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ZA HPRA A2084-M-Mb-Mb3-Mb3.5
Title
Sweet Bird' controversy
Date(s)
- 2005 (Creation)
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1 file
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Scope and content
Correspondence relating to Thabo Mbeki's "ANC Today" letter of January 8 2005, in which he cited Oliver Tambo in 1971, describing as "the sweet bird...", but omitted Tambo's change in attitude in 1989 during the Five Freedom's Forum meeting with the ANC in Lusaka, Zambia in 1989. Included are Thabo Mbeki's letter, Oliver Tambo's New Year message to the ANC external mission in 1971, Oliver Tambo's welcoming address to the Five Freedoms Forum in Lusaka 1989, newspaper clips and response by.