Tutu will not vote ANC anymore, criticises foreign policy

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May 10, 2013

Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu has announced that he will no longer vote for the African National Congress.

"The ANC was very good at leading us in the struggle to be free from oppression," Archbishop Tutu wrote in an opinion for South Africa’s Mail & Guardian.

"But it doesn't seem to me now that a freedom-fighting unit can ¬easily make the transition to becoming a political party."

Archbishop Tutu also slammed past decisions made by the ANC government at the UN.

"The things we have voted for or against have been a disgrace. It has been a total betrayal of our whole tradition, and that's a very sad thing."

Read the opinion in full here.

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