He left behind Nomalizo Leah Tutu and more than three children.
Oyam – 26, December 2021: A universal figure, a man who served the people of God with a commitment, passion and condemning injustices against them, is gone.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu died at the age of 90 on Sunday. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa remembers him and spoke of his contribution to South Africa.
“The passing on Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa.”
“Desmond Tutu was a patriot without equal; a leader of principle and pragmatism who gave meaning to the biblical insight that faith without works is dead.”
“We pray that Archbishop Tutu’s soul will rest in peace but that his spirits will stand sentry over the future of our nation.”
The world will remember Tutu for many things. “I wish I could shut up but I cannot and I will not.”
For nine decades, his ever-expanding circles of influence and a selection of nine places he made a global footprint while speaking to the power illustrates his unrestrainable voice of conscience amid conflicts and division.
Desmond was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian. He was an anti-apartheid and human rights activist.
He left behind Nomalizo Leah Tutu and more than three children.
Tutu won Nobel Peace Prize, Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism and Gandhi Peace Prize, among others.
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