Friday, 4 November 2011

Biography: Chief Albert Luthuli (1898 – 21 July 1967).


"I have joined my people in the new spirit that moves them today, the spirit that revolts openly and broadly against injustice."
Early life.
Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli was born in around the year 1898 to a Seventh day Adventist missionary, in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, (present Zimbabwe). He attended a missionary school in his ancestral town of Groutville, Natal. Luthuli also trained as a teacher at Edendale, near Pietermaritzburg. He also attended Adam’s College where was part of the staff until 1935.