[caption id="attachment_3348" align="alignleft" width="300"] ℅ Conversations with Uncle O.R. Tambo[/caption] Tuesday, the 8th of May, saw the launch of a new book: Conversations with Uncle O.R. Tambo - Childhood Memoirs in Exile, and a wonderful addition to the Tambo Centenary Archives. The book, edited by Ambassador Lindiwe Mabuza,...
[caption id="attachment_3317" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Beeld/Herman Verwey/Media24[/caption] If ever there was a stalwart it was Zola Skweyiya. When Oliver Tambo established the ANC’s Constitutional Committee in 1986, reporting directly to him as President of the organisation, he appointed Professor Jack Simons as its Chair and Dr Zola...
The former deputy chief justice says the hype around Madikizela-Mandela's kidnapping conviction did not accurately reflect what she was accused of. Former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke, once part of the legal team who defended Winnie Madikizela-Mandela when she was tried for the kidnapping of four...
The flight into eternal glory of Comrade Winnie Madikizela-Mandela early this week reminds us, especially progressive humanity, of the sacrifice of countless revolutionaries in the struggle and who paid the ultimate price to restore the dignity of humanity, first of the oppressed and second of...
TRIBUTE TO NOMZAMO WINNIE ZANYIWE MADIKIZELA-MANDELA The Tambo Foundation joins all South Africans in paying tribute to a fearless leader and a mother of the nation, who dedicated her life to fight for justice for all. This is, indeed, a very sad day for South Africa,...
This year, South Africa celebrates the 22nd anniversary of the Constitution’s signing in to law. March, therefore, represents an important month as we observe Human Rights Month. The 8th of March is also International Women’s Day. And while these two events may not seem related,...
A thread that runs all the way back to the ANC’s watershed consultative conference held in April 1969 in Morogoro in Tanzania darts through the ANC in its current embodiment in the Zuma era. Deep discontent with the personal and political health of the movement’s...
‘One dream he had was that apartheid could transform into anti-apartheid’. The University of Pretoria celebrated the life and times of Oliver Reginald Tambo yesterday with the unveiling of a bust of Tambo, and the launch of the book Oliver Tambo’s Dream written by his old friend and...
Theatre production exposes Mohlakeng’s youth to former ANC president, Oliver Tambo. The singing and dancing, along with Xhosa traditional stick-fighting and poetry characterised the musical play. Mohlakeng’s Ramosa Hall recently reverberated to song, dance and drums in celebration of the life of Oliver Reginald Kaizana Tambo through...
Months after the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in which 69 protesters died, white South Africa was smug and felt assured with a false sense of security. This prompted a white man to spit in Oliver Tambo’s face as he walked down Commissioner Street in Johannesburg. He...