Our Nominations & Research
Nominees can be from any of the company /Firm or start up businesses carrying operations with in Southern Africa region, individuals working anywhere in the world but originate from Southern Africa Region and have positive socio-economic impact on the region and any local government delivering services in the Southern Africa Region and also any persons who have demonstrated innovative skills and leadership in her/his work in Southern Africa.
Exceptions: Nominee must not be subject to any conditions, or restrictions to practice, or under investigation, or disciplinary processes.
Public Nominations
Nominations may be made by individuals, Associations, Trusts, public and private companies nominating any Individual, primary, secondary and tertiary level institutions, subnational and national level institutions, Higher learning institutions, Firms and companies, regulatory bodies, civil society and nongovernmental organizations and others. Nominating parties are invited to put forward either their own business or third-party companies whom they hold in high regard.
SABQA Research Team
The SABQA Research team work hard in identifying great businesses, driving many of the nominations themselves. The team encourages external nominations from the subscribers, web visitors, social media following, on ground questioners, clients and wider circulation.
The nominations will be tallied and presented to the jury who then will review and evaluate the submissions based on the set down criterion. The Jury is comprised of a committee of experts across the different professional bodies. The shortlisted candidates are then announced in October 2024 and rolled out for voting by the people of Southern Africa countries
Registration / Entry
To prepare to submit entries to the 2024/2025 SABQA, you should Follow these simple steps to ensure that you submit entries that are worthy of receiving a SABQA© Award.
Request an Entry Kit
To have an entry kit sent to you right away by email.
Determine Who or What You Want to Nominate, and in Which Categories
Decide which individuals, groups, or media (web sites, campaigns, etc.) within your organization that you will nominate/enter, then select the most appropriate categories for those entries. Contact the SABQA office in with your questions about the most appropriate categories, and so on. Register to complete the information request form, or contact us at awards@safricabrandqualityawards.com
Guide on Entry preparation.
- SABQA-winning entries are:
- Well-written. They are terse and succinct. Their tone is modest, even when describing the most impressive accomplishments.
- Focused on a few accomplishments. If possible, describe in detail just a few accomplishments, instead of listing many accomplishments in brief.
- Accompanied by supporting information. Provide uploads or links to online news stories, press releases, work samples, video, images, product reviews, or other documents that support the claims made in your entries.
- SABQA-winning entries are not:
- Just about “extraordinary” accomplishments. When you read through some of the winning entries you will see that many of them simply are about organizations and people that have performed well.
- They are not about extraordinary, world-changing or industry-changing accomplishments. Tell your story well, and support your claims, and the judges will score your entries highly.
- Fluffy and hyperbolic. Avoid flowery language and overblown claims. The judges tend to deduct points for immodesty.
Short Listing
All nominees are formally requested to accept their nomination, nominees are obviously free to accept or decline if they so wish. Those who formally accept are given the opportunity to submit additional supporting information to cement their nomination. There is no obligation to complete and supply such material, we have found that many nominees value this stage, in the process, as much as our research team do. The shortlisted nominees are then forwarded for evaluation to the jury.
Vetting and Judging
Our dedicated Jury team will assess all information presented to them. The team gather information independently from a variety of publicly accessible sources, which are assessed alongside any material supplied by a nominating party or by the nominee themselves. The jury team casts their final judgment, based on various criteria such as including business performance, job creation, longevity, diversification, growth (either sustained or rapid), any significant innovations, feedback from stakeholders. Once the list is generated it is announced and classified into the different categories and rolled out for voting process.
Participate in the Judging Process
The committee of judges is set in two ways:
- Many of the judges are invited professionals and are assigned categories by SABQA Awards staff, based on their industry, function, expertise, and experience. These individuals may accept or decline the offer. Those that accept the offer will then be grouped into three groups of five members each. The different groups are based on the nature and category of the competitions.
- Apply to be a judge. As a judge you will be able to see the entries submitted by many organizations around the country, and you will develop a better sense of the types of entries that judges score highly. (You will not be allowed to judge entries in categories in which you have submitted entries, however.)
If your application is accepted you will be assigned categories based on your function and experience. As a judge you will be able to judge as few or as many nominations as you like, at your convenience.
Conflict of Interest: In situations where a judge has a conflict of interest in one way or another such a member is expected to relinquish his or her rights of sitting in the vetting process of the companies involved. The chairperson also has all the rights of requesting a member to stand aside if he believes such a situation is existing. Conflict of interest may arise in many forms but where the jury member has a company in the same race, a relative or third-party company or business in any category then they are not expected to sit in the committee vetting that category. Thus, this member is expected to declare and recurse themselves of the duties of the vetting panel.
Disciplinary Action: If for any reason and evidently discovered that a member participated in a vetting for which beyond reasonable doubt he or she is believed or shows an interest of conflict, such a candidate will be disqualifying expressly.