South Africans remembered anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu with cathedral bells, flowers and warm words on Monday, a day after he died in a Cape Town nursing home aged 90. Tutu, a Nobel laureate who had preached against the tyranny of the white minority, was revered by Black and white South Africans alike as the nation's moral conscience. The bells of St George's Cathedral tolled for 10 minutes at noon local time on Monday, a homage set to be repeated every day until Friday. The Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, asked all who heard the bells "to pause their busy schedules for a moment in tribute" to Tutu. On Friday Tutu will lie in state at St George's ahead of Saturday's funeral service, which will be led by Makgoba.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 27, 2021 21:57 UTC