ANC heroine Adelaide Tambo dies

Adelaide Tambo, widow of ANC hero Oliver Tambo, has died, a South African official said tonight.

She was 77.

A spokesman for the ruling African National Congress, Smuts Ngonyama, confirmed a radio report that Tambo was dead. No further details were immediately available.

Like her husband, Adelaide Tambo was a lifelong political activist and was widely regarded as a mother figure to anti-apartheid figures in exile.