RIP Desmond Tutu

I met you when you were a mere Father Tutu, and then the police came for my fingerprints

Desmond Tuto. 1931–2021 Public Domain

The year was 1965, and Elizabeth Crace (later Lady Elizabeth Johnston, wife of Lord Johnston, the last British High Commissioner of then-Rhodesia) was the headmistress of the Diocesan School for Girls, a rather exclusive school that I attended. She had invited Desmond Tutu to talk at one…