SA should pick up the baton of Tutu's consistency in his principles and his fearless honesty, says Cheryl Carolus
SA should pick up the baton of Tutu’s consistency in his principles and his fearless honesty, says Cheryl CarolusThe late Archbishop Desmond Tutu. File photo: REUTERS/MIKE HUTCHINGS
We know he was not well over the last while and that he himself was ready to go, and that he left in peace surrounded by those whom he loved and who loved him. For whatever it’s worth, right into my current ripe old age Father continued to lecture me, berate me as a father does a wayward child. One of the congregants at that service was Gordon Oliver, the then Mayor of Cape Town, elected by only whites. Gordon was so moved, he stood up and said to Father that he would join him in the march. Many present didn’t believe that he would see it through.
The Arch had led us out of our fear, regardless of the personal costs. Many lost their lives in the Defiance Campaign, but that did not stop our people. In his opposition to the National Party government, there were many attempts to assassinate him, but mercifully they did not succeed as they did with many.— the words used by John Allen .The fault lines are being exacerbated by the horror of the Covid-19 pandemic.Let us invoke the simplicity that the Arch lived his life by. Let us dispense of the dishonesty that characterises leadership in society today.
He remained consistent in his principles, in his faith as a Christian. And a fairly conservative one at that!
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