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.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – South Africa is seeking to widen its relationship with Jamaica under a cooperation agreement dating back to 2009, the country’s ambassador Mathu Joyini has said.
“The one thing that Jamaica does particularly well is sports from the school level. It is something that we can learn,” she said, noting that the 2009 accord encouraged co-operation, as well as facilitating the exchange of knowledge, experience and achievements between both countries in the fields of arts and culture.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa's first black president, has been admitted to a hospital with a recurring lung infection, South Africa said today.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela has recovered from his recent lung infection and a surgical procedure to remove gallstones, according to an announcement yesterday by President Jacob Zuma.
Doctors say that Mandela, 94, has made "steady progress and that clinically, he continues to improve," according to a statement issued by Zuma's office. Mandela was hospitalised for nearly three weeks in December before going home on December 26.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Her Excellency Faith Doreen Radebe, the High Commissioner of South Africa to Jamaica will pay a courtesy call on His Excellency Edwin Carrington Secretary General of the Caribbean Community on Thursday 16 February at his office at CARICOM Headquarters, Georgetown, Guyana.
The High Commissioner is visiting the Secretariat with a delegation from South Africa to discuss issues related to the staging of the International Cricket Council Cricket World Cup 2007 which is being held in the West Indies.
Co-Chairs, His Excellency Director General Takahiko Horimura of Japan and
Her Excellency Elisabeth Harper of Guyana
Other Distinguished Members of the Japanese Delegation
Other Distinguished Members of the Delegation of CARICOM
Member States and Associate Institutions
Members of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen_
The President of the Republic of South Africa, His Excellency Mr Nelson Mandela has accepted an invitation from the Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Dr the Hon Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada to attend the XIX Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community.
The Caribbean recognises that Southern Africa is the sub-region within the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of countries with which it "can perhaps best do business".
In making this point on Monday morning at the Park Hyatt Johannesburg Hotel while addressing representatives of the South African Chamber of Business (SACOB) and members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Trade and Investment Mission, Grenada's Foreign Minister Dr. the Hon. Raphael Fletcher emphasised that this could best be done in terms of exchanges in skills, trade and services.
Grenada's Foreign Minister Dr the Hon. Raphael Fletcher will lead an 85-strong CARICOM Ministerial Trade and Investment Mission to South Africa at the weekend.