President Cyril Ramaphosa has posthumously awarded struggle veteran and human rights lawyer Advocate Dumalisile Philemon Pearce Nokwe the honorary title of Senior Counsel Silk for South Africa, ahead of his reburial.
Presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya, says the conferral of the late Adv. Nokwe was done on the eve of the esteemed legal practitioner's Special Provincial Official reburial in West Park Cemetery, Johannesburg.
He will be reburied alongside his wife, Mrs. Vuyiswa Malangabi-Nokwe, who passed away in 2008.
Advocate Nokwe went into exile in 1963 and died in Zambia in 1978 at the age of 50. However, in 2024, his mortal remains were repatriated to South Africa.
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