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The life of Albert Luthuli, a South African Nationalist.

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Albert Luthuli, a South African Nationalist.
- Albert Luthuli was born near Bulawayo, Rhodesia, around 1898 to a Seventh-day Adventist missionary John Bunyan Luthuli and Mtonya Gumede.
- When His father died, his mother returned to her ancestral home, Groutville
in Stanger, Natal, South Africa to stay with his uncle, Martin Luthuli.
- On completing a teaching course at Edendale, Luthuli became principal and only teacher at a primary school in rural Blaauwbosch, Natal.
- Here he also became a lay preacher. In 1920 he declined a scholarship to
University of Fort Hare to provide financial support for his mother.
- In 1928 he became secretary of the African Teacher's Association and in 1933 its president.
- He was also active in missionary work. He became chief in 1936, until he was removed from this office by the government in 1952 due to what colonial authority called conflict of interest.
- In 1944, Luthuli joined the African National Congress (ANC).
- In 1945, he was elected to the Committee of the KwaZulu Province Provincial Division of ANC.
- A month later, Luthuli was elected president-general of ANC.
- In 1955, he attended an ANC conference only to be arrested and charged with treason a few months later, along with 155 others.
- In 1962, he was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow by the students, serving until 1965.
- In 1962, he published an autobiography titled: “LET MY PEOPLE GO”.
- In July 1967, at the age of 69, he was fatally injured in an accident near his home in Stanger.