Former Anglican Arch Bishop and Nobel Peace Laureate, Desmond Tutu has told the Global Community of Growth, Innovation and Leadership forum that the painful story often told about apartheid is not an exaggeration, but it is the truth.
Tutu addressed the forum after he was presented with the 2013 Growth, Innovation and Leadership Award from Frost and Sullivan, an International company which brings together various global business executives to address their growth challenges.
The Nobel Peace Laureate told the Global executives the apartheid segregation laws even prohibited intimate relationships between Black and White South Africans.
“Police used to climb trees to peep through the windows of bedrooms and then to rush in and feel the temperature of the sheets. I mean you can only laugh but it was serious if they found a white person sleeping with a black Person. Most of those white people committed suicide.”
He told those who come from the powerful nations that they can stop the current deaths and destruction currently taking place in Egypt and Palestine. – SABC