Tutu who held the attention and adulation from statesmen and ordinary people alike, will celebrates 90th birthday
Anglican Emeritus Archbishop Desmond Tutu's name is held with high esteem across the world for his contribution to the fight against apartheid.
He also related the incident to the BBC: “My mother and I were standing on a verandah. It was mind-blowing, a white man greeting my black mother with such courtesy.”Another incident which “etched itself” in his subconscious mind was when he stayed in Ventersdorp. “I could not collaborate with this and I turned to priesthood. It was much later that I realised that it was almost like God was grabbing me by the scruff of the neck into it,” Tutu recalled.In the 60s, Tutu and his wife, Leah moved to the UK for a few years where he continued with his studies.
Veteran journalist, Allister Sparks described Tutu this way: “Throughout the period when Mandela was in jail, Tutu was effectively the leader of the liberation struggle in the country.”
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