LONDON: The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu (pictured), put on his white cleric’s collar on Sunday for the first time since cutting it up 10 years ago in a highly symbolic protest at Robert Mugabe’s rule.
The Uganda-born cleric, the second most senior clergyman in the Church of England, made the dramatic gesture on live television in 2007, and stated that he would not wear it again until the Zimbabwe president was gone.
After Mugabe left office this week, Sentamu appeared on the same BBC programme where he was handed the pieces of his collar, only to pull a new one out of his pocket and put it on.
“I think the lesson for Zimbabwe is the same. They just can’t try and stitch it up. Something more radical, something new has to happen in terms of the rule of law, allowing people to get jobs,” he told the Andrew Marr show. — AFP
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