Lifetime Achievement Prize for Media Development in Africa

The Millennium Excellence Foundation (MEF) announced this week that it will bestow a Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize (LAAP) for Media Development in Africa to the Executive Chairman of MultiChoice South Africa Group Holdings, Nolo Letele. Nolo has steered the group through a number of important achievements, notably interactive television, the dual view decoder and the personal video recorder. The prize will be awarded to him during a ceremony to be held at the State House in Nairobi, Kenya on 15 December 2012.

Nolo Letele, Executive Chairman, MultiChoice South Africa Holdings

The Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize is awarded to individuals who have selflessly devoted themselves to bring about change in the lives of Africans within the last decade. Change that impacts communities and that significantly enhances the lives of the people for a better future.

Other 2012 LAAP recipients are the late President of Ghana, Profession John Mills for Peace, Democratic Governance and Development; Mohammed El Baradei of Egypt for Scientific Research in Africa; Dr Mohammed Ibrahim from Sudan for Action for Africa and the President of Uganda, HE Yoweri Museveni for National Building and African Leadership.

Past recipients of the Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize include Desmond Tutu and Cyril Ramaphosa from South Africa; Dr Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations; James Wolfensohn, former President of the World Bank in the USA and Wole Soyinka (Nobel Laureate) for Literature.