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Nov 28, 2016

Statement by Oliver Tambo at the 19th African-American Conference, 12 January 1989, Lusaka

Mr. Chairman, Your Excellencies, Ministers, Ambassadors and High Commissioners, Comrades and friends, The Chairman of...

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Nov 28, 2016

Twentieth Anniversary of the United Nations Sanctions Resolution: Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 05 November 1982, New York

Over the past three decades the apartheid regime has emerged as a vicious oppressor and a ferocious exploiter of the peo...

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Nov 28, 2016

Message by Oliver Tambo to the Soweto rally to welcome released leaders, 29 October 1989

This is a joyful day for all of us. It is a day of celebration for all the people of our country. Those who have chosen ...

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Nov 28, 2016

ANC Press Statement presented by Oliver Tambo, 16 August 1985, Lusaka

Last night, the people of South Africa and the rest of the world were treated to an arrogant reaffirmation by P.W. Botha...

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Nov 28, 2016

Broadcast to South Africa by OR Tambo on the 8th Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe, 16 December 1969

Comrades-in-arms and fellow fighters in the struggle for freedom: On December 16, 1961, a national army - Umkhonto we S...

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Nov 28, 2016

Speech by Oliver Tambo on behalf of the Liberation Movements, at the twenty-third session of the assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, 27 July 1987, Addis Ababa

Mr. Chairman, Your Excellencies, Distinguished Heads of State and Government, Esteemed delegates, Comrades, ladies an...

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Nov 25, 2016

Let them Speak - Slave Stamouers of South Africa by André van Rensburg

The early Cape was settled not only by ex-VOC workers who became free burghers and the Huguenots but also by slaves who ...

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Anna De Koningh
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Nov 25, 2016

Anna De Koningh

Freed enslaved woman, wife of Olof Bergh, owner of Groote Constantia.

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Jan Smiesing
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Nov 25, 2016

Jan Smiesing

Enslaved person, school master and healer at the Slave Lodge in Cape Town.

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Nov 25, 2016

Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid, 12 January 1982

Mobilise the world for sanctions against apartheid! We owe the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid a deb...

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Nov 25, 2016

A call to the people of South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 02 May 1987

The period we are going through is characterised by a sharpening confrontation between our people and the racist regime....

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Nov 24, 2016

Statement by Oliver Tambo on ANC`s seventieth anniversary: Appeal to the world, 02 December 1981

The African National Congress invites friends and supporters of our liberation struggle to join with the South African p...

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Nov 24, 2016

Directive concerning the nature of the forthcoming ANC consultative conference in Morogoro by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1969

Since the banning of the African National Congress on April, 1960, three conferences which were in the nature of general...

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Nov 24, 2016

Speech by Oliver Tambo at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, 02 May 1984, Mazimbu, Tanzania

We are a force 2 May 1984, Mazimbu, Tanzania Comrade Chezi, Representative of the Government of the United Republic of...

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Nov 24, 2016

Letter from Oliver Tambo to Sir Geoffrey Howe, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 21 July 1986

H.E. Sir Geoffrey Howe Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs London. Sir Geoffrey, I am most grate...

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