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An era in which diversity is a blessing
As a country, South Africa has emerged into an era
in which diversity is a blessing. Our schools,
residential areas, shopping centres and sports
fields are beginning to display the rich diversity
that characterises our nation. What’s more, our
people are beginning to learn about each other: to
wonder, to question, to understand, to appreciate,
to value.
The responsibility of managing diversity
There is enormous beauty in this new diversity – but
it comes with the responsibility of positive and
ongoing management. We’re reminded of the
responsibility from time to time, by the vandalism
of places of worship, racial tensions in our schools
or insults on our sports fields, all of which
threaten a return to fear, prejudice and suspicion.
The Desmond Tutu Diversity Trust
The Desmond Tutu Diversity Trust believes that
democracy in South Africa can best be sustained by
managing diversity in all of its manifestations. We
therefore aim to be the front-runner of this
responsibility; to constructively and consistently
manage South Africa’s diversity – so that there is
always progression and never regression.
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“It is possible for those who are different in all
kinds of ways, to cohere as a unified community.”
– Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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You
can become involved with the Trust
The Desmond Tutu Diversity Trust sees as its core
business the promotion of diversity awareness. To
become involved with The Trust, to help us to
achieve its worthy aims and to give something back
to a country that has given us the unique
blessing of rich diversity, please
contact
us.
“I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free
society in which all persons live together in
harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal
which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if it
needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to
die.”
– Nelson Mandela |
