Stephen Grootes, Talk Radio 702 afternoon news anchor and reporter, has once again walked off with the Best Radio News Award in the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award: Southern Northern Region, the second consecutive year that he has done so. As a regional winner, Grootes automatically goes forward to the national competition, to be held Sunday, 29 October 2006, at Vodaworld in Midrand. Grootes won the award for his exceptional reporting on the Jacob Zuma rape trial.
