Noble South Africans win Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is considered by many to be a symbol of international recognition over the prize winners struggle to create a more peaceful world. South Africans have been awarded the prize on three different occasions. Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli was the first Black African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December 1961. Luthuli, president of the then banned African National Congress (ANC), was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 for advocating non-violent resistance to racial discrimination in South Africa. Though the apartheid government restricted his movements, Luthuli was granted special permission in 1961 to attend the award ceremony in Oslo, Norway. Bishop Desmond Tutu, noted bishop of the Anglican Church and former general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on 10 December 1984 in recognition of "the courage and heroism shown by black South Africans in their use of peaceful methods in the struggle against apartheid." The ceremony was delayed for twenty minutes because of a bomb threat. The last president of Apartheid South Africa F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela, leader of the ANC, were joint recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December 1993. They were honoured for their great enterprise of bringing peace and non-racial democracy within reach of South Africa.