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RIP Desmond Tutu

DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
in The potting shed
A truly good man

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-59793726  

He will be missed. 

Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Just watching it on Breakfast. Lovely man, great courage and sense of humour.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I remember vividly the film of him just after he’d voted in an election for the first time … his overwhelming joyous laughter was so moving … I’m welling up now, just thinking of it. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    Many people have not got a good word to say about religious leaders .... but this man was truly remarkable in every way.
    I was in South Arica when Mandela died and witnessed the outpouring of genuine grief.
    I expect it will be the same today.

    RIP.
    Bee x
    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    My absolute hero for as long as I can remember. The world feels like a worse place without him in it. RIP Desmond Tutu.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Truly one of the greats, I agree @LG_ the world is a worse place without him.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    SlipperyElm said:
    punkdoc said:
    Truly one of the greats, I agree @LG_ the world is a worse place without him.
    True.  But on a more positive note, it's a better place for him having been in it.
    Much much much better.  An example to the world of how to forgive. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    I thought he was always great fun, so much fizzing energy
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    A man who was not afraid to speak out about wrongdoing whoever the perpetrators were.  As scathing about corruption in the black governments of South Africa as he was about their predecessors.
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