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The Oliver Tambo and Adelaide Foundation and the Thabo Mbeki Foundation have collaborated to celebrate the year of Oliver Tambo through a women’s dialogue this August. The dialogue is to be held at The Market Theatre in Johannesburg and will aim to advocate women's rights. CEO of Oliver and Adelaide Tambo...

Johannesburg - Former African National Congress leaders Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo were men of great humility and leadership, taking full responsibility for their actions, Mac Maharaj has said."Leadership arises in the way in which you react to the unintended consequences," said the ANC stalwart...

Radebe says ANC members should strive for an equal, non-racial society. he was delivering the Oliver Tambo Memorial Lecture in Sedibeng on Sunday.   JOHANNESBURG – Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe has urged African National Congress (ANC) members to remain loyal to the party’s values to...

Despite the fact that his career distinguishes him as one of the venerated leaders of the struggle, Oliver Tambo remains largely obscured in the shadow of other eminent members of the ANC.   “Never forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us...

Youth Month 2017 will be used to reflect on the life and legacy of Oliver Tambo, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. Oliver Reginald Kaizana Tambo (fondly known as O.R.) was born on October 27, 1917. He died on April 24, 1993, just...

The Foundation partnered with the Imbumba Foundation and their “Caring 4 Girls” initiative to bring a supply of sanitary pads to school girls in Nkantolo – the birthplace of Oliver Tambo. On Tuesday, 30 May, Natasha flew to Mbizana, and, along with Ndumo and Siyabonga from...

On the 24th May this year the Adelaide Tambo School celebrated Adelaide Tambo day, marking the renaming of the school and celebrating Adelaide Tambo’s life and contribution to society. The school choir opened the event with a song, followed by a prayer from one of the...

Sisulu ‘went to jail not knowing money and returned still not knowing money, therefore, he would not have been seduced by money.’ Fallen anti-apartheid heroes Oliver Reginald Tambo and Walter Sisulu have been dubbed honest men with ethics, who would not have been seduced by money...

The Foundation together with the South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL), the Mail & Guardian, Kaya fm, and the Wits School of Governance, hosted the Critical Thinking Forum on the 16 th May 2017. The topic: “Leadership Lessons Learnt from OR Tambo”. The event was...

Ekurhuleni’s executive mayor Clr Mzwandile Masina and the Brazilian Foreign Minister, Honorable Aloysio Nunes Ferreira Filho will lead a wreath laying ceremony at O R and Adelaide Tambo’s gravesite on Monday, May 15. This is part of a series of planned events to commemorate the centenary...