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Sep 11, 2017

Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980

South Africa has for decades been the only country in the world which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority in...

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Sep 11, 2017

Unity in Action Decisive - O. R. Tambo Interviewed to New African, London, 1980

Question: How would you assess the Lancaster House Conference on Zimbabwe, and the implementation up to now of what...

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Sep 11, 2017

O. R. Tambo Interviewed to New Times, Moscow, January 1980

Question: How do you assess the situation in southern Africa after the Zimbabwe Patriotic Front has signed the ceas...

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Sep 11, 2017

Message to the People of South Africa on the 68th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1980

Today is January 8th, the birthday of the African National Congress. This 68th anniversary of the foundation of the ANC ...

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Sep 11, 2017

Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who Escaped from Prison in South Africa, Lusaka, 2 January 1980

The African National Congress has in its ranks people who are fighting together across the race and colour line, and who...

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Sep 11, 2017

African National Congress Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, 5 November 1979

It has come to our notice that the issue of the Johannesburg Sunday Times of November 4, 1979, carries an arti...

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Sep 11, 2017

Statement at the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, Havana, Cuba by O. R. Tambo, 3 - 9 September 1979

Mr. Chairman,  Your Excellencies,  Distinguished Delegates, We have already had the honour and privilege ...

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Sep 11, 2017

South African Tragedy: Jail Part Lovers by Joseph Lelyveld (New York Times), 5 January 1983

She and Neil Aggett had been a couple for the better part of a decade. In that time, they both became doctors, then foll...

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Sep 11, 2017

University of the Orange Free State, Grey's College School

With origins that can be traced back to 1904, the University of the Free State (UFS) is one of the oldest institutions o...

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Sep 08, 2017

Navanethem (Navi) Pillay

Attorney, university lecturer, first woman to open her own law practice in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal),  first Black woman...

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Sep 08, 2017

Speech, on Behalf of the National Liberation Movements, at the Opening Session of the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Havana, Cuba, 3 September 1979

Your Majesties,  Your Excellencies,  Distinguished Delegates,  Mr. Chairman, President Comrade Fide...

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Sep 08, 2017

Speech on the Occasion of the Celebration of the Twenty-First Anniversary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 21 April 1979

We greet you all in the name of the liberation movements of southern Africa, in the name of SWAPO of Namibia, the Patrio...

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Sep 08, 2017

The Spirit of Bandung - Address to the International Conference in Support of the Liberation Movements of Southern Africa and in Support of the Frontline States by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 10 April 1979

The Afro-Asian solidarity movement has traversed a long and complicated but glorious path since the days, 25 years ago n...

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Sep 08, 2017

Letter to Ayatollah Khomeini by O. R. Tambo, Iran, 13 February 1979

Maputo,  People's Republic of Mozambique,  February 13, 1979 His Excellency Ayatollah Khomeini,(2)  ...

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Sep 08, 2017

Statement at the International Conference on the EEC and South Africa by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 27 January 1979

This Conference, organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, is of tremendous importance to the struggle for nationa...

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