Saturday, April 23 2005 17:45 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and President Sukarno of Indonesia have been posthumously conferred with South Africa's highest award for foreigners by President Thabo Mbeki as a special recognition of their pioneering work in Afro-Asian solidarity.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who has been invited to Pretoria to accept the award 'the Order of the Companion of O R Tambo' (gold), is deputing her son Rahul to receive it on April 26, an External Affairs Ministry release said in New Delhi today (Apr 23, 2005).

Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of the late Indonesian President will receive the award for him, the release said.