Cape Town - ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe says Oliver Tambo was a leader who was head and shoulders above everyone in the movement, including former President Nelson Mandela. Mantashe gave an ...

This year, 2017, marks the centenary of the birth of one of the outstanding leaders of the South African struggle for liberation. As we mark the centenary of Oliver Reginald Tambo's birth it is ...

It is with sadness that I have to say today, nearly 20 years after our liberation, that although our achievements have been considerable, we are not living up to the ideals of Oliver Tambo.

Factions within South Africa’s ANC nostalgically point to the example of Oliver Reginald Tambo whose seen as an exemplar of integrity, personifying an ideal leader who served the party selflessly.

The memories of former ANC president Oliver Tambo and his contribution to the struggle for freedom in South Africa will live for ever now that a museum in Benoni has been opened in his honour.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — “Amandla!” For the second time in as many weeks, the Zulu word for freedom was shouted by mourners in a soccer stadium outside Johannesburg in Soweto,… ...

Pallo Jordan, who started working as a researcher for the ANC in 1975, edited the biography Oliver Tambo Remembered. He’s also on the board of the ...

According to Callinicos, Wilton Mkwayi recalls Tambo making a case to his comrades in 1958, arguing that in the struggle “you always take an acre at a time … That is sekindima — one by one.

It seemed like a straightforward assignment: a visit to Oliver Tambo's childhood home. The anti-apartheid giant was born in the village of Nkantolo in the Eastern Cape on October 27 1917.

A statue to honour the heritage of Oliver Tambo is a “soft vengeance” on the apartheid government and others who tried to “airbrush” him out of history. So said the struggle stalwart’s ...

South Africa: Oliver Tambo Centenary Series, Part 3 ... I think we increase the fallout when, instead of standing on the achievements of the past, we trample on them.

A statue to honour the heritage of Oliver Tambo is a “soft vengeance” on the apartheid government and others who tried to “airbrush” him out of history.So said the struggle stalwart’s ...