard Bank was awarded best DVD newsletter for their staff DVD Blue Wave.

This year in the region of 150 publications were entered and the judges felt that the standard was higher that ever.