Finding a Purpose In Life by R. M. Lala

Author:R. M. Lala
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

NELSON MANDELA

When negotiations between the prime minister of South Africa and the coloured people were threatening to fall apart, Desmond Tutu came to the rescue. As the white South African President F.W. de Klerk put it, ‘It was Bishop Tutu who came to the aid of both.’

A day came when it was announced that Nelson Mandela would be released. In sheer joy, Desmond Tutu literally jumped and danced with his people. At this point the real task for Mandela began; he had to win his supporters to non-violence and allay the fears of the whites. Mandela brought a visionary quality to his struggle and enlisted a moral integrity to unify a divided people. Soon thereafter, the country’s first democratic elections were held.

But the bitter past could not be buried. Mandela and Tutu brought the oppressors and the oppressed face-to-face and established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which reiterated that ‘there is a need for understanding but not for vengeance, a need for reparation but not for retaliation’. The Commission comprised both blacks and whites. As soon as Bishop Tutu was appointed chairman of the Commission, he asked the secretariat of the Worldwide Anglican Commission to send nuns and monks of religious communities. He foresaw that the proceedings would be painful and that people would need regular intercession and counselling for the duration of the commission. ‘Thus we knew that we were surrounded on a regular basis with fervent prayers of at least these groups of Christians,’ he said, adding, ‘as I grow older I am pleasantly surprised at how relevant theology has become, as I see it, to the whole of life.’

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