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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 …
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…
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…
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…
BiographyAlex la Guma
… he became the first to receive the prestigious Lotus Prize for literature by the Afro-Asian Writer’s Association. …
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…
ArchiveUDF celebrates
… black on white litho; photo Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Text: Nobel Peace Prize Winner 1984; UDF Celebrates; music, dancing, speakers, …
BiographyMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
… credit Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature, for both awarding Gandhi this name and …
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 …
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…
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, …
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 …
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
BiographyJames Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo
… of African Languages (1990), earned him the Via Afrika Prize for Linguistic Studies. He was highly critical of the …
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 …