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Letter to Americans by Albert Luthuli, distributed by the American Committee on Africa with the "Appeal for Action", 4 November 1962, New York
… Just before I went to Oslo last December to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, I wrote a letter to Americans expressing both surprise … make a sacrifice - not…
EventDesmond Tutu is elected Archbishop
… Vitae, and other biographical information http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1984/tutu-bio.html - A biography on the Nobel Prize website …
EventSouth African writer J.M. Coetzee is born in Cape Town.
… (2013). Coetzee was the first writer to receive the Booker Prize twice. His other accolades include the Nobel Prize for Literature (2003) and The CNA Prize…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… stories in the early 1950s; in 1991 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Between those two dates, her many … contemporary realties in South Africa…
PlaceKwaZulu-Natal Literary Trails (under Heritage Routes)
… nod to curate ARTiculate Africa again, I already have one Nobel Laureate, one Pulitzer Prize winner and three Booker Prize winners lined up to come to Durban…
BiographyAlex la Guma
… he became the first to receive the prestigious Lotus Prize for literature by the Afro-Asian Writer’s Association. …
ArchiveUDF celebrates
… black on white litho; photo Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Text: Nobel Peace Prize Winner 1984; UDF Celebrates; music, dancing, speakers, …
EventDr Benedict Wallet Vilakazi born
… and writer, is born in Groutville, KwaZulu Natal, home to Nobel Peace Prize winner, Chief Albert Luthuli. He was the first Black …
ArchiveBolt Number 7 1973
… Wall of China, Don Maclennan. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Prize Address. Three Poems, Barry O. Higgs. Ovid: Letter to …
BiographyMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
… credit Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature, for both awarding Gandhi this name and …
BiographyAdam Small
… (2015). In 2012, he was presented with the Hertzog Prize and in 2018 Stellenbosch University renamed their … the Western Cape, and Stellenbosch, 2012 Hertzog…
An evaluation of South African novelist Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) by Sandy English (World Socialist Website), 30 September 2014
… South African writer Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, died on July 13 at the age of 90. …
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed first Black Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg
… Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg a month after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. The following year he was elected archbishop of Cape …
EventUS Senator Edward Kennedy visits SA
… African people. He was hosted by the recipient of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, Bishop Desmond Tutu. During his stay of eight days, …
EventGeneral Assembly adopts a resolution condemning the South African Foreign Minister
… for his characterisation of Chief Albert Luthuli's Nobel Prize acceptance speech as propaganda. Click here to read the … BBC,' 1961: Apartheid attacked at…
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
… Borough of Brent. Mandela is awarded the Dr Bruno Kreisky Prize for merit in the field of human rights, Vienna, … July, UNESCO awards its first Simon Bolivar…
EventF.W. de Klerk delivers his farewell address to Parliament
… the country's problems. De Klerk, a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace with Nelson Mandela, pioneered South Africa …
EventSA signs investment incentive agreement with the USA
… to this relationship was the controversial awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident and China's …
EventArchbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is born in Klerksdorp, Transvaal
… former secretary of the South African Council of Churches, Nobel Peace Prize winner and first Black Archbishop of the Church of the …
EventEllen Johnson-Sirleaf, becomes the first woman to be Head of State in Africa
… In 2011 President Johnson-Sirleaf shared the prestigious Nobel Prize for Peace with two other women, fellow Liberian Leymah …
EventLadysmith Black Mambazo win a Grammy
… kings and queens; the Pope; at the Summer Olympics; at two Nobel Prize ceremonies; and at countless other venues over the …
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… To worsen matters, some viewed Chief Luthuli's recent Nobel Prize as the West having bought the Chief. This theme - being … jointly accepted Unesco’s Félix…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… helped tremendously. When Chief Luthuli was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1961, Tambo accompanied him and his wife to …
EventRobert Koch announces the discovery of a rinderpest vaccine
… therapy with his rinderpest inoculation. He received the Nobel Prize for his work in 1905. …
EventNelson Mandela celebrates his 90th birthday.
… year (2008) is a fitting tribute to a hero who has won the Nobel Peace Prize and several other accolades, and whose gallantry in the …
EventSir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the malaria mosquito is born
… in the extermination of malaria. In 1902 he received the Nobel Prize in medicine for his discovery. Sir Ross authored a … Available at www.lshtm.ac.uk …
EventF.W. de Klerk, former state president of South Africa, is born in Johannesburg.
… released from prison. He and Mandela jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. In 1994, he was appointed second vice …
Four important figures in the South African Film Industry
… director who made South African classics like Katrina, The Winners, Die Kandidaat (South Africa's first political …
EventMother Teresa arrives in SA to establish a missionary home for HIV/AIDS sufferers
… world-wide. In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize and in 1980, she received the Bharat Ratna, the highest …
BiographyJames Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo
… of African Languages (1990), earned him the Via Afrika Prize for Linguistic Studies. He was highly critical of the …