Enterprise Cooperative of the Year – This will celebrate cooperatives that have achieved measurable and tangible impact for their members and community at large through their various business endeavors. The cooperatives would show innovation and effectiveness in how they operate.

This award will celebrate cooperatives that through their work have managed to employ a large number of people in their operations. The cooperative should also display sustainability in how they create employment.

This award celebrates Cooperative Banking Institutions who have prioritised providing financial services to rural communities in an inclusive and impactful manner. These services can come in the form of savings schemes, provision of credit instruments and other cooperative banking services.

This award celebrates Cooperative Banking Institutions who service township communities with their financial services in an inclusive and impactful manner. These services can come in the form of savings schemes, provision of credit instruments and other cooperative banking services.

This award celebrates SMMEs Owned By Persons with Disabilities who are achieving great success against a rural setting with their creativity, innovation, and impact in their community.

This award places a spotlight on youth owned SMMEs and the young people leading them who have shown character, tenacity, and skill in making a success for themselves. The entrepreneurs have managed to carve out a name for themselves and their business.

This award celebrates the local, Homegrown SMME who are manufacturing products through local resources in the form of the labour they use, resources deployed, relevant material etc. The products are fresh, are of a high standard of quality and celebrate South Africa.

This award celebrates Rural-based SMME who are achieving great success against a rural setting with their creativity, innovation, and impact in their community.

This award celebrates Breaking Ground SMMEs that have managed to gain international traction in the form of their products or services now servicing markets outside of South Africa. The SMME has managed to show significant growth by breaking new ground in foreign lands flying the South African flag high.

This award celebrates female entrepreneurs and women-owned business that are making significant strides in the country the sheer impact of their businesses and the tenacity displayed in their founders. These businesses successful in how they meet customer needs and demands while deliberate in their ownership and management.

This award celebrates newly formed businesses who have displayed vision, creativity, and innovation in breaking ground within their respective operating markets. The startups are the risk takers with great ambition who are on the cusp of success.

This award celebrates SMMEs based in the township who are making waves with their creativity, innovation, and impact in their community.

This award celebrates Social Enterprise who are making waves with their creativity, innovation, and impact in their community.

This award celebrates Business Development Services Provider who are making waves with their creativity, innovation, and impact in their community.