Zuma to honour 4 at cricket match

President Jacob Zuma will hand out awards to four South Africans, who have furthered the relationship between South Africa and India, at a cricket match on Sunday

“President Zuma will be Cricket SA’s guest of honour at the match and he, in turn, will be honouring four people for outstanding services  that have furthered the relationship between South Africa and India,” said Gerald Majola, CEO of Cricket SA (CSA), in a statement  on Friday.

Awards would go post-humously to:

• Chief Albert Luthuli, former president of the African National Congress and South Africa’s first  Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and
• Dr Yusuf Dadoo, a former anti-apartheid struggle hero and Chairman of the SA Communist Party.    

Majola said Zuma would also honour two prominent Indian business leaders, namely

• Mr Anand Sharma, the Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry, and
• Mr M D Mallya, chairman and managing director of the Bank of Baroda.

Both will accept the awards at the International Pro 20 match between the Proteas and India at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban.

The CSA would also award:

• South African cricketer Makhaya Ntini and
• Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkara. Furthermore,
• members of Clive Rice’s Proteas squad who made the first historic tour to India in 1991 would be capped in a symbolic ceremony.

Majola said: “The Presidential and CSA awards, the concert and the match itself will be a most fitting way for cricket to commemorate the arrival of Indians in South Africa 150 years and also for CSA to acknowledge the tremendous role that the Indian community has played in the unification and development of South African cricket.”