Archbishop Desmond Tutu Dies: Anti-Apartheid Leader, Frequent TV/Film Subject Was 90

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Celebrities are mourning the loss of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died on December 26 in his native South Africa at the age of 90. The Anglican cleric was an iconic human rights advocate, fighting tirelessly to end apartheid, South Africa’s official policy of racial segregation.

Queen and royal family have expressed their deep sadness at the death of anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who has sadly passed away aged 90.Archbishop Tutu, who won the Nobel Peace prize in 1984 for his part in helping to end the apartheid system in South Africa, died on Boxing Day.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an anti-apartheid and human rights activist in South Africa, has sadly passed away at 90.

Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Sunday. He was 90.

statement from the Desmond & Leah Legacy Foundation confirmed the news. “Tutu was a living embodiment of faith in action, speaking boldly against racism, injustice, corruption, and oppression, not just in apartheid South Africa but wherever in the world he saw wrongdoing, especially when it impacted the most vulnerable and voiceless in society,” the statement read.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has sadly died.

office of South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa, who praised Tutu as “a patriot without equal; a leader of principle and pragmatism who gave meaning to the biblical insight that faith without works is dead.”Tutu, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, became one of the most prominent critics of South Africa’s policy of racial segregation and discrimination overseen by a white minority government against the country’s Black majority from 1948 until 1991.

Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, has died aged 90.