Desmond Tutu

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu has defended the reconciliation policy that ended white minority rule in South Africa, saying the country has social and economic problems largely because of later mismanagement. Some South Africans have described what they call entrenched racism in recent social media posts, and there have been growing allegations that […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Britain’s Prince Harry and retired South African archbishop Desmond Tutu have discussed charity work and community development over tea in South Africa. The prince’s office at Kensington Palace said Monday that Harry, who was recently in Lesotho to open a children’s center, visited Tutu at his foundation’s offices in Cape Town and […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu, affectionately known to many South Africans as “Arch,” kissed his bride of 60 years, Leah. The lovebirds, as one clergyman described them, renewed their 1955 wedding vows this weekend in a buoyant ceremony in which 83-year-old Tutu, slower of step and speech than during his years as an […]