and tortured. we did not know that one of them had already been murdered by the secret police. when we got there, our demands were not met and we were arrested ourselves and while we were kept for a while we heard conversations with pretoria in the afrikaans language and we were getting an interest in what was happening and we were finally told we would be deported from this mythical republic have the time but instead of being deported we were put in between two armoured vehicles and driven into the bush and in a clearing in the bush we were pulled out of the car and we were pushed around rather roughly and told that we were going to be shot and that nobody would find our bodies and we were 300 kilometres from johannesburg and no one cared about desmond tutu and peter story in this part of the well so it was a scary moment, but in the end they did let us go and we were driving down the
and that light has lit up countries globally that were struggling with fear, conflict, persecution, oppression, where the marginalised suffered, he never ceased to speak prophetically and he never ceased to speak out. he never ceased to share light. many nobel prize winners, their light fades with time, but his grew brighter. south africa president cyril ramaphosa reflected on archbishop desmond tutu s joyful spirit. if archbishop desmond tutu were here, he would have said hey, hey, why are you looking so glum, so unhappy? he would have wanted to elicit a smile and laughterfrom amongst all of us. that was the type of person that he was. peter storey is the former president of the south african council
again after contracting covid 19 in the run up to christmas. she s withdrawn from the first wta tournament of the season in melbourne, having only recently come out of isolation. she said it d just come too soon. she ll keep practicing there and she s expected to play in sydney in the week before the australian open, which starts on the 17th. that s all the sport for now. let s return now to the state funeral of anti apartheid campaigner, archbishop desmond tutu, which has taken place in cape town. the nobel peace prize winner who helped end the racist regime in south africa died last sunday at the age of 90. over the past two days, thousands of people have waited in line to pay their final respects. peter storey is the former president of the south african council of churches, and was friends with the archbishop for 46 years and when i spoke to him earlier, he told me how he would remember desmond tutu. i will remember desmond tutu in the same way that i met him, as a man of prayer,
highway afterwards with desmond at the wheel of his old toyota cressida and he said, peter, we could have been killed like swatting a fly and i was trying to slow my heart beat and i said yes, that s true and he said well, now we have to thank god and he started praying, oh god, you are a great god and you have delivered us from danger and i looked at him and i saw his eyes were closed and i grabbed the wheel stop i didn t want death to have another shot at us so soon. and that was just another typical part of desmond s life, that the first thing he wanted to do after an experience like that was to engage god with thanks, and it was a couple of years later that a white military man in his 60s came and asked forgiveness for having given the order on the command of pretoria, the government, to eliminate us in that part of the