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Title:Chief Albert Luthuli and the bantustan question
Author:Couper, Scott EverettISNI
Year:2007
Periodical:Journal of Natal and Zulu History
Volume:24-25
Pages:240-268
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:traditional rulers
bantustans
political opposition
About persons:Albert John Luthuli (1898-1967)ISNI
Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi (1928-)ISNI
Abstract:Chief Albert Luthuli (1898-1967) possesses much prestige as a hero of South Africa's struggle for liberation from apartheid. This article traces Luthuli's increasingly critical position on traditional leadership within the dynamic context of governmental policies of indirect rule, culminating in his rejection of the various 'rungs' along a ladder of legislation which ultimately reached towards a plan of bantustan separate development. While traditionalists, the most prominent being Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, have claimed and continue to claim Luthuli's legacy for the vision of enduring traditional administration, these political speeches fail to stand by the evidence of Luthuli's own words, as he saw apartheid advance. His condemnation of cooperation appears to be born of both a vision of democracy that emerged from his Christianity and his liberal, modernist vision of human progress, and is, in many cases, oppositional to the claims made in his name. Notes, ref., online sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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