A garland of ferns tickles Luthuli's ears as he tells one meeting on his tour of Cape Twon: "Nigeria is to be free in 1960 and, perhaps, we too might well injoy freedom in 1960...What a glorious opportunity it is for us to be able to seek a formula whereby people of different races can live in friendship together. I like to believe that the powers-that-be reserved South Africa to be a place where race relations could be worked out for the benefit of the whole world. I say this generation is fortunate - fortunate to be able to surrender itself fully to a struggle".
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Photograph by Cloete Breytenbach © Cloete Breytenbach