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...name of freedom, I nominate Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa as Man of the Year. Amha Eyesus Demessie Pasadena, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 9, 1985 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Mandela's enforced absence, other leaders spoke out for the country's blacks. Most prominent among them was Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of Johannesburg, the 1984 Nobel laureate, who took an important role in the drive to control the savagery of some of the violence. In July he saved the life of a black man suspected of being a police informant, after an angry mob had seized the man, set his car ablaze and tried to throw him into the flames. Tutu scolded a crowd of 30,000, threatening to "pack up and leave this beautiful country that I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nelson Mandela: His Eloquent Silence Speaks to the Future | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Others, however, struggled to keep their faith. In his Christmas Day sermon at St. Mary's Cathedral in Johan nesburg, Nobel Prizewinner Bishop Desmond Tutu urged a congregation of some 400 blacks and whites to work toward peace and justice. Said Tutu: "Let us work so that Christmas 1986, unlike Christmas 1985, will be one where all of us, black and white, will be able to say, indeed, 'God is with us.' " It was a prayer that all South Africans could share. --By Janice C. Simpson. Reported by Peter Hawthorne/Johannesburg

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Bringing the War to Whites | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...They don't like you," Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu told demonstrators outside the South African embassy in Washington. "They say you are Communist inspired. That means you are effective." The Nobel Peace prizewinner was starting a three-week, coast-to-coast tour of the U.S. to raise money, and it was only natural that he should join the demo, which has been going on intermittently for more than a year and on this day featured the singing of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary. The rally left Tutu in obvious good spirits. "We will be free. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 20, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...couples exited City Hall, they were showered with glitter and multicolored feathers by Su Eaton, a Somerville resident who dressed in pink-and-black stockings and a tutu, and carried a wand...

Author: By Brendan R. Linn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Year Later, City Celebrates | 5/18/2005 | See Source »

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