Multi Grammy award winners, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, are collaborating with renowned artists to write a song in honour of struggle hero, Oliver Tambo. The dedication comes as President Jacob Zuma has declared 2017 the year of Oliver Tambo. The group is once again putting South Africa and its historical heritage...
STELLENBOSCH University has in the past been a thought space for the negative and although it is slowly changing, old attitudes still remain on the campus and in the town, former Constitutional Court Judge Albie Sachs said this week. He was speaking during the fourth lecture...
Justice Albie Sachs Delivers Oliver Tambo Centenary Lecture on the Constitution, Equality and Decolonisation. On Thursday the 24th of August Justice Albie Sachs gave a lecture titled “The Constitution as an Instrument of Decolonisation and Achieving True Equality”. The lecture was the fourth and final lecture in...
Former speaker of Parliament and African National Congress (ANC) Stalwart Frene Ginwala says former ANC President Oliver Tambo recognised the contributions women made, and continued to place them in leadership roles during the liberation struggle under the ANC. Ginwala was speaking at a panel discussion for...
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...
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...
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...
In observation of the 100 years since the birth of Oliver Reginald Tambo, a nine-meter high bronze statue of the struggle icon will be erected at OR Tambo International Airport, in October. This was disclosed at the OR Tambo Memorial Lecture, held in Wattville, recently, which...
In a four-part lecture delivered as part of the Oliver Tambo Centenary Series different aspects of the Constitution will be tackled and tied in to critical issues facing the country right now. In part one we look at the leadership Oliver Tambo gave in creating...
Audience members were told moving anecdotal stories about Tambo’s friendship with anti-apartheid activist Trevor Huddleston....