- Award Winner: Prof Bruce Mellado – Research Professor and Senior Scientist: iThemba LABS, Wits; and Co-ordinator
- Award Winner: Prof Paul Oberholster – Director: Centre for Environmental Management, University of the Free State
- Award Winner: Prof Michael Claeys – Professor: Chemical Engineering, Catalysis Institute, UCT; and Director: DSI/NRF Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Catalysis (c*change), UCT
- Award Winner: Prof Sheetal Silal – Associate Professor: Dept of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town (UCT); and Director: Modelling and Simulation Hub, Africa, Faculty of Science, UCT; and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow: Oxford University, United Kingdom
- Award Winner: Dr Tegan Bristow – Senior Lecturer and Director: Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival, School of Fine Arts, Wits
- Award Winner: Outlook Foundation – Team Leader and CEO: Mr Segomotso E Kelefetswe
- Award Winner: Reverse Osmosis/Cooling (ROC) Water Technologies (Pty) Ltd – Director and Project Co-ordinator: Prof Jannie P Maree, Dept of Water and Sanitation, University of Limpopo
- Award Winner: The Biomimicry Diagnostic Verification Controls Team, Wits – Chief Executive Officer (CEO): Prof Bavesh Kana, DSI/NRF CoE for Biomedical Tuberculosis (TB) Research, Wits
- Award Winner: School of Geosciences Data Collection and Storage Facility, Wits – Team Leaders: Professors Raymond Durrheim, Musa Manzi and Glen Nwaila
- Award Winner: Prof Philiswa Nosizo Nomngongo – Associate Professor and DSI/NRF SARChI Chair: Nanotechnology for Water, Dept of Applied Chemistry, University of Johannesburg (UJ)
- Award Winner: Prof Stephanie Burton – Professor: Biochemistry; and Professor: Future Africa; and Immediate Past Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC): Research and Postgraduate Education, University of Pretoria (UP)
- Award Winner: Dr Boitumelo Innocent Ramatsetse – Lecturer and Researcher: Engineering Graphics and Design, Educational Information and Engineering Technology, Wits
- Award Winner: Prof Raymond Durrheim – Chair: Department (Dept) of Science and Innovation (DSI)/National Research Foundation (NRF) South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) in Exploration, Earthquake and Mining Seismology, School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)
- Decor at the NSTF-South32 Awards (Cape Town)
- Decor at the NSTF-South32 Awards (Cape Town)
