Word: luthuli
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Died. Albert John Luthuli, 69, Africa's first native Nobel laureate (for peace, in 1960), and one of its most articulate champions of racial equality; of head injuries when he was struck by a train; near Stanger, South Africa. A teacher at Natal's all-black Adams College, Luthuli first rose to world notice in 1952 by helping to organize a defiant but nonviolent campaign against South Africa's hated apartheid, to which the government reacted by stripping him of his Zulu tribal chieftainship, and finally, in 1959, virtually banishing him to his isolated farm, where...
...every hand in sight-white, black and brown (and on one occasion scared the daylights out of a black who thought the big bwana was going to hit him). In Durban, Kennedy stood atop a car and sang We Shall Overcome with his audience. In Groutville, he visited Albert Luthuli, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of the proscribed African National Congress. At Cape Town University, standing next to the symbolic empty chair that Ian Robertson could not occupy, Kennedy told his racially mixed audience: "We must recognize the full human equality of all our people-before God, before...
...Appeal can be made only to the Minister himself, who is not likely to reverse his decision. Vorster has described the 20,000-member student union as a "cancer... tainted with Communism" and has attacked it for advocating integration in the universities and for electing Nobel Prize Winner Albert Luthuli as its honorary president...
Basis for the new ban: the Minister of Justice, who under the law need not furnish proof, declared himself "satisfied" that Luthuli had engaged in "prohibited" activities and espoused the "cause of Communism." He also linked Luthuli to other leaders of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, currently on trial for their lives on charges of sabotage...
Since the ban prohibits visitors to Luthuli's home unless they have government permission, his neighbors caught only glimpses of him last week. A Bible clutched to his chest, he seemed "at ease, patient and quiet...