CAPE TOWN — South Africans lined up for a second day on Friday to pay their respects to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whose body lay in state at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town where the anti-apartheid hero preached against racial injustice. Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner widely revered across racial and cultural divides in South Africa for his moral rectitude and principled fight against white-minority rule, died on Sunday aged 90. From left, Archbishop Desmond Tutu's daughters Nontombi Naomi Tutu and Thandeka Tutu watch as the casket containing his body arrives at St Georges cathedral for his lying in state. A long line snaked around the cathedral as mourners waited to pay their respects. Among the many mourners was Mandla Mandela, a grandson of South Africa’s first Black president, Nelson Mandela, who had been a friend and ally of Tutu.

Source: Ethiopian News January 01, 2022 01:08 UTC