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42 Vicarage Crescent,
Battersea, SW11 3LD
Tel: 020 7326 8461
Fax: 020 7326 8448
Co-ordinator: Jenine Steenekamp
Email: a.steenekamp@ntlworld.com

Chair: Alastair Papps CB
ratcheugh@ukpc.net
Tel: 01780 720196

Treasurer: Charles Luyckx
charlesl@capricorngroup.co.uk
Tel: 020 7326 8447

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Tutu speaks in London Charity Event

Desmond Tutu

Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke of the shock recent crimes in South Africa had caused in communities at an event in London last week. Tutu was speaking at a charity event hosted by the National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Reintegration of Offenders (NICRO) at St Paul’s Cathedral last Wednesday. About 200 people attended the event, which included a performance by South African opera singer Siphiwo Ntshebe.

In his speech, Tutu said the recent case where a student allegedly used a samurai sword to kill a fellow pupil had shocked people. “There are quite shocking statistics of young people, children, who are being sentenced to prison because of involvement in serious crimes,” he said. “We like to shake our heads, and wonder what has happened?” Tutu said he was disappointed at media coverage given to youth violence in South Africa.

“My complaint to the media is, this is an unhappy picture and it is made out to be the entire truth of our youth,” he said. “Many young people are extraordinary people, they dream dreams, they actually do believe that they can make poverty history. We shouldn’t be appalled by those young people who go astray — we should celebrate that more don’t succumb.”

The annual HYDRO ACTIVE 5km Women’s Challenge takes place in HYDE PARK on the 16th September at 11am and NICRO is challenging all ladies with a heart for South Africa to enter this amazing FUN event!

Run, skip, hop or walk and have fun in aid of NICRO while all relatives and friends are welcome to cheer the ladies on and then join in for a picnic in the park after the race. All NICRO participants can gather at the Nando’s tent and have as much Nando’s as they can eat. Cost: 15 pound of which 5 pound will be donated to NICRO.

 

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