— Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Sunday. An uncompromising foe of apartheid — South Africa’s brutal regime of oppression against the Black majority — Tutu worked tirelessly, though non-violently, for its downfall. In recent years he and his wife, Leah, lived in a retirement community outside Cape Town. For me, it is at the same level.” He was one of the most prominent religious leaders to advocate LGBT rights. South Africa, Tutu said, was a “rainbow” nation of promise for racial reconciliation and equality, even though he grew disillusioned with the African National Congress, the anti-apartheid movement that became the ruling party in 1994 elections.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 26, 2021 08:16 UTC