Synergistic Revolutionary Attributes: Lessons from Revolutionary Leadership of Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu and Nelson Mandela
By Dr. Zamani Saul:
This video clip recounts the thrilling moment of the 1991 ANC 48th National Conference, the first conference after the unbanning of the ANC. Depicted in the video clip is the leadership triad of Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu and Nelson Mandela. This triad constituted one of the most durable collective synergies in the history of liberation politics.
Their partnership, sustained across more than fifty years, was forged in the radical politics of the 1944 ANC Youth League driven by a shared ideological imperative of "freedom in our lifetime". That imperative was not merely rhetorical. It was the organising logic through which the ANC was re-engineered, radicalised, and transformed from a deputations-based and elitist politic...
