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Nomination of the Oliver Tambo House in Lusaka Zambia

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The ANC and MK in exile relied on the support and cooperation of the Frontline States, such as Zambia. As part of this support, Kenneth Kaunda’s government allowed the ANC to establish it headquarters and safe houses across Lusaka and assigned a double storey house to Oliver Tambo. Tambo spent most of his 22 years in Lusaka in this house and when the ANC was unbanned and exiled members began returning home, the ANC donated the house to the Zambian people. The certificate of title is n the process of being transferred into the National Heritage Conservation Commission’s name, who are in full support of a dual declaration. The Zambian National Heritage Conservation Commission having identified the property is in the process of finalising the declaration under the Zambian legislation. In addition they have secured funding for the restoration of the property. SAHRA in addition has identified the site for declaration as part of the Oliver Tambo Centenary commemorations. The property has sting historical associations to Oliver Tambo, the ANC and MK in exile and is representative of the support of the Zambian Government to ANC and the liberation of South Africa,

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The residence, known as the Oliver Tambo House or O. Phiri, was for a long time occupied by Oliver Tambo, the then President of the African National Congress (ANC). He was renowned for his leadership in the liberation struggle against the notorious Apartheid regime from both inside and outside South Africa. Oliver Tambo spent 22 of his 33 years in exile in Zambia and mostly in this house assigned to him by the Zambian Government as his safe house. The assignment of this house to Tambo by the Zambian Government was not just an honour to the freedom fighter but was also recognition by President Kenneth Kaunda’s government of the role Tambo played in ensuring South Africa’s independence and is indicative of the support Zambia gave to liberation movements in the sub region. The honour bestowed to the Late Oliver Tambo and the ANC then, is depicted from the fact that it was the only double storey and one of the biggest houses in Chelstone Green area. This heritage site represents the role that Zambia played in ensuring that the whole of Southern Africa was independent from the various oppressive colonial and apartheid regimes. The First Republican President Kenneth Kaunda, who liberated Zambia from colonialism, believed that Zambia’s independence was meaningless if its neighbours and the rest of Africa were not free. This house is undoubtedly amongst southern Africa’s symbols of Pan-Africanism and a beacon of the support and partnership between Zambia and South Africa.

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Monday, October 2, 2017 - 11:18

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South African History Online, 25 July 2017. uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in Exile [Online] South African History Online. Available from http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/umkhonto-wesizwe-mk-exile
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