‘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...
This year marks the 100th year since a South African icon, Oliver Reginald Tambo, a stalwart of the South African liberation struggle, was born. The Carnivore Restaurant in Muldersdrift hosted the long-awaited unveiling of an OR Tambo painting in celebration of both his 100th birthday, 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...
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Brigalia Bam October 27,2017 Lusaka, Zambia Dr Oliver Reginald Tambo was, and remains, a remarkable person. It is amazing how many people speak about him just like they would refer to the kindly uncle next door, or my favourite teacher at school. Countless numbers of people, young and...
AS PART of the celebration of Oliver Tambo in this, the centenary year of his birth, an important exhibition comes to Freedom Park in Pretoria. Titled “Determined Freedom Fighter” it charts the 30 years Tambo spent in the struggle against apartheid. “With so many of his comrades...
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...
ON SUNDAY, March 27 1960, two men set off on a perilous 1400km journey by car from Cape Town to Johannesburg. It was six days after the massacre of 69 people in the East Rand township of Sharpeville - and the security apparatuses of the...
Last year in June, I travelled to Zambia with the Vuka Africa Foundation team and as part of our visit we paid a courtesy call the South African High Commissioner in Lusaka, Her Excellency SN Mji. It was my first time in Zambia but having read...
The Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Foundation hosted the Oliver Tambo Centenary Memorial Lecture under the appropriate theme “On the Shoulders of a Giant” at the University of the Witwatersrand On 27 October 2017. Former President Thabo Mbeki delivered the keynote address to a full-house made up of...