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Jan 09, 2017

Statement by Oliver Tambo at May day rally, 01 May 1987, Stockholm

It is a great honour for the ANC and for me, personally, to have been invited to participate with the Swedish labour mov...

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Jan 09, 2017

Statement by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the Triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, 01 July 1987, Managua

Comrade Daniel Ortega, President of the Republic of Nicaragua and Coordinator of the Executive Commission of the Nationa...

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Jan 09, 2017

Statement by Oliver Tambo at the Funeral of Moses Mbheki Mabhida, 29 March 1986, Maputo

We have gathered here today to bid farewell to a warrior. We have converged from all corners of the globe to pay homage ...

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Jan 09, 2017

Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela

The time comes in the life of all oppressed peoples that some among them should, as rebels, lay down their lives to affi...

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Jan 09, 2017

Message by Oliver Tambo to Frelimo Central Committee on the death of Samora Machel, 22 October 1986

The tragedy that has befallen the people of Mozambique is without parallel in the history of the independent Africa. It ...

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Jan 09, 2017

Statement by Oliver Tambo on 16 June 1984

The month of June, like no other month, carries a galaxy of dates each of which records and bears witness to the heroic ...

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Jan 09, 2017

Address by President Jacob Zuma to the Military Veterans Medals Parade Waterkloof Airforce Base, 27 October 2012

Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Nosiviwe Mapisa Nqakula Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, T...

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Jan 09, 2017

Address by President Jacob Zuma during the commissioning of the OR Tambo school of Leadership, 26 March 2010, Kaweweta, Uganda

Your Excellency, the President of the Republic of Uganda, Ugandan and South African Ministries of Defence and Public W...

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Jan 09, 2017

On the 20th Anniversary of the passing of Comrade Oliver Reginald Tambo, 24 April 2013

The African National Congress joins the nation in commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the passing of Comrade Oliver Re...

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Jan 09, 2017

Oliver Tambo, Southern Africa, South Africa and the ANC replies to questions by Sechaba, 01 April 1968

Question: Mr. Tambo, you have just completed a tour of some African countries; what was the aim of this tour and what ar...

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Jan 09, 2017

Interview with Oliver Tambo by Le Monde, Addis Ababa, 08 June 1983

[Addis Ababa - "Each time one of us dies, thousands of others say they will have to ensure that the death was not i...

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Jan 09, 2017

Tribute to President Reginald Oliver Tambo by ANC Treasurer General Dr Mathews Phosa on the occassion of the OR Tambo Lecture, 27 October 2011, Kimberly, Northern Cape Province

Programme Director Leadership of the Organisation of Cde. Oliver Tambo and the Alliance Business Community Comrade...

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Jan 09, 2017

Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the 47th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, Honouring of Luthuli Detachment and Conferment of Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe Award on Chris Hani, 16 December 2008, Mangaung, Bloemfontein

National leadership of the ANC and the Alliance, ANC Provincial Chairperson, Comrade Ace Magashule and the provincial l...

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Jan 09, 2017

THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE IS ON IN EARNEST, Durban, 12 December 1959

Presidential Address to the 47th Annual Conference of the African National Congress Durban, 12 December 1959 The Annu...

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Jan 09, 2017

Chief Albert Luthuli and the ‘gospel of service’ by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick), 12 March 2014, South Africa

Luthuli told the Natal ANC in 1949: We cannot say that Africans are accepting fast enough the gospel of service and sac...

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