Mbeki awards 25 national orders
27/09/2005 13:08  - (SA)  

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Pretoria - National orders, the highest honour South Africa bestows on its citizens and foreigners, were awarded to 25 individuals by President Thabo Mbeki on Tuesday.

"For all time, these men and women will be honoured as esteemed members of these orders, subject to the precedence and authority of our National Anthem, our National Flag and our National Coat of Arms, which represent the highest repositories of our common nationhood," Mbeki said at the ceremony at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.

Solomon Mahlangu was posthumously awarded the Order of Mendi for bravery in gold, for his role in the freedom struggle.

He was executed by the apartheid government in 1979.

Arts and Culture Minister Pallo Jordan received the Order of Ikhamanga in gold on behalf of his late father, Archibald Campbell Mzolisa Jordan, for his contribution to literature.

John Kani and Atholl Fugard (whose award was received by his sister) were honoured with the order of Ikhamanga in silver for their contributions to theatre.

- SAPA

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