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Adelaide Tambo
Adelaide Tambo (18 July 1929 – 31 January 2007) joined the African National Congress at the age of eighteen and went on to become a prominent anti-apartheid activist. She is rightl...view moreAdelaide Tambo (18 July 1929 – 31 January 2007) joined the African National Congress at the age of eighteen and went on to become a prominent anti-apartheid activist. She is rightly regarded as a hero of the South African liberation struggle. Ma Tambo, as she was later known, met Oliver Tambo at an ANC meeting and married him in 1956, during the Treason Trial. Together they served the ANC both at home and in exile for almost forty years. After Oliver Tambo’s death in 1993, Ma Tambo went on to serve as an MP in the first democratically elected parliament.view less