The awards see the best of the best across various journalistic platforms being benchmarked against their peers by a panel of top quality and highly credible judges.

Previously called the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards (MSNA), in recent years the awards have been known as the Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards. Standard Bank has now contracted the South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) to oversee the organisation of the awards. SANEF is the most influential media freedom advocacy grouping in South Africa. SANEF members are veteran founding editors, current title editors, senior editors and journalists working in print, broadcasting, and digital mainstream at national, regional and community media levels. It also serves media trainers and academics from major journalism departments and training institutions across the country.