CITE Awards 2026: Nominate Someone Making a Difference
Celebrate the people shaping Zimbabwe
Who is making a difference in your community? Who is coming up with innovative ideas, telling compelling stories or creating content that gets people talking?
The CITE Awards 2026 celebrate the people, stories and voices shaping Zimbabwe. The awards recognise individuals whose work, creativity and contributions are making a difference in their communities and beyond.
Now is your chance to give them the recognition they deserve.
Nominate them in one of our six categories:
- CITE Person of the Year
- Community Changemaker
- Young Innovator
- Zim Diaspora Ambassador
- ZPRA Liberation Archives Interviewee of the Year
- Content Creator of the Year
Who deserves to be celebrated?
We invite members of the public to nominate individuals who have made a meaningful contribution in the categories listed below.
You can nominate yourself or someone else whose work deserves recognition. Whether it is someone making an impact in their community, offering fresh ideas or using their platform to inform and inspire others, we want to hear about them.
Nominations open on 2 November and close on 14 November 2026.
Read more:
CITE Awards 2026 Nomination Form
You can nominate one person per category with this form. To submit your entry, please click through to the very last page.
Follow these steps to nominate your preferred candidates
Choose a category: Select the award category that best reflects the nominee’s work or contribution. You can nominate recipients for as many categories as you wish, just select the correct page on the form.
Enter the nominee’s details: Provide the required information about the person/people you are nominating.
Tell us why they deserve the award: Give clear reasons for your nomination, highlighting the nominee’s work, achievements or impact.
Submit your nomination: Complete the form and submit it through the website.
You may submit nominations for different categories. Each person may submit a nomination once per day in each category during the nomination period.
Please provide accurate information and enough detail to explain why your nominee deserves to be recognised.
The next stage of the awards process will involve public voting. Further information on the voting process will be communicated through CITE’s official platforms.
The awards ceremony will bring together the people and voices being recognised for their contributions.
Make your nomination count.
Categories and Descriptions
Recognises an individual whose work within Zimbabwe has made an outstanding public contribution during the award year.
Who can win: Anyone based in or actively working in Zimbabwe, regardless of nationality. Nominees must demonstrate recent impact, ethical standing and verifiable achievements.
Celebrates an individual or grassroots/community-based organisation making a meaningful difference by improving lives, addressing local challenges or expanding opportunities, particularly in communities and areas that receive limited public attention.
Who can win: Individuals, community-based organisations, volunteers and paid workers demonstrating community-level impact in Zimbabwe, including rural and underserved areas.
Recognises an individual aged 18–35 who is developing or applying useful innovations in technology, business, culture, media or public problem-solving, with a demonstrable connection to Zimbabwe.
Who can win: Individuals aged 18–35 as at 31 December 2026, whose work is materially connected to Zimbabwe.
Celebrates a Zimbabwean living abroad who represents the country with pride, strengthens connections with home and uses their skills, voice, networks or platforms to promote Zimbabwe positively.
Who can win: Zimbabweans by birth or descent living outside Zimbabwe who have made a recent, verifiable contribution through initiatives such as community building, skills and knowledge transfer, advocacy, investment, cultural promotion or humanitarian support.
An audience-led award celebrating the person featured in the ZPRA Liberation Archives whose interview has resonated most with viewers. The award recognises audience appreciation of these historical testimonies and is a popularity award, not a definitive ranking of historical contributions.
Who can win: Any living or deceased person featured as an interviewee in the official ZPRA Liberation Archives collection. For a deceased recipient, a family representative may accept the award. Interviewers, producers and CITE staff are not eligible.
