The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) said it will be writing to the South African Government to voice its support for the conferment of the Oliver Tambo Award to former executive president of Guyana Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham and expressing the concern that the issue of national character had been hijacked by “red herrings and egos”.
The South African Government had announced that it would have been conferring the Oliver Tambo Award on Burnham for his contribution to the struggle in South Africa against Apartheid. However, some days after the announcement a number of persons and organisations began lobbying to have the decision to confer the award reversed and online media organisations reported that the
