South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu , icon of the
fight against apartheid and Nobel Peace Prize winner , died Sunday at the age
of 90, announced President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The president expresses "on behalf of all South Africans, his deep sadness following the death, this Sunday" of this essential figure in South African history, in a statement." The death of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is a new chapter of mourning in our nation's farewell to a generation of exceptional South Africans who left us a liberated South Africa," added the president.
He hadn't spoken in public for months
“A man of extraordinary intelligence, upright and invincible against the forces of apartheid, he was also tender and vulnerable in his compassion for those who had suffered oppression, injustice and violence under the apartheid, and for the oppressed and for the oppressors around the world, ”
The Arch, as it was nicknamed by South Africans, had been
weakened for several months. He no longer spoke in public, but always greeted
the cameras present at each of his travels, smiling or mischievous glance,
during his vaccine against the Covid in a hospital or during the office in Cape
Town to celebrate his 90 years in October......
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