DOUGLAS NTIWANE WINS PAN AFRICAN LANGUAGES AWARD
MBABANE – Douglas Ntiwane has a lot of achievements under his belt, but to win the Pan African Languages Award during the legacy celebration of Nelson Mandela last week is a major landmark.
The celebration was held in South Africa.
Ntiwane is former Arts and Culture board member and a former Swaziland ambassador in England to mention a few achievements. Most Swazis know him by the once popular poem he wrote titled ‘Ngibut’imincele’.
The Pan African association is a forum where individuals across the continent that have contributed immensely in language preservation and art are recognised and awarded.
He unveiled his award during the Lujikeleto Prize Presentation where all the sibhaca teams that were competing under the Swaziland National Council of Arts and Culture league participated.
In his remarks he thanked SNCAC for the achievement as they even provided transport when he went to collect the award.
“I have been working with SNCAC since 1970 under the siSwati language board and what is important is that we have worked for all these years without pay and it was only last year when we began to receive allowances. I thank the current SNCAC leadership for this as a lot of parliamentarians have failed.”
He then thanked Prince Zolani (in South Africa) who is the brainchild of this organisation as he was trying to reward all Africans who were working hard to preserve the siSwati language and art.
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