Real social change comes from having the courage to take part in conversations that confront challenges head on, says conversation strategist Nozipho Tshabalala. Find out how personal trauma led Nozipho to make a career out of moderating courageous conversations when…
Young people and students have always led courageous movements of change in society, pushing for positive social transformation. This is what happened 45 years ago in South Africa on 16 June 1976, when schoolchildren and youths protesting peacefully against the…
Good evening, Molweni, Sawubona, Goeienaand, Namaste, Salaam Alaykum Welcome from all of us at the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation. It seems deeply fitting that the launch of Dr Michael Battle’s insightful biography about the Arch should be the…
The name of the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation’s home on Cape Town’s Buitenkant Street refers to a short period of the building’s existence, more than a century ago. The Old Granary was erected between 1808 and 1813 by…
Africa’s young people are its greatest resource. Their energy and creativity have already led to inventions such as a portable automatic emergency ventilator developed to help to treat Covid-19 patients, and to clothing design that is showcased at international fashion…
Joint Press Statement by Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation and Western Cape Government: On Monday 17th May the Western Cape Government launched Phase 2 of its vaccine rollout programme, starting with a group of elderly at Brooklyn Chest Hospital…
The current violence in Israel and Palestine is due to the illegal and deeply unjust eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood to make way for illegal Israeli settlers. However, this is only the latest…
Discover how social entrepreneur Samantha Mkandhla learned to overcome the personal cost of servant leadership and still work to make the world a better place, when you attend the first in the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation’s 2021 TutuTalks…
Inequality fuels resentment, and growing inequality fuels conflict and violence. South Africa teeters on the precipice of conflict and violence fomented by growing inequality. The reasons that voices across the world are calling, louder and louder, for a new economic…
The Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation is horrified by the murders over the past few weeks of Bonang Gaele, Nonhlanhla Kunene, Sphamandla Khoza, Nathaniel “SpokGoane” Mbele, Andile “Lulu” Nthuthela, Lonwabo Jack, Buhle Phoswa, Lucky Kleinboy Motshabi and others, simply…
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