The 17th CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards will be held at the new ultra modern Government Complex Convention Centre in Lusaka in Zambia where SuperSport happens to have a state-of-the-art Outside Broadcast (OB) vehicle.
It was moved there after covering the cricket in Zimbabwe and will be used for this awards ceremony and TV production which will be broadcast on CNN International (DStv 401). The vehicle will then be moved to Kenya and is mainly used for covering the Zambian and Kenyan football leagues. Zambia's national broadcaster, the ZNBC will also broadcast the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards 2012 live to Zambian viewers.
Isha Sesay will be co-hosting the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards 2012 this year, who viewers will already see missing from her daily presenting duties on CNN NewsCenter on CNN International as she has been making her way to Zambia.
I'm told that Tony Maddox, the executive vice president and managing director of CNN International won't be attending the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards 2012 this year, but that Parisa Khosravi, the senior vice president for CNN Worldwide in charge of international newsgathering (who have attended the awards event before) will be there this year again.
Kim Norgaard, CNN International's bureau chief based in Johannesburg for the news channel will also be attending the awards event in Zambia.
