Zuma's honours list
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma bestowed national orders at the presidential guest house in Pretoria last night. Presidential spokesperson Zizi Kodwa says they serve to foster a spirit of unity, nation building and social cohesion within our society.
- BRONZE
Donald Thumamina Mboto (posthumous)
For a selfless act that led to his losing his life while trying to save a drowning child on St Michaels beach in KwaZulu-Natal.
Raymond Basil van Staden (posthumous)
For his selfless act that led to saving a person from drowning at Warner Beach in Durban.
SILVER
Sarah Gertrude Mary Christina Holland (posthumous)
For providing shelter to orphaned children and sacrificing her own life to save the lives of the children who were in her care.
GOLD
Matola Raid Martyrs
For paying the supreme price for freedom and for sacrificing their lives in pursuit of a just, free, nonracial and nonsexist democratic society.
ORDER OF IKHAMANGA
BRONZE
Thokozani Mandlenkosi Ernest Nene (posthumous)
For his outstanding contribution in enriching the isiZulu language and culture, and his revolutionary invention of a new lexicon in isiZulu.
Masana Samuel "Sam" Nzima
For his excellent contribution to photojournalism and putting the brutality of the apartheid police in the international spotlight.
Sindiwe Magona
For her outstanding achievements as a playwright, in literature and for using her pen as a weapon in the struggle for peace, social change and freedom.
SILVER
David Goldblatt
For his excellent contribution in the portrayal of South African life through the medium of photography and for leaving an indelible mark on our country's inclusive literary culture.
Josiah Thugwane
For his excellent achievement during the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and his contribution to the field of athletics.
Basil "Doc" Bikitsha (posthumous)
For his excellent contribution to journalism and literature and for being an important social commentator in his chosen beat.
Raymond Chikapa Phiri
For his excellent achievement in the field of music and contribution to the struggle against apartheid.
Marlene van Niekerk
For her outstanding intellectual contribution to literary arts and culture through poetry, literature and philosophical works.
Mannie Manim
For his excellent skills in theatre lighting design, administration, practical and technical contribution to theatre in South Africa and the field of arts.
Busisiwe Victoria "Busi" Mhlongo (posthumous)
For her excellent contribution to the field of music and putting South Africa on the international music map with her prolific musical compositions.
GOLD
Amandla Cultural Ensemble
For their contribution to the struggle against apartheid through their cultural performances.
Molefi Nathanael Oliphant
For his excellent contribution in the development of soccer in South Africa and excellent leadership in the successful bid and hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Irvin Khoza
For his excellent contribution and dedication in helping South Africa obtain the right to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and for ensuring that the tournament becomes a success as chairperson of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Local Organising Committee.
Daniel "Danny" Jordaan
For his excellent contribution and hard work in ensuring that South Africa hosted a successful 2010 FIFA World Cup.
ORDER OF BAOBAB
GOLD
Reginald Dudley Forde
For his outstanding leadership in the field of education and contribution to community service through the channels of the education system and the Boy Scouts movement of South Africa.
Nowongile Cynthia Molo
For her outstanding contribution to the development of women through Women in Agriculture and Rural Development, a self-empowerment initiative that has changed the lives of many families.
SILVER
Professor William Sinclair Winship
For his excellent contribution to the field of medicine and dedication of his adult life to paediatrics and human genetics.
David Patrick Russell
For his excellent contribution and commitment in opposing the apartheid system as a church leader and for taking a brave stand on many thorny issues to ensure that South Africa became a democratic society.
GOLD
Reverend Phambani Jeremiah Mzimba (Posthumous)
For his exceptional contribution and pioneering spirit in the formation of the African Independent Churches and his instrumental role in the development of a new understanding of Christianity among African believers.
ORDER OF LUTHULI
- BRONZE
Harriet Bolton (posthumous)
For dedicating her adult life to the struggle for liberation, campaigning for workers' rights and for organising the Furniture Workers Industrial Union and the Garment Workers Industrial Union.
Margaret Gazo (Posthumous)
For leading the women's march to the Union Buildings and for her outstanding leadership and commitment to the ideals of democracy and her contribution to human rights and the struggle against apartheid.
Violet Sarah Matlou (nee Phiri)
For her outstanding contribution to the struggle for liberation and for the ideals of a just, non-racist and democratic South Africa.
Tsietsi Mashinini (Posthumous)
For his bravery and leadership of the Soweto students' uprising of June 16 1976.
SILVER
Nelson Diale
For his excellent contribution to the struggle against apartheid and for his selfless sacrifices for the attainment of freedom for all in South Africa.
Ismael Chota Meer (posthumous)
For his excellent contribution to a non-racial and democratic South Africa, struggle for liberation, workers rights and for the formation of Natal Teachers Union.
Matsobane Morris Matsemela
For his excellent contribution to the struggle against apartheid and standing for the ideals of a free, just and democratic South Africa.
Florence Elizabeth Mnumzana (née Mhinga)
For her excellent leadership and activism in the healthcare sector as a contribution to the fight against apartheid.
GOLD
Lionel "Rusty" Bernstein (posthumous)
For his political activism, abandoning privilege and dedicating his adult life to the struggle for liberation, democracy, human rights and peace, and for striving to build a better Africa and a better world through the anti-apartheid crusade.
ORDER OF MAPUNGUBWE
BRONZE
Professor Pieter Steyn
For his excellent contribution to and achievements in chemistry and biosynthesis of mycotoxins.
ORDER OF THE COMPANIONS OFOR TAMBO
SILVER
Hélène Pastoors
For her excellent contribution to the struggle for liberation, democracy and human rights, and for waging a concerted struggle against racial oppression as an ANC activist and operative in South Africa, including engagement in underground activities.
Viacheslav "Ivan" Shiryaev
For his excellent contribution to the struggle against apartheid and attainment of a democratic, nonracial and a nonsexist South Africa, and promoting friendship ties, joint cooperation programmes and projects between Russia and post apartheid South Africa.
Andrew Jackson Young
For his contribution to the struggle against oppression in South Africa, striving for a better and fairer global social order and championing the cause of human rights in the international arena.
GOLD
Luis Inácio Lula da Silva
For his outstanding contribution to the advancement of the agenda of the South and for the creation of a just and equitable system of global governance.