The Order of Luthuli is a South African honour. It was instituted on 30 November 2003, and is granted by the

president President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

of South Africa, for contributions to South Africa in the following fields: (i) the struggle for democracy, (ii) building democracy and human rights, (iii) nation-building, (iv) justice and peace, and (v) conflict resolution. It has three classes: * Gold (OLG), for exceptional contributions, * Silver (OLS), for excellent contributions, * Bronze (OLB), for outstanding contributions. The order is named after former

African National Congress The African National Congress (ANC) is a Social democracy, social-democratic political party in Republic of South Africa, South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when ...

leader

Chief Albert Luthuli Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli ( – 21 July 1967) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, traditional leader, and politician who served as the President-General of the African National Congress from 1952 until his death in 1967. Luthuli was ...

, who was South Africa's first

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winner. The badge of the order is an equilateral triangle representing a flintstone above a clay pot. The flintstone depicts the sun rising above

Isandhlwana Isandlwana () (older spelling ''Isandhlwana'', also sometimes seen as ''Isandula'') is an isolated hill in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. It is located north by northwest of Durban. The name is said to mean abomasum, the second st ...

, and the national flag, and it is flanked by two animal horns rising out of the clay pot, which bears the initials AL. Isandhlwana symbolises peace and tranquillity, and the leopardskin bands around the bases of the horns represent Chief Luthuli's headdress. The South African coat of arms is displayed on the reverse. The ribbon is gold with a stripe of cream-coloured AL monograms down each edge, and recurring cream-coloured outlines of the flintstone, depicting the national flag, down the centre. All three classes are worn around the neck.

Members

2003

* Mosell Molaoa, OLG ''Posthumous'' *Ambassador John Kgwana Nkadimeng, OLG *

Alfred Nzo Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo (19 June 1925 – 13 January 2000) was a South African politician. He served as the longest-standing secretary-general of the African National Congress. He occupied this position (ANC) between 1969 and 1991. He was also ...

, OLG ''Posthumous'' *

Mary Burton Mary Hill Burton (1819-1909) was a Scottish social and educational reformer and the first woman governor of Heriot-Watt College. Biography Mary Burton was born in Aberdeen but moved to Edinburgh in 1832 with her widowed mother and her brother, t ...

, OLS *Professor

Willie Esterhuyse Willem Petrus "Willie" Esterhuyse, OLS (born 19 August 1936) is an emeritus professor of philosophy and business ethics at the University of Stellenbosch, a columnist and critic of the system of apartheid. Early life Willem Petrus Esterhuyse ...

, OLS *

Matthew Goniwe Matthew Goniwe (27 December 1947 – 27 June 1985) was a South African apartheid, anti-apartheid activist and one of The Cradock Four murdered by the South African police in 1985. Early years Goniwe was the youngest of eight children. His paren ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' *

Mthuli ka Shezi Mthuli ka Shezi (1947–1972Shezi's Order of Luthuli Award
from the South African ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' *

Winnie Kgware Winnie Motlalepula Kgware (1917 – 1998) was a South African Anti-Apartheid Movement, anti-Apartheid activist within the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). She was elected as the first president of the Black People's Convention (BPC), a BCM-affi ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Jafta Kgalabi Masemola, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Lekgau Mathabathe, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Phillis Naidoo, OLS *Father

Albert Nolan Albert Nolan (2 September 1934 – 17 October 2022) was a South African Catholic priest, theologian writer and member of the Dominican Order. He is well known for his book, ''Jesus Before Christianity'', first published in 1972, in which he prese ...

, OLS * Jasmat Nanabhai, OLB

2004

Hilda Bernstein Hilda Bernstein (15 May 1915 – 8 September 2006) was a British-born author, artist, and an activist against apartheid and for women's rights. She was born Hilda Schwarz in London, England, and emigrated to South Africa at the age of 18 years, ...

, OLG * Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews, OLG ''Posthumous'' * Thomas Titus Nkobi, OLG ''Posthumous'' * Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, OLG ''Posthumous'' *

Laloo Chiba Ishwarlal Laloo "Isu" Chiba (5 November 1930 – 8 December 2017) was a South African politician and revolutionary. He was arrested and sentenced at the Little Rivonia Trial The Little Rivonia Trial was a South African apartheid-era court case in ...

, OLS * Clarence Mlamli Makwetu, OLS * Mapetla Mohapi, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Josie (Palmer) Mpama, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Billy Nair, OLS * Rita Alice Ndzanga, OLS * Joseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla, OLS * Reginald (Reggie) September, OLS *

Dan Tloome Dan or DAN may refer to: People * Dan (name), including a list of people with the name ** Dan (king), several kings of Denmark * Dan people, an ethnic group located in West Africa **Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoi ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Stephen (Steve) Vukile Tshwete, OLS ''Posthumous'' *

Amina Cachalia Amina Cachalia, OLB (née Asvat; 28 June 1930 – 31 January 2013) was a South African anti-Apartheid activist, women's rights activist, and politician. She was a longtime friend and ally of former President Nelson Mandela. Her late husband w ...

, OLB * Frans Rasimphi Tshivhase, OLB ''Posthumous''

2005

* Flag Marutle Boshielo, OLG *

John Langalibalele Dube John Langalibalele Dube (22 February 1871 – 11 February 1946) was a South African essayist, philosopher, educator, politician, publisher, editor, novelist and poet. He was the founding president of the South African Native National Congress ( ...

, OLG ''Posthumous'' * Anton Muziwakhe Lembede, OLG ''Posthumous'' *

Isaac Bangani Tabata Isaac Bangani Tabata OLG (1909-1990), also known as "I.B" or "Tabby", was a South African political activist, author and orator. A Marxist in the Trotskyist tradition, he was central to the Non-European Unity Movement from its inception in 19 ...

, OLG ''Posthumous'' * Edward Joseph Daniels, OLS * Frene Noshir Ginwala, OLS * Archibald Gumede, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Fish Keitseng, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Kwedie Mzingisi Zilindile Mkalipi, OLS *

Abdullah Mohamed Omar Abdullah Mohamed Omar (26 May 1934 – 13 March 2004), better known as Dullah Omar, was a South African anti-Apartheid activist, lawyer, and a Political minister, minister in the South African Cabinet (government), cabinet from 1994 until his d ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Madimetja Laurence Phokanoka, OLS * Mildred Ramakaba-Lesiea, OLS * Archibald Sibeko also known as Zola Zembe, OLS * Christmas Fihla Tinto, OLS * Dorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu, OLS ''Posthumous''

2006

* Joe Nzingo Gqabi, OLS ''Posthumous'' *

Fort Calata Fort Calata (5 November 1956 – 27 June 1985) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and one of The Cradock Four murdered by the South African police in 1985. Early life Fort Calata was born on 5 November 1956. He is the grandson of Jame ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Isaac Lesiba Maphotho, OLS * Amina Pahad, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Albert Louis Sachs, OLS *

Ama Naidoo Manonmoney Ama Naidoo OLS (née Pillay; 30 November 1908 – 25 December 1993) or Ama Naidoo was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Family and early life Naidoo was of South African Indian Tamil descent and was born in Asiatic Bazaar P ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' *

Pixley Seme Pixley ka Isaka Seme (c. 1881 – June 1951) was a South African lawyer and a founder and President of the African National Congress. Early life Seme was born the fourth son of Sinono Kuwana Seme in Durban, in what was then called the Colony of ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' *

Sicelo Mhlauli Sicelo Mhlauli (25 May 1949 – 27 June 1985) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, and one of The Cradock Four murdered by the South African police in 1985. Early life Sicelo Mhlauli was born on 25 May 1949 at Emagqomeni Location in Crado ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' *

Anthony Sampson Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson (3 August 1926 – 18 December 2004) was a British writer and journalist. His most notable and successful book was ''Anatomy of Britain'', which was published in 1962 and was followed by five more "Anatomies", upda ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' *

John Tengo Jabavu John Tengo Jabavu (11 January 1859 – 10 September 1921) was a political activist and the editor of South Africa's first newspaper to be written in Xhosa. Early life John Tengo Jabavu was born on 11 January 1859 near Healdtown in the easter ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' *

Sparrow Mkhonto Sparrow Mkonto (24 December 1951 – 27 June 1985) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, and one of The Cradock Four murdered by the South African police in 1985. Early life and education Sparrow Mkonto was born on 24 December 1951 in Bhon ...

, OLS ''Posthumous''

2007

* Gert Shadrack Sibande, OLG ''Posthumous'' *

Florence Mophosho Florence Mophosho (1921 – 9 August 1985) was a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist of the African National Congress (ANC). A stalwart of the ANC Women's League, she was a member of the ANC National Executive Committee from 19 ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Johnstone Mfanafuthi Makatini, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Mfanasekaya Pearce Linda Gqobose, OLS *Dr Gagathura Mohambry Naicker, OLS ''Posthumous'' * John James Issel, OLB * Emma Thandi Mashinini, OLB * Rica Hodgson, OLB

2008

James Arthur Calata James Arthur Calata (1895 – 1983) was a South African priest and politician. He was the Secretary-General of the African National Congress from 1936 to 1949. He was appointed a canon of the Grahamstown Cathedral making him the first Black ca ...

, OLG ''Posthumous'' * Robert Resha, OLG ''Posthumous'' *

Walter Rubusana Mpilo Walter Benson Rubusana (21 March 1858 - 19 April 1936) was the co-founder of the Xhosa language newspaper publication, '' Izwi Labantu'', funded by Cecil John Rhodes, and the first Black person to be elected to the Cape Council (Parliament) i ...

, OLG ''Posthumous'' * Himan Bernadt, OLS ''Posthumous'' *

Bertha Gxowa Bertha Gxowa (née Mashaba November 26, 1934 - November 19, 2010) was an anti-apartheid and women's rights activist and trade unionist in South Africa. Biography Gxowa was born in Germiston. She first started working as an office assistant in th ...

, OLS * Josiah Jele, OLS * Zolile Malindi, OLS *

Barbara Masekela Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela (born 18 July 1941) is a South African poet, educator, and activist who has held positions of arts leadership within the African National Congress (ANC). Early life and education Barbara Masekela was born on 18 J ...

, OLS * Nana Henrietta Moabi, OLS *

Billy Modise Billy Modise was an African National Congress (ANC) veteran and former ambassador. He was born on 18 December 1930 in Bloemfontein and died on 20 June 2018. Early life Billy Modise was born on 8 December 1930 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State ...

, OLS * Mlungisi Griffiths Mxenge and Victoria Nonyamezelo, OLS * Magdalene Maggie Resha, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Chanderdeo George Sewpershad, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Vesta Smith, OLS

2009

Brian Bunting Brian Bunting (9 April 1920 – 18 June 2008) was a South African activist and journalist known as a stalwart of the South African Communist Party (SACP). He represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1994 to ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Tlou Theophilus Cholo, OLS * Denis Theodore Goldberg, OLS * James Arnold (Jimmy) la Guma, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Rebecca Makgomo Masilela, OLS ''Posthumous'' *

Kader Asmal Abdul Kader Asmal (8 October 1934 – 22 June 2011) was a South African politician. He was a professor of human rights at the University of the Western Cape, chairman of the council of the University of the North and vice-president of the A ...

, OLB * Jacqueline Daane-van Rensburg, OLB * Ayesha (Bibi) Dawood ( Yusuf Mukadam), OLB * Mirriam Hlazo, OLB * Lydia Komape-Ngwenya, OLB *

Nomhlangano Beauty Mkhize Nomhlangano Beauty Mkhize was a South African activist, politician, shop steward and wife to late Saul Mkhize. She was born in Sophia Town and she was forcibly removed to Meadowlands in Soweto and that's where she met her husband. Early years ...

, OLB

2010

* Stephen Dlamini, OLG * Sonia Beryl Bunting, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Dorothy “Dot” Cleminshaw, OLS * Jameson Nongolozi Mngomezulu, OLS * Jabulani Nobleman Nxumalo, OLS ''Posthumous'' * James Randolph Vigne, OLS

2011

* Lionel “Rusty” Bernstein, OLG ''Posthumous'' * Nelson Diale, OLS * Ismael Chota Meer, OLS * Florence Elizabeth Mnumzana, OLS * Harriet Bolton, OLB * Margaret Gazo, OLB *

Tsietsi Mashinini Teboho "Tsietsi" MacDonald Mashinini (born 27 January 1957 – 1990) in Jabavu, Soweto, South Africa, died summer, 1990 in Conakry, Guinea), and buried Avalon Cemetery, was the main student leader of the Soweto Uprising that began in Soweto and ...

, OLB ''Posthumous'' * Violet Sarah Matlou (née Phiri), OLB

2012

Josiah Tshangana Gumede Josiah Tshangana Gumede (also J.T. Gumede) (9 October 1867 – 6 November 1946) was a South African politician and father of Archie Gumede. He was born in Healdtown village, Fort Beaufort in the present-day Eastern Cape. A Xhosa, his ancestry can ...

, OLG ''Posthumous'' * Zaccheus Richard Mahabane, OLG ''Posthumous'' * Sefako Mapogo Makgatho, OLG ''Posthumous'' * James Sebebubijwasekgogobontharile Moroka, OLG ''Posthumous'' *

Alfred Bitini Xuma Alfred Bathini Xuma, OLG, commonly referred to by his initials as AB Xuma (8 March 1893 – 27 January 1962), was the first black South African to become a medical doctor, as well as a leader, activist and president-general of the African Nation ...

, OLG ''Posthumous'' * John Stephen Gomas, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Elizabeth Sophia Honman, OLS ''Posthumous'''' *Reverend Fenner Christian Kadalie, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Peter Ramoshoane Mokaba, OLS ''Posthumous''

2013

* Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, OLG *Dr Neville Edward Alexander, OLS ''Posthumous'' *

Amina Desai Amina Desai (c. 1920 – 10 June 2009) was South Africa's longest serving female Indian political prisoner. In 1996, aged 76, she was a witness for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa), Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Michael Alan Harmel, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Essop Essak Jassat, OLS *

Arthur Letele Arthur Elias Letele (2 October 1916 in Maseru, Basutoland – 20 December 1965) was a politician and physician in South Africa and Basutoland. Biography Arthur Elias Letele was born on 2 October 1916 in Maseru, Lesotho. Shortly after his birth ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' *

Mosibudi Mangena Mosibudi Mangena (born 7 August 1947 in Tzaneen, Transvaal) is a South Africa politician, former President of the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO). He is also currently the honorary President of AZAPO while Strike Thokoane is the current Pre ...

, OLS * David Fani Mncube, OLS * Moosa (Mosie) Moolla, OLS * Elias Phakane Moretsele, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Richard Mothupi, OLS * Nomazizi Mtshotshisa, OLB ''Posthumous''

2014

Frances Baard Frances Goitsemang Baard (1 October 1909 – 1997) was a South African (ethnic Tswana) trade unionist, organiser for the African National Congress Women's League and a Patron of the United Democratic Front, who was commemorated in the renaming ...

, OLG ''Posthumous'' * David Wilcox Hlahane Bopape, OLG ''Posthumous'' *

Ruth First Heloise Ruth First (4 May 1925 – 17 August 1982) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar. She was assassinated in Mozambique, where she was working in exile, by a parcel bomb built by South African police. Family and edu ...

, OLG ''Posthumous'' * Imam Abdullah Haron, OLG ''Posthumous'' *Sir

Bob Hepple Sir Bob Alexander Hepple (11 August 1934 – 21 August 2015) was a South African-born legal academic and leader in the fields of labour law, equality and human rights. Early life and education He was the son of Alexander Hepple (1904–1983), w ...

, OLG *

Florence Matomela Florence Matomela (1910–1969) was a South African people, South African anti-pass laws, pass law activist, communist, civil rights campaigner, African National Congress, ANC veteran, teacher and mother who dedicated her life to fighting against A ...

, OLG ''Posthumous'' * Zephania Lekoane Mothopeng, OLG ''Posthumous'' * Abdhulhay Jassat, OLS *

Wolfie Kodesh Wolfie Kodesh (April 6, 1918 – October 18, 2002) was a South African Communist party activist. Kodesh was born in the Transvaal mining town of Benoni. He became involved with the South African Communist party in 1938, selling the leftwing news ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' *Father Simangaliso Mkhatshwa, OLS *

Popo Molefe Popo Simon Molefe (born 26 April 1952 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg) is a businessman and former politician from South Africa. Early life One of eight children, Molefe was the son of a laborer and a domestic worker, though he was raised largely by ...

, OLS * Agnes Msimang, OLS *

Jeanette Schoon Jeanette, Jeannette or Jeanetta may refer to: * Jeanette (given name), a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name) Places * Jeannette, Ontario, Canada * Jeannette Island, Russia * Jeannette, Pennsylvania, U.S ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Zola Sydney Themba Skweyiya, OLS * Mittah Seperepere, OLB ''Posthumous''

2015

* William Henry Frankel, OBE, OLS * Johnson Malcomess Mgabela, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Jabulile Nyawose, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Petros Nyawose, OLS ''Posthumous'' *

Mohammed Tikly Mohammed Tikly (7 July 1939, Pietersburg (now Polokwane) - 11 March 2020, Johannesburg) was a South African educator and struggle veteran. A member of the ANC, he spent over thirty years in exile in the UK, Tanzania and Zambia. He was a former dir ...

, OLS * Kay Moonsamy, OLB

2016

* Cleopas Madoda Nsibande, OLG ''Posthumous'' * Brian Francis Bishop, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Msizi Harrison Dube, OLS ''Posthumous'' *Rev Dr Simon Gqubule, OLS *

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela; 26 September 1936 – 2 April 2018), also known as Winnie Mandela, was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, and the second wife of Nelson Mandela. She ser ...

, OLS * Sathyandranath Ragunanan “Mac” Maharaj, OLS *

Mary Thipe Mary Thipe (1917-1982) was a South African anti-apartheid and human rights activist who took part in the 1956 Women's March against apartheid pass laws, the South African potato boycott of 1959 and the Cato Manor Beer Hall boycott in the same year ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Amy Rietstein Thornton, OLS * John Zikhali, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Suliman “Babla” Saloojee, OLB ''Posthumous''

2017

*The 22 ANC Political Trialists of 1969 * Miltha Mary “Mamou” Calata, OLS ''Posthumous'' * David Mbulelo “Spi” Grootboom, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Matsobane Morris Matsemela, OLS *Professor

Fatima Meer Fatima Meer (12 August 1928 – 12 March 2010) was a South African writer, academic, screenwriter, and prominent anti-apartheid activist. Early life Fatima Meer was born in the Grey Streets of Durban, South Africa, into a middle-class family ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Collen Monde Mkunqwana, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Zodwa Mofokeng, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Reginald “Reggie” Oliphant, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Neville Rubin, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Zweli Lucas Sizani, OLS ''Posthumous''

2018

* Inkosi Mhlabunzima Joseph Maphumulo, OLG ''Posthumous'' *Justice Dikgang Ernest Moseneke, OLG * Godfrey Kenneth Beck, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Sylvia Motlagomang ‘Mamza’ Benjamin, OLB ''Posthumous'' * Ronald Bernickow, OLB ''Posthumous'' * Lillian Lily Diedericks, OLS *Professor

Farid Esack Farid Esack (born 1955 in Wynberg, Cape Town) is a South African Muslim scholar, writer, and political activist known for his opposition to apartheid, his appointment by Nelson Mandela as a gender equity commissioner, and his work for inter-rel ...

, OLS * Mary Fitzgerald, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Swaminathan ‘Swami’ Karuppa Gounden, OLS *Reverend

Charles Hooper Charles Alexander Hooper (6 July 1869 – 16 September 1950) was an English rugby union forward who played club rugby for Cambridge University and Middlesex Wanderers and international rugby for England. In 1890 Hooper became one of the original ...

, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Sibongile Mkhabela, OLS *Major General Keith Mokoape, OLS *General Maomela Moreti Motau, OLS * Rahima Moosa, OLS ''Posthumous'' * Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe, OLS *

Dora Tamana Dora Ntloko Tamana (11 November 1901 – 23 July 1983) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Early life Dora Ntloko was born at Nqamakwe, in Hlobo, Transkei, near Dutywa, then part of Cape Colony. Her grandfather was a Methodist preacher, ...

, OLS ''Posthumous''

2019

*Ambassador Thandi Lujabe-Rankoe, OLS *Brigadier General Velaphi Msane, OLS * Antony Andrew Trew, OLS * Moyisile Douglas Tyutyu, OLS * Yosuf Veriava, OLS

References

* South African ''Government Gazette'' No 25799 (2 December 2003)
South African Government website

Citations

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South African Medals Website

Order of Luthuli: Organization, Symbolism, Design, and Members
{{South African honours system Orders of South Africa * 2003 establishments in South Africa Awards established in 2003

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