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In 1940 Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela were expelled from Fort Hare University for participating in a student strike. In 1942 Tambo returned to his former high school in Johannesburg to teach science and mathematics.
Oliver Tambo, along with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, was a founding member of the ANC Youth League in 1943. The youth league proposed a change in tactics in the anti-apartheid movement. The ANC had previously sought to further its cause by actions such as petitions and demonstrations. The ANC Youth League did not feel that these actions were sufficient to achieve their goals and proposed their own 'Programme of Action'. This programme advocated tactics such as boycotts, civil disobedience, strikes and non-collaboration.
He was one of the founders of the ANC Youth League in 1944 and its first National Secretary. In 1948 he was elected onto the National Executive of the ANC.
In 19551955 is a common year starting on Saturday. see link for calendar) Events January events January 2 Panama president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated. January 19 The Scrabble board game debuts. February events February 8 Nikolai Bulganin ousts Georgi Mal he became Secretary General of the ANC After Walter Sisulu was banned by the South African government under the Suppression of Communism ActThe 1950 Suppression of Communism Act was legislation of the National government in South Africa. It purported to ban organizations that supported communism, though it used a very loose definition that allowed anyone being in equality of races to be deeme. In 1958Events January January 1 Treaty of Rome founding the EU is implemented January 4 Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4 1957) January 8 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship January 18 Armed Lumbee Nat he became Deputy President of the ANC and in 1959Events January-February January 1 Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin. January 1 Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when forces of Fidel Castro advance January 2 CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Bac was served with a five year banning order by the government.
Tambo was sent abroad by the ANC in order to mobilise opposition to apartheid. He was involved in the formation of the South African United Front which achieved the expulsion of South Africa from the CommonwealthThe Commonwealth of Nations is a voluntary association of independent sovereign states, mostly formed by the United Kingdom and its former colonies. It was formerly known as the British Commonwealth (or British Commonwealth of Nations , and many still cal in 19611961 (As MAD Magazine pointed out on its first cover for the year) was the first "upside-down" year i. one that looked the same upside down since 1881, and the last until 6009. Events January January 1 The farthing coin, used since the 13th century, cease.
In 19851985 is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January events January 1 Creation of the Internet's Domain Name System. January 17 British Telecom annouces they are going to abolish the famous red telephone boxes. January 23 A debate in the House of Lor he was re-elected President of the ANC. He returned to South Africa in 1991 after over 30 years in exile, and elected elected National Chairperson of the ANC in July of the same year.
He first had a stroke in 1989. It was another stroke that killed him in 1993.
In 2004 he was voted 31st in the Top 100 Great South Africans ( see List of South Africans)