Holy Cross Day, Saturday 14th September 1996 in the Cathedral of St George the Martyr, Cape Town... I greet you all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am deeply humbled and greatly overwhelmed by the confidence that the Diocese of Cape Town and the Church of the Province of Southern Africa have placed in me.
24 September 1996
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Chairman of a commission probing atrocities committed during the apartheid era and, until recently, head of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa - has taken on another role: campaigning in Atlanta during the Olympic Games on behalf of Cape Town's bid to stage the Games in 2004.
02 September 1996
A gunman tracked down by police admitted he had planned to kidnap Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Chairman of the government-appointed Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigating atrocities committed during the apartheid era in South Africa.
02 September 1996
Anglican and Roman Catholic Church leaders in Cape Town have expressed grave concern about rising violence by gangsters and others in the city and about the establishment of a Muslim vigilante group determined to punish the gangsters.
02 September 1996
The Most Revd Desmond Tutu has been given a special award by the Archbishop of Canterbury - The Archbishop of Canterbury's Award for Outstanding Service to the Anglican Communion. Archbishop Tutu is the first recipient of this award which was presented to him personally by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Cape Town during a farewell service at the end of June.
02 July 1996
The London Sunday Telegraph ran an article on a new prayer book - "We Too Are Baptised" - for lesbians and gays. The foreword has been written by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. His text is presented here for your use and for the sake of clarity and accuracy.
22 April 1996
Fourteen mainline Churches in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal have launched an Ecumenical Peacemakers' Programme to help contain political violence in the run-up to the province's local government elections on 29 May.
03 April 1996
Now that they no longer need to spend their time battling apartheid, South Africa's Churches have found another common enemy - the nation's spiralling crime rate. Crime has overtaken political violence as the major preoccupation of both politicians and the general public. According to official figures, a murder is committed every three minutes in South Africa.
04 March 1996
The Archbishop was speaking in a personal capacity from Cape Town. He was interviewed by the Sunday Programme after he had signed a statement of support for the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement. The statement forms part of an advertisement for the movement's 20th birthday.
12 February 1996
Bishop Dinis Sengulane of the Diocese of Lebombo has written to the Anglican Communion office telling people how the Decade of Evangelism has been relaunched in his diocese. See the June edition of Anglican World for more details and photographs.
03 February 1996