Founded in 2013, the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation represents one of the
world's most iconic leaders, and his life-long partner.
The Foundation strives to ensure their uncompromised bravery is celebrated,
communicated and curated for posterity.
The core of the Foundation's work is
THE COURAGE TO HEAL
This is supported by three strategic programmes

LATEST NEWS
Truth to Power exhibition explores Tutu’s activism
This year will see the launch of a new permanent exhibition detailing Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s enormous contribution to South African and world history, the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation announced on 25 February 2021. The exhibition will be on display at the Old Granary building in Cape Town,…
Protect the vulnerable from climate change or face disaster
The Desmond and Leah Tutu Foundation endorses United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres’s call for the global community to take immediate action to protect those suffering from increasingly frequent and severe climate change events. Climate change is no longer a future threat; it is visible across the world, from the drought…
BULLETIN
The Covid-19 pandemic is a revolutionary event; in future, people will speak of the first global lockdown, and pre-virus and post-virus eras. It is a moment requiring the kind of collective response that many predicted would first be forced on humanity by climate change. Like just about everyone else in the World, the Tutu Legacy Foundation is adapting to our changed realities.
Whereas much of our pre-virus focus involved using our extraordinary physical space, now we realise the fundamental importance of developing parallel digital track…to reach out across lockdowns, social distancing and whatever else tomorrow brings. (Without having budgeted for it, of course.)
As we sharpen our pencils and tweak our plans, to stay ahead of the curve, so to speak, the words of former President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ring in our ears: “It always seems impossible until it is done.”