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Ever since Mandela's arrest in 1962 on charges of attempted sabotage and treason, his former deputy, Oliver Tambo, now 68, has run the A.N.C. from exile, currently in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. The A.N.C. has received support from the Soviet Union, as well as some Western nations, and is increasingly co operating with the also banned South African Communist Party. The alliance has made it convenient for the Pretoria government to describe the township unrest as Communist inspired. Over the years, the A.N.C. has trained guerrilla fighters at camps in various black African countries and staged a number...
Mandela opens the first black law firm in South Africa with fellow ANC member Oliver Tambo, who later becomes national chairperson...
...style derives from a hard-won discipline. Oliver Tambo, his former law partner and the longtime leader of the A.N.C. in exile who died last year, once described the youthful Mandela as "passionate, emotional, sensitive, quickly stung to bitterness and retaliation by insult and patronage." Who can discern those characteristics in the controlled Nelson Mandela of today? He now prizes rationality, logic, compromise, and distrusts sentiment. Prison steeled him, and over the decades he came to see emotion not as an ally but as a demon to be shunned. How was the man who emerged from prison different from...
...should have reigned last week among members of the African National Congress as the long-outlawed group held its first conference inside South Africa in 30 years. Instead, rancor erupted as the A.N.C.'s veteran leadership clashed with the younger, hard-line rank and file. President Oliver Tambo, back from three decades of exile, suggested the easing of economic sanctions against South Africa in light of recent reforms, but was voted down. Nelson Mandela, criticized for meeting with government officials without consulting the A.N.C. membership, said his opponents "do not understand the nature of negotiations...
Thirty years ago, Oliver Tambo slipped out of South Africa to establish an overseas network of the African National Congress just before the underground movement was crushed at home. Tambo, president of the A.N.C. since 1967, returned last week, flying into Johannesburg's Jan Smuts Airport to delirious shouts of "Tambo, Tambo, Tambo...