Desmond Tutu, South Africa's moral compass******

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died yesterday at the age of 90, was the moral compass of his beloved "Rainbow Nation," never afraid to speak truth to power, whatever its creed or color.。

A tireless activist, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for combatting white minority rule in his country.。

"The passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of bereavement in our nation's farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa," President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a statement.。

Famously outspoken, even after the fall of the racist apartheid regime, Tutu never shied away from confronting South Africa's shortcomings or injustices.。

"It's a great privilege, it's a great honor that people think that maybe your name can make a small difference," he said shortly before his 80th birthday in 2011.。

Whether taking on his church over gay rights, lobbying for Palestinian statehood or calling out South Africa's ruling African National Congress on corruption, his high-profile campaigns were thorny and often unwelcome.。

None at the top were spared – not even his close friend, late president Nelson Mandela, with whom Tutu sparred in 1994 over what he called the ANC's "gravy train mentality."

Yet "the Arch" brought an exuberant playfulness to all his endeavours.。

Quick to crack jokes – often at his own expense – he was always ready to dance and laugh uproariously with an infectious cackle that became his trademark.。

It was Tutu who coined and popularized the term "Rainbow Nation" to describe South Africa when Mandela became president. At the time, Tutu was serving as the first black Anglican archbishop of Cape Town.。

Ordained at 30 and appointed archbishop in 1986, he used his position to advocate for international sanctions against apartheid, and later to lobby for rights globally.。

Tutu was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997 and underwent repeated treatment. He had retired a year earlier to lead a harrowing journey into South Africa's brutal past, as head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.。

For 30 months, the commission lifted the lid on the horrors of apartheid. Tutu, with his instinctive humanity, broke down and sobbed at one of its first hearings.。

Born in the small town of Klerksdorp, west of Johannesburg, on October 7, 1931, Tutu was the son of a domestic worker and a school teacher.。

Following in his father's footsteps, he trained as a teacher before the inferior education system set up for black children prompted him to become a priest.。

He lived for a while in Britain, where, he recalled, he would needlessly ask for directions just to be called "Sir" by a white policeman.。

Tutu believed firmly in the reconciliation of black and white South Africans.。

"I am walking on clouds. It is an incredible feeling, like falling in love. We South Africans are going to be the Rainbow People of the world," he said in 1994.。

But post-apartheid South Africa increasingly became a source of his despair, as the high hopes of the early days of democracy gave way to disillusionment, violence, inequality and graft.。

西安业主3年前购买的房子 开发商三次发函称因疫情延期交付******

　　提到“收房”，业主们想到的一个词语是“遥遥无期”。

　　楼盘封顶就停工了 一直无法如期交付

　　2018年8月，王先生购买了西安市曲江春临二路三迪·曲江香颂枫丹小区三期的一套房子，合同约定2021年10月30日交房，但2020年10月左右，工地就停工了，“其实很早就封顶了，只是一直没有进展。”

　　王先生说，三期共4栋楼，基本上是在2018年左右就卖完了，但每栋楼约定的交付时间不一样，有2021年交房的，还有2022年1月交房的。发现工地停工后，三期的业主找到开发商，“开发商答应2022年7月底交房，并且在沟通群里说，年后，也就是2月18日，会全面复工。”

　　王先生说，业主们就一直操心着2月18日这个日子，“当天，开发商的人在群里发了动态，说有80名工人上班了，业主们去看，实际上也就二三十名。询问现场的工人，也说是估计7月只有两栋楼能交付，其他的还不行。”

　　2月22日下午，在该楼盘售楼部门口，三期业主王女士说，楼盘附近就是曲江四小，当时是为了孩子上学才买的这个楼盘，现在孩子都大班了，原本计划着年初收房装修，9月就能入住的，但现在看来，已经不可能了，收房时间遥遥无期，家庭的整个计划都打乱了。

　　三期业主卢先生说，他花了140多万元买的房子，现在延期交付，每月开发商只赔付300多元，可他在附近租房，每月就需要花费将近3000元钱，“还有业主背负着房贷，其实我们的诉求很简单，只希望早日收到属于自己的房子。”

　　三次发函都说延迟交付是受疫情影响

　　这个楼盘的开发商为西安三迪房地产开发有限公司。

　　业主们说，开发商曾给他们发过几次函，对交付延期进行说明，第一次发函时间为2020年12月28日，在这封函里，开发商说，因疫情，工人延期到岗、企业推迟复工等，项目在建的工程于2020年3月31日全面复工，但因疫情防控还是影响到施工进度，交付时间预计延迟至少三个月。

　　2021年10月10日，业主们又收到开发商的函。这次，开发商说，政府部门的防疫措施等原因影响到房屋建设施工进度，直接导致无法按照约定日期交付房屋，顺延至2022年4月30日。

　　2022年1月13日，开发商又发函对交房延期进行告知，内容是，为有效控制疫情，应防疫管控要求，三期被迫停工，导致项目有效施工时间减少，工作人员无法到岗，供应商无法正常生产和供应，施工进度受到严重影响，故9、11、13、22栋楼交付时间会顺延，具体交付时间以《交付通知书为准》。

　　2月22日下午，华商报记者前往该楼盘售楼部，一工作人员说，三期的确是延期交付了，但具体情况她没有权限答复，记者留下电话，22日晚上7时许，该项目负责人何先生说，项目是2018年开始的，交付时间有三个，分别是2021年10月31日，22年1月31，22年的3月31日。这期间，西安经历了两个疫情阶段，对工期造成了影响，导致了交付时间顺延。

　　何先生说，尽管出现了这些情况，但公司一直在努力，今年正月初五就已经复工，能穿插的工序都在进行，到22日为止，有107人在工地施工，其他的工人还在陆续赶来，后期施工人员还会增加。项目交付计划为7月30日，也报给了住建部门，“资金链没有问题，请业主们放心。”

　　华商报记者 卿荣波

编辑：方正