ANC heroine Adelaide Tambo dies
31/01/2007 - 21:47:16Adelaide Tambo, widow of ANC hero Oliver Tambo, has died, a South African official said tonight.
She was 77.
A spokesman for the ruling African National Congress, Smuts Ngonyama, confirmed a radio report that Tambo was dead. No further details were immediately available.
Like her husband, Adelaide Tambo was a lifelong political activist and was widely regarded as a mother figure to anti-apartheid figures in exile.
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