Dally M Medal in Australia. The award was originally established in 1979 by "The Daily Mirror" newspaper in 1979. For many years, it was the second major individual award in the New South Wales Rugby League behind the Rothmans Medal. It was awarded each year between 1979 and 1996. With the Super League schism in 1997, the medal was not awarded. Since the National Rugby League (NRL) was formed from the merger of the Australian Rugby League and the Australian Super League in 1998, the Dally M Medal has been the single official player-of-the-year award for that league, and the highest individual honour
M-Net Literary Awards promise for translation into a visual medium. The 2013 M-Net Literary Awards were announced at a ceremony at The Maslow Hotel in Johannesburg on 20 September. The winners were announced at an event at the Hyatt Regency in Johannesburg in October 2012. In 2011, 95 novels, published between January and December 2010, were submitted for consideration in the various award categories. The winners were celebrated at a gala event in Cape Town. The 2010 M-Net Literary and Film Awards, which previously had been held at the same function as the Via Afrika Awards, were announced separately for the first time