DESMOND TUTU

Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu

Biography of Desmond Tutu

Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born 7 October 1931 in Klerksdorp , in South Africa ) is an Archbishop Anglican South African who won the Nobel peace in 1984.

He was then Chairman of the Commission on the Truth and Reconciliation, charged with shedding light on the crimes and atrocities committed policy, during the policy of apartheid, on behalf of South African governments, but also crimes and abuses committed in the name of national liberation movements.

Origins

Second of three children and Zacheriah Zililo Aletta Tutu, Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born in Klerksdorp in the province of Transvaal on 7 October 1931. His father is a teacher and his mother, housekeeper and cook in a school for the blind.

Education

Desmond Tutu was educated in the city of Johannesburg. He wants to become a first-time doctor , but such studies cost too much for his family, he is destined to become a teacher, like his father. From 1951 to 1954 he studied and began teaching in 1954 at Johannesburg Bantu High School. But he resigned in 1957 to protest against poor quality of education given to blacks.

He then decided to move towards theology. He was ordained priest of the Anglican Church in 1961 and became the chaplain of the University of Fort Hare. Fort Hare is the time one of the few universities for blacks in South Africa and Southern Africa, current leaders of major countries have studied here. Desmond Tutu obtained in 1966 a Master of Divinity at King's College London, and then returned to South Africa, where he worked as professor of theology.

From 1972 to 1975, he returned to England, where he is vice-director of the Theological Education Fund of the World Council of Churches (EFT) to Bromley in Kent. Dean of the Diocese of Johannesburg in 1975, he became the first black to occupy that position. He became bishop of Lesotho (1976-78), then first secretary general of the Black World Council of South Africa (1978-85).

A militant in the struggle against apartheid became Archbishop of Cape Town

After the murder in 1977 , of Steve Biko , founder of the Black Consciousness Movement (Movement of black consciousness) and one of the organizers of the events of Soweto (repressed by the police, they degenerate into riots), Tutu said during the sermon his funeral He subsequently went tribute to Biko and Black Consciousness Movement, which drew attention to the dimension performative language and not merely descriptive, leading Black to be underestimating themselves. Tutu takes part in clandestine meetings of the Black Consciousness Movement. Within the EFT, Tutu also participates in the movement of Black theology (theology black) and started to liberation theology came from Latin America.

During all these years, he has continued to pass his message of peace and nonviolence during sermons and preaching that gather huge crowds and were the highlight of the peaceful struggle waged against the Afrikaner governments. He denounced apartheid as well as blacks who want ...