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Oliver Tambo funeral; Part 3 of 5SOUTH AFRICA: Johannesburg: Soweto: FNB Stadium:EXTNelson Mandela (President of the African National Congress) speech SOT- All tyrants, whatever their colour and their shape and their garments, come today and are gone tomorrow / the people, the victims of their tyranny, live on- All tyrannical systems, whatever the name they give themselves - nazism, colonialism, apartheid, racism are some of their names - all, without exception, come today and tomorrow are no more than a bad memory- The opponents of tyranny - the South African, Oliver Tambo, the South African, Chris Hani, the South African, Albert Luthuli, the Indian, Indira Gandhi, the Indian, Rajiv Gandhi, the Grenadian, Maurice Bishop, the Zimbabweans, Herbert Chitepo, Jason Moyo and Josiah Tongogara, the Mozambican, Samora Machel, the Swede, Olof Palme, the Americans, Martin Luther King Jr, John F Kennedy and Malcolm X, the Angolan, Aghostino Neto, the Guinean, Amilcar Cabral, the Nigerian, Murtala Mohamed, the Chilean, Salvador Allende, the Ghanaian, Kwame Nkrumah, the Egyptian, Abdul Gamal Nasser, the Motswana, Seretse Khama, the Swazi, King Sobhuza II- The woman, the man, the son, the daughter, the unknown soldier, the nameless heroes and heroines for whom no songs of praise are sung- All of them continue, still, to speak to us because they live.- Dear brother: You set yourself a task which only the brave would dare / somewhere in the mystery of your essence, you heard the call that you must devote your life to the creation of a new South African nation- And having heard that call, you did not hesitate to act- It may be that all of us - your dear wife, Adelaide, your children, those of us who are proud to count ourselves among your friends, your closest comrades - it may be that all of us will never be able to discover what it was in your essence which convinced you that you, and us, could, by our conscious and deliberate actions, so h...