South Africa's Archbishop Tutu remembered as anti-apartheid hero who never stopped fighting for 'Rainbow Nation'
In February 1990, Tutu led Nelson Mandela onto a balcony at Cape Town's City Hall overlooking a square where the ANC talisman made his first public address after 27 years in prison.
While Mandela introduced South Africa to democracy, Tutu headed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that laid bare the terrible truths of the war against white rule.But Tutu was as tough on the new democracy as he was on South Africa's apartheid rulers. Even in his twilight years, he never stopped speaking his mind, condemning president Jacob Zuma over allegations of corruption surrounding a million-dollar security upgrade to his home."As an old man, I am sad because I had hoped that my last days would be days of rejoicing, days of praising and commending the younger people doing the things that we hoped so very much would be the case," Tutu told Reuters in June 2014.
Always a passionate student, Tutu first worked as a teacher. But he said he had become infuriated with the system of educating blacks, once described by a South African prime minister as aimed at preparing them for their role in society as servants.Tutu quit teaching in 1957 and decided to join the church, studying first at St Peter's Theological College in Johannesburg. He was ordained a priest in 1961 and continued his education at King's College in London.
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