Gender-based violence was at epidemic proportions in South Africa before the Covid19 pandemic. Conversations about this topic are constantly being held by government and other sectors of society and usually peak during the 16 days of Activism against violence against…
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond and Mrs Leah Tutu’s message to young people across the world is to be diligent about wearing facemasks to help protect their families, friends and neighbours from the coronavirus. “Please all care for each other and wear…
South Africa today mourns the death of Tata Andrew Mlangeni, the last surviving member of an extraordinary cohort of anti-apartheid movement leaders sentenced alongside Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment at the conclusion of the so-called Rivonia Trial. Tata Mlangeni, who…
This Mandela Day will feel different because, in the past, it has been an occasion for groups of people to congregate to do good things. This year, the situation we’re in, and the requirements of social distancing, seems to create…
For the 27 years that Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, his family – wife Winnie Mandela and daughters Zindzi and Zenani – played a critical role symbolising the humanity and steadfastness of the anti-apartheid struggle. With Zindzi’s death, aged just 59,…
Israel’s plan to annex Palestinian land while denying residents Israeli citizenship, written straight out of the apartheid playbook, is in breach of international law, and is contemptuous of the United Nations and the notion of global accountability. The plan, backed…
PART I When Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu receives awards, and there have been quite a few over the years, he deploys various strategies to communicate that there are others who do much of the work for which he receives the…
The Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation has hosted a Youth Day conversation, bringing young and old together to make sense of the inequality laid starkly bare by the coronavirus pandemic. The event, part of the Foundation’s Courageous Conversations series,…
The distasteful truth linking the deaths of Collins Khosa and George Floyd at the hands of security forces in South Africa and the United States is that the lives of certain categories of people in our societies are considered more…
On behalf of the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, CEO Piyushi Kotecha has applauded 2014 Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi for taking the powerful initiative to unite world leaders in support of children during Covid-19 lockdowns and the devastations…
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