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Desmond Tutu

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

  • 2000
  • Jamnalal Bajaj Award for Promoting Gandhian Values Outside India
B.A. (South Africa) Master of Theology (England) Comes from humble origins; father - a school teacher and mother - a domestic servant. As a teenager,earned his pocket money by selling peanuts at suburban railroad stations and caddying at the Killarney golf course in Johannesburg. Took up teaching. Resigned in protest against the Government introducing a calculatedly second-class state-run system of "Bantu education" in 1957. Saw the Church as a likely means of service. Was .... Read More