Pitiful moment for South Africa
May 08, 2013
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - THE GOVERNMENT of South Africa has found itself in an embarrassing position after having felt compelled to postpone a posthumous conferment of its highest national honour, the Oliver Tambo Award, on Guyana’s late president, Forbes Burnham.
The Tambo Award is normally conferred on outstanding foreign personalities for their contributions in helping to bring about the collapse of apartheid in South Africa.
Think of the assassination of the famous Guyana-born historian, pan-Africanist and political activist Walter Rodney and the puzzle over the postponement of the Tambo award to Burnham clears up.
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