Word: stanger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only twice does this contrast come through--a scene in a local tavern where everyone gets good-and-old-fashioned drunk, and then Faustus tries to show off his black arts. Suddenly the division is there--everyone watches Faustus uneasily. He is a stanger; he is not one of them; he is damned...
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...
...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...
...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...
...white-haired Zulu trudged toward his self-built, tin and concrete blockhouse near Stanger, Natal, a car pulled up alongside him on the dusty road. "I have a very important message for you," said the driver. "You have just been awarded the most important prize in the world...