South Africa: the fighting of Desmond Tutu, who died at the age of 90

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Tributes continue to flow after the death of Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner and icon of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. The first man to use the expression “rainbow nation” died at the age of 90 on Sunday, December 26.

Desmond Tutu was a laugh, a dance and a legendary outspokenness in the service of the defense of human rights and equality between whites and blacks. “We are going to be human all together, black and white”, he declared. South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu died at the age of 90 on Sunday, December 26. The fight he fought all his life made him famous – and for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.


It has also aroused the admiration of many personalities such as the Dalai Lama. It was during the worst hours of apartheid, the system of segregation in South Africa, that Desmond Tutu acquired his notoriety. He notably organized peaceful marches, argued Nelson Mandela when he was a prisoner. Desmond Tutu was also the one who greeted him at the podium, when the latter was elected president in 1994. The other fights of the man of faith were the fight against homophobia and for assisted suicide.


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