Political and religious leaders bid farewell to the man they describe as the country’s moral compass
Desmond and Leah Tutu, seen at his 90th birthday in October. Picture: ESA ALEXANDER
“While our beloved Madiba [Mandela] was the father of our democracy, Archbishop Desmond Tutu was the spiritual father of our new nation,” Ramaphosa said. Though the sun emerged just as Tutu’s funeral ended, it had been raining earlier in the day with howling winds as guests, including former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe, King Letsie III of Lesotho and billionaire Patrice Motsepe, were ushered in.
Ramaphosa said Tutu’s death “is another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated SA.” “I want us all to write a pledge of how we will honour Tutu by bringing out the good in ourselves,” said Graça Machel, the widow of the late President Mandela. “We need to go back and check if we have lived up to our own pledge every week, that is how we keep Tutu alive. He lives in all of us.” .Patricia de Lille said the sad reality was that 27 years into democracy in SA only a few had tasted economic liberation.
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