Archbishop Desmond Tutu has spoken very honestly about the need for South Africans to respect one another. He was speaking at a lecture in memory of Steve Biko, a well known anti-apartheid campaigner. This report from Will Ross in Johannesburg:

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu was blunt. To South Africans he said: the fact of the [?] is we despise ourselves, we really despise ourselves and project it onto others. His Steve Biko Memorial Lecture [?] the man who led the black consciousness movement in South Africa as a remarkable young man who made a unique [?] of why black people were always at the end of the queue.

During the 1960s and 70s, Steve Biko had [?] the need for blacks to throw off mental as well as physical oppression of apartheid rule. Steve Biko [?] after being tortured by the apartheid police in 1977. Desmond Tutu said the best [?] to Biko would be a South Africa where everyone respected themselves.

But he went on to paint a very different picture and pulled no [?] on the subject of South Africa's alarmingly high rate of violent crime, including car hijacking. Archbishop Tutu said scared car [?] handed over the keys but were then shot dead in cold blood for the sheer hell of it -- [?], gratuitously, wantonly. He asked: is it not horrendous for an adult man to rape a nine-month-old baby.

Despite the fact that white [?] rule ended twelve years ago, Archbishop Tutu questioned whether people realised the long-term [?] of the apartheid system, saying: we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong. Desmond Tutu called on South Africans to respect each other and to oppose [?], and ended his lecture saying: you know what, we are indeed a [?] success waiting to happen.