Desmond Tutu, the former Archbishop of South Africa and an anti-apartheid icon, has died at the age of 90.
President Cyril Ramaphosa remarked on Sunday, “The departure of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of mourning in our nation’s farewell to a generation of remarkable South Africans who have handed us a liberated South Africa.”
Ramaphosa stated that he “distinguished himself as a non-sectarian, inclusive advocate of universal human rights.” Tutu is generally lauded as South Africa’s moral conscience and the great reconciler of a nation separated by decades of racial politics, notwithstanding his current health struggles.
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He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his efforts to end white minority rule in his nation. Tutu was known for his outspokenness, and even after the racist apartheid state fell, he never shied away from exposing South Africa’s flaws or injustices.
It was Tutu who coined and popularised the term “Rainbow Nation” to describe South Africa when Nelson Mandela became the country’s first black president.
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