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The sun was out and so was I ☀️🐴

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life starts feeling like lallalalalaalaala when you let curiosity be your guide

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🇿🇦A little heritage day celebration 🥹❤️🤍🖤💙💚💛

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SOUTHLANDS Sun journalist Dillon Pillay’s rising career in community journalism reached a major milestone when the young Southlands SUN journalist was named the recipient of the prestigious Alet Roux Award for Most Promising Journalist at the annual Avbob/FCJ Excellence Awards in Pretoria on August 21.

The Forum for Community Journalists (FCJ) annually shines the spotlight on the country’s community journalists, recognising excellence in journalism across a wide range of categories.

With just more than 600 entries received this year, Southlands SUN journalist Pillay was a finalist in the Mobile Photography category, where he placed fourth, and achieved seventh place in the News Photography category.

His biggest achievement, however, came when he was named the recipient of the Alet Roux Award for Most Promising Journalist. The Alet Roux Award for Best Newcomer is awarded annually to a journalist with less than three years’ experience who places in the top 10 in the respective categories and/or is named a category winner.

The award aims to recognise and encourage young journalists who are already producing outstanding work and inspire them to build on the legacy of excellence left by journalists such as Roux.

According to the judging panel, convened by Dr André Gouws of Akademia, Pillay is a young journalist who “gives it all”.

“He is clearly very versatile and dedicated to his craft. He performed well across many categories. He was in the top 10 in three categories, namely mobile photography, news photography and sport photography. He was in the top 20 in hard news, human interest and sport. He is young and still learning, but he can already compete against the best community journalists in the country. We expect great things from him in the future,” the judges said.

Read more about the SUN journalists achievements on our website (link in bio) or join our WhatsApp channel on 082 587 0866.

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#southlandssun #fcjawards #aletrouxaward

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Congratulations to Southlands Sun journalist @dillonpillay_16 on winning the Alet Roux Trophy for Most Promising Journalist at the 2025 Avbob FCJ Excellence Awards.

Hosted by the Forum of Community Journalists and sponsored by Avbob, the annual awards highlight the important role community media plays in keeping people informed about the issues affecting their towns, cities and neighbourhoods.

The biggest individual honours were presented to journalists who stood out among entries from across the country.

#southlandssun #fcj

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Half a year of having a family in faith - abiding in Christ and one another ❤️‍🔥✨

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Praying for victory… and a rematch.

God’s love feels bigger when shared together - join us every Thursday @ 6:30 PM! 🤪

#thevine #youngadults #gamesnight

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Games night 💌

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Wow, Jesus’s love really is all around us. 💌
@thevine.chc

#jesuslovesyou❤️ #friendship

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We ❤️ jozi.

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i was instructed to post this on my feed and make it the cover (the rest is confetti)

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Osaka is literally one of my favourite places on earth🙌🏽 it is calm chaotic and so much fun all wrapped in one place. This is part one because I couldn’t add more photos lol. So grateful we got to make memories like this @just_jen_jan ♥️. Honestly was the best trip with the best people and osaka has really stolen my heart can’t wait to visit again🤪

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