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Der Distrikt OR Tambo liegt in der Provinz Ostkap in Südafrika. Auf einer Fläche von 12.096 km² leben rund 1,36 Millionen Einwohner. Der Verwaltungssitz befindet sich in Mthatha. Der Distrikt ist benannt nach Oliver Reginald Tambo.
- Flughafen O. R. Tambo
Der Flughafen O.R. Tambo (IATA-Code: JNB, ICAO-Code: FAOR)...
- Flughafen O. R. Tambo
O. R. Tambo International Airport (IATA: JNB, ICAO: FAJS or FAOR) is an international airport serving the twin cities of Johannesburg and the main capital of South Africa, Pretoria. It is situated in Kempton Park, Gauteng.
- Biography
- International Relationships
- Honours
Higher education
Oliver Tambo was born on 27 October 1917 in the village of Nkantolo in Bizana; eastern Pondoland in what is now the Eastern Cape. The village Tambo was born in was made up mostly of farmers. His father, Mzimeni Tambo, was the son of a farmer and an assistant salesperson at a local trading store. Mzimeni had four wives and ten children, all of whom were literate. Oliver's mother, Mzimeni's third wife, was called Julia. Tambo graduated in 1938 as one of the top students. After this, Tambo was a...
League
In 1944, along with Nelson Mandela, and Walter Sisulu, Tambo founded the ANC Youth League, with Tambo becoming its first National Secretary and a member of the National Executive in 1948. The Youth League proposed a change in the tactics of the anti-apartheid movement. Previously, the ANC had sought to further its cause by actions such as petitions and demonstrations; the Youth League felt these actions were insufficient to achieve the group's goals and proposed their own "Program of Action"....
Exile to London
In response, Tambo was sent abroad by the ANC to mobilize opposition to apartheid on 21 March 1960. He settled with his family in Muswell Hill, north London, where he lived until 1990. His exile took a toll on him not seeing his wife and three children, but his wife Adelaide supported the ANC at home by taking in ANC members arriving from the UK. In 1967, Tambo became Acting President of the ANC, following the death of Chief Albert Lutuli. He sought to keep the ANC together even after he was...
The strong fight against apartheid brought Tambo to form a series of intense international relationships.In 1977, Tambo signed the first solidarity agreement between the ANC and a municipality: the Italian town of Reggio Emilia was the first city in the world to sign such a pact of solidarity. This was the beginning of a long understanding which br...
In 2004, he was voted number 31 in SABC3's Great South Africans,[citation needed] scoring lower than H. F. Verwoerd, before the SABCdecided to cancel the final rounds of voting. The decision to cancel the results was largely informed by the fact that the majority of blacks South Africans did not participate in the voting, as SABC3 caters predominan...
Der Flughafen O.R. Tambo ( IATA-Code: JNB, ICAO-Code: FAOR) (bis 1994 Jan Smuts International Airport, zwischen 1994 und 2006 Johannesburg International Airport) ist ein internationaler Flughafen nahe Johannesburg in der Republik Südafrika. Er fungiert auch als Flughafen für die Hauptstadt Pretoria.
Der Flughafen wurde 1952 eröffnet, damals noch unter dem Namen Jan Smuts International Airport. Seit 2006 trägt er den Namen des Anti-Apartheid-Politikers Oliver Reginald (O.R.) Tambo . Der Flughafen liegt im Süden der Stadt Kempton Park, er ist etwa 20 km von Johannesburg und rund 50 km von Pretoria entfernt.
OR Tambo is one of the 7 districts of Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of OR Tambo is Mthatha (formerly spelt Umtata). The vast majority (94%) of its 1,364,943 people speak Xhosa (CMP was here). The district is named after Oliver Tambo. The district code is DC15.
