after the icon’s death, a shower of tributes

“He loved, he laughed, he cried, he was forgiven, he forgave“, declared Desmond Tutu in 1996, when a journalist asked him what he would like to be remembered from him. Sunday, December 26, 2021, the Anglican Archbishop with the mythical laughter and legendary outspokenness breathed his last. He was 90 years old. His entire life had been devoted to defending human rights and racial equality in a country beset by segregation.

And to a prestigious man, exceptional tributes. Thus, after the announcement of her death, the queen Elisabeth remembered “with emotion“of his meetings with Desmond Tutu, as well as”her great warmth and humor“. Barack Obama hailed the memory of a “mentor, friend and moral beacon“. For its part, the Dalai Lama will remember of a “great man who lived a meaningful life“. It is certain that that man, small in size, immense in its struggle and convictions, will have marked several generations. It even earned him a Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. The funeral of the father of the rainbow nation will take place on January 1 in Cape Town, in St. George’s Cathedral, his former parish.