Oliver Tambo passed away on this day in 1993. Here he is in 1955 at a boxing match Todd Matshikiza covered.
"I said to myself when I saw them, Shucks, these fellows Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo are actually enjoying this cruel sport."- Matshikiza
At the ANC conference in November 1958 when the Africanists moved to leave the ANC. At this heated conference in which a fight almost broke out Sobukwe declared, "We shall think of co-operation with other races when we have come into our own."
📸: Peter Magubane
The Tambos at Madiba's 70th birthday concert at Wembley in 1988
"He did not introduce me to the struggle; I was already in it when I met him.”- Adelaide Tambo
"As a colonized people we not only assert our right to rebel against the colonizer: We assert also our right to determine for ourselves the means and methods to use to liberate ourselves and our country as well as our right to determine what to do with our liberation." OR Tambo
If you haven't, add this biography to your SA history reading list.
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