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Desmund Tutu :
Do not hate … let us choose the peaceful way to freedom.
In dehumanizing others, they are
themselves dehumanized. Perhaps oppression dehumanizes the
oppressor as much as, if not more than, the oppressed. They
need each other to become truly free, to become human. We
can be human only in fellowship, in community, in koinonia,
in peace.
When does
compassion, when does morality, when does caring come in?
I just hope that
one day people will realise that peace is a far better path
to follow.
Born: 7th October 1931, Klerksdorp,
about 150 km southwest of Johannesburg.
His father was a teacher, his
mother relatively uneducated. The young Tutu was raised in
an atmosphere of tolerance and sympathy where, he later
says, ‘I never learnt to hate’. At the age of 12, when his
family moved to Johannesburg, he first met and was later
greatly influenced by Father Trevor Huddleston, an Anglican
cleric in the Johannesburg township of Sophiatown and
outspoken early critic of apartheid.
1951-1953 After matriculating from
the Johannesburg Bantu High School, he chose to follow his
father's footsteps. He took a teacher's diploma at the
Pretoria Bantu Normal College and studied for his Bachelor
of Arts degree at the University of South Africa (UNISA)
1954 teacher at the Johannesburg Bantu
High School
1955 at the age of 24 he wrote to the
Prime Minister about the diabolical apartheid policy; he
also married his wife, Leah (they have three daughters, a
son and several grandchildren)
1955-1957 teacher at Munsieville
High School, Krugersdorp
1958-1960 following the introduction
of Bantu education, he decided to enter the ministry in the
Church of the Province of Southern Africa and become an
ordinand at St Peter's Theological College, Rosettenville;
Licentiate in Theology
1961 ordained to
the Anglican priesthood in Johannesburg as Dean
and lectures at a theological seminary in
Johannesburg
1962-1966
Bachelor of Divinity Honours (1965) and Master of Theology
(1966) degrees at King’s College, London while acting as a
part-time curate
1967 teach at the
Federal Theological Seminary at Alice on the Eastern Cape
and serves as chaplain at the University of Fort Hare
1970 lectured in
the Department of Theology, University of Botswana, Lesotho
and Swaziland
1972-1975
Associate Director of the Theological Education Fund of the
World Council of Churches, based in Kent, UK.
He was also honorary curate of St
Augustine's.
1975
first black to hold the position of Dean of St. Mary's
Cathedral in Johannesburg (he
emerges as an eloquent spokesperson for the antiapartheid
movement and begins to attract world attention)
1976 Bishop of
Lesotho
1978(-1985) first black General
Secretary of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) (becoming
one of the leading critics of apartheid both in South Africa
and on the international stage)
1979
called for sanctions
against South Africa
1984 Nobel Peace Prize - Oslo, Norway
for his efforts towards
reconciliation and an end the Apartheid system in South
Africa
1985 first black
Anglican Archbishop of Johannesburg
1986 first black
Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town (becoming
the head of the Anglican church in South Africa and leader
of South Africa's 1.6 million Anglicans. While serving in
this position he intensified his criticism of apartheid)
1987 President of
the All Africa Conference of Churches
1988 Chancellor of the University of the
Western Cape
1995 Chair of the
South African’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission which
attempted to uncover gross human rights violations through
the testimony of victims and perpetrators committed during
apartheid.
He also suffered from prostate cancer during the inquiry
1996 Archbishop
Emeritus of Cape Town
Following the presentation of the
Commission’s report to the President in October 1998, Tutu
has been visiting professor at several overseas universities
(e.g. Episcopal Divinity School in
Cambridge, Massachusetts in the US, 2002;
King's College
London, 2004), and he has also
published several books. He has
received numerous awards and honorary doctorates, including
Harvard, Kent, Columbia, Aberdeen, Howard University. He
has also received many prizes and awards in addition to the
Nobel Prize, notably the Order for Meritorious Service Award
(Gold) presented by President Mandela, the Archbishop of
Canterbury's Award for outstanding Service to the Anglican
Communion, the Prix d'Athene (Onassis Foundation), the
Family of Man Gold Medal Award (1983), the Martin Luther
King Jr Non Violent Peace Prize (1984) and
the Sydney Peace Prize.
Archbishop Tutu has
travelled widely and has spoken out on foreign issues, e.g.:
in 2002 he accused Israel of practising apartheid in its
policies towards the Palestinians; he warned that Zimbabwe
was sliding into dictatorship under President Robert Mugabe;
and during 2003 he also urged US President George Bush and
British Prime Minister Tony Blair to admit they had made a
mistake in waging an ‘immoral’ war in Iraq.
This leadergraphy looks at her leadership through
different aspects of her life, social, cultural,
psychological, spiritual, biological, etc. The founder and
leader of the Missionaries of Charity was more then just a
leader, she was an integral leader. She was not simply a
Charismatic leader, a self-appointed leader and could be
classified in the traditional concepts of charismatic
leadership. This book shows that Mother Teresa’s mission and
leadership emerged from an integral growth process. Her
vocation and leadership, intimately linked to her integral
development, arose through a series of discontinuous
awakening experiences called epiphanies. These epiphanies
have been, among others, intense moments of suffering or
spiritual experiences that transformed Mother Teresa’s life.
They have let her to found a new religious order and lead
numerous people to the joy of giving.
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