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Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille is to meet Archbishop Desmond Tutu to discuss his stated intention not to vote in next year’s elections.
Most South Africans were still in the equivalent of the biblical wilderness, Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said on Tuesday.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Monday he was ”hurting” about the conditions that led to him to say he would not vote were an election held today.
More than a decade after Desmond Tutu helped end apartheid, he shows no signs of slowing down as he turns 77 on Tuesday
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Thursday praised the peaceful way South Africa had handled its recent political crisis.
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/ 26 September 2008
Will the new president, Kgalema Motlanthe, come under pressure from Luthuli House to lean on the NPA not to appeal?
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/ 18 September 2008
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has appealed to the UN Human Rights Council to show concern for protecting Israelis from Palestinian attacks.
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/ 15 September 2008
Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Monday that Israel may have committed a war crime by shelling Beit Hanoun in 2006.
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/ 2 September 2008
What are vegetarians supposed to do on National Braai Day later this month? ”They can stand and watch,” said Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday.
When he’s not taking calls from Mandela and Tutu, or keeping an eye on Womad, Peter Gabriel still loves a good groove.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has apologised to victims of anti-immigrant violence in South Africa, in a sometimes tearful sermon to thousands.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said that developed countries must take the lead in slashing emissions of climate-changing carbon gases.
Desmond Tutu on Sunday pleaded for unity among Anglicans as a gay bishop said it was a ”mistake” to bar him from their 10-yearly conference.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is the voice of reason as the SAHRC opposes statements made by Julius Malema and Zwelinzima Vavi.
The ”horrid nightmare” in Zimbabwe showed what happened when people were prepared to kill for their leaders, Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Tuesday.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Friday he hoped ANCYL president Julius Malema would have the courage to apologise for his ”kill for Zuma” comment.
Cricket Zimbabwe has urged international cricket-playing nations to separate politics from sport, as pressure mounts to isolate Zimbabwe.
Ireland paid tribute on Wednesday to a group of Irish shop workers who staged a landmark two-and-a-half-year long anti-apartheid strike in the 1980s.
Cricket South Africa and English cricket players are taking to heart Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s call to isolate Zimbabwean cricket.
Cricket South Africa CEO Gerald Majola was muted in his response on Wednesday to a call by Archbishop Desmond Tutu for England to boycott Zimbabwe’s cricketers.
The government’s knee-jerk reaction to the pogroms that swept across the country speaks volumes to the politics of African nationalism. We were told they were ”criminal” acts in the service of a ”third force” agenda. This last term has a particular saliency in the South African context, writes Ivor Chipkin.
It is 10 years since the South Africa Football Association (Safa) first announced its intention to host the sport’s biggest showpiece, the World Cup. Today, the idea, first mooted by former Safa president Solomon ”Stix” Morewa, is less than 740 days from being realised. The Mail & Guardian tracks the history of South Africa’s biggest sporting fantasy.
United Nations envoy Archbishop Desmond Tutu, concluding a fact-finding mission to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Thursday, condemned as a ”massacre” the killing of 18 members of a Palestinian family by Israeli shelling in 2006. Tutu planned to present a report about the incident to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva at a session in September.
Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu on Wednesday plunged into the harsh reality of the conflict in Gaza, where a tearful Palestinian family recounted losing loved ones in an Israeli attack and the ruling Hamas movement expounded its hard-line stance. The South African cleric is heading a team of United Nations human rights observers.
Desmond Tutu, the South African archbishop, met the former Palestinian prime minister and Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Gaza at the start of a much-delayed United Nations investigation into the shelling by the Israeli military of a Palestinian house which killed 18 members of a single family in Beit Hanoun.
George Mhanda came to Johannesburg to feed his family, struggling to eat under Robert Mugabe’s derelict rule. The Zimbabwean mechanic found a job in a local garage and a room in a small house in Tembisa township, and sent cash home every month.
In the current scandal of the attempt to ship tons of arms and ammunition to Zimbabwe it is the Chinese who have spoken the most sense. China’s foreign ministry said the country’s shipment of mortar grenades, rockets and bullets was ”perfectly normal trade”.
South Africa has emerged at a ranking of 116 in the Global Peace Index 2008, the index said on Tuesday. ”South Africa has moved down six places since 2007,” it said in a statement. The index is a ranking of 140 countries — from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe — listed according to their peacefulness.
A further -billion of debt relief for the world’s poorest countries is needed despite a decade of progress, the Jubilee Debt Campaign warns on Friday. The group’s latest report calls on the G8, World Bank and International Monetary Fund to cancel -billionn of debt, which it says is ”unpayable” and an obstacle to the battle against global poverty.
The catastrophe in Burma has provided a good reason for the United States and others to insist on access to the secretive state.
North Koreans waved flags, plastic flowers and danced in the streets of Pyongyang to welcome the Olympic torch on Monday after the destitute state had promised its main benefactor China an ”astonishing” show. The global torch relay ahead of the Beijing Games in August has prompted protests against China’s rights record in Tibet.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu urged world leaders on Sunday to stay away from the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in August. South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate lit a ”Tibetan” Olympic torch, which was kindled in Delhi on January 30 and will travel to cities on five continents before arriving in May back in Dharamsala, India.