The winners for this year's Channel O Music Video Awards (MVA) have been named. The awards ceremony came off Thursday night (Oct 9) at the Carnival City, in Johannesburg, South Africa. The MC's were Channel O's own Nonhle Thema and Krazy Boy (Kabelo 'KB' Ngakane. See an interview we had with Nonhle here and the full list of nominees.

Nigerian artistes did very well, the best Kwaito award went to Namibia (again) and best dance as well. The best female award went to one of the ladies of Bang Entertainment in Mozambique as well. One new Zimbabwean artiste felt greedy and took two awards, yay for Zimdancehall! P-Square won the best video but which of their awesome videos from the Game Over was chosen?
Find out below

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Channel O’s sexy and beautiful Nonhle Thema found a minute to answer a few questions. Did you know Nonhle actually means ‘beautiful’? Below is the transcript of the conversation we had with her about African music. She was just chosen to host the upcoming Channel O Music Video awards and talks a little about Channel O in the interview.

Museke: How are you?
Nonhle: I’m great. God has been good to me so I cannot complain about anything... I feel blessed everyday to do what i love and passionate about and get paid for it.

Museke: Can you tell us about your background and family?
Nonhle: Wow, I come from famous parents; my mother "Cynthia Shange" was the first black beauty queen allowed to enter the Miss world pageant in 1972. She’s also an actress and my biggest inspiration. I do everything to carry on my mother’s legacy. My father (Derick Thema) was a renowned journalist and so I have the best genes and characteristics in me. I always tell them I’m sooo blessed to have been created by them. Ha ha.

UPDATED: See the winners here

The nominees for the annual Channel O Music Video awards are out. Voting has already begun and will end on the 24th of September, to vote sms your best video to (+27839208400) or visit the Channel O website (www.channelo.tv ) to vote and for more information about the 2008 awards. The nominees are below.

Best Male Video
Ikechukwu – Wind em well (NIG)
Prokid – Bampa (SA)
HHP – Music & Lights (SA)
Blac – Kwa Masela (TAN)
Simba – Lovely Day (MOZ)

Best Female Video
Lizha James – Nita Mukuma Kwini (MOZ)
Lady May – Chokola (NAM)
Becca – Sugar (GHANA)
KB – Moni Fe Re (SA)
Sasha – Adara (NIG)

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So the Channel O Awards came and went, leaving a bad taste on EVERYONE'S tongues.

First off, as with most events in S.A, the awards ceremony started late. After having being told that my VIP tickets were at the front desk, I had a bit of an embarrassing situation with people not finding my name or my ticket on their list. Without my tickets, I did the sensible thing and walked right past burly security guards and bouncers, and set about trying to find the person responsible for making sure that I had tickets. In my quest to find what I (much later) found out was the VIP desk, I landed up in the dressing rooms of the artists!! After spending some time with D'banj and his chilled out producer Don Jazzy; Crazy Lu of Jozi; Samini; Nameless; and a host of other artists, I set out to look for the rumoured "VIP DESK". After looking in all sorts of nooks and crannies of the City Hall building in downtown Jozi, I found the desk in the bowels of the building. There was a ridiculously long queue of VIP's trying to get their passes and tags! Not being one to queue, I went straight to the front of the desk and lo and behold my passes were nowhere to be found!! Media and VIP's STILL hadn't got their passes by the time the event started!

Check this link for the latest award winners for 2007

Channel O is an African music channel linked with South Africa's MNET (DSTV of MultiChoice) Here are a list of winners for the 2006 edition

Best Male Video: Lagbaja - Never Far Away (Nigeria)

Best Female Video: Lizha James - For All Ya (Mozambique)

Best Newcomer: D'banj - Tongolo (Nigeria)

Best Duo or Group: Malaika - 2 Bob (South Africa)