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  Albert Lutuli Summary
Albert Luthuli was born in Solusi mission station, Rhodesia, where his father served American missionaries as an interpreter.
Luthuli's thinking was influenced as much by the Zulu's view of life as by his Christian background and by race segregation.
Luthuli proclaimed a day of mourning and was subsequently arrested during the state of emergency which followed the shootings.
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 FEATURE: Who was Chief Albert Luthuli?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Luthuli was born in 1898 in Bulawayo, Rhodesia.
Luthuli held the post for over 17 years and therefore could not have been viewed as a threat to the government.
Luthuli reportedly did not distinguish himself during the five years that he was a member of the Council.
www.gal.co.za /newsitem.php?id=603   (449 words)

  
 Missionaries: South Africa
Luthuli is a son of American and South African Congregationalism and we ought to be dripping with pride and itching to emulate.
Luthuli, though a political leader, was simultaneously a spiritual leader and his speeches and political statements are riddled with theological references.
Luthuli once stated, "I am in the ANC because I am a Christian." Luthuli's faith was the catalyst and the sustenance of his struggle.
www.globalministries.org /missionaries/afr11-l35.htm   (1016 words)

  
 The legacy of Albert Luthuli - SouthAfrica.info
The opening marked the completion of the government-driven Albert Luthuli Legacy Project, which included the launch of an annual memorial lecture, and the unveiling of a bronze statue of Luthuli at the KwaDukuza Municipal Chambers, and of a memorial at the Groutville Congregational Church where Luthuli's grave is located.
Luthuli and his guest held a private discussion on a wooden bench that is still positioned under a tree outside the museum.
In response, Luthuli issued "The Road to Freedom is via the Cross", in which he condemned apartheid as degrading to all who are party to it and expressed both his belief in non-violence and an optimism that whites would sooner or later accept a shared society.
www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/history/albert-luthuli.htm   (1235 words)

  
 Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Albert Luthuli is elected to the Executive Committee of the Natal Provincial Division of the African National Congress.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, J.G.Strijdom, Albert Luthuli defines the aims and objectives of the African National Congress and its belief in a common society and suggests that a national convention be held.
Albert Luthuli is elected rector by the students of Glasgow University in recognition of his “dignity and restraint” in “a potentially inflammatory situation”.
www.sahistory.org.za /pages/chronology/special-chrono/luthuli.html   (2199 words)

  
 Albert John Luthuli
Albert John Mvumbi (Zulu: "Continuous Rain") Luthuli was born in Rhodesia, where his father, John Bunyan Luthuli, a missionary interpreter, had gone from Zululand.
In 1927 Luthuli married Nokukhanya Bhengu, a teacher and granddaughter of a clan chief.
Mary Benson, Chief Albert Lutuli of South Africa (1963), is a short biography, and her South Africa: The Struggle for a Birthright (1966, reprinted 1985), examines Luthuli's role in the history of the African National Congress.
www.nobel-winners.com /Peace/albert_john_luthuli.html   (929 words)

  
 Albert Luthuli - He was a Christian by Dave Andrews TARGET, Resources from TEAR Australia
As President, Albert coordinated the ANC Defiance Campaign, that defied government restrictions on the movement of fls -these even prevented a 'fl' wife from moving into a town to join her 'fl' husband without the threat of being arrested by the 'white' police.
Albert also argued very strongly for economic sanctions against South Africa, on the grounds that he thought they were the only chance of a "relatively peaceful transition" for the country.
For most of his active political life Albert favoured a non-violent struggle against apartheid, but he was not a pacifist, saying that "anyone who thought he was should try to steal his chickens!" However, in 1961, Albert was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
www.tear.org.au /resources/target/022/Albert_Luthuli.htm   (819 words)

  
 Chief Albert Lutuli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Luthuli then lived for a period in the household of his uncle, Martin Luthuli, who was at that time the elected Chief of the Christian Zulus inhabiting Umvoti Mission Reserve around Groutville.
In response, Luthuli issued "The Road to Freedom is via the Cross," perhaps the most famous statement of his principles a belief in non-violence, a conviction that apartheid degrades all who are party to it, and an optimism that whites would sooner or later be compelled to change heart and accept a shared society.
Luthuli's surname is very often spelled Luthuli, as it is in his autobiography, which was prepared for publication by non-vernacular-speaking friends.
www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/lutuli,aCHIEF.htm   (1362 words)

  
 The Namibian
Luthuli named Buthelezi as the person who was responsible for the violence that resulted from the attacks because he said they had received his approval.
Luthuli has repeatedly said in his testimony that he had no doubt Buthelezi knew of the formation of the hit squads and their objectives in the conflict between the IFP and the UDF.
Luthuli, who is a grandson of former ANC leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Luthuli, was a member of the armed wing of the African National Congress, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), and spent time on Robben Island.
www.namibian.com.na /netstories/April98/caprivitrc1.html   (612 words)

  
 Luthuli home declared a museum - SouthAfrica.info
The Chief Albert Luthuli Legacy Project, initiated with the launch of a Memorial Lecture in March this year, comprises different components such as a church, a museum and a sculpture in honour of the outstanding African leader.
Chief Luthuli was the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1961 for his outstanding efforts in fighting for human dignity, political freedom and social prosperity.
Luthuli and his guest discussed the ANC's vision of a united South Africa, with Senator Kennedy giving the former ANC leader a portable record player and recordings of speeches made by his brother, the former US president JF Kennedy.
www.southafrica.info /what_happening/news/luthuli-museum.htm   (567 words)

  
 The legacy of Albert Luthuli - SouthAfrica.info
The opening marked the completion of the government-driven Albert Luthuli Legacy Project, which included the launch of an annual memorial lecture, and the unveiling of a bronze statue of Luthuli at the KwaDukuza Municipal Chambers, and of a memorial at the Groutville Congregational Church where Luthuli's grave is located.
Luthuli and his guest held a private discussion on a wooden bench that is still positioned under a tree outside the museum.
In response, Luthuli issued "The Road to Freedom is via the Cross", in which he condemned apartheid as degrading to all who are party to it and expressed both his belief in non-violence and an optimism that whites would sooner or later accept a shared society.
www.safrica.info /what_happening/news/features/albert-luthuli.htm   (1222 words)

  
 Mercury: Albert Luthuli's life is honoured
The life and role of Albert Luthuli in bringing about democracy in South Africa was finally recognised at the weekend with the unveiling of a museum named after him, a literacy project and his statue in his home town of KwaDakuza (Stanger).
The moving commemorative ceremony to honour Luthuli, the first African to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, was attended by high-profile political figures, including President Thabo Mbeki and King Goodwill Zwelithini, KwaZulu-Natal Premier S'bu Ndebele and the chairman of KwaZulu-Natal House of Traditional Leaders, Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
Luthuli, an educator, farmer, businessman and a traditional leader of note, was the last ANC leader before the organisation was banned.
www.themercury.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=283&fArticleId=2196893   (208 words)

  
 Chief Albert Mvimbi Luthuli
Luthuli won international acclaim for his efforts to use nonviolence to end state- sponsored racial discrimination in South Africa.
Luthuli was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), the son of well- respected members of the Zulu ethnic group.
Luthuli's prominent position in the protest led the government to strip him of his position as chief of Groutville.
disa.nu.ac.za /individuals/aluthuli.htm   (721 words)

  
 T Mbeki: Inaugural Albert Luthuli Lecture
Albert Luthuli was born in 1898, near Bulawayo in Zimbabwe.
By the end of the 19th century, when Albert Luthuli was born, the whole of Africa, with the exception of Ethiopia and Liberia, was under different European colonial powers, despite the heroic struggles of Africans everywhere to defend their independence, fighting against the superior arms of the colonial invaders.
Luthuli was referring to many heroic struggles of our forbearers, that must remain in our collective memory, and from which we should always draw strength as we face obstacles to our efforts to transform South Africa into a country that Luthuli lived and died for - a democratic, united, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous society.
www.info.gov.za /speeches/2004/04032313461005.htm   (2840 words)

  
 The Witness Group - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Inkosi Albert Luthuli, the late ANC stalwart and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, is to be further honoured with the launch of the Inkosi Albert Luthuli National Legacy Project that aims to pay homage to his work, life and philosophy.
The Luthuli project is one of nine such projects which include the Nelson Mandela Museum in the Eastern Cape and the Samora Machel Memorial in Mpumalanga.
Luthuli's daughter Dr Albertina Luthuli said she appreciates the efforts made to recognise the contributions made by her father to attain a new dispensation.
www.witness.co.za /content/2004_02/21526.htm   (292 words)

  
 Albert John Luthuli - Silver Chips Online
Albert John Luthuli was a prominent leader of the nonviolent civil rights movement in South Africa and an activist for peace and quality education.
Luthuli's mother was a heavy supporter of education and encouraged him to pursue his studies.
Luthuli attended a local Congregationalist mission school, a boarding school called Ohlange Institute, a Methodist institution at Edendale and finally Adams College, through which he obtained training to become a professional educator.
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 SABCnews.com - politics/government
Luthuli will be honoured as one of many freedom fighters who contributed to the liberation of South Africa, but did not live long enough to enjoy the fruit of their struggle.
Luthuli was involved in the Defiance Campaign, during which he was banned along with Mandela and many others.
Luthuli's life and contribution to South Africa will be celebrated this weekend as well-wishers including prominent politicians from across the country and the world, descend on the Stanger Recreation Centre where proceedings will be led by President Thabo Mbeki.
www.sabcnews.com /politics/government/0,2172,86136,00.html   (376 words)

  
 Address by Deputy President Jacob Zuma at the Second Matthew Goniwe Annual Lecture on the Occasion of the Albert ...
Chief AJ Luthuli was born in 1898, near Bulawayo in Zimbabwe.
Chief Luthuli led the ANC during a period of turbulence and intense repression from the apartheid regime.
Another highlight of Chief Luthuli's leadership of the ANC is that it was during this period that the armed struggle was launched.
www.dfa.gov.za /docs/speeches/2004/zuma0803.htm   (1838 words)

  
 The Witness Group - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Luthuli's was always a voice of reason and conciliation.
Luthuli died in 1967, apparently struck by a train as he walked across the Umvoti River railway bridge.
Luthuli's vision was for a non-racial society established by non-violent means.
www.witness.co.za /content/2004_08/26641.htm   (508 words)

  
 Luthuli, Albert John and Gravesite
Luthuli won international acclaim for his efforts to use nonviolence to end state- sponsored racial discrimination in South Africa.
Luthuli was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), the son of well- respected members of the Zulu ethnic group.
Luthuli's prominent position in the protest led the government to strip him of his position as chief of Groutville.
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 BBC ON THIS DAY | 10 | 1961: Apartheid attacked at Nobel ceremony
Albert Luthuli, leader of the banned African National Congress, has appealed for racial equality in South Africa after accepting the Nobel peace prize for 1960 in Oslo, Norway.
Mr Luthuli received his prize for advocating non-violent resistance to racial discrimination dressed in traditional Zulu attire with a leopard-skin hat and necklace of lion's teeth.
Mr Jahn said Mr Luthuli, who led the ANC from 1952 until it was banned last year, had done well to reject the use of force in his quest for racial harmony in South Africa.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/10/newsid_3223000/3223074.stm   (535 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Luthuli,
Luthuli, Albert John A Dictionary of World History...
Luthuli's presidency was marked by the Defiance Campaign, his programme of civil...
Elected chief of a Zulu community, he became president of the African National Congress in 1952, during a period of increasing militancy that led to the banning of the ANC in 1960.
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Albert John Luthuli was born around 1898 in Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) where his father was a catechist teacher.
In order to obtain an education Luthuli went to live with his uncle at Groutville, where his early schooling was at the American Board Mission school.
Although the position of chief meant a vast reduction in his salary Luthuli decided that service to his community came first and he left teaching in 1935 to act as the elected chief at Groutville from 1 January 1936.
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 ALBERT JOHN MVUMB]I LUTHULI, South Africa, Independent
His father, John Bunyan Luthuli, was a missionary interpreter in Rhodesia, and Albert, supported by a scholarship and his widowed mother's earnings as a charwoman, attended an American Mission Board's teacher training college near Durban, South Africa.
During Luthuli's tenure as Natal ANC president, he led the organization to join with the South African Indian Congress in protesting racially discriminatory laws, for which more than eight thousand persons went to jail.
Repeatedly arrested and banned to living in his neighborhood, in 1960 Luthuli burned his pass, the document all Africans were required to carry by police, for which he was arrested and fined.
www.dacb.org /stories/southafrica/mvumbi_johnalbert.html   (771 words)

  
 S Ndebele: Launch of Albert Luthuli Commemorative Events
Albert Luthuli was deeply religious and during his time at Adam's College he became a lay preacher.
Chief Luthuli's thus saw his removal from this post as one of the many acts by the government aimed at subverting democracy wherever in their view it reared its ugly head.
Inkosi Luthuli used his moral authority in the world and his position as President General of the ANC to pave the road towards the peaceful resolution of the political impasse in apartheid South Africa.
www.info.gov.za /speeches/2007/07022714451003.htm   (2369 words)

  
 BuaNews Online homepage
It is ten years since the onset of democracy, hard won by the majority in the country, and South Africa has seen the ideals and values of the late Chief Albert Luthuli beginning to take hold, which he lived and died for.
It is in this regard that government launched the Chief Albert Luthuli Legacy Project to recognise his contributions and ensure the memory of one of the greatest fathers of democracy in South Africa is not forgotten.
It is not unusual for Chief Luthuli to receive visitors who come and give their respect to a man they regard as a profound thinker, a man of logic, who upheld a sense of justice.
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 Definition of Albert Luthuli
He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the ANC and its fight against apartheid.
His father died, and he and his mother returned to their ancestral home of Groutville, Natal, South Africa, wher he stayed with his uncle Martin Luthuli, who was at that time the elected chief of the Christian Zulus inhabiting the Umvoti mission Reserve.
On completing a teaching course at Edendale, near Pietermaritzburg, Luthuli took up the running of a small primary school in the Natal uplands.
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