and other family members. peter storey was president of the south african council of churches at the time when desmond tutu was the general secretary. he shared some of his recollections of theirfriendship. my first experience of him was, if you like, characteristic of his whole life. i was in nairobi for a conference and sharing a room with some delegates. and when i woke up at four in the morning, somebody else had joined the room. and i saw an apparition, a sort of white apparition in the corner. it was somebody that had covered himself with a sheet and who was praying in the muslim way, with his face right down on the floor. and the next morning, i discovered that it was desmond tutu. i said to him, you gave me one heck of a fright last night. and he cackled the tutu cackle. and he said, i m desmond tutu. that first moment of
underpinnings of social behaviour. the life of the anti apartheid leader archbishop desmond tutu. he died on sunday aged 90. the bells of cape town s st george s cathedral will toll for ten minutes a day every day at noon until friday. it will mark the ten years he was in office. people have also been gathering outside the city s st george s cathedral and also outside his home, ahead of his funeral on the first of january. others laid wreaths and lit candles in soweto. peter storey was president of the south african council of churches at the time when desmond tutu was the general secretary. he shared some of his recollections of theirfriendship. my first experience of him was, if you like, characteristic of his whole life. i was in nairobi for a conference, and sharing a room with some delegates.
a couple weeks later, i went to pick up a letter, and it had a stamp of the south african council of churches, and it was a letter from archbishop desmond tutu, as he then was. and what really moved me about that was simply that here was a man, very busy with the liberation struggle within south africa, and yet, he could find time to write to and ordinate who was training to be a priest. an ordinate who was training to be a priest. basically, the letter was simply to say, your mum dropped by and she mentioned that you are training for priesthood, and ijust want to say to you that i am praying for you and i wish you all the very best, and that was very touching. he was a man who was down to earth. i think that sense of him being approachable always came across. i think one of the last moments
the bells of cape town s st george s cathedral will toll for ten minutes a day every day at noon until friday. people have also been gathering outside the city s st george s cathedral and also outside his home, ahead of his funeral on the first of january. others laid wreaths and lit candles in soweto. and these pictures are from the last hour. south african president cyril ramaphosa arriving at the archbishop s residence to to offer condolences to his widow leah and otherfamily members. peter storey was president of the south african council of churches at the time when desmond tutu was the general secretary. he shared some of his recollections of theirfriendship. my first experience of him was, if you like, characteristic of his whole life. i was in nairobi for a conference and sharing a room with some delegates. and when i woke up at four
and i met him on numerous occasions and got to understand and to be glued to his speeches and his rallying cry for freedom and also his great wicked sense of humour. he had such wicked and impish sense of humour. what made him such an effective campaigner against apartheid and from the point of view the white rulers of south africa, what made him so dangerous? i think because he was what made him so dangerous? i think because he was the what made him so dangerous? i think because he was the voice what made him so dangerous? i think because he was the voice of what made him so dangerous? i think because he was the voice of the - because he was the voice of the voiceless at the time when people like nelson mandela were in prison and many other leaders were in exile and many other leaders were in exile and desmond tutu was then appointed to be secretary general of the south african council of churches in 1978 and that is when he started to reignite the energy within the church abou