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Despite the chaos, mourners steadily converged on Soweto's St. Paul's Church, where the police two weeks ago opened fire on crowds of barricaded youths during the bloody rent strike. As tensions rose last Thursday, Archbishop Desmond Tutu telephoned the church and urged his religious colleagues to call off the planned funeral and have everyone return home peacefully. Bishop Simeon Nkoane promptly conveyed Tutu's message to the people in the streets...
Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace-prizewinning bishop of Johannesburg, last week bid an emotional goodbye to his diocese. But before taking over as Archbishop of Cape Town and primate of the Anglican Church for all of southern Africa, he conducted a final service at St. Paul's Church in the black township of Soweto. In his farewell sermon, Tutu declared, "Despite all that the powers of the world may do, we are going to be free...
Tutu formally became Archbishop of Cape Town last week in a private ceremony. Then about 1,350 people attended last Sunday's public enthronement. In addition to church leaders from 13 countries, Tutu invited American politicians, show-business figures and other notables, ranging from Senator Edward Kennedy and Coretta Scott King to Bill Cosby. Most were unable to attend, but when the government accused Tutu of trying to turn the enthronement into a media extravaganza, he replied, "I will not be told by anybody whom I may invite. They are my friends...
...huge political following, nothing comparable to that of Nelson Mandela, the long-imprisoned black nationalist leader, or Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief of the 6 million-member Zulu tribe. Tutu calls himself an "interim leader," saying that he would be less important if Mandela and others were released from prison. The archbishop is most popular among the small group of educated, middle-class blacks, but he has proved to be effective in calming angry crowds in the black townships...
...archbishop's foreign travels have probably been his most significant service to his black countrymen. More than any other South African of his generation, Tutu has dramatized to the world the iniquities of apartheid. Some South African whites complain that he travels too much, saying his role within the country is vastly exaggerated abroad. The Sunday Times of Johannesburg reports that he has taken 22 trips outside South Africa in the past three years...