Desmond Mpilo Tutu

As world attention focussed on the requiem mass for Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu in Cape Town on new year's day activists were hailing his work for the anti-apartheid struggle and preparing for fresh battles with their country's political class...

'Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been our moral compass and national conscience … even after the advent of democracy he did not hesitate to draw attention to our shortcomings as leaders of the democratic state ' said Ramaphosa...

Johannesburg hospitals are seriously overstretched as the pandemic rips its way through the townships with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu saying the inhabitants are 'like sitting ducks'...

' Veterans of the struggle such as Andrew Mlangeni and Archbishop Desmond Tutu paid tribute to her courage in the face of physical and emotional torture by the apartheid police...

HeavyweightsFuture South Africa has the backing of the foundations set up by the late President Nelson Mandela his confidant Ahmed Mohamed 'Kathy' Kathrada who died in March and former ANC leader Oliver Tambo; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu; and three former state presidents FW de Klerk Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe...

Nowhere was this clearer than in one of the oldest townships Soweto former home of two Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu...

Among them are former ANC Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe the Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu foundations as well as the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation headed by one of the last three survivors of Nelson Mandela's Rivonia Trial group Ahmed 'Kathy' Kathrada...

While still a senior researcher at the African Studies Centre at Leiden University in the Netherlands he was in 2008 appointed Desmond Tutu Professor at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu questioned the morality of a government that refuses a visa to the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso but breaks international treaty obligations to welcome a leader indicted for genocide (AAC Vol 4 No 12 Dalai Lama dumped again)...

One of Mandela's strongest qualities said South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu was his ability to show people what they and their societies could with determination and discipline become...

South Africans as ideologically different as Joe Slovo and Desmond Tutu agreed that without Mandela their country's history would have taken a very different route...

‘The ICC is the world's first and only court to adjudicate crimes against humanity ' argued South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu...