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Mandela for top SADC award

    JOHANNESBURG

    Former South African President Nelson Mandela is set to receive the top award of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) at the organisation’s heads of state summit scheduled 6-7 August in Windhoek, Namibia.

    PANA news agency quoted acting SADC executive secretary-general, Prega Ramsamy, as saying Mandela has earned the Sir Seretse Khama SADC medal for his role in promoting peace in the region and Africa as well as his distinguished leadership of South Africa during his 1994-99 presidency and his SADC tenure from 1996-99.

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