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Oliver Tambo was born on 27 October 1917 in the village of Nkantolo in Bizana; eastern Pondoland in what is now the Eastern Cape. The village Tambo was born in was made up mostly of farmers. His father, Mzimeni Tambo, was the son of a farmer and an assistant salesperson at a local trading store.
The idea of the formation of the ANC youth league started in 1943, in Orlando, Soweto at Walter Sisulu 's house by Anton Lembede, A.P. Mda, Jordan Ngubane, Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo. Its founders felt that ANC was dominated by conservative and older generation who cannot relate to the youth. This "older generation" had used deputations ...
Oliver Tambo Heritage House. / -15.373553; 28.391733. Oliver Tambo Heritage House, is a national monument in Lusaka, Zambia located in the Avondale area along the Great East Road. It is the former home of exiled South African Freedom Fighter and African National Congress leader Oliver Tambo. He spent 22 years of his 30 years of exile living in ...
Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo. Date founded. 1952. Dissolved. 1960 (Due to the founders involvement in the Anti-Apartheid Movement) Mandela and Tambo was a South African law firm established by Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo in Johannesburg in late 1952. It was the first "Attorney Firm" in the country to be run by black partners.
— Albert Luthuli's response to claims that the Native Representative Council was ineffective. The Natives Representative Council (NRC), an advisory body to the government, was established in 1936 with the purpose of compensating and appeasing the African population, who had lost their limited voting rights in the Cape Province due to the enactment of the Hertzog Bills. In 1946, after John ...
uMkhonto weSizwe (Xhosa pronunciation: [um̩ˈkʰonto we ˈsizwe]; abbreviated MK; English: Spear of the Nation) was the paramilitary wing of the African National Congress (ANC), founded by Nelson Mandela in the wake of the Sharpeville massacre. Its mission was to fight against the South African government to bring an end to its racist policies.
Adelaide Frances Tambo (née Tshukudu; 18 July 1929 – 31 January 2007) was a South African anti- apartheid activist and former political exile. She was involved in South African politics for five decades and was married to Oliver Tambo, president of the African National Congress (ANC), from 1967 to 1991. She was well-known for her role in the ...
Oliver Tambo, ANC President-in-exile from 1967 until 1991. The NEC was appointed during the 1969 conference in Morogoro, Tanzania, the ANC's first in exile. The NEC was not elected by the party's membership and, as indicated below, it co-opted additional members after 1969 "as the leadership saw fit." [3] Leadership. President: Oliver Tambo ...