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DATE: SUNDAY, April 25, 1993                   TAG: 9304250038
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA                                LENGTH: Short

SOUTH AFRICAN APARTHEID OPPONENT TAMBO DIES

Oliver Tambo, who helped found the African National Congress, then led the anti-apartheid group from exile, died Saturday in another passing of the ANC's old guard. He was 75.

ANC leader Nelson Mandela called the nearly back-to-back deaths of Tambo and ANC activist Chris Hani a "serious blow" to the group that increased the urgency for an agreement to end white rule.

Tambo, the former African National Congress president who held the then-banned organization together during his three decades in exile, died of a stroke early Saturday.

- Associated Press 


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