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...deep love for the South African land and people, and ultimately with great hope. And the harsh bite of Swanson's all too evident distaste for apartheid is countered by a poignant vision of what could be. In one highly moving passage, Swanson recounts his visit with Nokukanya Luthuli, widow of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Chief Luthuli, who was banned for speaking out against apartheid. Luthuli, together with the other 25,000 Black residents of the region, had just staved off a government attempt to force them into a bantustan. Swanson found the 76-year-old woman outside, working...
Nokukanya Luthuli then described her trip to Norway with her husband in 1961, to accept the Nobel Peace prize...
...campus critics are not alone. We are attempting to support the struggle for human dignity in South Africa as the leaders of that struggle have informed us we should. Does President Bok think he has spent more time thinking abouth South Africa than Stephen Biko and Bishop Luthuli did in their whole lifetimes? Does he think he has more experience in the matter than Bishop Tutu, who last month said in Memorial Church that investing in torture and the wholesale destruction of black family life? Are we to believe that if Nelson Mandela, the leader of the African National Congress...
...abolition. Just as these Northern whites chose to ignore Douglass (no doubt feeling that they knew better than he), so does Robert Conway ignore the sentiments of men like Nelson Mandela, the late Steven Biko, and the late Nobel Prize Winner and African National Congress Chairman Albert J. Luthuli, who has said. "The economic boycott of South Africa will entail undoubted hardship for Africans. We do not doubt that. But if it is a method which shortens the day of blood, the suffering to us will be a price we are willing...
...late Chief Albert J. Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize winner and president of the African National Congress, conceded that corporate withdrawal would entail "hardship for Africans." "But," he argued, if it is a method which shortens the day of blood, the suffering to us will be a price we are willing to pay. In any case, we suffer already, our children are often undernourished, and, on a small scale (so far), we die at the whim of a policeman...