http://iafrica.com/news/sa/200920.htm
iafrica News
JOHANNESBURG, Fri, 22 Sep 2006

Former president F W De Klerk failed to act on his suspicions that the apartheid security forces were committing human rights abuses, he admits in an authorised biography of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.

“Where maybe I failed was not asking more questions, not going on a crusade about things, following up on a slight uncomfortableness you feel here and there.”

“I was at times maybe not strong enough on following up on my instincts,” he told Tutu’s former press secretary John Allen, who authored the biography, ‘Rabble Rouser for Peace’.

“Not a new position”

The …
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http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/80256FA1003E05C1/httpPublicPages/CE69E351EEF0AA31802571F0004D2BD3?opendocument
Church Times
By Rachel Harden

THE FORMER Archbishop of Cape Town and Nobel prizewinner Dr Desmond Tutu was considered as one of the candidates to become the Archbishop of Canterbury on the retirement of Lord Runcie in 1991.

Details of this are revealed in a new authorised biography* by John Allen, a journalist and a former member of Dr Tutu’s staff and of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. It is to be published next month.

A member of the Crown Appointments Commission contacted Dr Tutu’s staff for his birth details, saying that they were exploring …
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1878488,00.html
Stephen Bates, religious affairs correspondent
Friday September 22, 2006
The Guardian

One of the most revered figures of Christianity, the Nobel peace prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, was sounded out about becoming Archbishop of Canterbury in succession to Robert Runcie in 1990, a new authorised biography reveals.The book, Rabble-Rouser for Peace, written by the archbishop’s former press officer, John Allen, says that a member of the Crown Appointments Commission asked for his place and date of birth in order to establish whether he was eligible to be appointed. It was decided that Tutu …
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Tutu: ashamed to be Anglican

http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3448728
Archbishop lashes out over gay stance
September 22, 2006 Edition 1
Johannesburg

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in the first authorised biography of the Nobel peace laureate, said he was ashamed of his Anglican Church’s conservative position that rejected gay priests.

In the book Rabble-rouser for Peace by his former press secretary, John Allen, Tutu also criticised the last apartheid president, F W de Klerk, for not accepting accountability for apartheid atrocities.

He said the failure caused him to regret having nominated De Klerk, along with Nelson Mandela, for their 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.

Excerpts from the book were scheduled …
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Articles after October 25, 2006, are posted to “Reporting.”  Choose “Media,” then “Reporting” in the menu.

October 25th:
Anglican Communion News Service: Desmond Tutu and John Allen speak at Trinity Church, Wall Street

October 19th:
VOA News: Desmond Tutu Discusses His Life as an Advocate for Peace
New York Sun: Tutu Urges All Faiths To Avoid Harmful Generalizations

October 18th:
CNN/Reuters: Biographer: At 75, Tutu still can’t shut up
Reuters India: ‘Rabble-rouser’ Tutu just can’t shut up-biographer

October 17th:
TIME.com: Q & A: Desmond Tutu

October 13th:
The Citizen: Recording the rabble-rousing

October 11th:
Ecumenical News International: Desmond Tutu expresses sadness at Anglican anti-gay stance
Baltimore Sun: 2 books …
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