Somlandela Luthuli

Baileys African History Archive

Updated: 24 Jul 2019

Somlandela Luthuli!". These Xhosa words mean 'We will follow Luthuli'. On a Sunday morning the song shook the roof of Cape Town's station as a train brought the beaming, round-faced Chief into the middle of a crowd during a triumphant visit by Chief Albert Luthuli, President-General of the African National Congress

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South African History Online. (2011, August 22). Somlandela Luthuli. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/I-0067822

South African History Online (2011) 'Somlandela Luthuli', South African History Online, 22 August. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/I-0067822 (Accessed: 5 September 2026).

South African History Online, Somlandela Luthuli [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/I-0067822, (accessed 5 September 2026).

"Somlandela Luthuli." South African History Online, 22 Aug. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/I-0067822. Accessed 5 Sept. 2026.

South African History Online. "Somlandela Luthuli." South African History Online. August 22, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/I-0067822.

Somlandela Luthuli

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