2006 Desmond Tutu1/10th Gold Spech R5.00 coin graded PF69Ultra Cameo by NGC
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Part of Desmond Tutu 's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, December 1984, Oslo, Norway
Your Majesty, members of the Royal Family, Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen:
Before I left South Africa, a land I love passionately, we had an emergency meeting of the executive committee of the South African Council of Churches with the leaders of our member churches. We called the meeting because of the deepening crisis in our land, which has claimed nearly two hundred lives this year alone. We visited some of the trouble spots on the Witwatersrand. I went with others to the East Rand. We visited the home of an old lady. She told us that she looked after her grandson and the children of neighbors while their parents were at work. One day the police chased some pupils who had been boycotting classes, but they disappeared between the township houses. The police drove down the old lady's street. She was sitting at the back of the house in her kitchen, while her charges were playing in the yard in front of the house. Her daughter rushed into the house, calling out to her to come quickly. The old lady dashed out of the kitchen into the living room. Her grandson had fallen just inside the door, dead. He had been shot in the back by the police. He was six years old. A few weeks later, a white mother, trying to register her Black servant for work, drove through a Black township. Black rioters stoned her car and killed her baby of a few months old, the first white casualty of the current unrest in South Africa. Such deaths are two too many. These are part of the high cost of apartheid.
Every day in a squatter camp near Cape Town called KTC, the authorities have been demolishing flimsy plastic shelters which Black mothers have erected because they were taking their marriage vows seriously. They have been reduced to sitting on soaking mattresses, with their household effects strewn round their feet, and whimpering babies on their laps, in the cold Cape winter rain. Every day the authorities have carried out these callous demolitions. What heinous crime have these women committed, to be hounded like criminals in this manner? All they have wanted is to be with their husbands, the fathers of their children. Everywhere else in the world they would be highly commended, but in South Africa, a land which claims to be Christian and which boasts a public holiday called Family Day, these gallant women are treated so inhumanely. Yet all they want is to have a decent and stable family life. Unfortunately, in the land of their birth it is a criminal offense for them to live happily with their husbands and the fathers of their children. Black family life is thus being undermined, not accidentally but by deliberate government policy. It is part of the price human beings, God's children, are called to pay for apartheid. An unacceptable price.
Blacks are expected to exercise their political ambitions in unviable, poverty-stricken, arid bantustan homelands, ghettos of misery, inexhaustible reservoirs of cheap Black labor, bantustans into which South Africa is being balkanzied. Blacks are systematically being stripped of their South African citizenship and being turned into aliens in the land of their birth. [Connie Mulder, Minister of Bantu Administration and Development (BAD), said in 1978: 'If our policy is taken to its logical conclusion... there will not be one Black man with South African citizenship... Every Black man in South Africa will eventually be accommodated in some independent new state in this honorable way and there will no longer be a moral obligation on this parliament to accommodate these people politically.' (South African Hansard, proceedings of the South African parliament, Cape Town, February 7, 1978, quoted by legal academic John Dugard and reproduced in The Apartheid Handbook, by Roger Omond, Penguin 1985.)]. This is apartheid's final solution, just as Nazism had its final solution for the Jews in Hitler's Aryan madness. The South African government is smart. Aliens can claim but very few rights, least of all political rights.
In pursuance of apartheid's ideological racist dream, over three million of God's children have been uprooted from their homes, which have been demolished, while they have been dumped in the bantustan homeland resettlement camps. I say dumped advisedly: only rubbish or things are dumped, not human beings. Apartheid has, however, ensured that God's children, just because they are Black, should be treated as if they were things and not as of infinite value as being created in the image of God. These dumping grounds are far from where work and food can be procured easily. Children starve, suffer from the often irreversible consequences of malnutrition. This happens to them not accidentally but by deliberate government policy. They starve in a land that could be the bread basket of Africa, a land that normally is a net exporter of food.
