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Tutu wins top German prize
02/12/2007 18:30 - (SA)
Hamburg - Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu was on Sunday awarded one of Germany's most prestigious honours - the Marion Doenhoff Prize for International Reconciliation and Understanding.
The retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town has become "a symbol for peace and justice in the world", German Economic Assistance Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul said in her laudatio.
On Monday Tutu is due to join former president FW de Klerk in the German capital to take part in an art project for worldwide peace.
The two men are to witness the unveiling of a giant boulder of black granite from South Africa that is intended to symbolize world peace.
The Global Stone Project is the brainchild of German sculptor Wolfgang von Schwarzenfeld, who for the past decade has been collecting two natural stone boulders from each of the world's five continents.
He sculptures, inscribes and polishes a surface on each of them to reflect the sun.
One of each pair is transported to Berlin, while the other is displayed in a suitably prominent place in its own country. - SAPA-dpa
