“grasped every opportunity to besmirch South Africa was shocking”
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Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
Albert John Luthuli was a South African anti-apartheid activist, traditional leader, and politician who served as the President-General of the African National Congress from 1952 until his assassination in 1967.
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politics · South African politician (c. 1898–1967) · politician · autobiographer · teacher · anti-apartheid activist · also Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, Albert Luthuli, Albert John Mvumbi Lutuli, Albert John Lutuli, Mvumbi Lutuli, Mvumbi Luthuli
Born 1 January 1898 · Died 21 July 1967 · Q212955
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2026· 2 entries
Polity.org.za: SA: Jeff Radebe: Address by former ANC NEC member, on the occasion of the President Chief Albert Luthuli's inaugural memorial lecture, Sandton (07/08/2026)
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Mapungubwe in Platinum (2012).
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights (1968).
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1967· 2 entries
Died 1967-07-21.
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“I do not hate the white man; you see, his position of domination has placed him in a position of moral weakness.”
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1964· 2 entries
King stopped in London to give an "Address on South African Independence
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King became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner receiving the award for his nonviolent activism against racial discrimination, similar to Luthuli
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1961· 1 entry
Luthuli was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in leading the nonviolent anti-apartheid movement
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1960).
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1953· 1 entry
“a last chance to prove their good faith”
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1952· 1 entry
Luthuli led the Defiance Campaign to protest the pass laws and other laws of apartheid
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1951· 1 entry
As they viewed him as a new brand of leadership
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1949· 1 entry
Led to growing dissatisfaction with Champion's leadership, as he prioritised Natal's separateness over the new strategy
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1946· 1 entry
After John Dube's death, Luthuli became a member of the Natives Representative Council through a by-election
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1945· 1 entry
Allison Champion succeeded him as Natal president in 1945 after defeating conservative leader Reverend A
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1944· 2 entries
Partially out of respect to his former school principal
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And was elected the provincial president of the Natal branch in 1951
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1936· 1 entry
With the purpose of compensating and appeasing the African population, who had lost their limited voting rights in the Cape Province due to the enactment of the Hertzog Bills
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1935· 1 entry
When he was elected chief of the Umvoti River Reserve in Groutville
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1933· 1 entry
Luthuli was asked to succeed his uncle, Martin, as chief of the Umvoti River Reserve
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1928· 1 entry
Became the secretary of the Natal Native Teachers' Association, then its president in 1933
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1922· 1 entry
Accepted a teaching position at Adams College where he was one of the first African teachers
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1920· 1 entry
To study for a Higher Teacher's Diploma at Adams College
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1908· 1 entry
Moved to Groutville, where his parents and grandparents had lived, to attend school under the care of his uncle
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1901· 1 entry
Martin founded the Natal Native Congress, which would later become the Natal branch of the African National Congress
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1898· 3 entries
To John and Mtonya Luthuli (née Gumede) who had settled in the Bulawayo area of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
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At a Seventh-day Adventist mission in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
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Born 1898-01-01.
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1894· 1 entry
The town surrounding the mission station was renamed Groutville
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1834· 1 entry
Was a Congregationalist organisation responsible for setting up the Umvoti Mission Station
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