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2026
Contact Centre
Industry
Awards

FINALISTS ANNOUNCED

Company Awards

Best Outsourced Contact Centre

  • CallForce Direct (Pty) Ltd
  • CCI South Africa Pty Ltd
  • Afrishore BPO
  • ATM Group SA

Best Domestic Contact Centre

  • African Resonance Business Solutions
  • Afrishore BPO

Best BPO Partnership

  • ATM Group SA
  • CareerBox NPC

Most Effective Application of Technology

  • Botlhale AI Solutions
  • Frogfoot (Pty) Ltd.
  • Lesaka Technologies – Merchants BU (Cash Connect)

Individual Awards

Best Workforce Planning Team or Individual

  • Floyd Perumal (Telesure Investment Holdings)
  • Shalen Rampersad (CCI South Africa pty ltd)

Most Effective Customer Service Professional (Agent)

  • Gift Mthembu (African Resonance Business Solutions)
  • Kershnie Chetty (CCI South Africa pty ltd)
  • Thabiso Lesetja (CCI South Africa pty ltd)

Most Effective Collections/Sales (Agent)

  • Celine van Maanen (ATM Group SA)
  • Alexander Adriaans (ATM Group SA)
  • Kershnie Chetty (CCI South Africa pty ltd)
  • Mohau Ntanjana (African Resonance Business Solutions)

Best Operations Manager/Contact Centre Manager (Sales/Customer Service/Debt Collection)

  • Laura Fortain (ATM Group SA)
  • Nelisa Nyewe (Concentrix)
  • Rhea Lazarus (CCI South Africa pty ltd)
  • Tiaan Groenewald (WNS Global Services Part of CapGemini)

Best Use of Information and Data Analytics or MIS Team or Individual

  • Armand de Koker (Frogfoot (Pty) Ltd.)
  • Melissa Naidoo (CCI South Africa pty ltd)
  • Vuyiswa Elizabeth (Mthuzula) Radebe (African Resonance Business Solutions)

Best Supervisor/Team Leader

  • Angelo Saerens (ATM Group SA)
  • Elandre Johnson (African Resonance business Solutions )
  • Luyanda Mbeje (CareerBox Africa)
  • Melissa Shaboedien (ATM Group SA)
  • Faeeka Mahomed Essop (Careerbox NPC)

Best Trainer or Coach

  • Blessing Tsotetsi (Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator)
  • Fortune Khumalo (CareerBox )
  • Kylie Fernandez (CCI South Africa pty ltd)
  • Sonwabile Radebe (CCI South Africa pty ltd)

The Contact Centre Management Group (CCMG) is the longest running awards programme in South Africa. The programme recognizes organisations and people that are leading the way in delivering exceptional service.

Being a CCMG winner is a prestigious accolade that has proven to raise the profile of individuals and contact centres, their capabilities and its stars. It is often referred to as the ‘Oscars of our industry’.

Overseen by Faye Joubert from Ask Afrika as the convening Judge. The winners will go through a robust judging experience that includes an online application and virtual interviews with a panel of senior contact centre and customer service professionals.

Each organisation has to demonstrate that their value and the value their people are continually adding and innovating to improve the customer journey, run efficient and effective operations and are striving to raise the standards of professionalism across the industry.

Who is Recognised?

These awards recognise the best talent in our industry. Judges are looking for the individuals and companies in our industry who are role models, who demonstrate innovative ways of working and in so doing inspire others and deserve recognition for the work they are doing in our industry

About the Awards

The National Contact Centre Awards are organised by the CCMG | Contact Centre Management Group. The CCMG is the Professional Body in the Contact Centre Industry in South Africa.

Career Benefits

Previous Winners have leveraged this platform and have built significant careers for themselves and have gone on to achieve great things. Many are now operating at senior management and board level.

What makes these Awards Special?

The CCMG National Contact Centre Awards have an excellent reputation for being of a very high standard due to the judging process and the quality of the judges. All the entrants go through a comprehensive judging experience, an initial online process-and a face-face virtual interview with our Judging panel is completed for all our finalists in order to find the winner.

Previous Winners have leveraged this platform and have built significant careers for themselves and have gone on to achieve great things. Many are now operating at senior management and board level.

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