While on a mission to foreign countries to ask them to break political ties and tighten sanctions against South Africa in order to speed political change, African National Congress (ANC) Vice-President Nelson Mandela met his old friend, ANC President Oliver Tambo, for the first time in twenty-eight years. The meeting took place in Sweden, where Tambo was recuperating from a stroke that had partially paralysed him the previous year.
eventREF E-0012871Revised
12 March 1990
Mandela and Tambo meet in Sweden
- Updated
- 30 Sep 2019
How we know this
- 01The New York Times,"Isolate Pretoria,Mendela Demands",From: The New York Times,[Online],Available at: www.nytimes.com,[Accessed on: 03 March 2014]
- 02(2003). Milestones,The Star, 12 March 2003.
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Mandela and Tambo meet in Sweden. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012871
South African History Online (2011) 'Mandela and Tambo meet in Sweden', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012871 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).
South African History Online, Mandela and Tambo meet in Sweden [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012871, (accessed 12 October 2026).
"Mandela and Tambo meet in Sweden." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012871. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.
South African History Online. "Mandela and Tambo meet in Sweden." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012871.
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