Article: Tutu calls for open debate to help solve South Africa's problems.

Byline: Laurie Goering

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa _ A decade after the end of apartheid, South Africa is a remarkable success story of a nation overcoming its past. But to confront the country's lingering threats _ AIDS, widespread poverty, crime, racism _ South Africa's government must begin encouraging public debate rather than discouraging criticism as unpatriotic.

That was the message Tuesday from South Africa's retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his contributions to the anti-apartheid struggle and who is considered, along with former President Nelson Mandela, a leading moral visionary in the country.

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