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Desmond Tutu

December 2021

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Cathedral bells toll for South Africa’s anti-apartheid hero

Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate who had preached against the tyranny of the white minority, was revered by black and white South Africans alike as the nation’s moral conscience.

  • Wendell Roelf
This photo from 1994 shows former  South African president Nelson Mandela, right, holding hands with former Bishop Desmond Tutu in Cape Town South Africa.

South Africa’s anti-apartheid hero Desmond Tutu dies

Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace laureate whose moral might permeated South African society during apartheid’s darkest hours and into the unchartered territory of new democracy, has died

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