South Africans have lost ‘sense of right and wrong’

ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu has warned that South Africa has failed to sustain the idealism that ended apartheid and its people seem to have lost their sense of right and wrong.

Delivering the Steve Biko Memorial Lecture at the University of Cape Town, the Nobel Peace laureate asked why respect for the law, the environment and life itself were missing in the new South Africa.

“What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into licence, into being irresponsible. Rights go hand in hand with responsibility, with dignity, with respect for oneself and the other,” Dr Tutu said.