Staff writer

Sunday Times reported that vandals smashed a sculpture that honours Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu yesterday.

The sculpture by Anton Momberg was erected in front of the city hall in East London as part of the Sunday Times Heritage Project. The vandals knocked off Tutu’s head.
Buffalo City mayor Zintle Peter expressed outrage over the incident. “I am both horrified and extremely disappointed that a symbol of an internationally respected icon of the struggle and of human rights can be desecrated in this way,” she said.

This is the second Sunday Times memorial to have been vandalised in the city, and a total of five have been smashed nationwide.

In October last year, a sculpture of a black boy sitting on a bench erected at Eastern Beach was vandalised two days after being installed.

The Sunday Times Heritage Project was part of the newspaper’s 100 th birthday celebrations in 2006.