JOHANNESBURG: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and Veterans of the South African struggle against the white minority rules died on Sunday at the age of 90 years, said Presidentship.
In 1984 Tutu key dates in the life of South African scholars and Desmond Tutu activists won the Nobel Peace Prize for non-violent opposition against apartheid.
A decade later, he witnessed the ends of the regime and he led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was established to explore the cruelty carried out during dark days.
Tutu which bluntly is considered a conscience of nation with black and white, eternal evidence to faith and spirit of reconciliation in the divided country.
Tutu was diagnosed with prostate cancer in the late 1990s and in recent years he was hospitalized on several occasions to treat infections related to cancer treatment.
“The passing of the Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of mourning in the farewell of our nation into a generation of South Africans who have circulated that we have left us the released South Africa,” said President Cyril Ramaphosa.
“Desmond Tutu is a patriot without equivalent.” The presidency does not provide details about the causes of death.
Tutu preached against the white minority tyranny and even after finally, he never faltered in his struggle for South Africa which was more just, called the black political elite to take into account with enthusiasm because he had white afrikaners.
In its last years, he regretted that his dream of “the Pelangi Nation” had not become true.
“In the end, at the age of 90, he died peacefully at the Oasis Frail Care Center at Cape Town this morning,” Dr.
Ramphela Mamphele, acting Chairperson of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu IP Trust and Co-ordinator from the Archbishop office, said in a statement Tutu’s family name.
Tutu who looked weakly seen in October was pushed to his former parage in St George’s Cathedral at Cape Town, which was once a safe place for anti-apartheid activists, for special Thanksgiving services that marked the 90th anniversary.
Dubbed “moral compass nation”, his courage in maintaining social justice, even at large costs for himself, always shines and not only during apartheid.
He often fell with his allies in the African National Congress Party in power over their failure to overcome the poverty and inequality they promised to eradicate.
The height of five feet (1.68 meters) and with contagious laughter, he helped waken the grassroots campaign around the world who struggled to end apartheid through economic and cultural boycott.
Speaking and traveling tirelessly throughout the 1980s, Tutu became the face of an anti-apartheid movement abroad while many ANC rebel leaders, such as Nelson Mandela, were behind the bar.
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