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Key figure not only in ending Apartheid, but also in repairing the country afterwards. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission he headed was further influential upon ending the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Whatever may have gone wrong subsequently, it is a model for peacefully conducting a difficult transfer of power.
RIP Desmond Tutu (n/t) on 08:44 - Dec 26 by Guthrum
Key figure not only in ending Apartheid, but also in repairing the country afterwards. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission he headed was further influential upon ending the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Whatever may have gone wrong subsequently, it is a model for peacefully conducting a difficult transfer of power.
...not to mention giving his name to what my sister described as "the drinkers' degree", aka "a Desmond".
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RIP Desmond Tutu (n/t) on 10:29 - Dec 26 with 1234 views
RIP Desmond Tutu (n/t) on 08:44 - Dec 26 by Guthrum
Key figure not only in ending Apartheid, but also in repairing the country afterwards. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission he headed was further influential upon ending the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Whatever may have gone wrong subsequently, it is a model for peacefully conducting a difficult transfer of power.
Indeed. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was, and still remains, truly inspirational.
Also important to remember how he and the anti-apartheid movement were demonised and opposed by the British government and media almost right up to the end of apartheid. I still remember him being accused of being a dangerous radical and a rabble rouser.
Time wants to erase that but it’s important that we learn from history and stop repeating it. That should also be part of Tutu’s legacy.
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RIP Desmond Tutu (n/t) on 11:16 - Dec 26 with 1165 views
RIP Desmond Tutu (n/t) on 11:00 - Dec 26 by Darth_Koont
Indeed. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was, and still remains, truly inspirational.
Also important to remember how he and the anti-apartheid movement were demonised and opposed by the British government and media almost right up to the end of apartheid. I still remember him being accused of being a dangerous radical and a rabble rouser.
Time wants to erase that but it’s important that we learn from history and stop repeating it. That should also be part of Tutu’s legacy.
Indeed. Support for a racist government was a price they were willing to pay given South Africa's strategic location and China/the Soviet bloc's support for the movements opposing white minority rule.
RIP Desmond Tutu (n/t) on 11:16 - Dec 26 by Guthrum
Indeed. Support for a racist government was a price they were willing to pay given South Africa's strategic location and China/the Soviet bloc's support for the movements opposing white minority rule.
Yep. And a similarly strategic but ultimately immoral and untenable position we’re still taking over Israel-Palestine.
RIP Desmond Tutu (n/t) on 11:16 - Dec 26 by Guthrum
Indeed. Support for a racist government was a price they were willing to pay given South Africa's strategic location and China/the Soviet bloc's support for the movements opposing white minority rule.
We like to see ourselves as a fair and open-minded Nation
It is amazing how often we are on the wrong side of the argument
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RIP Desmond Tutu (n/t) on 11:56 - Dec 26 with 1049 views
RIP Desmond Tutu (n/t) on 11:16 - Dec 26 by Guthrum
Indeed. Support for a racist government was a price they were willing to pay given South Africa's strategic location and China/the Soviet bloc's support for the movements opposing white minority rule.
Really not quite how I remember it.
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RIP Desmond Tutu (n/t) on 11:58 - Dec 26 with 1045 views
RIP Desmond Tutu (n/t) on 11:36 - Dec 26 by EdwardStone
We like to see ourselves as a fair and open-minded Nation
It is amazing how often we are on the wrong side of the argument
That’s what self-interest (and an inflated self opinion) does. We’re not alone in that regard – and not at the level of the US – but it’s why we still partner with and prop up Saudi Arabia, Israel, India under Modi, anti-democratic regimes in Latin America and Africa, and still have our destabilising foreign interventions. And why Uighur rights and Hong Kong democracy became such a cause celebre at exactly the same time the right-wing think tanks were ramping up their opposition to the economic threat of China.
You’d like to think we’d have a more robust and independent moral code that takes precedence when it comes to injustice around the world. But if that actually existed then we’d have applied it domestically too.
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RIP Desmond Tutu (n/t) on 11:59 - Dec 26 with 1036 views
RIP Desmond Tutu (n/t) on 11:56 - Dec 26 by ZXBlue
Really not quite how I remember it.
Had it not been for the Cold War situation, SA would likely have received about as little support as Rhodesia did. Instead, many Western governments tried to walk a fine line between condemnation of the Apartheid system and making sure the nation did not fall to communists.
RIP Desmond Tutu (n/t) on 08:44 - Dec 26 by Guthrum
Key figure not only in ending Apartheid, but also in repairing the country afterwards. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission he headed was further influential upon ending the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Whatever may have gone wrong subsequently, it is a model for peacefully conducting a difficult transfer of power.
And a little further south from Ulster you will find his name and a quote on the memorial at Doolagh:
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