Here are all the 2006 Absa and Sowetan Early Childhood Development Award winners:

Here are all the 2006 Absa and Sowetan Early Childhood Development Award winners:

Practioner of the Year:

l Masesi Winnie Nsimbini of the Khulangelwati Pre Day Care Centre in Nelspruit in Mpumalanga;

l Bochilo Lina Maake of the Ismail Rethabile Motshabi Creche in Mokopane in Limpopo;

l Winter Rose Simangele Mpunzana of the Siyakula Creche and Pre School in Stanger in KwaZulu-Natal.

Home-based ECD Centre of the Year:

l Tinhlari Day Care Centre at Letsitele outside Tzaneen in Limpopo, which was represented by Elizabeth Manzini;

l Sinethemba Day Care Centre at Dobsonville in Soweto in Gauteng, which was represented by Khethiwe Masemola;

l Makukhonve Day Care Centre in East Londonin Eastern Cape, which was represented by Nondi Pumani.

Community-based Centre of the Year:

l Ithuseng Pre-School in Witbank in Mpumalanga, which was represented by Thembisile Mahlalela;

l Khulakahle David Beare Centre in Hammersdale in KwaZulu-Natal, which was represented by Nokuthula Zulu;

l Nelly's Day Care Centre at Diepkloof in Soweto in Gauteng, which was represented by Nelly Stone.

ECD Resource and Training Organisation of the Year:

l TREE in Northway in KwaZulu-Natal, which was represented by Pam Picken;

l Ntataise Trust in Viljoenskroon in Free State, which was represented by Puleng Motsoeneng;

l The Centre for Social Development, which is situated in Grahamstown in Eastern Cape and which was represented by Cathy Hush.