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Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki , 1942-, South African political leader. Mbeki was born into a politically active family; his father, Govan Mbeki, an official with the African National Congress (ANC), was imprisoned (1964) at Robben Island along with Nelson Mandela , released (1987), and became (1994) deput... Read more
minstrel show
minstrel show stage entertainment by white performers made up as blacks. Thomas Dartmouth Rice, who gave (c.1828) the first solo performance in blackface and introduced the song-and-dance act Jim Crow, is called the "father of American minstrelsy." The first public performance of a minstrel s... Read more
Johannesburg
Johannesburg , city (1991 pop. 1,574,631), Gauteng, NE South Africa, on the southern slopes of the Witwatersrand at an altitude of 5,750 ft (1,753 m). Johannesburg is the largest city in South Africa, the center of its important gold-mining industry, its manufacturing and commercial center, and th... Read more
Peru
Peru , Span. Perú , officially Republic of Peru, republic (2005 est. pop. 27,926,000), 496,220 sq mi (1,285,210 sq km), W South America. It borders on the Pacific Ocean in the west, on Ecuador and Colombia in the north, on Brazil and Bolivia in the east, and on Chile in the south. Lima is ... Read more
Bethphage
Bethphage , in the New Testament, unidentified place, near Jerusalem, traditionally between Bethany and the Mount of Olives. ... Read more
olive oil
olive oil pale yellow to greenish oil obtained from the pulp of olives by separating the liquids from solids. Olive oil was used in the ancient world for lighting, in the preparation of food, and as an anointing oil for both ritual and cosmetic purposes. It is produced mainly in Algeria, Greece, It... Read more
Isaac Oliver
Isaac Oliver , 1556?-1617, English miniature painter. Oliver was a worthy follower of Hilliard as miniature painter to Elizabeth's court. His work, more naturalistic than Hilliard's, is to be seen in the British and the Victoria and Albert museums, London, and in the Cleveland Museum. His son and pu... Read more
olive
olive common name for the Oleaceae, a family of trees and shrubs (including climbing forms) of warm temperate climates and of the Old World tropics, especially Asia and the East Indies. Many are popular ornamentals, particularly the lilac ( Syringa ), true jasmine ( Jasminum ), privet ( Ligus... Read more
Gethsemane
Gethsemane , olive grove or garden, E of Jerusalem, near the foot of the Mount of Olives. In the Gospels, it is the scene of the agony and betrayal of Jesus. A number of sites in the area of the Garden are tended by representatives of the Christian tradition. The Franciscan Basilica of the Agony is ... Read more
Vittoria
Vittoria city (1991 pop. 55,280), SE Sicily, Italy; founded 1607. It is an important center of wine and olive oil production and export. ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to " Oliver Tambo"

Oliver Reginald Tambo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Oliver Reginald Tambo Oliver Reginald Tambo (1917-1993) was, as acting president of the African National...Born in poverty of peasant parents in Pondoland in 1917, Oliver Reginald Tambo's early education was at St. Peter's School in Johannesburg... Read more
Tambo, Oliver
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Tambo, Oliver (1917–93) South African politician...ANC) . He joined the ANC in 1944. In 1960, Tambo left South Africa to organize the external...During Nelson Mandela's long imprisonment, Tambo served first as acting president (1967... Read more
Mbeki, Thabo
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...the ANC. He returned to South Africa after President F. W. de Klerk lifted the ban on the ANC in 1990. He succeeded Oliver Tambo as chair of the ANC in 1993, and the following year became deputy president to Nelson Mandela . In 1997, Mbeki succeeded... Read more
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...During the 1970s he traveled throughout Africa for the ANC and became (1978) political secretary to its president, Oliver Tambo. In the 1980s, Mbeki was the ANC's director of information, becoming its director of international affairs in 1989... Read more
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...him to the foremost rank of African nationalist leadership in the 1940s and 1950s in company with Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo. Sisulu began his working life in 1929 when he migrated to Johannesburg, like so many Africans before and since. He... Read more
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...imprisoned for life in 1964, many Blacks decided to abandon the policy of non-violent resistance. Most ANC members, led by Oliver Tambo, left South Africa and launched a campaign of sabotage from exile. The white government increased its violence in return... Read more
Winnie Mandela
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Tsukudu, worked as a staff nurse. It was through her friendship with Adelaide Tsukudu that she met Adelaide's fianc é Oliver Tambo, and they introduced her to a prominent lawyer and member of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League, Nelson... Read more
Tutu, Desmond
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...for life in 1964, many black Africans decided to abandon the policy of nonviolent resistance. Most ANC members, led by Oliver Tambo, left South Africa and launched a campaign of sabotage (destruction) from exile. The government increased its violence... Read more

Dictionary entries related to " Oliver Tambo"

Tambo, Oliver Reginald
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Tambo, Oliver Reginald (b. 27 Oct. 1917, d. 24 Apr. 1993). President-general of the ANC 1977–90 Born in Bizana (Cape Province), he became... Read more
ANC
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...moderation, a new generation including Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo formed the ANC Youth League in 1944, which aimed to secure...the Soweto riots. More importantly, under its president, Tambo, the ANC gradually built up an international anti-apartheid... Read more
Mbeki, Thabo Mvuyelwa
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Soviet Union before going to work at the ANC headquarters in Lusaka (Zambia). Becoming a close adviser to ANC President Oliver Tambo , he was ANC spokesperson on foreign affairs, while simultaneously developing contacts with leading figures in White... Read more

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Tango with Tambo. (Oliver Tambo visits U.S.)
Magazine article from: National Review; 2/27/1987; 297 words ; Tango with Tambo SECRETARY OF STATE George...public photo opportunity to Oliver Tambo the other day, thereby awarding...pointing out that he had urged Tambo to renounce violence. At...conference immediately afterward, Tambo wouldn't even renounce necklacing... Read more
Died.(CENSUS)
Magazine article from: Jet; 2/26/2007; 205 words ; Adelaide Tambo, 77, widow of South African anti-apartheid hero Oliver Tambo and a stalwart in the struggle against racial segregation, in Johannesburg, South Africa ... Joe Hunter, 79. Motown's first band... Read more
South Africa honours anti-apartheid fighter.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record; 9/1/2004; 67 words ; ...Mbeki presented Baldwin Sjollema, the first director of the World Council of Churches Program to Combat Racism, with the Oliver Tambo Award, the highest honour South Africa gives to civilian foreigners. The 77-year-old Dutch sociologist, who lives near... Read more
Trevor Huddleston: A Life.(Review)
Magazine article from: African Business; 2/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...freedom fighters in the darkest moments of the struggle against apartheid . Other leaders in this fight figures such as Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu and Archbishop Desmond Tutu all paid testimony to the crucial role played by this controversial Anglican... Read more
Nelson Mandela leads South Africa to free elections.
Magazine article from: Jet; 5/16/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...to mark his X. It had been no easy walk to freedom. No doubt Mandela's mind was filled with the images of Chris Hani, Oliver Tambo, Steven Biko and the countless others who didn't live to see the rebirth of South Africa. This is for all South Africans... Read more
Health training gets R16m shot in the arm.(South Africa)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: CME: Your SA Journal of CPD; 2/1/2007; ; 148 words ; ...of UCT's School of Public Health and Family Medicine. The R16m, from The Atlantic Philanthropies, would enable UCT's Oliver Tambo Fellowship Programme to be relaunched as a 50-50 partnership between Ehrlich's school and the university's Graduate... Read more
Transport glitches remain.(2010 World Cup)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: African Business; 4/1/2009; ; 305 words ; ...doubts are less about hotel capacity than the country's transport infrastructure. Travelling through Johannesburg's Oliver Tambo International Airport last February, I was fascinated to see that the Gautrain was so close to completion. This remarkable... Read more
Airport News.
Magazine article from: Airguide Online; 7/17/2006; 700+ words ; ...Jan Smuts which changed its name to Johannesburg International in 1994, making sense, and is now wanting to be called Oliver Tambo, which has upset the South African opposition parties. In any event IATA will continue to call it JNB, just as Mumbai... Read more
CUBA: CHE GUEVARA'S LEGACY ACKNOWLEDGED IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 3/19/2009; 158 words ; ...colonialism and Apartheid. The initiative will include an image of Che Guevara along those of Amilcar Cabral, Julius Nyerere, Oliver Tambo, Steve Biko, Toussaint Louveture, and other outstanding heroes.The Freedom Park was officially opened December 2006... Read more
THE TIPPING POINT: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference.(Review)
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...resistance. Not only can, but in the case of South Africa, did, just one generation later. But how? How were Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, and others able to defeat apartheid? Why have their counterparts in China and North Korea failed to defeat communism... Read more