http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/general/0,2172,135276,00.html
SABC News
September 22, 2006, 06:00

F W de Klerk, the former president, has admitted that he failed to act on his suspicions that the apartheid security forces were committing human rights abuses.

De Klerk admits, in an authorised biography of Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican archbishop, that he should have asked more questions.

He made the statements to John Allen, Tutu’s former press secretary, who authored the biography, Rabble Rouser for Peace.

Dave Steward, De Klerk’s spokesperson, says the admission is not a new position and that it’s been said a number of times in recent years.

Steward added that he …
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20060921233753554C671077
Pretoria News
Staff Reporter
September 22 2006 at 08:33AM

Former South African president FW de Klerk has acknowledged that as an apartheid-era cabinet minister, he failed to follow up on suspicions that the country’s security forces were committing human rights abuses.

He told the author of a new biography of Desmond Tutu to be published in September: “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 …
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http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/stephen_bates/2006/09/an_opportunity_missed.html
The Guardian: commentisfree
Stephen Bates
September 22, 2006 11:01 AM

The news that Desmond Tutu, the South African church leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, was sounded out about becoming Archbishop of Canterbury in preference to George Carey in 1990 is likely to cause liberal members of the Church of England to sob quietly into their cocoa. If only, they’ll be muttering.

Since the revelation comes in Tutu’s authorised biography, Rabble-rouser for Peace, written by his longtime press officer John Allen, I think we can assume it’s true. The idea was stymied because as a South African …
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http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3448548
Cape Times
September 22, 2006 Edition 1
SAHM VENTER

Johannesburg: Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, in his first authorised biography, says 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 FW 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 are to be released today and the biography in time for …
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-2372148,00.html
Comment – Atticus
The Sunday Times
September 24, 2006
Roland White

It could have been a kiss of life to the beleaguered Church of England: Desmond Tutu has revealed he was once approached to become Archbishop of Canterbury.

A forthcoming biography tells how Tutu was contacted by a church official in 1990 to see if he’d be eligible to succeed Robert Runcie. At the time Tutu was Archbishop of Cape Town. He had won the Nobel peace prize, was renowned for his opposition to apartheid and had even featured in a Michael Jackson video.

In the event, the then prime …
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http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/09/22/tutu-biography.html
CBC
Friday, September 22, 2006 | 12:25 PM ET

The first authorized biography of Archbishop Desmond Tutu reveals the well-respected South African religious leader regrets nominating F.W. de Klerk along with Nelson Mandela for the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.

Tutu is deeply critical of de Klerk, the last apartheid president of South Africa, for not accepting accountability for atrocities under his rule.

The book, Rabble-Rouser for Peace, written by John Allen, Tutu’s former press secretary, is scheduled for release Oct. 7.

Excerpts have been published in advance in South African newspapers.

The biography features an interview with de Klerk in which …
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/southafrica/story/0,,1881205,00.html

If Desmond Tutu is guilty of craving fame, he has made good use of it, writes

David Beresford
Johannesburg dispatch
Tuesday September 26, 2006
Guardian Unlimited

About 10 years ago, when the truth commission and the activities of South African death squads were still fresh in people’s minds, a basket of fruit was delivered to my door. A card said it had come from Archbishop Desmond Tutu. I shouted at my family to take cover.

After a few prods with a broomstick persuaded me that it was not a bomb, and I had calmed down, I remembered that I …
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http://www.eni.ch/articles/display.shtml?06-0772
Episcopal News International
Donwald Pressly

Cape Town (ENI). When Nelson Mandela was released from jail in 1990, he held his first press conference at the home of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Cape Town. Many people had expected Tutu to take up a political career, like other clerics who had been vociferous in opposing apartheid.

“Tutu stayed away from the press conference and kept out of the formal [photo] shots. It was their day, not his,” writes John Allen, a former South African journalist, one time trade union leader and press secretary for Tutu, in his …
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http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_06101tutu.shtml
ekklesia.co.uk News
01/10/06

When Nelson Mandela was released from jail in 1990, he held his first press conference at the home of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Cape Town. Many people had expected Tutu to take up a political career, like some other clerics who had been vociferous in opposing apartheid – writes Donald Pressly for Ecumenical News International.

“Tutu stayed away from the press conference and kept out of the formal [photo] shots. It was their day, not his,” writes John Allen, a former South African journalist, one time trade union leader and press …
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http://www.beliefnet.com/story/200/story_20034_1.html
Daniel Burke
Religion News Service

Sept. 27 – Anglican icon and Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu says in a new book that his church’s rejection of gay priests in 1998 made him “ashamed to be an Anglican.”

That comment, as well as others critical of the worldwide Anglican Communion’s bickering over the role of gays and lesbians in the church, are related in a new biography of the South African prelate, called “Rabble-Rouser For Peace,” written by his former press secretary, John Allen. The biography is scheduled to be released close to Tutu’s 75th …
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