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Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu has died on December 26, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced.
Tutu was a well-known activist who fought for racial equality but also an LGBT rights activist in South Africa while also being archbishop.
Tutu was 90 years old.
South African President Ramaphosa said Tutus’s death was “one more salute to a generation of distinguished South Africans”. He added that Tutus’s legacy is “liberated South Africa”.
An uncompromising opponent of apartheid, Tutu worked tirelessly, albeit without violence, to overthrow the brutal regime of oppression in his country.
Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born on 7 October 1931 in Klerksdorp, a town west of Johannesburg, and was a teacher before becoming a priest.
Tutu was arrested in 1980 for participating in protests and his passport was later confiscated. After returning his passport he used it to travel to the US and Europe where he met senior state officials, presidents and many others, in search of help for his cause.
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