Cape Town is planning to confer the freedom of the city on Archbishop Emeritus Njongonkulu Ndungane. Ndungane, 75, will join the likes of Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Ahmed Kathrada and US President Barack Obama if the council backs a recommendation to make the award when it meets today.Freedom of the city is the highest honour the City of Cape Town can award, and it will join the Order of the Baobab in Ndungane's trophy cabinet.The motivation to today's council meeting had a deep-seated connection to Cape Town, said Ndungane, who was archbishop from 1996 to 2007."It was in Cape Town in 1960 that a speech by Robert Sobukwe on the pass laws led to him becoming involved in the PAC," says the motivation."He was arrested and sentenced to three years on Robben Island followed by a two-year banning order restricting him to Cape Town and Wynberg."On Robben Island he felt the call to the priesthood and he was later ordained as a deacon at St George's Cathedral. His first posting as a priest was to St Mark's Church in Athlone."Ndungane has been chairman of the UCT council since 2008...