Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning archbishop who was viewed as the country’s moral conscience and became one of the world's foremost activists for racial justice, died on Sunday aged 90. Candles are lit in front of a photograph of the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu at the Cape Town civil centre, Cape Town, South Africa, 26 December 2021. Tutu spoke out against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, likening it to the treatment of black South Africans under apartheid rule. In this file photo, Archbishop Desmond Tutu shares a joke with the Dalai Lama. In 1990, after 27 years in prison, Mandela spent his first night of freedom at Tutu’s residence in Cape Town.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 26, 2021 20:55 UTC