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Oliver Reginald Tambo

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Tambo, Oliver Reginald 

Born Oct. 27, 1917, in Bizana, Cape of Good Hope Province, Republic of South Africa. Participant in South Africa’s national liberation movement; lawyer.

In 1944, Tambo helped form the Youth League of the African National Congress (ANC), which advocated a radical program of struggle against racism. Until 1950 he occupied several leading positions in the league. Elected a member of the ANC’s National Executive Committee in 1949, he became general secretary of the ANC in 1955 and vice-president in 1958. Since 1967 he has been the ANC’s acting president. Tambo has been repeatedly arrested and persecuted by the racist powers in South Africa.
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Oliver Reginald Tambo was born on 27 October 1917 in the village of Kantolo, in the Mbizana district of eastern Mpondoland (eQawukem) in the Eastern Cape.
Who was Oliver Tambo? By Zweledinga Pallo Jordan, South Africa's ... by Jordan, Zweledinga Pallo / New African
A few weeks after a statue of Mandela was unveiled in Parliament Square, a bronze bust by the same artist, the late Ian Walters, now marks the contribution of the "little lawyer", Oliver Reginald Tambo, the former president of the African National Congress and co-founder of the new South African state, who died in 1993.
The quiet man: memorial to Oliver Tambo by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
A few weeks after a statue of Mr Mandela was unveiled in Parliament Square, a bronze bust by the same artist, the late Ian Walters, honoured the contribution of the "little lawyer", Oliver Reginald Tambo, the former president of the African National Congress and co-founder of the new South African state, who died in 1993.
Memorial honours Mandela's quiet comrade by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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