Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, during the two-week-long trip, Murphy will speak to and work with prominent Black political leaders such as Capetown Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Revered Allen Boesak in order to obtain the political support necessary for implementation of programs to aid Black South Africans...
...powerless houses of the tricameral Parliament and represent 4 million people, but they do not face elections until 1989. The country's 24 million blacks have even less of a say in running the country, since they enjoy no political rights at all at the national level. Says Desmond Tutu, the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a leading black spokesman: "The election is, for us, a nonevent...
...September, when Archbishop Desmond Tutu was celebrating an outdoor eucharistic ceremony as part of his enthronement as head of the Anglican Church in southern Africa, Winnie's car pulled up outside the stadium in a Cape Town suburb. Hundreds of young supporters immediately rushed out of the stands to the parking lot, surrounded the car and began chanting, "Man-de-la, Man-de-la." Concluding that she would hopelessly disrupt the ceremony if she entered the stadium, she drove away...
...basic American justification for sanctions can be seen in Archbishop Tutu's statement that there is no guarantee that sanctions will work, it is merely the last peaceful option. Is this possibility enough to allow the West to incur further hardship on an already oppressed populace? This must be a personal question. Yes, even in the event that sanctions do work, however unlikely that may be, and when ultimately a Black government does (as it inevitably will) come into power, will the West guarantee to reinvest the money it has withdrawn and restimulate a dying economy? Mark Suzman...
...have been concerned with the problem have an additional duty to keep them "honest." The corporate giants ought to recognize that their financial activities will remain under careful scrutiny. For us, we must, as individuals and as a community, remain willing to answer the question Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu asked when he visited here early in the year. He said, "Freedom will come to South Africa, and when we get to the other side we will look back and ask 'Were you with us?"' Let us make sure that our answer is a firm...