Posted on 12/26/2021 8:36:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It’s hard to believe that, less than 30 years ago, South Africa was a nation riven by apartheid and segregation. To look back on that time period and realize that it wasn’t that long ago is astonishing. Brave men and women stood up and spoke out against the horrendous policy, and eventually, South Africa shook off the bond of apartheid.
Desmond Tutu was one of those voices who spoke of the importance of freedom for black South Africans, and now he is with his Heavenly Father. Tutu passed away on Sunday at the age of 90.
“The passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa, said South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in a statement.
Tutu joined the Anglican clergy as a young man and rose to prominence as a pastor and later as a bishop. In the late 1960s, Tutu began to speak out publicly against apartheid. In 1979 he said he supported an economic boycott of South Africa, which met with a reprimand by the South African government. The government seized his passport, which drew international attention. Tutu became an icon in the fight against apartheid, alongside Nelson Mandela.
The Nobel Prize Committee nominated Tutu for its Peace Prize every year from 1981 to 1984, and he finally won in 1984, citing his “role as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa.” He received hundreds of other awards and honorary doctorates throughout the course of his life.
The Anglican church promoted Tutu to the position of Bishop of Johannesburg in 1985 and Archbishop of Cape Town the following year. Both promotions met with protests from white South Africans
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True; at least Mandela and Tutu made some kind of effort to prevent the white flight that had doomed other former colonies for decades before. Some simply devolved back to their pre-colonial state (Kenya, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe), while others saw bloody black-on-black conflict afterwards (Nigeria with Biafra, Uganda with Idi Amin, Congo with Katanga and the Simbas, and Rwanda with the Hutu mass murders of Tutsis). Specifically they watched Zimbabwe collapse and realized the blacks couldn’t run the country themselves; Mandela begged whites not to leave and offered concessions which have since been walked back by his successors.
As we often uttered, “AWA” (Africa Wins Again!)
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