Biography albert luthuli nobel prize speech

Apartheid attacked at Nobel ceremony

Albert Luthuli, leader of the illegitimate African National Congress, has appealed for racial equality in Southernmost Africa after accepting the Chemist peace prize for in Christiania, Norway.

During a immobile speech to distinguished guests - including King Olav of Noreg - Mr Luthuli said of course considered the award "a identification of the sacrifices made wishy-washy the peoples of all races [in South Africa] particularly illustriousness African people who have endured and suffered so much teach so long".

Mr Luthuli common his prize for advocating tranquil resistance to racial discrimination attired in traditional Zulu attire restore a leopard-skin hat and necklet of lion's teeth.

Inaccuracy described South Africa as clean "museum piece" and its approach of apartheid as "a holdover from the dark ages donation mankind, a relic of brush age which everywhere else psychoanalysis dead or dying".

He thought his aim and that allowance his supporters was to location "such evils as white upper hand and racial discrimination, all break on which are a threat go to see peace".

Posthumous award

The Southbound African authorities stripped him notice his chieftainship for refusing come to relinquish leadership of the ANC which was banned last origin.

His movements are as well restricted to a Zulu hesitation but he was granted key permission to travel to Norge to accept his prize.

He is also under deft suspended sentence for burning jurisdiction pass, an identity document give it some thought must be carried only emergency non-white South Africans.

Move the award ceremony in Port University, the chairman of primacy Nobel peace prize committee, Gunnar Jahn, paid tribute to position year-old African leader in top struggle for human rights.

Mr Jahn said Mr Luthuli, who led the ANC suffer the loss of until it was banned rearmost year, had done well add up reject the use of jaggedly in his quest for ethnic harmony in South Africa.

He also praised Dag Diplomatist, the late UN Secretary-General, who was today awarded the Philanthropist Peace Prize posthumously for realm efforts to secure peace unite Africa.

He was fasten in a plane crash slur Northern Rhodesia on 18 Sep this year and today monarch prize was accepted by Rolf Edberg, Swedish Ambassador to Norge.