Desmond Tutu Research Articles

Apartheid and Holocaust

A comparison between the racism of apartheid and that of Nazism, as drawn by the South African Nobel Prize winner, Bishop Desmond Tutu, aroused some controversy.

The Bishop & South Africa: An Interview With Desmond Tutu

Rafael Suarez: The subject most in the news lately concerning South Africa is the drafting of a new constitution. As many Americans know, the constitution includes the socalled coloured and Asian populations in the new political process, but not the blacks. What is your position on the new constitution?Bishop Tutu: We have no doubt at all that it is something to be rejected out of hand because it is totally undemocratic, excluding as it does 70 per cent of the population.

Economic Analysis, the Legal Framework and Land Tenure Systems

D ISCUSSIONS of the efficiency of various systems of land tenure are marred by all sorts of imprecision in analysis. Economists have developed a clear notion of economic efficiency but discussions of land tenure invariably bring in some sociological and wealth-distribution constraints when discussing the efficiency aspects of tenure systems. Social anthropologists and others stress that certain tenure systems are integral parts of social systems involving such things as insurance for old and young, with the implication that even though these tenure systems might not facilitate (pecuniary) wealthmaximization, yet the non-pecuniary wealth facilitated provides "enough" compensation in some general welfare sense. I shall discard such sociological arguments because I believe that there is no reason why the sociological benefits of particular tenure systems cannot be obtained by some alternative arrangement while creating a tenure system that is designed to facilitate wealth maximization and wealth increases.