Mandela and Tambo meet in Sweden

Date: 12 Mar 1990
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

While on a mission to foreign countries to ask them to break political ties and tighten sanctions against South Africa in order to speed political change, African National Congress (ANC) Vice-President Nelson Mandela met his old friend, ANC President Oliver Tambo, for the first time in twenty-eight years. The meeting took place in Sweden, where Tambo was recuperating from a stroke that had partially paralysed him the previous year.

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01The New York Times,"Isolate Pretoria,Mendela Demands",From: The New York Times,[Online],Available at: www.nytimes.com,[Accessed on: 03 March 2014]
02(2003). Milestones,The Star, 12 March 2003.

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Mandela and Tambo meet in Sweden. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012871

South African History Online (2011) 'Mandela and Tambo meet in Sweden', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012871 (Accessed: 27 July 2026).

South African History Online, Mandela and Tambo meet in Sweden [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012871, (accessed 27 July 2026).

"Mandela and Tambo meet in Sweden." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012871. Accessed 27 July 2026.

South African History Online. "Mandela and Tambo meet in Sweden." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012871.