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Amy Jephta, winner of the 2022 SAFT for Best Achievement in Directing, Feature Film, Barakat

The South African Film and Television Awards (sometimes referred to as the Golden Horns; often simply called the SAFTAs) is an annual South African awards ceremony hosted by the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), to honor creative excellence in the local film and television industry as assessed by the volunteer judges. The various category winners are awarded a statuette, officially called the Golden Horn, and a certificate. Only South African citizens are eligible for the awards, first presented in 2006.

The faces on the statuette are based on artifacts from throughout Africa, some dating back to 800 CE, and reference the Lydenburg Heads.The three figure heads are sculpted to look like cattle horns and are a reference to flames and, ultimately, the rising sun as an "emblem of brightness, splendour and the supreme principle of the nature".  Among the biggest winners of the 2023 Awards were the Netflix drama Silverton Siege, which was the most-awarded film taking home six awards, the Netflix comedy series, How to Ruin Christmas with five awards, and Gaia, a horror film, that won four out of its nine nominations.