Dec 26, 2021: Retired South African Archbishop and anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu has died at the age of 90. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa’s struggle against white minority rule, has died the presidency said on Sunday.

Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa’s struggle against white minority rule, died Sunday. “The death of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of mourning for a generation of our nation’s great South Africans who have bequeathed to us a free South Africa,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said Sunday.

Ramaphosa added that he had “distinguished himself as a non-sectarian, universal champion of universal human rights”.

A tireless activist, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for combating white minority rule in his country.

Famously outspoken, even after the fall of the racist apartheid regime, Tutu never shied away from confronting South Africa’s shortcomings or injustices. Desmond Tutu coined and popularised the term “Rainbow Nation” to describe South Africa when Nelson Mandela became the country’s first black president.

Desmond Mpilo 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.

The outspoken Tutu was considered the nation’s conscience by both Black and white, an enduring testament to his faith and spirit of reconciliation in a divided nation.

He preached against the tyranny of white minority and even after its end, he 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, Tutu became the face of the anti-apartheid movement abroad while many of the leaders of the rebel African National Congress (ANC), such as Nelson Mandela, were behind bars.

In retirement he battled prostate cancer and largely withdrew from public life. In one of his last public appearances, he hosted Britain’s Prince Harry, his wife Meghan and their four-month-old son Archie at his charitable foundation in Cape Town in September 2019, calling them a “genuinely caring” couple.

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