Hon Deputy Speaker, I move without notice:
That the House -
1) notes that the South African Literary Awards (SALA) winners were announced on 15 November 2011;
2) further notes that the K Sello Duiker Memorial Award was awarded to Dan Sleigh for Afstande and EDM Sibiya for Ngiyolibala Ngifile;
3) acknowledges that the Literary Journalism Award was awarded to Sabata Mpho Makae for w00t and the Literary Translators Award was won by Leon de Kock for Intimately Absent;
4) further acknowledges that the Posthumous Literary Award was won by Jan Rabie and the Lifetime Achievement Literary Award by Chris Barnard;
5) recognises that the Poetry Award was awarded to Phillippa Yaa de Villiers for The Everyday Wife and the First-time Published Author Award was awarded to Sifiso Mzobe for Young Blood;
6) further recognises the vital role that South African writers play and the importance of literacy of all South Africans; and 7) wishes all winners the best for their future endeavours and especially the contestants for the Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award for Writing and the Chairman's award that will be announced on 8 December in Johannesburg at the annual award ceremony.
Agreed to.