Forty years ago yesterday, Albert Lutuli (Luthuli) died in a mysterious car accident near his home in Stanger.
Born in 1898, Lutuli, a teacher, was known for his fight against the excesses of the Apartheid regime which jailed him severally in an effort to silence him. He was also a one time chairman of the ANC after he accepted the offer to become a tribal chief which he had resisited for over two years. He was later dismissed from being a chief after the government cited conflict of interest in his ANC membership and chieftainship.
In 1961, he became the 1st South African to win a Nobel Peace Prize for his fight against apartheid a move that was termed as 'an inexplicable pathological phenomenon' by Die Transvaler a local Apartheid Daily.
To Lutuli, his was a 'spirit that refused to submit to tyranny.'
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