Archbishop Desmond Tutu launched a stinging attack on South Africa yesterday, accusing it of failing to stand up to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and betraying its apartheid legacy.
Tutu, the retired archbishop of Cape Town, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and anti-apartheid campaigner, told BBC radio he was "ashamed" of his homeland. He suggested that South Africa had surrendered the "moral high ground" which it gained in the post-apartheid era.
Tutu also told BBC radio that violence could be used to remove Mugabe, who should then be indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). His comments came amid rising international pressure for Mugabe to quit and an outbreak of cholera which has killed over 1,000 people, according to UNICEF. |