Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...initiated in the Adams pool, or after a Quincy bong-a-thon. All the legitimate voices of the South African liberation struggle: Nelson and Winnie Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo of the African National Congress, Archbishop Huddlestone and Rev. Carstons of the International Defense and Aid Fund, Desmond Tutu, Allen Boesak of the United Democratic Front, and the brutally murdered Steve Biko, have repeatedly called for the total isolation and ostracism of South Africa...
...bishop in Okinawa, was the bishop supervising American Episcopal churches in Europe, and then served as Executive for National and World Mission at Episcopal headquarters in New York City. He is the U.S. bishops' representative on the worldwide council of Anglican and Episcopal churches. A friend of Bishop Desmond Tutu of Johannesburg, Browning has invited the South African black activist to his Jan. 11 installation as Presiding Bishop. Last week's Anaheim meeting ushered in the Browning era by voting for divestment of holdings in firms that do business in South Africa, and by expressing a readiness to have women...
...blacks will still lack is political power. Under the new proposals, they will not be granted the right to vote, nor will they have their own separate "parliament," like the two chambers created last year for the vastly smaller colored (mixed race) and Indian communities. Thus, Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu dismissed the latest proposals as a "crumb" and as "piecemeal reform, grudgingly given." Still, in the South African context, last week's announcements represented some progress. Welcoming the government's shift on its citizenship policy, the leader of the white parliamentary opposition, Dr. Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, declared, "It signals...
...helped to initiate the South African Education Program (SAEP) in 1979, and I have chaired that program's National Council since its inception. At an annual cost of $6 million, the Program funds approximately 85 black students each year chosen by a committee in South Africa chaired by Bishop Tutu. These students study in colleges and universities throughout the United States. They receive full tuition and fees, room and board, transportation and expenses, and mechanisms have already been established to help them find suitable employment on their return to South Africa. More than 400 students have now come to America...
That, nonetheless, is precisely what was happening in South Africa last week. From almost the moment the protest march was announced, it seemed likely that the organizers would be arrested and that the police would use all necessary force to stop the demonstration. Even more than the conciliatory Bishop Tutu, Boesak has angered the government with his combative oratory, his calls for divestiture and his references to the ruling Afrikaners as the "spiritual children of Adolf Hitler"--a very sensitive point, since many Afrikaners supported Nazi Germany in World War II. Vowing to proceed with the demonstration, Boesak insisted last...