{"id":34831,"date":"2026-05-19T08:49:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34831"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:49:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:49:45","slug":"mali-born-scholar-among-recipients-of-sas-national-honour","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/mali-born-scholar-among-recipients-of-sas-national-honour\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali-born scholar among recipients of SA\u2019s national honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internationally acclaimed Malian scholar Professor Cherif Keita is among the recipients of South Africa\u2019s (SA) National Orders this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SA President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to present the honours to distinguished South Africans and foreign nationals this Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Keita will receive the Order of the Companions of OR Tambo, which recognises foreign nationals who have shown friendship and support to SA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He is being honoured for preserving the story and legacy of Nokuthela Dube, a pioneering SA woman who played an important role in the early formation of the African National Congress in the 1890s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the late Antonio Gomez of Mozambique will also be honoured for supporting SA\u2019s liberation struggle and assisting anti-apartheid activists despite facing serious personal risks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34832,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-34831","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Internationally acclaimed Malian scholar Professor Cherif Keita is among the recipients of South Africa\u2019s (SA) National Orders this year","published_date":"2026-05-19 08:48:01","news_description":"Internationally acclaimed Malian scholar Professor Cherif Keita is among the recipients of South Africa\u2019s (SA) National Orders this year","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34833,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34831\/revisions\/34833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}