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David Smith in Cape Town
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 4 October 2011 12.14 BST
The Dalai Lama says he has been forced to pull out of the 80th birthday celebrations for Archbishop Desmond Tutu because the South African authorities have not granted him an entry visa.
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Cape Times, October 7, 2010, by Nomfundo Walaza
I first questioned the notion of “keeping the peace” several years ago while I was still practicing as a psychologist. A refugee girl, who was sexually abused by her adoptive parent, was referred to me for counseling. She believed that her adoptive ‘mother’ knew, about the abuse, but did not want to confront the father who was the sole breadwinner. The girl insisted that I not report the matter to the police as she was terrified she’d be ‘sent back’ and denied an education and the opportunities she had here in South Africa. I was thus being asked to collude in the silence of “keeping the peace”.
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Nomfundo Walaza, CEO of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre, recently returned from a visit to South Korea, where she represented Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu at the opening of the World Bell Peace Park in Hwacheon County.
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’N Amerikaanse student het op ’n keer aan Nomfundo Walaza gevra: “Hoe kan ek soos jy word?”
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KAAPSTAD. – “Ons is hier om vir hoop te vra. Hoop vir kinders soos ek. Hoop vir ons ouers. Hoop vir ons toekoms.”
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On the International Day of Peace (September 21) it may seem odd to invoke Winston Churchill, who said: “‘Jaw-jaw’ is better than ‘war-war’.” He was right, of course. Words are better than war. But are words enough? Does dialogue not risk merely becoming noisy apathy? To paraphrase Edmund Burke, does evil triumph when good men do nothing … but talk?
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South Africa needs to have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to examine the way in which the government has dealt with the HIV and Aids pandemic over the past decade, to help rebuild trust between the health sector and grassroots communities, says a Cape Town activist.
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