Desmond Mpilo Tutu About Desmond Tutu v He

Desmond Mpilo Tutu

~ About Desmond Tutu ~ v He was born on the 7 th of October 1931, in Klerksdorp, South Africa to Zacheriah Tutu, a school headmaster and Aletta Tutu, a cook and cleaner at a school for the blind. He was of 5 children, he had 2 brothers and 2 sisters. v Tutu was a very intelligent child who was loved reading and liked to learn. He liked reading Shakespeare, Aesop's Fables and like any young kid comic strips! v In his teen years he contracted tuberculosis and spent one and a half years in a care facility resulting in him wanting to become a medical doctor. v Tutu attended Johannesburg Bantu High School, a very underfunded school where he did extremely well academically. v After finishing high school in 1950 he was accepted into medical school, but unfortunately his family could not afford it. v He then studied to become a teacher in Pretoria in 1951. v After teaching for a year he resigned from teaching in 1953 and then started concentrating on theology. v In 1961 he was ordained as an Anglican priest and in the following year he moved to England, there he was exposed to different way of life where he realise just how oppressed non-whited where in South Africa and moved back in 1967 and taught theology. v In 1976 Tutu started to speak out against apartheid In South Africa, but this soon caused him to get into trouble and in 1980 he was arrested. v In 1984 Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in ending apartheid. v He became the Arch Bishop of Cape Town, for 10 years.

~ Tutu’s Contribution to the Fight Against Apartheid ~ Being a very, very intelligent man, Desmond Tutu knew that apartheid was wrong, however he didn’t intend on being an activist. After spending some time in England, he saw that compared to the rest of the world non-whites were treated so terribly in South Africa. He started to use his influence as an Anglican priest to speak out against apartheid and the apartheid government, trying to end in by convincing people that all races and cultures are equal. Unfortunately because he went against the government, Tutu was imprisoned for his actions in 1980. A few years later he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. He continued to fight for the end of apartheid, up until it ended in 1994 with the election of Nelson Mandela. After the end of apartheid Desmond Tutu started the ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ to try start a new page in South Africa.

some. Quotes by Desmond Tutu Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons. I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

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