“Comrades, you might think it is very difficult to wage a liberation struggle. Wait until you are in power. I might be dead by then. At that stage, you will realize that it is actually more difficult to keep the power than to wage a liberation war. People will be expecting a lot of services from you. You will have to satisfy the various demands of the masses of our people. In the process, be prepared to learn from other people’s revolutions. Learn from the enemy also. The enemy is not necessarily doing everything wrongly. You may take his right tactics and use them to your advantage. At the same time, avoid repeating the enemy’s mistakes.” - O.R Tambo (1917 - 1993).
Oliver Tambo (1917 - 1993) with Enuga S Reddy (1924 - 2020) at the United Nations. E S Reddy was one of the main architects of the global anti-apartheid movement. As Secretary of the Special Committee Against Apartheid he used UN resources to build grassroots anti-apartheid activism. Credit: AAM Archive, UN
Recently qualified Lawyer - Oliver Tambo, c 1951. After completing a BSc Physics and Mathematics degree and a teachers diploma at the University Fort Hare, Tambo worked as a teacher in the early 1940s. In the late 1940s he decided to quit teaching to pursue a career in law and, more significantly, to dedicate himself full-time to the anti-apartheid struggle. He studied law by correspondence and qualified in 1951. Credit: Jurgan Schadaberg, Beyond The Engeli, SAHO, Wikipedia