September 11, 2007

Highway Africa: Amatomu wins Highway Africa Award

By Simone Puterman in Highway Africa | 3 comments

Vincent Maher and Ismail Farouk (photo by Louise Marsland)

Louise has just smsed me to let me know that Amatomu has won an award at Highway Africa! Go Vince and Matt! Full details in tomorrow’s newsletter.

Update 20:19: Latest sms from Louise says that Vincent was actually dancing on stage. I can’t wait to see the Zoopy video.

Update 20:29:

New Media Awards winners

Individual
Ismail Farouk from South Africa for www.sowetouprisings.com

Non-profit
www.islamonline.net

Corporate
Vincent Maher from South Africa for www.amatomu.com

Update 21:08: Jason of Zoopy says they have closeups of Vince dancing!

Update 23:48: Vince has a guardian angel. There was a technical glitch which meant that the last three minutes of Zoopy filming tonight’s proceedings – ie Vince celebrating on stage – were lost (the Zoopy crew really have been having a smashing night tonight… *duck*). If anyone else out there managed to record it…

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