Plan of Invetigation
This investigation evaluate the degree to which Archbishop Desmond Tutu played a role in the abolishment of the Apartheid regime in South Africa 1948-1994 to become a democratic nation. To assess the default leader role of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the investigation focuses on Desmond Tutu and F.W DE Klerk (former leader of the National Party 1989-1997) and there talks , agreements and hope for racial equality. Desmond Tutu came into the picture properly in 1976 aafter the soweto uprising, this is when he starts to take action and gets the international worlds attention.
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Tutu had been one of the few blacks able totake advantage of the educational system, and now he was trying to open that door to others. The state said no however:Blacks must be educated for their future as common labours.(Samuel Willard Crompton 22) No longer could blacks expect to recieve a european-style education.(Samuel Willard Crompton 23) Tutu watched all of this with growing anger and despair (Samuel Willard Crompton 23) adding injury to the insult, the government also annonced that it would level Sophiatown.this was one the biggest black townships and as Father Huddleston(see appendix) described, an area rich inculture, history and hope.(Samuel Willard Crompton 23) Father Huddleston organised a couple of peace marchers, ”despite protests and increasing notice from thw world community of nations”(Samuel Willard Crompton 23), but still nothing changed. The apartheid regime ”leveled Sophiatown and replaced it with a suburb called Triomf”(Samuel Willard Crompton 23) Tutu passed his exams and recieved his license in theology 1960”(Samuel Willard Crompton 25) protests against Apartheid gained strength in the 1950s(Samuel Willard Crompton 26) onwards. Leaders such a Nelson Mandela and Albert Luthuli protested the entire system of apartheid(Samuel Willard Crompton 26). As protests increased ”there was a split in black freedom movement.” (samuel Willard Crompton 26) in the start the was only the African National Congress but was then split into a rival group, the Pan-Africanist Congress. In 1962 Tutu movedwith his entire family to London.(Samuel Willard Crompton 27) to get full credentials as a preist which he was not able to earn in South Africa at that time. In the 1960s when Tutu had returned to South Africa ”the white South African government then announced that would lose their citizenship as they were absorbed into the new tribal homeland”(Samuel Willard Crompton 35). Desmond Tutu watch aall this from the sidelines(Samuel Willard Crompton 35). Anxiously waiting to try make change, Desmond Tutu decides to return back to London with his family. Tutu was assigned with a new job and was ”offered the position of associate director of the Theological Education Fund, run by the Anglican Church”(Samuel Willard Crompton 35). This was his first major step to getting the worlds attention. It involved alot of travelling and a lot of time spent in foreign nations, including some that had recently won independence from their colonial rulers(Samuel Willard Crompton 36) Tutu returns to South Africa in 1975 to become Anglican dean of Johanesburg.(Steven Gish 13). in 1976 Tutu writes a letter to Prime Minister B.J Vorster to warn him about rising black anger over aprtheid(Steven Gish 13). having traveled and seen countries strive and fight until their freedom, he warns him that it is bound to happen. In the letter he writes ”absolutely nothing will stop a people from attaining their freedom to be a people who can hold their heads high”(letter to Vorster from Tutu)
