Dedicated to the life and legacy of an extraordinary leader, a man who fought for human rights and dignity, a trip to the Luthuli Museum in Groutville will leave you in awe and humbled.
It is an encounter not to be missed and an opportunity to fill in the gaps of South Africa’s political history.
Take the time to walk through the original 1927 home of Chief Albert Luthuli where he met top ANC leaders like Nelson Mandela in secret. Take the time to listen to Chief Albert Luthuli’s speech made in 1961 in Oslo, Norway when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. And walk through the garden where he met with former US Senator Robert Kennedy.
Entrance is free. Every visitor receives a guided tour. Refreshments are available on request. A well stocked shop with a variety of items is open.
The museum is situated at 3233 Nokukhanya Luthuli Street, in Groutville on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast, at the historical home of Chief Luthuli’s family. It is about six kilometres from the N2 freeway. It is open Monday to Saturday from 8.30am to 4pm and on Sundays and Public Holidays from 11am to 3pm.
Telephone (032) 559 6822 or email luthulimuseum@luthulimuseum.org.za.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackbacki am a former student of groutville high school was doing my matric last year and now i am at the universuty of zulu land doing my first year on B.ed and one of the subjects that i have majored with is Tourism that mostly deals with history and the chief albert luthulis museum for me is the only place that i can right about because that where i grew up and proud to know the history of the museum.To have the museum that have great history is helping me with my school work
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50 years since Albert Luthuli publicly received international recognition for his commitment and his fight for justice and democracy – the Nobel Peace Prize 1960 – it is a source of new strength and encouragement to once more enter the house that used to be his and his family’s home – the Luthuli Museum in Groutville -, recall the phase of recent history he personifies and inhale the spirit still prevailing in that workshop in which some of the most important foundation-stones of our Constitution took shape.
Visited the Monty Naicker Exhibition last week and look forward to visiting with great anticipation soon. These exhibitions really opens one’s eyes to the “unity in diversity” that existed then and which we are looking for today. Ironic isn’t it.
Our Foundation is having it’s inaugural Gandhi/Luthuli Memorial Lecture & Dinner on 12 Decmber 2010 in Ladysmith with Mr Ahmed Kathrada as Guest Speaker. We take pleasure in inviting the Luthuli Foundation to be our special guests at the function which commences at 17h00 at the Civic Centre. As we do not have the addresses of or know who the officials are we beg your apologies for using this e-mail addresses. We would be pleased if a member of Chief Luthuli would accept our invitation.
If this is not possible we would appreciate an official message from the family or foundation endorsing the lecture and a message which will be read out at the Dinner. Please forward to the appropriate person/s.
Kind regards
Tubby Narrandes 2657 & Zehra Rassool
1860 Legacy Foundation – Ladysmith
e-mail : zehrarassool@vodamail.co.za
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I am delighted to know about this Museum. I must be honest, i had never heard of it but i have been looking for all kinds of information about my clan. To get more about our family i even created a group on Facebook called “The Madlandunaz”, all to know about our history.
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