FILE – Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa speaks to a crowd at New York’s City Hall on May 28, 1986, to drum up support for a rally on June 14 for sanctions against South Africa and apartheid. South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and the retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died at the age of 90, it was announced on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2021. An uncompromising foe of apartheid, South Africa’s brutal regime of oppression again the Black majority, Tutu worked tirelessly, but non-violently, for its downfall. (AP Photo/Susan Ragan, File)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice, has died at 90. Tutu was an uncompromising foe of apartheid, South Africa’s brutal regime of oppression against its Black majority.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 26, 2021 20:47 UTC