Jabulani Mzaliya

Celebrating Chief Luthuli's Life Through His Heritage Trail (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

WE STAND BY OUR CHIEF!

As minds naturally fade and history becomes a rather distant past, colossal figures of the past do not get a mention. Yet, in many of their speeches and utterances, political leaders, academics, analysts, historians, and scholars have never forgotten to mention the name of Chief Albert Mvumbi Luthuli. His successors were portrayed as bent on the violent removal of the Apartheid Government ―unlike the Chief‖. To consolidate his ― peacefulness‖, his life is paired with the life of religion for an even greater political separation between the Chief and those who followed him. To perpetuate this distance between the Chief and the revolutionaries who followed him, the argument goes that his moments of radicalism were forced upon him by the young elements within the African National Congress and the Communists. Little is told that his religion was but one of his multi-faceted life. This tries to reduce Chief Albert Luthuli to a "moderate" when he was a revolutionary in his own right.

In this book, I have tried to knit together many areas of his activities, such as football, politics, music, his love for his family, his agriculture, his internationalism, his world view, his Africanism within his Zuluness, his respect across the colour and his mysterious death among others. All that is known and celebrated as if it was liked by all, including the Government of the Day, is him becoming the first African to win a Nobel Peace Prize. The difficulties he went through to be awarded that prize in Norway is so underplayed. His tenure as ANC President-General of the African National Congress during the Defiance Campaign, the Kliptown, and the Freedom Charter, Sharpeville Massacre, the women's march to the Union Buildings, and the beginning of the armed struggle are disappearing into oblivion. I have also tried to trace some of the awards, recognitions, and citations by various institutions, past and present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jabulani Mzaliya
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798201641757
• Artikelnr.: 64092111

Autorenporträt

Jabulani Mzaliya was Special Adviser to the Minister of Energy in the Republic of South Africa. He also served as a Trustee of the Albert Luthuli Centre For Responsible Leadership based at the University of Pretoria. He holds a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Zululand (UZULU). He taught Politics at the same University. He has a Certificate in Post-Privatization, which he obtained from International Law Institute, Washington DC. He was Director of Strategic Analysis: Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) from 2001 to 2004. He was Deputy Director-General: Policy at the Department of Transport. He is Director of Transport Policy and Regulation (TRANSPOREG), a company specializing in policy and regulation of the Transport industry. The thoughts in this Paper stem from his nostalgic attachment.