Oliver Tambo Flashcards

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What is Oliver Tambo real name

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Oliver Reginald Tambo

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What is Oliver Tambo date and place of birth

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27 October 1917 in Mbizana [South Africa]

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What is Oliver Tambo date and place of death

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24 April 1993 ( 75 years) Johannesburg [South Africa]

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What is Oliver Tambo profession

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South African politician, anti-apartheid activist, and president of the African National Congress

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What is Oliver tambo wife name

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Adélaïde Tambo (1929-2007)

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What is Oliver Tambo life journey

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In 1944 with Nelson Mandela and others, he co-founded the ANC Youth League, which revitalized the ANC after a dying period. After briefly teaching math and science in Johannesburg, Tambo began to engage fully in nationalist politics and legal affairs, simultaneously rising through the ranks of the ANC. In 1952, he joined Mandela to found South Africa’s first black law firm. Tambo was arrested for treason in 1956 but was released the following year. In 1958, he became vice-president of the ANC.

After the Sharpeville massacre (March 21, 1960), the ANC was essentially outlawed when it was banned by the South African government. Tambo left South Africa to help set up the organization’s overseas headquarters, eventually settling in Lusaka, Zambia. In 1965, he established an ANC guerrilla training camp in Morogoro, Tanzania. After the death of ANC president Albert Luthuli in 1967, Tambo began serving as interim president; he was officially appointed to the post in 1969. Tambo’s decisive achievement was to keep the ANC together in exile.
. Tambo returned from exile in South Africa on December 13, 1990, to attend the first full-scale conference of ANC members (including exiles and former jailers) in over 30 years. He also participated in the negotiations for the country’s new democratic constitution. However, due to health issues following a previous stroke, Tambo ceded the ANC presidency in 1991 to his former colleague Mandela and took the largely honorary post of national president of the ANC. ANC. The ANC’s electoral victory in 1994 can be attributed as much to Tambo’s work as to that of Mandela.

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What is Oliver Tambo academic life

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He attended Anglican and Methodist missionary schools and the University of Fort Hare (BS, 1941) and then studied law

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What is Oliver Tambo 5 children names

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Dali Tambo, Tselane Tambo, Thembi Tambo, Nomatemba Tambo, Oliver Tambo, Jr.

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