EKURHULENI Metropolitan Municipality will celebrate the life and times of liberation stalwarts Oliver Tambo and his wife Adelaide with a walk in Kempton Park next month.
The inaugural Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Liberation Walk, which has been divided into two categories - 5km and 17km - will take place on October 1.
The walk will also include a 5km school challenge for schools around Ekurhuleni. The winning school will receive prizes from the newly established Adelaide Tambo Foundation.
Organiser Prince Hamca said the entry fee for the 5km walk is R70 while the entry fee for the 17km walk is R80. People who want to take part in this walk, which will be an annual event, have until September 20 to enter.
"South Africans from all walks of life have an opportunity to be part of history by taking part in the first-ever Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Liberation Walk.
"The Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Foundation has partnered with the Ekurhuleni metro and OR Tambo International Airport to bring the maiden annual walk in honour of the Tambos.
"The walk forms part of Ekurhuleni's annual October month celebrations of the life and legacy of struggle stalwarts Oliver and Adelaide," Hamca said.
This year's walk will trace these footsteps from Ekurhuleni, where the Tambos lived before they went into exile for more than 30 years and they are buried next to each other in Wattville.
"In the next few years, these footsteps will be traced back from Mbizana in Eastern Cape, where Oliver was born in 1917, to places like London (in England)."
Proceeds of the walk will go to people living with disabilities through a number of charities - the Adelaide Tambo Development Centre in Wattville (Benoni), the Adelaide Tambo School for the Disabled in Soweto and the Brave Foundation.
Forms are available at Central Gauteng Athletics offices at Germiston Stadium, or by calling 011-873- 2726 or 011-486-3381, or on-line: www.tamboliberationwalk.co.za
The event will start at Benoni Cedar Football Club behind the OR Tambo Airport at 7am, where Ekurhuleni mayor Mondli Gungubele will also participate.
Liberation Walk for Tambos
EKURHULENI Metropolitan Municipality will celebrate the life and times of liberation stalwarts Oliver Tambo and his wife Adelaide with a walk in Kempton Park next month.
The inaugural Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Liberation Walk, which has been divided into two categories - 5km and 17km - will take place on October 1.
The walk will also include a 5km school challenge for schools around Ekurhuleni. The winning school will receive prizes from the newly established Adelaide Tambo Foundation.
Organiser Prince Hamca said the entry fee for the 5km walk is R70 while the entry fee for the 17km walk is R80. People who want to take part in this walk, which will be an annual event, have until September 20 to enter.
"South Africans from all walks of life have an opportunity to be part of history by taking part in the first-ever Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Liberation Walk.
"The Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Foundation has partnered with the Ekurhuleni metro and OR Tambo International Airport to bring the maiden annual walk in honour of the Tambos.
"The walk forms part of Ekurhuleni's annual October month celebrations of the life and legacy of struggle stalwarts Oliver and Adelaide," Hamca said.
This year's walk will trace these footsteps from Ekurhuleni, where the Tambos lived before they went into exile for more than 30 years and they are buried next to each other in Wattville.
"In the next few years, these footsteps will be traced back from Mbizana in Eastern Cape, where Oliver was born in 1917, to places like London (in England)."
Proceeds of the walk will go to people living with disabilities through a number of charities - the Adelaide Tambo Development Centre in Wattville (Benoni), the Adelaide Tambo School for the Disabled in Soweto and the Brave Foundation.
Forms are available at Central Gauteng Athletics offices at Germiston Stadium, or by calling 011-873- 2726 or 011-486-3381, or on-line: www.tamboliberationwalk.co.za
The event will start at Benoni Cedar Football Club behind the OR Tambo Airport at 7am, where Ekurhuleni mayor Mondli Gungubele will also participate.
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