Enter our first photographic competition for this year, open to paid‐up members.

You stand a chance to win a R2000 cash prize!

How to enter:

• Submit no more than three pictures relating to the theme of the competition: The Newsmaker of the Year 2019: ESKOM.
• Please state in your entry that this is your own original work.
• Members of the executive committee are not allowed to enter.

Entries close on Friday 21 February 2020 and should be sent to competitions@nationalpressclub.co.za. Please note the judge’s decision is final.

The winners will be announced at the February 2020 networking function.

IF YOU ARE NOT SURE ABOUT YOUR MEMBERSHIP STATUS, PLEASE CONTACT US: admin@nationalpressclub.co.za

* This competition is only for paid‐up members.
* Next month we will have the journalism competition, where all full members of the National Press Club are invited to enter.

We have launched a photographic competition open to ALL paid-up members of the National Press Club.

• Send your entry (no more than 3 pictures) to competitions@nationalpressclub.co.za by Monday 30 September 2019.
• The theme of the competition: Spring in South Africa.
• Please state in your entry that this is your own original work.
• The competition is not open to members of the executive committee of the National Press Club.

R3000 cash prize and R500 Leriba Hotel restaurant voucher up for grabs!

Greetings, friends.

As we take a breather at the end of another long year, I would like to thank all members of the National Press Club for what was a challenging, yet rewarding year in many ways.

I am mostly glad that we have got our administration back on track, and for that I would like to thank the Executive Committee (Exco) and also single out Chantelle Gradidge and Lali van Zuydam for their unselfish willingness to help out when we lost our secretariat service.

A huge thank you to Deputy Chair Antoinette Slabbert for her support, ideas and leadership, especially at times when I was not able to carry out my duties as expected due to various reasons.

Of course praise and thanks must go to the entire Executive of the NPC for their collective decision—making and willingness to carry out duties beyond expectation.

Our finances are back on a sound footing and we are able again to meet our obligations with ease because of a number of innovative methods we employed to resuscitate our bank balance. Thanks to all involved.

It being an election year, we will have to come up with ways to reposition the NPC to ensure we are the platform of choice in the run-up to the elections. This means more hard work for the Exco, but I call on all the members to support us with ideas, contacts, physical presence and feedback.

This year we managed our activities very well, including networking forums, discussion evenings, media briefings, Newsmaker of the Year and the Percy Qoboza Memorial Lecture.

I thus wish to thank you all and pray that as you go into the year—end break, may you remain safe, blessed and favoured.

The next year will bring its own challenges but I have no doubt that together, working in team spirit with determination, wisdom, awareness, respect and humility, we should be able to take the Club to exactly where we want to see it.

Please enjoy your break with care, have fun responsibly and come back next year refreshed with a vibrant mindset and willingness to put shoulder to the wheel.

Blessings.

Jos Charle
Chairperson