Word: tutu
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...religious figures. Opening a new HIV research unit at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto last month, Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, head of the Anglican Church in South Africa, called it "sinful and immoral" to deny drugs that could save the life of a child. Said Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, "We can't afford the luxury of academic debates about the causes of the disease. We are fiddling as our particular Rome burns...
...survival theme, attendees were instructed to wear their “gutsiest” attire. Many took this as an open invitation to parade their most colorful outfits, whether by simply adding a blue feather boa to a classic black dress, or by squeezing into a red tutu and donning fairy wings. Event volunteers tried to engage the more conservatively dressed into the festivities by passing out bindis and spraying guests’ hair with glitter...
...When Desmond Tutu approached Harvard after apartheid ended to ask for help pressuring companies to reinvest in South Africa, the University had sold all of the stock in companies that did business with South Africa...
...Klerk claimed that economic sanctions delayed change in South Africa and that Ronald Reagan's "constructive engagement" policy was a good strategy for South Africa. In comparison, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in his book "No Future Without Forgiveness," had this to say: "Thus the apartheid government benefited hugely from President Ronald Reagan's notorious constructive engagement policy...
Stewart Ting Chong is from South Africa and served on the staff of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He also served on the Human Rights Committee of South Africa, a non-governmental organization...