THE
recent decision by the South Africa Government to confer on Guyana's
late President Forbes Burnham its highest national honour designated
for outstanding foreign citizens- — the Oliver Tambo Award (gold) —
has drawn strong criticisms from two well-known Jamaican scholars and
Pan-Africanists — Dr Rupert Lewis and Dr Horace Campbell.
Both have
expressed shock and sadness in wondering aloud whether President
Jacob Zuma's Administration had in effect posthumously rewarded the
former Guyana head of state for the June 13, 1980 assassination of
Walter Rodney, the internationally famous Guyanese historian and
Pan-Africanist crusader for freedom and justice.
