Tutu

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.…

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…

6/6 © Reuters. The casket containing the body of Archbishop Desmond Tutu arrives at St. Georges Cathedral for his lying in state in Cape Town, South Africa, December 31, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings 2/6 By Sisipho Skweyiya CAPE TOWN…

Issued on: 31/12/2021 - 02:40 South Africans streamed into Cape Town’s cathedral on Thursday to pay their last respects to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the globally venerated…

The body of South Africa’s anti-apartheid theologian, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, arrived at Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral on Thursday morning, where it will lie in state for two days for mourners to pay their final respects. Tutu, a…

Issued on: 30/12/2021 - 01:56 An interfaith, musical memorial to South Africa’s revered anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu had a rabbi and a monk dancing in their seats on Wednesday as…

Issued on: 27/12/2021 - 06:26 South Africans of all races stopped by Cape Town's St George's Cathedral on Sunday to pay their respects to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the anti-apartheid…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Archbishop Emeritus and Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu pays tribute to Nelson Mandela during a news conference in Cape Town December 6, 2013. REUTERS/Mark Wessels (Reuters) -South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu,…

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…

“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…