Welcoming Jeremy Corbyn, Youmna El Sayed and Mustafa Barghouti to Desmond & Leah Tutu House today.
Statement from Dr Mamphela Ramphele for the Archbishop Tutu IP Trust…
Welcoming Jeremy Corbyn, Youmna El Sayed and Mustafa Barghouti to Desmond & Leah Tutu House today.
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Press Debrief Hosted by Journalists Against Apartheid:
14h30 on 30 September 2025
Desmond & Leah Tutu House
Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
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On behalf of the Archbishop Tutu IP Trust I extend warm collegial greetings to Journalists Against Apartheid which is hosting an important media briefing on the abomination in Gaza, at Desmond & Leah Tutu House in Cape Town today.
The briefing will be delivered by Jeremy Corbyn, Youmna El Sayed and Dr Mustafa Barghouti, whose collective work for justice and humanity in the Holy Land would have met with the late Archbishop Tutu’s wholehearted support.
Corbyn is a British politician and former Leader of the Labour Party who, like Tutu, condemned the UK’s decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 on the false pretext of stopping Iraq from deploying alleged weapons of mass destruction. El Sayed is a television journalist who was forced to flee Gaza with her children after repeated security threats and displacements. Dr Mustafa Barghouti is a Palestinian physician, activist, and politician who serves as General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, and heads of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society.
The Tutu IP Trust, which is responsible for managing the Archbishop’s archives, will take the opportunity to show the visiting delegations artefacts of particular interest reflecting the late Archbishop’s special relationship to the pursuit of justice in Palestine.
The artefacts include a silver Jerusalem Cross inscribed with the words Beit Sahour, the place near Bethlehem where Archbishop Tutu delivered a Christmas Eve sermon in 1989 outlining parallels between the situation in the Israeli-occupied territories and apartheid South Africa.
Also in the archive is a Palestinian stone representing the First Intifada, dated 8 December 1987. Tutu first visited the Holy Land in 1966.
The Archbishop Tutu IP Trust reiterates its call on Israel to immediately cease its genocidal actions in Gaza and engage in real talks for a settlement that will secure peace and justice for both the people of Israel and Palestine.
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Statement from DR MAMPHELA RAMPHELE, Chair of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Intellectual Property Trust. Distributed for the Trust by Benny Gool 082 5566 556/Roger Friedman 079 8966 899.