South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu passes away

Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, who helped end apartheid in South Africa has died.

Tutu was one of South Africa’s most well-known persons both home and abroad. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for helping end apartheid in his country.

South African President Ramaphosa said Archbishop Tutu was a spiritual leader and a global human rights campaigner.

Tutu went on to serve as the Bishop of Lesotho from 1976 to 1978. He became the Bishop of Johannesburg in 1985 and soon became the first Black Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996.

He remained vocal against the oppression of Black people in South Africa, while clarifying his purpose was not political. Tutu became the head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up by Mandela in 1994 to investigate crimes committed during the apartheid by Blacks and Whites.

In his later years, Tutu looking at his country said, this wasn’t the South Africa he had dreamt of.