Adelaide Frances Tambo (née Tshukudu; 18 July 1929 – 31 January 2007) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and former political exile.

[2] Born on 18 July 1929 in Top Location as Adelaide Frances Tshukudu, she was affectionately known as Mama Tambo in South Africa.

She attended the St Thomas Practising School in Johannesburg and Orlando High in Soweto.

She was also one of the founding members of Afro-Asian Solidarity Movement and Pan African Women's Organization (PAWO) in 1963.

[5] Tambo received the Order of the Baobab in Gold, one of the highest honours bestowed by the post-1994 South African government.