The Nobel laureate, often described as South Africa’s moral conscience, died on Boxing Day in Cape Town
Desmond Tutu, the cleric and social activist who was a giant of the struggle against apartheid inTutu, described by foreign observers and people in his country as the moral conscience of the nation, died in Cape Town on Boxing Day.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,” the president, Cyril Ramaphosa, said.
“Ultimately, at the age of 90, he died peacefully at the Oasis Frail Care Centre in Cape Town this morning,” Dr Mamphela Ramphele, acting chairperson of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu IP Trust and coordinator of the office of the archbishop, said in a statement on behalf of the Tutu family.Desmond Tutu attends the unveiling of the Arch for the Arch monument, as part of celebrations for his 86th birthday in Cape Town.Tutu was born in Klerksdorp, a farming town 100 miles south-west of Johannesburg.
Excitable, emotional, charismatic and highly articulate, Tutu won the Nobel peace prize in 1984. A vocal supporter of sanctions against South Africa, he was detested by supporters of the apartheid regime, who saw him as an agitator and traitor. Tutu was however protected not just by his wit and combative spirit but by his immense popularity and respect. In 1986 he was appointed archbishop of Cape Town, the effective head of the Anglican church in his homeland.
However Tutu shared Mandela’s vision of a multiracial society in which all communities live together without rancour or discrimination and is credited with coining the phrase “rainbow nation” to describe this vision.After the nation’s first free election in 1994, Mandela, who had become the president of a free South Africa, asked Tutu to chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission , the controversial and emotional hearings into apartheid-era human rights abuses.
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