... He [Luthuli] already knew, before he left for Oslo, to receive the Nobel, he knew that night, that Umkhonto was going to be launched. Chief is safe in his home, nine o’clock that night, throughout South Africa there were bombings taking place. And I was part of that campaign. The former Deputy President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, goes so far to say that it was Luthuli himself who named the military wing of the ANC. Zuma tells the listener an anecdote that Luthuli intimated to rationalize the name: [[At the end [of our discussion] when we were saying, “What is this organization going to be called?” he [Luthuli] told a little story and said, “If you are a man and you fight with somebody out there, and this somebody is stronger than you are, and you retreat to your home, and this somebody gets into your home, attacking you in front of your wife and the children, what do you do if you are a man?” [Luthuli] says, “You take up you spear, and use your spear to fight the man.”]] The reality that Luthuli utilized the Nobel Peace Prize ‘winnings’ to purchase farms in Swaziland for refugees can be seen as his approval of ANC tactics after MK’s launch. It was his wife, Nokukanya, who worked tirelessly on these farms in an effort to make them viable .. (Excerpt: Let My People Go, a Biography)
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:06:16 +0000
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