Archbishop desmond tutu
Happy 89th birthday to Arbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu
President Cyril Ramaphosa is among those extending kind words to the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
The couple, with their newborn Archie, started their African tour in Cape Town and we’ve picked our favourite moments of their visit thus far.
The 57-year-old Texan has said he has long been an admirer of Tutu, an Anglican cleric who headed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Twenty years after the final report of South Africa's Truth Commission, dealing with the past will always remain "unfinished business".
The event, now in its fourth year, was hosted by the Gauteng government and took place at Carnival City on Thursday night.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was a vocal critic of the ANC under the leadership of Jacob Zuma, even publicly warning that he would pray for the organisation to be defeated in elections.
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa apologised to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu for his unhappiness with the party under the leadership of Jacob Zuma, saying that he's cleared the air with Tutu.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu says he’s praying for God to open the eyes and hearts of all citizens of the holy land.
Desmond Tutu says Madikizela-Mandela refused to be bowed by the imprisonment of her husband, harassment of her family by security forces, detentions, bannings and banishment.
The 86-year-old Nobel Peace Laureate pulled out of public life in 2010 due to his advancing years but had continued to represent Oxfam even in retirement.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was joined by Cape Town Mayor Patricia de lille at the ribbon cutting ceremony of a monument in his honour.
In an open letter to Aung San Suu Kyi, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu talks of his profound sadness at the deadly situation playing out in the Rakhine State.
The Nobel Prize winner says Mashinini was a fearless leader, striving for a nonsexist democratic country and resented being dominated by oppressors.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has been snapped joining protesters outside the retirement home him and his wife Leah are staying in at Hermanus.
In paying tribute to Kathrada, President Zuma has described him as a stalwart of the liberation struggle for a free and democratic South Africa.
An artwork of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s face has been mounted on the side of the Cape Town Civic Centre.
The artwork, in honour of the Arch and his wife Leah Tutu, will stand alongside one of former president Nelson Mandela.
Tutu's birthday festivities will start at the focal point of his life, the Anglican Church.
Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba has presented the couple with the Archbishop’s Award for Peace with Justice.