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eThekwini awards living legends

The Living Legends are to be awarded by the municipality on 6 September.

THIS year’s Living Legends have been announced. eThekwini Municipality announced the name of the eight awardees who will be honoured at the Living Legends Awards evening on 6 September.

The eight are recognised for their dedication and service to the greater community and society as a whole.

eThekwini Municipality Speaker, Logie Naidoo, said this year’s event will once again provide an opportunity to reflect on a rich legacy of leadership by individuals from all sectors of society, who have, and continue to make, an inspirational difference in society, both within our own country and further afield.

“It has been six years since the Living Legends programme was initiated by our city, and during that time we have conferred our deepest thanks and appreciation on more than 100 South Africans, all of whom have a ‘Proudly Durban’ connection. We also want to take this opportunity to remember one of our former Living Legends, Justice Pius Langa, who passed on 24 July this year. In 2008 the Chief Justice was included as a Living Legend for his outstanding contribution to the Freedom Struggle and legal deliberation in the highest courts of South Africa,” said Naidoo.

Awardees for 2013 have been nominated from the fields of arts and culture, human rights, academia, science and technology, music and entertainment, sport, business, the environment and religion.

They are Joseph Shabalala, founder member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Ranjith Kally, veteran Apartheid photographer for the entertainment, arts and culture category, Mary Mkhwanazi, founder of the South African Domestic Workers Union, Rev Sue Brittion, eco warrior and conflict resolution facilitator and Jackie Branfield, Operation Bobbi Bear and children and women’s rights advocate for the human rights category, Prof Malegapuru Makgoba, internationally recognised academic, for the academic category, Samuel Draai, Desmond Makhanya and Tich Smith for the community work category, Sizwe Nxasana, CEO of First Rand Bank and a leader in the world of business and finance in the business category, Sue Pather, women’s cricket umpire and founder member of the National Council of Women in SA for the sports category and Mkhuluwe Cele in the environmental category for exceptional work done in the field of indigenous plants and traditional healing and medicine.

In addition, two Appreciation Awards have been made this year to Inanda Seminary, which remained a beacon of hope to all who passed through the school’s doors, during the darkest days of apartheid and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, true ‘sons of KZN’ and distinguished South Africans who have made their musical mark on the world map.

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