Sunday, 26 December 2021

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NAIROBI, Kenya Dec 26 – Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu, the South African Anglican cleric and anti-apartheid human rights activist, is dead.

Tutu who had been battling cancer died on December 26 aged 90, the presidency announced.

Tutu, the last surviving South African laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize, died in Cape Town, according to local news agencies quoting the presidency.

“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 was quoted by News24 as saying.

Tutu was the bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996 where he was the first black African on the post.

His biography shows he was born of mixed Xhosa and Motswana heritage and to a poor family in Klerksdorp region of South Africa and later married Nomalizo Leah Tutu. They had several children.

He spent most of his life fighting for democracy and contributed a great deal in South Africa.’s independence.

 

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