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Oct 17, 2011

Opening address by Oliver Tambo to the Conference on “Whites in a changing South Africa”, Convened by the five Freedoms Forum and the African National Congress, Lusaka, 1 July 1989

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Oct 17, 2011

Speech by Oliver Tambo to the seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party, 1 April 1989

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Oct 17, 2011

Speech by Oliver Tambo at the tenth General Conference of the United National Independence Party, Zambia, 2 August 1988

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Oct 17, 2011

’Peace and development in our region’, Speech by Oliver Tambo at “War on want” Conference, London, 2 June 1988

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Oct 17, 2011

Speech by Oliver Tambo at the 50th session of the OAU Coordinating Committee for the liberation of Africa, Harare, 13 May 1988

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Oct 17, 2011

Speech by Oliver Tambo at the conference on “SADCC`s future: Europe`s role”, Harare, 28 March 1988

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Oct 17, 2011

Speech by Oliver Tambo at the Symposium on the survival and development of children in the frontline states and Southern Africa, Harare, 5 March 1988

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Oct 17, 2011

Frederik van Zyl Slabbert

Professor of Sociology, Member of Parliament, leader of the Progressive Federal Party, Director of Policy and Planning o...

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Oct 17, 2011

Jan van Riebeeck

Founder and first commander of Cape Town, South Africa. van Riebeeck was an Administrator of the Dutch East India Compan...

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Oct 15, 2011

Baron Joachim van Plettenberg

Member of the Council of Justice in Batavia,Governor of the Cape Colony 

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Oct 15, 2011

Richard Ernest van der Ross

Principal of a teacher training school, one of the leaders of the Coloured "convention" movement, first president of the...

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Oct 15, 2011

Ismail Vadi

Teacher, lecturer, member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) and the United Democratic Front (UDF), founder member o...

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Oct 15, 2011

Ben Turok

Surveyor, lecturer and secretary of the COD, arrested for treason in 1956, trade union organiser, elected unop...

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Oct 15, 2011

Gladstone Xala Tshume

Member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), trade unionist,  secretary of the African Textile Workers' Union, ...

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Oct 15, 2011

Chief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala

Clerk, Secretary of the Working Committee, ANC Sophiatown, chairman of school committees in Soweto in the 1960s, Chairma...

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