Mayoral visit marks Archbishop Tutu's birthday tomorrow

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Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu hopes to be well enough to hear Public Protector Thuli Madonsela deliver the annual peace lecture in his honour tomorrow‚ his foundation says.

Archbishop Tutu has been in and out of hospital in recent months to receive intensive antibiotic treatment for a stubborn infection and related complications.

Now recovering at home in Cape Town‚ he received a visit from the city’s mayor Patricia de Lille today.

The mayoral visit to their Milnerton home was timed ahead of his 84th birthday‚ also tomorrow‚ and Mrs Leah Tutu’s “eighty-somethingth” birthday on October 14.

The couple have been married for 60 years.

The 5th Annual Desmond Tutu Peace lecture at the University of the Western Cape tomorrow evening will see Advocate Madonsela debate: “Democracy and Peace: What's the law got to do with it?”

Speakers at previous lectures Graca Machel‚ Kofi Annan and Mary Robinson although the annual events got off to a controversial start‚ in 2011‚ when the South African government declined to grant a visa to the inaugural speaker‚ the Dalai Lama. The event eventually went ahead in the form of a live video discussion between the archbishop Tutu and the Dalai Lama. -RDM News Wire