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...weather in his native Natal is usually mild and sunny this time of year, but as Albert John Luthuli strolled along the streets of Oslo last week in a temperature of 14° F., an inner glow kept him comfortable. Said South Africa's Luthuli. the former Zulu chief who was in Oslo to receive the delayed 1960 Nobel Peace Prize: "I do not feel the cold because I am meeting so many warmhearted people...
...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...
That is how news of the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize reached Albert John Luthuli, 62, ex-Zulu chieftain, president of the banned African National Congress, and since 1959, by decree of the racist South African government, a virtual exile from his people. Awarded a year late because of the exhaustive search into his qualifications by the Nobel Committee, the honor was bracketed with the 1961 prize, posthumously awarded to the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold...
Luthuli's moderation stems from the deep influence on his life of Christian missionaries. Only two generations removed from Zulu witchcraft, he grew up in a Southern Rhodesian mission, where his father served as an interpreter-evangelist. Educated in mission schools in Natal, Luthuli in 1921 graduated from Congregationalist Adams College, south of Durban, stayed on to teach the Zulu language and music. But in 1935 he gave up his promising and lucrative academic career to become the elected chief of his poverty-stricken Zulu tribe in the Groutville district, thus following in the footsteps of four chieftain ancestors...
...that Republic Day (May 31) would be a dramatic occasion to stage a show of strength against the harsh apartheid rules of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's racist government. Placards popped up on lampposts and shop walls. "Awupatwa" (Don't touch the job) declared the signs in Zulu. "General strike May 29, 30, 31." For the first time, black leaders had strong backing from both the Indian and colored (mulatto) communities. African Ringleader Nelson Mandela, 42, darted secretly from town to town, coordinating plans for the nationwide walkout...