Author : Luli Callinicos
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Anti-apartheid activists
ISBN : 9780864866660
Updated and revised biography that explores the complex relationship between Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo, and Tambo "s influence on the Mandela we revere today.
Author : Oliver Tambo
Publisher : George Braziller
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This unique collection of speeches, writings and rare interviews by the President of the African National Congress, with a foreword by Nelson Mandela, and compiled by Mrs Adelaide Tambo, both within South Africa and on a world-wide scale, over three decades. For much of this time Oliver Tambo had been the movement's leading spokesman.
Author : Hugh Macmillan
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Anti-apartheid activists
ISBN : 9781431425631
"The centenary of the birth of OR Tambo falls on 27 October 2017. Hugh Macmillan's pocket biography traces Tambo's role as a leader of the legal ANC through the Defiance Campaign, the Congress of the People and the Treason Trial, and his evolution from militant 'Africanism' towards acceptance of the idea of the ANC as a 'broad church' open to people of different racial groups and political persuasions. The freedom enjoyed today in South Africa can be attributed to his political zeal, his unique leadership qualities and the vision that kept the ANC together in exile in the face of great difficulties, and prepared the way for a negotiated end to apartheid and transition to democracy. Oliver Reginald Tambo passed away on the morning of 24 April 1993. His epitaph, in his own words, reads: "It is our responsibility to break down barriers of division and create a country where there will be neither whites nor blacks, just South Africans, free and united in diversity." This Jacana Pocket Biography analyses the sources of Tambo's strength as a leader, emphasising his integrity, his commitment to non-racial democracy, and the importance to him of religion, music and family."--Publisher's description
Author : Chris Van Wyk
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
This series honours the lives of southern African leaders who helped shape the history of the region. The books include activities for exploration in the classroom.
Author : Julia Meyerson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292788118
Perhaps the best way to sharpen one's power's of observation is to be a stranger in a strange land. Julia Meyerson was one such stranger during a year in the village of 'Tambo, Peru, where her husband was conducting anthropological fieldwork. Though sometimes overwhelmed by the differences between Quechua and North American culture, she still sought eagerly to understand the lifeways of 'Tambo and to find her place in the village. Her vivid observations, recorded in this field journal, admirably follow Henry James's advice: "Try to be one of the people upon whom nothing is lost." With an artist's eye, Meyerson records the daily life of 'Tambo—the cycles of planting and harvest, the round of religious and cultural festivals, her tentative beginnings of friendship and understanding with the Tambinos. The journal charts her progress from tolerated outsider to accepted friend as she and her husband learn and earn, the roles of daughter and son in their adopted family. With its wealth of ethnographic detail, especially concerning the lives of Andean women, 'Tambo will have great value for students of Latin American anthropology. In addition, scholars preparing to do fieldwork anywhere will find it a realistic account of both the hardships and the rewards of such study.
Author : Thula Simpson
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 177022842X
The armed struggle waged by the ANC’s military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was the longest sustained insurgency in South African history. This book offers the first full account of the rebellion in its entirety, from its early days in the 1950s to the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as South African president in 1994. Vast in scope, this story traverses every corner of South Africa and extends throughout southern Africa, where MK’s largest campaigns and heaviest engagements occurred, as well as to the solidarity networks that the rebellion mobilised around the world. Drawing principally from previously unpublished writings and testimonies by the men and women who fought the armed struggle, this book recreates the drama, heroism and tragedy of their experiences. It tells the story of leaders like Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Joe Slovo and Chris Hani, whose reputations were forged in the crucible of the armed struggle, but it is also a tale of martyrs such as Looksmart Ngudle, Ashley Kriel and Phila Ndwandwe, as well as of MK cadres such as Leonard Nkosi and Glory Sedibe, who would ultimately turn against the ANC and collaborate with the state in hunting down their former comrades. Written in a fresh, immediate style, Umkhonto we Sizwe is an honest account of the armed struggle and a fascinating chronicle of events that changed South African history.
Author : Anthony Sampson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1037 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307814025
Nelson Mandela, who emerged from twenty-six years of political imprisonment to lead South Africa out of apartheid and into democracy, is perhaps the world's most admired leader, a man whose life has been led with exemplary courage and inspired conviction. Now Anthony Sampson, who has known Mandela since 1951 and has been a close observer of South Africa's political life for the last fifty years, has produced the first authorized biography, the most informed and comprehensive portrait to date of a man whose dazzling image has been difficult to penetrate. With unprecedented access to Mandela's private papers (including his prison memoir, long thought to have been lost), meticulous research, and hundreds of interviews--from Mandela himself to prison warders on Robben Island, from Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo to Winnie Mandela and F. W. de Klerk, and many others intimately connected to Mandela's story--Sampson has composed an enlightening and necessary story of the man behind the myth.
Author : Zweledinga Pallo Jordan
Publisher : Pan Macmillan South africa
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1770105697
Oliver Tambo Remembered is a salute to one of South Africa’s most remarkable individuals. Originally published in 2007, this compilation of memories is a celebration of what would have been Oliver Reginald Tambo’s 90th birthday. It sees friends and associates remembering OR the leader, the comrade and the man. The contributions are written by people who encountered OR during his travels in Europe and the US, and who knew him whilst he was living in South Africa and in exile in Africa and the UK. This edition of Oliver Tambo Remembered is published in commemoration of his centenary on 27 October 2017. The pieces in this book celebrate not only the impact that OR had on South Africa’s future, but also the character of a selfless, compassionate leader, who raised the international profile of the ANC through his wise and intelligent guidance, his humility and integrity, and his unyielding commitment to the struggle.
Author : Chris Van Wyk
Publisher : Awareness Publishing
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 36,33 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Anti-apartheid movements
ISBN : 1919910786
Author : Elinor Sisulu
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780864866394
This is well-told story and an important historical record of the struggle for a democratic South Africa.
