South Africans mourned the death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu after the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa's struggle against white minority rule died at the age of 90
won the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent opposition to apartheid. A decade later, he witnessed the ends of that regime and he chaired a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, set up to unearth atrocities committed during those dark days.
"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 said.Tutu preached against the tyranny of the white minority but even after its end never wavered in his fight for a fairer South Africa, calling the Black political elite to account with as much feistiness as he had the white Afrikaners.
Talking and travelling tirelessly throughout the 1980s, he became the face of the anti-apartheid movement abroad while many of the leaders of the rebel ANC, such as Nelson Mandela, were behind bars.The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby hailed Tutu on Twitter, saying he "was a prophet and priest, a man of words and action" while flamboyant British billionaire Richard Branson said in a blog post: The world has lost a giant.
He was a long-time friend of Mandela, and the pair lived for a time on the same street in the South African township of Soweto, making Vilakazi Street the only one in the world to host two Nobel Peace Prize winners.
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