JUSTICE ALBIE SACHS FREEDOM AWARD
We are happy to congratulate Piet Westra on being awarded the new Justice Albie Sachs Freedom Award to honour South Africans who support the concept of freedom of access to information. The Award was launched during the 2010 Annual LIASA Conference.
We also want to congratulate all the nominees for the award, Piet Westra, Theresa de Young, Jean Williams, Sue Alexander and Ernene Verster.
The Award was presented to Piet Westra at a special session during the conference.
The initial concept of the award was proposed by Clare Walker formerly of WITS University library. The background to the origin of the award has been published in an article by Clare in the July issue of LIASA-in-Touch. The award was to honour the “unknown librarian” that Justice Sachs mentioned in his speech at the opening of the IFLA Conference in Durban in 2007.That “unknown librarian” had been instrumental in providing him with books during the period he spent in detention - a fact that he has never forgotten to this day.
The Award is a departure for LIASA whereby we are honouring South Africans who support the concept of freedom if access to information – it is a bold stand that we are taking and it shows that we have grown as an organisation when we are able to look beyond the boundaries of our Association and honour citizens who have made such meaningful contributions to our society in this area.
During the conference a signing session of Justice Albie Sachs latest book “The Strange Alchemy between Life and Law” at conference.
Ms R More
PRESIDENT: LIASA
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