Meet Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Archbishop
Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, was head of South Africa’s
Truth and Reconciliation Commission formed to help his country move on from
its painful legacy of racial separatism.
Read a biography of Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
John Hope Franklin on Archbishop Tutu:
"Well, I was certain that I would have a lot to learn from Archbishop
Tutu. I was very curious about the experiences that South Africa had had in
apartheid and the way in which it was combated upon the emergence of Nelson
Mandela, and I was particularly anxious to hear what he would have to say
about his experiences as the chairman of the Commission on Race and Reconciliation."
"I wanted to compare notes. I wanted to see how much they had learned
from us about how to discriminate and segregate, and I wanted to learn, too,
from the commission, of what it had done to arrive to the conclusions that
they had arrived at."
Read the complete transcripts of Dr. Franklin’s and Archbishop Tutu’s conversations on Goree.
For more on Bishop Tutu:
"Of
course I had read the summaries of the report. Of course I followed the, the
statements that were made from time to time before the commission by South
Africans who were, who were confessing, or who were objecting. But I wanted
to hear from him, and I wanted to, I wanted to see what healing processes
he instituted, particularly being a man of the cloth, having the capacity
to forgive, that some of--some others might not have."
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/africa/july-dec99/tutu_10-6.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/etc/script.html
