He said the kind of housing government was providing was "usually poorly constructed" making people sometimes believe "that the ghetto matchbox houses of apartheid days were often better."
The killing of 900 people a day by Aids was a devastation "like three jumbo jets crashing every day..."
"Why waste resources in divisive name changes and apparently forgetting that our heroes and heroines were from all political persuasions?" asked Tutu.
He said South Africa needed to be built in a way "where names and symbols that are dear to one ethnic or cultural group are no denigrated but are respected".
Tutu said the need for rigorous debate and different opinions were the sometimes forgotten life-blood of democracy in South Africa.
"Kowtowing sycophancy is fatal to it. Wisdom, ability, skills and efficiency know no political affiliation." - SAPA
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