Here is a timeline of key dates in Desmond Tutu's life:
1943 - Tutu's Methodist family joins the Anglican Church.1947 - Tutu falls ill with tuberculosis while studying at a secondary school near Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He befriends a priest and serves in his church after recovering from illness.
1958 - Tutu quits the school, refusing to be part of a teaching system that promotes inequality against Black students. He joins the priesthood.1966 - Tutu moves back to South Africa and starts teaching theology at a seminary in the Eastern Cape. He also begins making his views against apartheid known.1980 - As general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, Tutu leads a delegation of church leaders to Prime Minister PW Botha, urging him to end apartheid.
1986 - Tutu becomes the first Black person appointed as Bishop of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church of the Province of Southern Africa. With other church leaders he mediates conflicts between Black protesters and government security forces. 1994 - After Mandela sweeps to power at the helm of the ANC in the country's first democratic elections, Tutu coins the term "Rainbow Nation" to describe the coming together of various races in post-apartheid South Africa.
1997 - Tutu is diagnosed with prostate cancer. He has since been hospitalised to treat recurring infections.
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