Tambo
Americannoun
noun
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Tambo international airport on Thursday, AFP journalists at the airport reported.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
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 ● Jun. 10, 2025
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 ● Mar. 15, 2025
A bronze statue of Tambo with a hand aloft stood among the jubilation, as if bestowing his blessing upon a scene made possible by the work he did to topple apartheid.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
Most of these defendants were relatively minor figures in the ANC, but also among them were Chief Luthuli and Oliver Tambo.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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