Tutu and ubuntu help tackle London’s knife-crime epidemic

16 October 2019 - 09:00
By Dave Chambers
A project inspired by ubuntu and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has improved relationships between disaffected youngsters and the London police.
Image: 123RF/Markus Schnessl A project inspired by ubuntu and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has improved relationships between disaffected youngsters and the London police.

Ubuntu is being used to tackle knife crime in London, where 19 teenagers have been stabbed to death so far this year.

A project led by the Tutu Foundation UK is bearing fruit by getting gangsters and cops to engage and change their perceptions of each other.