SOUTH African former archbishop Desmond Tutu is due to take up a posting at Harvard University in the United States where he will teach theology. The Johannesburg-based newspaper The Star quoted Michael Duga, a former official in the Clinton administration, as saying Tutu, archbishop of Cape Town until 1995, will leave for Harvard “very soon”. The teaching post will bring Tutu, who turns 70 in October, out of retirement. The anti-apartheid campaigner, Nobel peace laureate and former chairman of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission returned to South Africa in August 2000 after two years as visiting professor in theology at Emory University in Atlanta. He said at the time that he wanted a much reduced involvement in public affairs and has mostly stuck to that. Tutu, who celebrated the 25th anniversary of his consecration as a bishop in July, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997. He received treatment in the United States and tests done last year indicated that it has kept the disease at bay. – AFP