Desmond Tutu
Anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela (2nd-L), together with South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu (L), Mandela's then-wife Winnie (C), Walter Sisulu, ANC secretary-general and former Robben Island prison inmate (2nd-R), and Sisulu's wife Albertina, pose on February 12, 1990 in the garden of Tutu's residence in Cape Town, one day after Mandela's release from jail.
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With gentle and genteel style, perfectly suited to morning television and radio, his was for many people the first and most trusted analysis of the daily news
They were a good freedom-fighting unit, but it doesn't seem to me now that a freedom-fighting unit can easily make the transition to becoming a political party
I am honoured and privileged to have been chosen by my fellow Elders to succeed Desmond Tutu as Chairman of such a distinguished set of individuals. I am also very grateful that Gro Harlem Brundtland - with whom I've worked closely at the UN - has accepted to join me as Deputy ChairmanMore quotes »
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Hospitalizan a Desmond Tutu para tratamiento
-- El retirado arzobispo Desmond Tutu se interno en un hospital de Ciudad del Cabo para tratarse una infeccion persistente, informo una fundacion sudafricana.La Fundacion Legado de Desmond y Leah Tutu dijo que el laureado con el Premio Nobel de la Paz sera Read more »
Around the web
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Reading While Eating for May 22: Making the Old New Again
former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu dances with the choir after he received the 2013 Templeton Prize at the Guildhall in central London on May 21, 2013. South African anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu won the 2013 Templeton Prize worth 5/22/13 from Time Magazine Read more »
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Annie Lennox performs at Desmond Tutu prizegiving
Lennox provided the music for a special prizegiving honouring human rights icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu in London on Tuesday (21May13). The Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) singer was invited to perform at a ceremony in London's Guildhall venue, where the beloved from Starpulse Read more »
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Global opposition in wake of 'Key of Knowledge' award to Morgan Freeman in Toronto
cancelled his scheduled performance at an Israeli Defence Forces fundraiser in Los Angeles after receiving appeals from Desmond Tutu, Roger Waters, civil rights figures in the U.S., the BDS movement and eventually from the U.N. And on May 7 -- the day after from Rabble.ca Read more »
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Desmond Tutu draws a crowd to Greenwood Theatre at London Bridge
into Snowsfields formed on Monday afternoon as hundreds of people packed into the Greenwood Theatre to hear Archbishop Desmond Tutu take part in a panel discussion. The queue outside the Greenwood Theatre in Weston Street on Monday afternoon The public forum from London SE1 Read more »
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Madonna, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jessica Chastain, Freida Pinto, Zoe Saldana, Gloria Steinem, Gordon And Sarah Brown, Aishwarya Rai And Abhishek Bachchan And Others Confirmed To Present At THE SOUND OF CHANGE LIVE Concert
May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- It was announced today that Madonna, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Gordon and Sarah Brown , Jessica Chastain , Gloria Steinem, Freida Pinto , Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan, Leymah Gbowee, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy , Mpho Tutu, Humaira from PR Newswire Read more »
