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Figure of unity: Former ANC president Oliver Tambo knew liberation required courage and legitimacy, an appeal to universal principles that could bind disparate nations into solidarity. Photo: The Presidency
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Oliver Tambo: The quiet architect of liberation and the Moses of a nation in exile

The ANC president was the quiet architect of liberation, carrying a people through the long wilderness of exile, sustaining hope when the promised land seemed impossibly distant

  • Andile Lungisa
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