Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born on October 7, 1931. He lived in Klerksdorp, a poor black township near Johannesburg. His home didn't have electricity, running water, or indoor toilets. This was a common place for black people to live in because black people were not allowed to live in the city unless they were servants. His father, Zachariah, was a respected school teacher but the Tutu's still had to obey South Africa's harsh unfair laws. His mother, Aletha, was a servant in a white home. Despite these conditions Desmond's home was a happy one. He was smart and did well in school which he rode to in a train where he played cards with other passengers, often cheating to get extra cash. When he was fourteen Desmond caught tuberculosis, almost died, an

d had to stay in the hospital for two years. While in the hospital Desmond met a white priest named Father Trevor Huddleston. Father Huddleston became very influential in Desmond's life. Father Huddleston brought many books for to the hospital for him to read.

Desmond graduated from high school with honors and became one of the few blacks allowed to attend a university. Desmond Tutu wanted to be a doctor, but lacked the funds to pursue this goal. Instead, he studied to be a school teacher like his father. It was then that Tutu married his wife, Leah, who was a teacher in July 1955. Desmond became a teacher in a high school at Krugersdorp. He named his first son Trevor after father Huddleston. After the Bantu education Act of 1955 blacks were no longer allowed to learn any thing useful. After that Tutu didn't see the point to teaching so he turned to his religion. After teaching in Krugersdorp he went for ordination training at St Peter's Theological College in 1958, and became a deacon in 1960, serving in Benoni Location and a priest in 1961. Desmond and his family lived in England between 1962 and 1966 during which time Desmond obtained his BD and Master's Degree in Theology. Then he had worked for the World Council of Churches, before becoming the first black Dean at the Cathedral in Johannesburg, 1975-1976. In 1976 he and a fellow activist tried to turn an uprising in Soweto, a town on the edge of Johannesburg, into peaceful demonstrations. He wrote to the prime minister of South Africa, Balthazar J. Vorster, to warn him about the situation. The Prime minister discarded the letter. On June 16 that year 600 blacks were killed in the Soweto

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