Mamphela Ramphele has been manoeuvring to get the official endorsement of high-profile South Africans before she launches a new political party.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu argues that the anti-homosexuality legislation Uganda is considering is an instrument of oppression similar to apartheid.
Jacob Zuma has congratulated Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu on receiving the Unesco/Bilbao human rights prize in France.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has received the Unesco/Bilbao human rights prize for contributing towards a "universal culture of human rights".
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi both said they would invite the Dalai Lama to South Africa.
The SCA will hear an application relating to whether it was unconstitutional and unlawful for home affairs to turn down a visa for the Dalai Lama.
Desmond Tutu has helped us see the true nature of what Tony Blair did to Iraq and increased pressure for a prosecution, writes George Monbiot.
Desmond Tutu has called for UK ex-leader Tony Blair and former US president George Bush to face trial in The Hague for their role in the Iraq war.
There’s been a lot of talk of leadership lately, at conferences in Sandton and among ordinary South Africans. Much of that talk is about its absence.
First he pulled out of the Discovery leadership summit, now Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has opted out of a BBC debate featuring Tony Blair.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has withdrawn from participating in a leadership summit in Johannesburg to protest the presence of Tony Blair.
A group of Durban-based organisations want to arrest Tony Blair on charges of war crimes when he arrives in South Africa later this month.
The best gift to give Nelson Mandela on his 94th birthday would be to act like him, says Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu coined the term in 1994,
but 18 years on, the "rainbow nation" is battling entrenched social and economic divisions.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu says he’s not disturbed by a religious group trying to ban him from visiting a US university.
The ANC is accused of rewriting the past to give itself the starring role in the struggle.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has been discharged from hospital after undergoing minor surgery last week, his office says.
Judgment has been reserved in the Western Cape High Court on whether it’s constitutional for government to bar the Dalai Lama entry into South Africa.
Desmond Tutu is recovering well in hospital after undergoing surgery on Friday, and there is no cause for serious concern, his spokesperson says.
A high court application on whether it was constitutional for the government to bar the Dalai Lama entry in SA looks to be "dead in the water".
The suffering inflicted by Israel on the Palestinian people shows that it has forgotten the Jewish scriptures, says Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.
President Jacob Zuma and Archbishop Desmond Tutu condemned the killing of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, while ANCYL called him an anti-imperialist martyr.
High-ranking ANC officials visited China this week in what could be seen as the party’s unreserved support for Beijing.
The Dalai Lama has accused China’s rulers of creating a climate of fear, lies and censorship during a video link-up in Cape Town.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama talks about Archbishop Desmond Tutu in this edited extract from <i>Tutu: The Authorised Portrait</i>.
While a great many people around the world are wishing the best for Archbishop Tutu on his 80th birthday, the cleric still has a fair few detractors.
It is a fiery, tragic indictment of the total absence of freedom of speech in Tibet and China.
The Chinese government is increasingly using economic pressure to bully foreign governments into not meeting the Dalai Lama.
Music and jokes filled St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town where Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s book was launched ahead of his 80th birthday.
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe can’t grant the Dalai Lama a last-minute visa because it’s not in his line of duty, his office said.
The Desmond Tutu Peace Centre has asked the deputy president to organise a visa for the Dalai Lama, but Motlanthe’s office says it’s not up to him.
Desmond Tutu has accused SA of putting trade ties above values, saying the government’s explanations of the Dalai Lama debacle left him more upset.