Tears for Tutu, giant of struggle and neighbour who brought round groceries
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters Mourners held a candlelight prayer ceremony outside the Soweto home of late Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Wednesday, weeping over the memory not only of a world-renowned lion of the anti-apartheid movement but of a kind and loyal neighbour. Tutu, who died at 90 on Sunday, lived for a while on the same […]
Tutu’s family gathers in South Africa for Cape Town funeral
Cape Town, South AfricaAP Desmond Tutu’s family members gathered at his Cape Town home on Tuesday in preparation for his funeral this weekend as South Africans honored his life. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial equality and LGBT rights died Sunday at the age of 90. A woman places a floral tribute outside the […]
Cathedral bells to toll daily for South African struggle hero Tutu
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters The bells of Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral will toll for 10 minutes a day every day at noon until Friday in honour of South African anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died on Sunday aged 90. Nobel prize winner Tutu, who preached against the tyranny of the white minority and was […]
South Africa celebrates Archbishop Tutu as he turns 90
Cape Town, South AfricaReuters Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa’s struggle against white minority rule, turned 90 on Thursday, celebrating his birthday with a low-key church service at Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral. Tutu, who has struggled with ill health in recent years, is often hailed as South Africa’s moral […]
South Africa’s Desmond Tutu turns 90 amid new racist slur
Cape Town, South AfricaAP As South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu turns 90, recent racist graffiti on a portrait of the Nobel winner highlights the continuing relevance of his work for equality. Often hailed as the conscience of South Africa, Tutu was a key campaigner against South Africa’s previous brutal system of oppression against […]
Rooftops to railways: neighbourhoods race to hit net zero climate goals
Durban, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation Tackling climate change at a city level – let alone on a global scale – is time-consuming, but neighbourhoods are being targeted as testing grounds for speedy, community-led climate solutions. Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in November, engineering company Arup and the C40 Cities network have launched […]
Wow!: South Africa’s first Black free dive instructor turns tide on apartheid history
WENDELL ROELF, of Reuters, reports frome Cape Town on Zandile Ndlovu’s breakthrough role…
South Africa losing cultural landmarks like Apartheid Museum to COVID
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters A pair of boxing gloves worn by Nelson Mandela at the height of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa lie under a thick layer of dust in a darkened room, the silence broken only by the thud of moths nose-diving onto the glass display case. The gloves were once one of the […]
Crypto power: Can solar panels boost cheap, green homes in South Africa?
KIM HARRISBERG, writing for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on a new development project which its creator hopes will be a blueprint for green, safe and cheap homes across South Africa…
South Africa’s UCT campus salvaging books from burned library
Cape Town, South AfricaReuters Staring helplessly as flames from a weekend wildfire on the slopes of Table Mountain spread and razed the University of Cape Town’s library, chief librarian Ujala Satgoor was back amid the smouldering ruins on Tuesday to try and salvage what was left. One of Cape Town’s worst fires in recent memory […]