For 60 years, the man known affectionately as 'the Arch' played a key role in exhorting the South African government to end the country's official policy of racial segregation. 9News
on Sunday, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa expressed his condolences to the archbishop's family and friends, calling him "a patriot without equal".
His civil and human rights work led to prominent honours from around the world. President Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. Despite anger about the policy within South Africa, as well as widespread global disapproval — the country was banned from the Olympics from 1964 through 1988 — the South African government quashed opposition, banning the African National Congress political party and imprisoning its leaders, including Mr Mandela.
In 1975 he was appointed dean of St Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg and immediately used his new position to make political statements.the Academy of Achievement, referring to the black townships of Johannesburg. He resigned in protest. Not long after, the Bishop of Johannesburg agreed to accept him for the priesthood — Archbishop Tutu believed it was because he was a Black man with a university education, a rarity in the 1950s — and took up his new vocation.
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