Art and wine lovers, and people with an eye on gathering once-in-a-lifetime experiences, can start bidding on a catalogue of items and experiences that will go under the hammer to raise funds for the Tutu Legacy Fund, says Piyushi Kotecha,…

Today we commemorate one of the largest nails in the apartheid era’s coffin: the peace march in Cape Town on 13 September 1989. On that day an estimated 30 000 people, led by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Gordon Oliver, then…

Corruption kills. It kills honest, upstanding people like Gauteng Department of Health official Babita Deokaran, and it kills our faith in, and hope for, a better future for all South Africans. Deokaran was assassinated outside her Johannesburg home on the…

The Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation extends its condolences to the staff of Cape Town’s District Six Museum on the death of the museum’s new executive director, Siddeeq Railoun, who passed away on 23 August 2021 of complications related…

After the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation’s Courageous Conversation titled “Ecological apartheid: good food for all”, which took place on 28 July 2021, Foundation CEO Piyushi Kotecha sat down with scientist and food activist Dr Vandana Shiva to explore…

The 11th Desmond Tutu International Peace Lecture will be delivered by four global leaders – the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s highest spiritual leader; women’s and children’s rights activist Graça Machel; chair of The Elders and former president of Ireland Mary Robinson;…

Cape Town’s Old Granary building has had many roles over its more than 200-year history, but until the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation moved in in 2018, none of these roles had anything to do with peace or reconciliation.…

A new, limited-edition print by renowned artist William Kentridge and a fully sponsored stay at a five-star private villa near Hermanus in the Western Cape are among the variety of works of art and experiences that will go under the…

The Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation stands with Afghanistan’s women, children and vulnerable and calls on the world to do the same to hold the Taliban to account and ensure citizens’ human rights are upheld. Images of panic and…

There is no more wriggle room. Either the nations of the world work together to take immediate action against climate change, or we will face our demise together. The latest report from the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…