Archbishop Desmond Tutu has dedicated his United States Presidential Medal of Freedom to all South Africans who fought for freedom and justice.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has lauded Springbok rugby coach Peter de Villiers for the performance of his team in recent months.
Desmond Tutu on Tuesday condemned the recent trashing of streets by striking municipal workers.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu will accept the Medal of Freedom award from US President Barack Obama next week, his office said on Friday.
Desmond Tutu on Tuesday night drew on his own experience to urge lawyers to contribute to global development through pro bono work.
The G8 group of industrial nations looks set to break its promise to eradicate poverty in Africa because of a poor performance by France and Italy.
A Solomon Islands TRC to be launched by South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu next week will ease lingering ethnic tension.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu received a spiritual leadership award — and a gift from the Dalai Lama — at Freedom Park in Pretoria on Saturday.
The Congress of the People’s Mvume Dandala moved his party’s election to the rails this week as he mingled with commuters.
The ANCYL advised Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu to tell himself every hour that Jacob Zuma would be president of the country.
The ANC is ”increasingly disturbed” by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s comments on the investigation against its president Jacob Zuma.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is not looking forward to a Jacob Zuma presidency, he said in Durban on Wednesday evening.
IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi will push ahead with a court application to force the minister of home affairs to grant the Dalai Lama a visa.
Health Minister Barbara Hogan has called on the government to apologise for refusing the Dalai Lama a visa to attend a peace conference.
The controversy surrounding the Dalai Lama’s attendance of the South African Peace Conference has prompted organisers to postpone the Friday event.
African leaders should support a bid to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, Desmond Tutu wrote in a New York Times editorial on Tuesday.
Those drunk with power in South Africa will get their comeuppance, warned Archbishop Desmond Tutu at Helen Suzman’s memorial on Sunday.
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/ 7 February 2009
Desmond Tutu said on Saturday that he doubts Zimbabwe’s unity government deal can work and insisted the solution is the departure Robert Mugabe.
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/ 6 February 2009
President’s first State of the Nation speech walked a tightrope between appeasing the new, more leftist ANC and acknowledging the work done by Mbeki.
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/ 28 January 2009
The Proteas are an inspiration, Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Wednesday. ”They are living our dream: successful, non-racial and gracious,” he said.
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/ 13 January 2009
Mugabe should be charged with crimes against humanity over rights abuses and the collapse of Zimbabwe’s health system, US physicians said on Tuesday.
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/ 13 December 2008
The interim leadership of the Congress of the People (Cope) claims the African National Congress has instilled fear in communities
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/ 5 December 2008
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said on Dutch TV that Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe must step down or be removed by force.
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/ 5 December 2008
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe will call early elections if a power-sharing deal fails to work within the next two years, it was reported on Friday.
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/ 5 December 2008
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and FW de Klerk this week requested that President Kgalema Motlanthe form a commission of inquiry to probe the arms deal.
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/ 3 December 2008
Desmond Tutu and FW de Klerk have written to President Kgalema Motlanthe to request that he establish a commission of inquiry into the arms deal.
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/ 22 November 2008
The United States has given a prestigious award to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu.
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/ 13 November 2008
As a boy, George Bizos fled Nazi Europe for SA, where he became a lawyer and defended Nelson Mandela and an honour roll of anti-apartheid leaders.
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/ 22 October 2008
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday appealed to United Nations member states to ”end the slaughter” resulting from the uncontrolled small arms trade.
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/ 21 October 2008
The season of red herrings, kite-flying and cat-and-mouse games is back with us in the political landscape.
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/ 19 October 2008
It was not surprising to see that the two conferences of the ANC this past weekend in Cape Town did their combating through song.
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/ 13 October 2008
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Monday called on world leaders to cut enormous expenditure on destruction.