/ 24 May 1999

ADELAIDE TAMBO HURT IN CAR CRASH

AFRICAN National Congress Women’s League stalwart Adelaide Tambo underwent a two-hour surgical operation at Johannesburg’s Milpark hospital on Monday morning after being injured in a car accident over the weekend. Tambo, widow of late ANC president Oliver Tambo, was rushed to hospital by ambulance after an allegedly drunk driver collided with her car in Sharpeville on Saturday night. Tambo suffered a fractured leg and is reported to be in satisfactory condition in the hospital’s intensive care unit.