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Recognition
of the Oftebro family by the Mayor of uMlalazi
(uMlalazi
is the municipality where the town Eshowe in South Africa is located.)
During
the Oftebro family reunion in Durban/Eshowe 30th of June -1st
of July 2007, the Oftebro family received a plaque signed the Mayor of
uMlalazi. As can be seen from the plaque the Mayor treasures the
Oftebro family’s engagement for the Eshowe society. It is of course
first of all our remote relatives, the pioneer missionaries Ommund C.
Oftebro, Christian T. Oftebro and Berte Marie Oftebro’s contribution
to the Eshowe society that deserves the grand recognition. Even so,
the fact that Oftebro relatives of today through several years
repeatedly have visited and made contact with the modern Eshowe
society by its political and cultural institutions, and have tied
bonds of friendship with those who represent Ommund Oftebro’s
congregation today, has clearly been noticed. The same goes of course
also for the fact that the participants of the Oftebro family reunion
in Lyngdal 2004, through the Lyngdal church, gave a considerable
economical contribution to the KwaMondi congregation in Eshowe. It of
course also goes for the fact that
Garry Oftebro,
by his planning of the Oftebro reunion 2007, together with the
KwaMondi congregation and with Zululand Historical Museum, so
excellently arranged for a mutual recognition and respect between the
Oftebro Family and the Municipality of uMlalazi and its cultural and
religious institutions.
Click here
to see the plaque
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