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South Africa’s president pays tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu as his body is laid to rest
South Africa’s president paid tribute to the anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu at his state funeral in Cape Town today, describing him as the ‘the spiritual father of our new nation.’ The pared back ceremony was attended by 100 mourners and was broadcast earlier today. He died last Sunday, aged 90.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Nobel Peace laureate dies aged 90
He was a hero of the struggle against Apartheid, who became South Africa’s moral conscience and then its architect of reconciliation – his language laced with wit and wisdom.
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Tutu confirms he will not attend Nelson Mandela funeral
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela’s close friend and fellow anti-apartheid hero, will not attend the former South African president’s funeral as he says he was not told he would be welcome.
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Tutu’s Templeton award for ‘spiritual principles’
On Tuesday Archbishop Desmond Tutu receives the Templeton prize for his work in “affirming life’s spiritual dimension”. But the civil rights activist has not said what he will do with the £1.1m award.
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South Africa’s new rage
The words were simply stunning. Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s tirade against the ANC government rocks so much that we have assumed about post-apartheid South Africa. Comparing the ANC to Libya’s Gaddafi and Egypt’s Mubarak he slammed the party that delivered freedom to South Africa as worse than the old regime. At least you expected them to behave badly, he raged, adding “You, President Zuma and your government, do not represent me. I am warning you, as I warned the nationalists, one day we will pray for the defeat of the ANC government.” It is a sense of anger and betrayal that chimes with much of what I found while filming for the new series of Unreported World (Friday, Channel 4 at 1930 and on 4OD).
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Nelson Mandela: the final goodbye
Nelson Mandela is buried in his hometown of Qunu, following a funeral service attended by 4,500 people, at which he was praised for teaching the world the lessons of forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Mandela memorial: why the crowds booed President Zuma
With the world’s leaders looking on, it was a chance for South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma to shine. So why did some of his countrymen choose to publicly humiliate him?
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The power of forgiveness: Mandela’s legacy to the world
“The time for the healing of the wounds has begun.” There was to be no revenge, no retribution. Instead Mandela showed the world another way to truth and justice: forgiveness.
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World leaders unite in praise of Nelson Mandela
Across the world, international leaders from the fields of politics, civil rights and religion say words of praise and thanks to mark the passing of Nelson Mandela.
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Nelson Mandela: icon of reconciliation and forgiveness
The world’s most revered statesman, who became a symbol of hope and justice after leading South Africa out of the apartheid era, has died at the age of 95. Channel 4 News looks back at his life.
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Paul McCartney urges Putin to free Greenpeace activists
Sir Paul McCartney has written to Vladimir Putin to calling for the release of a group of Greenpeace activists, arrested after a protest at an oil drilling rig.
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Nelson Mandela spends 95th birthday in hospital
Former South African president Nelson Mandela, who has been critically ill in hospital for five weeks, turns 95 on Thursday.
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Mandela still ‘serious but stable’ in Pretoria hospital
Former South African president Nelson Mandela is in hospital for a third day as he continues to battle a lung infection.
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Queen’s Sri Lanka visit for Commonwealth meeting ‘grotesque’
Exclusive: David Miliband and Sir Malcolm Rifkind call on the Commonwealth Secretariat to stop Sri Lanka from hosting its heads of government meeting because of the country’s poor human rights record.
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Government admits torture took place in 1950s Kenya
The British government accepts for the first time at the high court that three elderly Kenyans were tortured under the colonial administration half a century ago.
