![]() ![]() ![]() We visited London, the Old Bailey, Stratford, Scotland, Cambridge, and Oxford. I did not understand what it was all about until I was on the tour. It seemed a much more tempting prospect than the Rhodes final interview. (No handy Zoom technology in those days, which made the 2020 interviews and the entire scholarship process a remote experience.) “I had never been out of the country, or out of KZN for that matter, so I chose the three-week tour of the UK. So he gave up the final interview to take up the Abe Bailey Travel Bursary. Luthuli’s path, from Ndwedwe in rural KwaZulu-Natal via Inanda - an informal settlement where his mother, a domestic worker, sought work closer to the city - back to the village for high school to avoid the violence of the late ’80s and early ’90s, and on to the University of Natal for his LLB, is impressive enough.Īs a young man, Luthuli did not fully appreciate what the Rhodes Scholarship, for which he had applied, was really about. The advocate and national secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship in South Africa is the kind of level-headed leader any institution, never mind one as freighted with the heavy baggage of history as this one, could use. Basically, this is a man you want batting for your team. He has the gravitas of an elder statesman paired with a lightness of touch that makes him eminently credible and approachable. He has a discreet charm underscored by a presence of mind that belies his age. Ndumiso Luthuli has been described by colleagues and friends as magisterial. ![]()
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