South African politician (1898–1967)
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The first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize stood firm on nonviolence even as the movement he led turned to armed struggle. Albert Luthuli held that line through banning orders, the Sharpeville massacre, and the slow erosion of his own authority within the ANC.
Born around 1898 at a mission in Bulawayo, Luthuli moved to Groutville in 1908 and became a teacher, eventually joining Adams College as one of its first African instructors. Elected chief of the Umvoti River Reserve in 1935, he witnessed the grinding injustices of segregation firsthand. He joined the ANC in 1944, rose to provincial president in Natal by 1951, and led the 1952 Defiance Campaign against pass laws — a stand that cost him his chieftaincy when he refused to choose between the ANC and his traditional role. Elected President-General that same year, he built multi-racial alliances th…
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The mitigating feature in the gloom of those far-off days was the shaft of light sunk by Christian missions, a shaft of light to which we owe our initial enlightenment.
It is fair to say that even in present-day conditions, Christian missions have been in the vanguard of initiating social services provided for us.
Scientific inventions, at all conceivable levels should enrich human life, not threaten existence. Science should be the greatest ally, not the worst enemy of mankind.
May the day come soon, when the people of the world will rouse themselves, and together effectively stamp out any threat to peace in whatever quarter of the world it may be found.
The fate of Africans in the cities of the nation rests on the stand we take against this tyrannical action of the government.
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