Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo

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The Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo is a South African honour.[1] It was instituted on 6 December 2002, and is granted by the President of South Africa to foreign citizens who have promoted South African interests and aspirations through co-operation, solidarity, and support.

The order is named after the late Oliver Tambo, who was the African National Congress's president-in-exile for many years.

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Walking stick awarded with Order

Current classes

The three classes of appointment to the Order are, in descending order of precedence:

  • Supreme Companion of OR Tambo in gold, for heads of state and, in special cases, heads of government (SCOT)
  • Grand Companion of OR Tambo in silver, for heads of government, ministers of state, supreme court judges, presidents of legislatures, secretaries of state, ambassadors, commanders-in-chief (GCOT)
  • Companion of OR Tambo in bronze, for legislators, envoys, senior military officers (COT)

Symbolism

The badge of the order is oval, and depicts a symbol similar to that of the Taijitu between two arrowheads, framed by two mole snakes.[1] The symbol represents the meeting of diverse spiritual energies, and the snakes represent solidarity and support. The South African coat of arms is displayed on the reverse.

The ribbon is white, with recurring grey symbols down the centre. All three classes are worn around the neck.

Recipients are also presented with a carved wooden walking stick, which has a serpent wound around the shaft and a spoon-shaped head displaying the badge of the order and the national arms. The walking stick symbolises support and solidarity, and a commitment to stand by the recipient in return.

Recipients

Name Grade Awarded
Template:Flagicon Olof Palme SCOT 10 December 2002[2]
Template:Flagicon Kenneth David Kaunda SCOT 10 December 2002
Template:Flagicon Mahatma Gandhi
(posthumous) 		SCOT 10 December 2002
Template:Flagicon Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane SCOT 16 June 2004[3]
Template:Flagicon Agostinho Neto SCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Kwame Nkrumah SCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Julius Nyerere SCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Amílcar Cabral SCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Salim Ahmed Salim SCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Kofi Annan SCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Salvador Allende
(posthumous) 		SCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Martti Ahtisaari SCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Michael Manley SCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Martin Luther King Jr. SCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Patrice Lumumba SCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Ahmed Ben Bella SCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Template:Ill GCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Romesh Chandra GCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Barbara Castle GCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Reiulf Steen GCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Thorvald Stoltenberg GCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Maxine Waters GCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Vasily Grigoryevich Solodovnikov GCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Robert Hughes GCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon Boudewijn Sjollema GCOT 16 June 2004
Template:Flagicon FIFA SCOT 29 October 2004[4][5]
Template:Flagicon Lennart Johansson SCOT 29 October 2004
Template:Flagicon Trevor Richards SCOT 29 October 2004
Template:Flagicon Ahmed Sékou Touré SCOT 29 October 2004
Template:Flagicon Gamal Abdel Nasser SCOT 29 October 2004
Template:Flagicon Dr. Cheddi Jagan SCOT 26 April 2005[6]
Template:Flagicon Ahmed Sukarno SCOT 26 April 2005
Template:Flagicon Diallo Telli SCOT 26 April 2005
Template:Flagicon Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho GCOT 26 April 2005
Template:Flagicon Jawaharlal Nehru GCOT 26 April 2005
Template:Flagicon Vladimir Gennadyevich Shubin GCOT 26 April 2005
Template:Flagicon Sheikh Yusuf SCOT 27 September 2005[7]
Template:Flagicon Modibo Keita SCOT 20 April 2006[8]
Template:Flagicon Seretse Khama SCOT 20 April 2006
Template:Flagicon King Sobhuza II SCOT 20 April 2006
Template:Flagicon King Moshoeshoe II SCOT 20 April 2006
Template:Flagicon Sotiris Mousouris GCOT 20 April 2006
Template:Flagicon Anthony Sampson GCOT 20 April 2006
Template:Flagicon Chief Joseph Leabua Jonathan SCOT 24 April 2007[9]
Template:Flagicon Dr. Eric Eustace Williams SCOT 24 April 2007
Template:Flagicon Shridath Ramphal SCOT 24 April 2007
Template:Flagicon Dr. Ali Al'amin Mazrui GCOT 24 April 2007
Template:Flagicon Michael Kitso Dingake GCOT 24 April 2007
Template:Flagicon Canon John Collins GCOT 24 April 2007
Template:Flagicon Harry Belafonte GCOT 24 April 2007
Template:Flagicon Mandlenkosi Aloysius Isaac Zwane COT 24 April 2007
Template:Flagicon Salman El-Herfi COT 24 April 2007
Template:Flagicon Chief Emeka Anyaoku SCOT 22 April 2008[10]
Template:Flagicon Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon GCOT 22 April 2008
Template:Flagicon Philip Potter GCOT 22 April 2008
Template:Flagicon Per Wästberg GCOT 22 April 2008
Template:Flagicon Ron Dellums GCOT 22 April 2008
Template:Flagicon Harry Belafonte GCOT 22 April 2008
Template:Flagicon Jerry Dunfey GCOT 22 April 2008
Template:Flagicon Linda Biehl COT 22 April 2008
Template:Flagicon Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz SCOT 27 March 2009[11]
Template:Flagicon Template:Ill GCOT 27 March 2009
Template:Flagicon Sadako Ogata GCOT 27 March 2009
Template:Flagicon Marcelino dos Santos GCOT 27 March 2009
Template:Flagicon Template:Ill GCOT 27 March 2009
Template:Flagicon Andimba Toivo ya Toivo GCOT 27 March 2009
Template:Flagicon Jennifer Davis COT 27 March 2009
Template:Flagicon Anna Abdallah GCOT 2 December 2009[12]
Template:Flagicon Rev. William Cullen Wilcox GCOT 2 December 2009
Template:Flagicon Ida Belle Wilcox GCOT 2 December 2009
Template:Flagicon Elizabeth II SCOT 3 March 2010[13]
Template:Flagicon José Eduardo dos Santos SCOT 27 April 2010[14]
Template:Flagicon Joseph Blatter SCOT 27 April 2010
Template:Flagicon Jacques Rogge GCOT 27 April 2010
Template:Flagicon Issa Hayatou GCOT 27 April 2010
Template:Flagicon Herbert Kaiser GCOT 27 April 2010
Template:Flagicon Joy Kaiser GCOT 27 April 2010
Template:Flagicon Vernon Berrangé GCOT 27 April 2010
Template:Flagicon George Houser GCOT 27 April 2010
Template:Flagicon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva SCOT 27 April 2011[15]
Template:Flagicon Hélène Pastoors GCOT 27 April 2011
Template:Flagicon Viacheslav Shiryaev GCOT 27 April 2011
Template:Flagicon Edward M. Kennedy SCOT 27 April 2012[16]
Template:Flagicon Prof. Apollon B Davidson GCOT 27 April 2012
Template:Flagicon Randall Robinson GCOT 27 April 2012
Template:Flagicon Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham SCOT 27 April 2013[17]
Template:Flagicon Percival Noel James Patterson SCOT 27 April 2013
Template:Flagicon Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy GCOT 27 April 2013
Template:Flagicon Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson GCOT 27 April 2013
Template:Flagicon Dina Forti COT 27 April 2013
Template:Flagicon Giuseppe Soncini COT 27 April 2013
Template:Flagicon Lord Attenborough GCOT 27 April 2014[18]
Template:Flagicon Prof. Gwendolen Margaret Carter GCOT 27 April 2014
Template:Flagicon Jeanne-Martin Cissé GCOT 27 April 2014
Template:Flagicon Jerry David Dammers GCOT 27 April 2014
Template:Flagicon Danny Glover GCOT 27 April 2014
Template:Flagicon Quincy Delight Jones GCOT 27 April 2014
Template:Flagicon Thomas Karis GCOT 27 April 2014
Template:Flagicon Lord Kinnock GCOT 27 April 2014
Template:Flagicon Alexander Moumbaris GCOT 27 April 2014
Template:Flagicon Ruth Neto GCOT 27 April 2014
Template:Flagicon Alfre Woodard GCOT 27 April 2014
Template:Flagicon Brian Mulroney SCOT 27 April 2015[19]
Template:Flagicon Hashim Mbita SCOT 27 April 2015
Template:Flagicon Gareth Evans GCOT 27 April 2015
Template:Flagicon Lord Hain GCOT 27 April 2015
Template:Flagicon Vladimir Kazimirov GCOT 27 April 2015
Template:Flagicon Gay McDougall GCOT 27 April 2015
Template:Flagicon Lars Nordbo GCOT 27 April 2015
Template:Flagicon Andrey Urnov GCOT 27 April 2015
Template:Flagicon Dr. Lim Kok Wing GCOT 27 April 2015
Template:Flagicon Sam Nujoma SCOT 27 April 2018
Template:Flagicon Walter Khotso Makhulu[20][21] GCOT 25 April 2019
Template:Flagicon Tracy Chapman[22] GCOT 1 May 2023
Template:Flagicon Christabel Gurney[22] GCOT 1 May 2023
Template:Flagicon Thomas Oliver Newnham (Posthumous)[22] GCOT 1 May 2023
Template:Flagicon Peter Tosh (Posthumous)[22] GCOT 1 May 2023
Template:Flagicon Ruth Weiss[22] GCOT 1 May 2023
Template:Flagicon Huub Bammens[23] GCOT 23 April 2024
Template:Flagicon Donna Katzens[23] GCOT 23 April 2024
Template:Flagicon Ken Luckhard[23] GCOT 23 April 2024
Template:Flagicon Nicholas Stadlen (Posthumous)[23] GCOT 23 April 2024
Template:Flagicon Fulco Van Aurich[23] GCOT 23 April 2024
Template:Flagicon Brenda Wall[23] GCOT 23 April 2024

Refusals

On 28 January 2008, New Zealand anti-apartheid activist John Minto created a controversy over his letter to former South African President Thabo Mbeki after being nominated for the award, saying that he would refuse, on principle, to accept any award from the ANC.[24]

See also

References

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