Tambo
Americannoun
noun
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The flight at the centre of the dispute arrived on Thursday, at South Africa's OR Tambo International Airport.
From BBC
The group arrived at OR Tambo International Airport but were initially refused entry and were stuck in the plane for more than 10 hours as they "did not have the customary departure stamps in their passports", local authorities said.
From BBC
Johannesburg's international airport, once known as Jan Smuts – honouring a former prime minister – is now called OR Tambo, after the anti-apartheid leader and former president of the ANC.
From BBC
In a separate incident, the bodies of seven people carried away by flood water have been found in the province's OR Tambo district.
From BBC
Around 1985, when Musk was in his early teens, Oliver Tambo, the leader of the then-banned African National Congress, called for people to resist apartheid and “make South Africa ungovernable.”
From Slate
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