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September 16, 2008

S. Africa honors Fidel Castro with 'humanitarian' award. Seriously.

To prove the headline to this post is not some sort of prank, I will quote the AFP report:

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) — South Africa Thursday said it has given its 2008 humanitarian award to former Cuban president Fidel Castro for his contributions to "humankind beyond boundaries."

Castro, who turned 82 Wednesday, becomes the first non-African and the third ex-head of state to win the "Ubuntu" award, the National Heritage Council of South Africa said in a statement.

"The Ubuntu award is honouring persons who have consistently lived the humanitarian values of the African philosophy of Ubuntu," which defines the individual in terms of their relationships with others.

Castro won the award "for the role he played in the Cuban revolution and worldwide contribution to the struggle for an alternative, just and humane society," the statement said.

Oscar Biscet was not available for comment on the award.

Neither was Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta nor Normando Hernandez Gonzalez.

Nor any other of these gentlemen.

Posted by on September 16, 2008 at 12:39 AM in Cuba |

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