Cronje named SA's newsmaker of the year
Disgraced former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje has been voted Newsmaker of the Year 2000 by the Pretoria Press Club.
The award is to be shared with members of the South African Air Force who were involved in flood rescue operations in Mozambique.
Chairman of the Pretoria Press Club, Yusuf Abramjee, said the award was in recognition of the amount of space and time Cronje's involvement in match-fixing had occupied in the South African media last year.
"This is a news award, not a merit award, and we've made that point very clear," Abramjee said.
Cronje has been banned for life by the United Cricket Board of South Africa following his admission last June that he took up to $100,000 from illegal bookmakers in return for agreeing to influence matches.
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