The 2024 Herbert Sichel Medal of the South African Statistical Association (SASA), recognizing the best 2023 statistical paper co-authored by a member of SASA, has been jointly awarded to Matthys Lucas Steyn, Tertius de Wet, Bernard De Baets and Stijn Luca for their paper "A nearest neighbor open-set classifier based on excesses of distance ratios" published in the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. The award ceremony took place on November 20 at the opening ceremony of the 65th Annual Conference of the South African Statistical Association.