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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Archbishop Desmond Tutu was born 7 October 1931 in Klerksdorp,
Western Transvaal, South Africa. Archbishop Desmond Tutu studied at the Pretoria Bantu Normal College
from 1951 to 1953, and went on to teach at Johannesburg Bantu High School and
at Munsienville High School in Mogale City.
Tutu then travelled to King's College London, (1962–1966),
where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in theology. During this
time he worked as a part-time curate, first at St Alban's Church.
After the fall of apartheid, Tutu headed the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission. He retired as Archbishop of Cape Town in 1996.
Tutu is generally credited with coining
the term Rainbow Nation as a metaphor for post-apartheid South Africa after
1994 under African National Congress rule. The expression has since entered
mainstream consciousness to describe South Africa's ethnic diversity.
Monday, December 9, 2013
Jacob Zuma
President of
South Africa Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, Born April 12, 1942. President of
South Africa since 2009. Zuma began engaging in politics at an early age and
joined the African National Congress in 1959.
Convicted of conspiring to overthrow
the Apartheid government, Zuma was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, which
he served on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela.
In 1990, he
was elected Chairperson of the ANC for the Southern Natal region, and took a
leading role in fighting political violence in the region between members of
the ANC and IFP. Zuma had experience in national leadership, as he started
serving in the National Executive committee of the ANC in 1977 when the party
was still a guerrilla movement. By the time he became its president he had served
the ANC for thirty years.
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