Word: luthuli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spear of the Nation, which operates with more finesse than Poqo and at present tries to spare human life, is the militant arm of the African National Congress, whose Nobel prizewinning leader, ex-Chief Albert Luthuli, is under house arrest in rural Natal. Spear's most spectacular coups to date have been the bombing of the Agricultural Minister's office in Pretoria and the blowing up of several giant power pylons around Johannesburg. Sabotage trials continue up and down the country. In the East Rand town of Benoni, a black prisoner disrupted the court by shouting "Shoot...
...listed persons (including 52 whites) may attend no meetings, and any editor whose newspaper even quotes one of them is liable to three years' imprisonment. If reporters were to ask Chief Albert Luthuli whether he will apply for a passport to attend the International Cultural Conference in Copenhagen, they could not print even a yes-or-no reply; Luthuli, South Africa's only Nobel Peace Prize winner, was the most prominent name on the disapproved list...
According to a dispatch in yesterday's New York Times, Peter de Lissovoy '64 and a South African journalist were charged with entering the Durban reserve without a permit. They had entered the reserve to take Albert John Luthuli, a Nobel peace prize winner, to his home...
...hotel suite, about the same size as the tin-roofed, concrete-block bungalow back home in Groutville to which the Verwoerd regime restricts him. He went on a shopping spree with his wife, delighted photographers by throwing a few snowballs outside the Norwegian Storting (Parliament). But it was when Luthuli rose in the great hall of Oslo University to make his acceptance speech, and at a dinner the next evening, that he lifted the occasion far above mere warmth or politics. Dressed in his tribal costume-flowing blue-and-black robe, leopardskin cap with monkey tails, a necklace of leopard...
...Race. He reminded his listeners that, compared with Europe's own bitter revolutions and civil wars, Africa's present revolution is both orderly and quick, its end "within sight of our own generation." Of his homeland. Luthuli said: "It is not necessary for me to speak at length about South Africa. It is a museum piece in our time, a hangover from the dark past of mankind, a relic of an age which everywhere else is dead or dying. Here the cult of race superiority and of white supremacy is worshiped like a god . . . Thus it is that...