Word: luthuli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...followers call it "living death." For heading the African National Congress, an organization dedicated to passive resistance against apartheid, the South African government five years ago banished Albert John Luthuli to his 25-acre sugar farm near the Zulu village of Groutville and to the little town of Stanger. Since then he has won the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize and quietly kept up his stance of resistance, although he was forbidden to speak or write for publication...
Last week, the day before the five-year ban was up, two Special Branch detectives caught up with Luthuli in a shop near his farm and handed him a notice. It banished Luthuli for another five years, this time under even more rigid conditions; henceforth he may not even go into Stanger or attend services in the local Congregational Church for fear he would incite other blacks to riot...
...individual, Du Plessis is quite eager to discuss the great question about South Africa: When asked whether peaceful change is possible, he picked up a sheaf of papers and read a quote from Chief Albert Luthuli: "How long before, out of the depths they cry, 'If the man of peace does not prevail, give us the men of blood'?" His jaw tensed, and he read the quote again, lingering a moment on "blood." He is not optimistic that "the men of blood" can be restrained. The government's policies have annihilated the moderates like Luthuli; in its growing extremism...
...Justice Minister pointed out that, in common with South Africa's Liberal and Communist parties, NUSAS supports the maxim: "One Man One vote." The student organization has worked closely with the banned African National Congress, Vorster claimed. At the NUSAS convention in July Nobel Prize Winner Albert Luthuli, former ANC leader, was elected honorary president of NUSAS...
...compete with whites for many jobs or even enter a post office by the same door. Split between conservatives and radicals, the Coloreds have never been as potent a political force as the blacks, whose African National Congress, headed by Nobel Prizewinner and former Zulu Chief Albert Luthuli, has been banned since 1960. Today, 21,000 borderline Coloreds have yet to be classified; the two-thirds of them who are at the dark end of the spectrum live in constant fear that their new identity cards will read "native...