On Wednesday, the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation and the Ukrainian Association of South Africa (Uaza) invited religious leaders from various denominations to unite in a prayer for peace for Ukraine and all conflict zones around the world.
At a Cape Town event to mark the first anniversary of the war in Europe, Trevor Tutu asked whether South Africans were oblivious to the fact that Ukrainians were ‘fighting for our freedom’. A Ukrainian representative responded that South Africans had been inspired by Ukraine’s current fight for.