Award for veteran journo

Derek Ingram has attended every Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting since its inception 1971, apart from last year in Australia because of ill-health. Last week he was given a special award marking his outstanding services to the 54 nation ‘Club.’

Derek Ingram has always been a good friend and supporter of The Zimbabwean.
Derek Ingram has always been a good friend and supporter of The Zimbabwean.

During a ceremony organized by Nexus Strategic Partnerships, the Commonwealth Journalists Association Emeritus President was hailed as a man who had spent much of his life serving the Commonwealth.

“I firmly believe the Commonwealth is on its way up,” he said during his acceptance speech .

A spokesperson for the CJA told The Zimbabwean: “His dogged support has seen him write some of the biggest events in recent times – on coups, apartheid, the break-up of countries, emergence of others as newly independent states and the growth of the Commonwealth as a multilateral association itself.”

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