The Arch - 80 years young today!

Happy birthday to a man who has done so much for so many. DID YOU KNOW? •Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was born in 1931 in Klerksdorp, North West. •He had polio as a child, which left his right hand slightly smaller than the other. •He initially wanted to become a doctor but didn’t have the money to study medicine so trained as a teacher instead. •When he was in his thirties he became disenchanted with the black education system and switched to theology. •He lived in Vilakazi Street, Soweto -the only street in the world where two Nobel Prize winners lived: namely himself and Nelson Mandela •He was appointed archbishop of Cape Town at the age of 54. •He’s credited with coining the term Rainbow Nation. Read more about his life, his philosophy and things that make him laugh in YOU, 6 October 2011. Follow YOU on Twitter.