Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Wins A Global Political Lifetime Achievement Award

President Jacob Zuma’s ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has been honoured with the Women Political Leaders (WPL) Forum Lifetime Achievement Award. She received the award yesterday – 29 November 2017 –  at the two-day WPL Annual global Summit, which took place in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Dlamini-Zuma said on Facebook on Thursday afternoon: “I am supremely honored to be bestowed the World Political Leader Lifetime Achievement Award. This award has inspired me immensely. Forwards with women’s emancipation and empowerment forward.”

Dlamini-Zuma who is a National Executive Committee member and former Chairperson of the African Union (AU), is a medical doctor by profession and, as described by the ANC, a “selfless freedom fighter”.

She was elected as the AU Chairperson in 2012, becoming the first woman in five decades to lead the continental organisation.

In a statement today, the ANC said that during her tenure as the Chairperson of the AU Commission, Dr Dlamini-Zuma led from the front in the adoption of the AU Agenda 2063 at the organisation’s 24th Ordinary Assembly in 2015. Agenda 2063 is “A strategic framework for the socio-economic transformation of the continent over next 50 years”.

The African National Congress congratulated her on the prestigious award and said: “Comrade Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is well deserving of this honour. She has dedicated her life to service of our people.

“She is and remains an exemplary leader and inspiration not only to women leaders but to all progressive forces committed to clean governance, visionary leadership and an uncompromising commitment to bettering the lives of our people.”