Collection:Oliver Tambo×
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Interview with Oliver Tambo by Randall Robinson, Executive Director, Transafrica Forum, 2 March 1983, Washington, DC
How would you assess the current state of affairs in South Africa? TAMBO: The South African regime has become very desperate. They have…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the official opening of the expanded OR Tambo International Airport, 20 April 2010
The Minister of Transport; Sbu Ndebele, Gauteng Premier, Nomvula Mokonyane, Chairperson of ACSA, Sindi Zilwa and the CEO, Monhla Hlahla,…
ANC Gauteng Centenary Month to celebrate Oliver Tambo, 18 October 2012
The ANC Gauteng will host the centenary flame for eleven days from the 21st October until November 2012. The ANC will celebrate the life…
Press Conference in Maputo: Comments by Oliver Tambo on South African offer of territory to Swaziland, 5 March 1982
[Speaking at a press conference in Maputo, Mr. Tambo said that the ANC had already held two sets of discussions with the Swazi authorities…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in London, 21 March 1984
Mr. Ken Livingstone, Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, Ambassador Sahnoun, Honourable Mr. Hughes, Ladies and gentlemen, May I begin by…
Interview with Africa Report by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1981, New York
AFRICA REPORT: To many critics, the African National Congress (ANC) looks like a failure. After 70 years, racism is more entrenched than…
Oliver Tambo, October 1987
Oliver Tambo[1] In many colonial and social revolutions, the leaders of the people had to go into exile to guide the resistance or were…
Statement On Behalf of the South Africa United Front, 1960, New York
Oliver Tambo representing the ANC Vusumzi L. Make representing the PAC On October 5th, 1960, the "electorate" of the Union of South…
National OR Tambo Memorial Lecture series inaugural address by his excellency Dr Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, OR Tambo International Airport, 24 October 2011
Mr Dali Tambo and the entire Tambo family, Esteemed Trustees and Founding Members of the Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Foundation, Ministers…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Rixaka, 05 January 1985
Question: In the January 8 statement of the National Executive Committee this year, prominent mention is given to the cultural field. How…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the house of commons: Oliver Tambo, 29 October 1985, London
CHAIRMAN: I welcome Mr. Oliver Tambo and his friends, Mr. Thabo Mbeki and Mr. Aziz Pahad, and I am glad that they have been able to come…
Message by Oliver Tambo of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 71st anniversary of ANC, 08 January 1983
We must organise ourselves into a conquering force Fellow South Africans, Today, January 8th, we mark the 71st anniversary of our…
Oliver Tambo call for the observance of the 70th birthday of Nelson Mandela, 18 June 1988
The people of South Africa, particularly the youth of our country, are renowned for their fearless challenge to the full might of Pretoria…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 09 November 1982, New York
Defeat those who subvert United Nations Decisions Four days ago, in commemorating the twentieth anniversary of its singularly important…
Message by Oliver Tambo on South Africa`s year of the women, a call to the peoples of the world, 01 November 1983
The African National Congress, the broad democratic movement and the people of South Africa as a whole, will be observing 1984 as the Year…
Message to the Special Committee against Apartheid on its 20th anniversary from O.R. Tambo, President of the ANC, 06 April 1983
We take the opportunity to extend to the Committee the most cordial fraternal greetings on occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo, on behalf of the Southern African Liberation Movements, at the closing session of the seventh summit meeting of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African states, 02 December 1988, Arusha
Your Excellency, President Ali Hassan Mwinyi, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Vice-Chairman of Chama Cha Mapinduzi and…
Message by Oliver Tambo to Nelson Mandela an International Tribute for a Free South Africa, 16 April 1990, Wembley Stadium, London
The "International Tribute - For a Free South Africa" is an historic and unique event. Artists from across the world are gathering in…
Canon Collins Memorial Lecture by Oliver Tambo, 28 May 1987, London
It is now almost five years since Canon John Collins passed away. With his departure, many of us lost a dear friend. As a people, we lost…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the anti-racist day meeting of the Greater London Council, 21 March 1984, London
Twenty-four years ago today, March 21st, 1960, 69 Africans were brutally murdered in the black township of Sharpeville, South Africa, when…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987, Lusaka
Comrade President, Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda, a most eloquent exponent and defender of the cause of liberation in South Africa and Namibia,…
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 our Conference,…
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 to turn their backs…
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 Sizwe - was born to…
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. Pretoria has…
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 Tanzania, Comrade…
Olof Palme and the liberation of Southern Africa by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1988
When the terrible news was announced to the world on 1 March 1986 that Olof Palme had fallen to an assassin`s bullet, the peoples of…
Further information on services for the late Adelaide Tambo, 07 February 2007
Please find below information on additional services for the late Adelaide Tambo. Please note that the venue for the funeral on Saturday…
Letter to the Chairman of the Special Committee against Apartheid by O.R. Tambo, President of the ANC, 06 October 1975
We enclose herewith a copy of a document published by our Information Department exposing the dangerous and sinister policy of the…
OR Tambo lecture by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa
The Deputy President of the ANC, Comrade Cyril Ramaphosa, will deliver a lecture to celebrate the life and times of Oliver Reginald Tambo…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Radio Freedom, 01 April 1981
[The following was a reply by Mr. Tambo to a question on Radio Freedom concerning the "noise Chief Gatsha Buthelezi was making about his…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the struggle continues and grows more intense, 23 August 1984
Next week is another confrontation with the Botha constitution. Thousands of millions of people around the world, including the Security…
National spokesperson to address a lecture on OR Tambo
This month, October 2014, the African National Congress pays homage to our late former President, Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe Comrade Oliver…
Speech by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Oliver Tambo Institute of Leadership, 17 July 2008, Kawaweta, Uganda
Members of the National Resistance Movement Central Executive Committee, Honourable Ministers, Members of the Ugandan National Parliament…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the Unveiling of the Tombstone of Oliver Tambo, 19 April 1998, Wattville, Benoni
Master of ceremonies; Our dear Adelaide and family; Comrades and friends, The main speaker on this occasion is Thabo Mbeki, the…
Address by Nelson Mandela at the Funeral of Adelaide Tambo, 10 February 2007
Once more this morning we come to pay our last respects to a member of our generation of freedom fighters and patriots. Over these last…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New Times, 05 January 1980, Moscow
Question: How do you assess the situation in southern Africa after the Zimbabwe Patriotic Front has signed the ceasefire agreement? TAMBO:…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
Question: The ANC lays great emphasis on unity. How do you see the question of unity with such groups as PAC and other small groupings…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New African, 05 January 1980, London
Unity in Action Decisive Question: How would you assess the Lancaster House Conference on Zimbabwe, and the implementation up to now of…
Statement on naming of OR Tambo International Airport, 31 October 2006
The African National Congress commends the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, the Department of Arts and Culture, Department of…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye,1 September 1981
Question: On the night of the 12th/13th of August, a unit of the People`s Army shelled Voortrekkerhoogte, the Headquarters of the racist…
ANC statement on the death of Adelaide Tambo, 31 January 2007
It is with deep regret and a profound sense of loss that the African National Congress has learnt of the death this evening (31 January…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Newsweek, 01 August 1980
Question: Your guerrillas recently blew up fuel tanks at South Africa`s oil-from-coal processing plant at Sasolburg, and there have been…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye on the current situation in South Africa and Southern Africa in general, 01 March 1984
Question: At the end of August, the regime conducted its "elections" to the "Coloured" and Indian parliaments. As expected, the whole…
Press Conference in Addis Ababal: Oliver Tambo, 02 July 1987
The first question the President of the ANC was asked is whether he was satisfied, or the ANC satisfied about the level of support that is…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Noticias, 05 August 1983, Maputo
Our bases are inside South Africa Question: Since the car bomb explosion in Pretoria there has been talk of a change of strategy by the…
Stuart Commission Report
1984 COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA March 14, 1984 Lusaka CONTENTS PART ONE …
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
I would like to state in my preliminary remarks that the overthrow of the hated and criminal policies that prevails in South Africa…
Visit of Graca Machel, 9 October 1991
A delegation from Mozambique, led by Mrs Graca Machel, and a delegation of South Africans led by ANC National Chairman Oliver Tambo -…
Message to the Soweto Rally to Welcome Released Leaders by O. R. Tambo, 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 to turn their backs…