Browsing Tag
antiapartheid
South Africa lays anti-apartheid veteran Desmond Tutu to rest in state funeral
South Africa bade farewell on Saturday to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the last great hero of the struggle against apartheid, in a funeral stripped of pomp but freighted with tears and showered with drizzles of rain.…
South Africa’s anti-apartheid hero Tutu to be laid to rest in state funeral
Issued on: 01/01/2022 - 08:27
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a hero of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, will be laid to rest on Saturday in an official state funeral in St…
Desmond Tutu, bishop and anti-apartheid campaigner, 1931-2021
Desmond Tutu, who has died aged 90, brought a searing moral authority to South Africa’s traumatic transition from apartheid to democracy. Throughout that tumultuous process and beyond, the devout Anglican was revered as a beacon of…
SA’s Tutu – anti-apartheid hero who never stopped fighting for ‘Rainbow Nation’
“Like falling in love” is how Archbishop Desmond Tutu described voting in South Africa’s first democratic election in 1994, a remark that captured both his puckish humour and his profound emotions after decades fighting apartheid.
Desmond…
South African anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Tutu dies aged 90
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa's struggle against white minority rule died on Sunday at the age of 90, the presidency said.
In 1984 Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent…
South African anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Tutu dies aged 90 By Reuters
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Archbishop Desmond Tutu laughs as crowds gather to celebrate his birthday by unveiling an arch in his honour outside St George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, October 7, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings…