A painting of Archbishop Desmond Tutu was desecrated at the Central Business District in Cape Town. “Ek is ‘n k—–” was written on the painting. Desmond Tutu IP Trust has condemned the desecration of the painting in Cape Town.
“The Arch is about to celebrate his 90th birthday. He is the grandfather of the nation, and a global symbol of peace and righteousness. Racism is a curse South Africa must escape.
“We have enough problems on our plate, including radical inequality in wealth and living standards still largely tracking the social, economic and environmental hierarchies of the past,” she said.
In the 1980s, hate-mongers regularly sent threats to Archbishop Desmond Tutu. This was at the height of anti-apatheid struggle.
“In one unsavoury incident, in 1989, a baboon foetus was hung outside their home in an attempt, police later said, to bewitch him.
“Despite the Archbishop’s consistent advocacy for non-racialism, justice, compassion and love, because of the prominence of his position in the church and the struggle, he was widely reviled in white society. If looks could kill he would have been dead many times over, he has often said.”
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“For this hatred to be repeated, decades later, by someone scrawling, ‘Ek is ‘n k…’, on a mural of the Archbishop in central Cape Town, casts a slur on our democracy. It speaks to the work still ahead to complete the journey, his journey, to restore our humanity.”
There has been calls for the person who desecrated the mural in Cape Town to be prosecuted. Desmond Tutu is an advocate of equality, justice and non-racism all his life and vandalising his mural is an insult to him and other South Africans.
Cape Town police said no case had been registered in relation to the incident.
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