Dudley
- James - Award
for Excellence in Scouting
Award
presented by the Nangu Thina Network
2002 - 2007
Dudley James started his scouting career on the 1st of January 1961 in Benoni where he became a keen cub and only ended his days there as a Rover in 1973. After he has started his family and has moved over to the Lowfeld he continued his scouting career as troop Scouter in White River in May 1980 and only finished there in Dec. 1996 to take over the newly formed Mpumlanga Area at the beginning of 1997. He ended his term after five years of hard work in the beginning of 2002 and is now working in the back office serving as the area chairman for Mpumalanga.
During all these years of service to the brotherhood of scouting and the local community he showed great dedication to the movement with outstanding leadership. This dynamic person had visions for scouting as a whole but also new and innovative projects that benefited the community. His endurance and long-term dedication made things possible that other had never dreamed of. The starting of the MP area and it’s enormous growth is to a large extend due to his vision which was made reality with a strong team of supporters.
Also the support of Guiding was always important to Dudley, not only because of the members in his family but also as it is the sister movement to scouting. It is a great way for girls to experience the outdoors and be valuable to the community.
The highlight in his scouting career was surely all the international contacts that he gathered since he joined the SA contingent to the World Jamboree in Holland in 1995. The friends that he found there were invited to the Lowfeld and after only a year the friendship grew stronger and stronger. Today the Nangu Thina members with other friends from all over the world are frequent visitors to Mpumalanga and partners in scouting.
We would like to acknowledge this exceptional person and identify other Scouters and Guiders that served the movements in similar outstanding ways. Individuals that have a long standing record for dedicated service but also scouters/guiders that have newly joined the movement and have shown innovation and leadership in that what they do. We would like to honour and encourage them to continue in their scouting/guiding career and be an example for others. Only with dedicated scouters and guiders the movements will grow stronger in the Mpumalanga Area.
This special award is presented annually to mark the achievements of special people in the scouting and guiding associations. That is why we choose to have this award.
Hoping to have many nominations for the years to come
Yours in Scouting
Uwe
Bothur
Chairman Nangu Thina