JOHANNESBURG: Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, a staunch enemy of apartheid and a modern activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died at 90 on Sunday. South Africa, world leaders and people around the world mourned the death. Seen as the moral conscience of man’s country.
Tutu worked passionately, tirelessly and nonviolently to end apartheid South Africa’s brutal, decades-long regime of repression, which ended in 1994.
The spirited, blunt-spoken clergy used his pulpit as the first Black Bishop of Johannesburg and later the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, as well as frequent public demonstrations, to drive public opinion against racial inequality home and Used to inspire globally.
Nicknamed Ark, Little Tutu became a legendary figure in the history of his nations, equaling Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela, a prisoner during white rule, to become the first black president of South Africa. Tutu and Mandela shared a commitment to building a better, more equal South Africa.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday that Tutus’ death is another chapter of mourning in our nations, a farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have given us a free South Africa.
His trust said Tutu died peacefully at the Oasis Frail Care Center in Cape Town. He had been hospitalized several times since 2015 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997.
The Tutu Trust said he turned his misfortune into a teaching opportunity to raise awareness and ease the suffering of others.
Former US President Barack Obama hailed Tutu as a moral compass for me and many others. A universal sentiment, Archbishop Tutu was based on the struggle for liberation and justice in his own country, but was also concerned with injustice everywhere. He never lost his desire to find the humanity in his opponents and his sense of humour.
A seven-day mourning period is planned in Cape Town before Tutus is buried, which includes two days in the state, an ecumenical service and an Anglican requiem mass at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town. The southern city’s historic Table Mountain will sparkle with purple, the color of the robes worn by the Archbishop of Tutu.
During the 1980s when South Africa was engulfed in anti-apartheid violence and a state of emergency gave police and military sweeping powers, Tutu was one of the most prominent black leaders able to speak out against abuses.
A lively wit lightened Tutus’ harsh messages and heated up otherwise serious protests, funerals and marches. He was courageous and determined to quote appropriate scriptures to use the support for change.
The Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 highlighted his stature as one of the world’s most effective champions of human rights.
With the end of apartheid and South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994, Tutu celebrated the country’s multi-racial society, calling it a rainbow nation, a phrase that captured the dominant optimism of the time.
Tutu campaigned internationally for human rights, particularly LGBTQ rights and same-sex marriage.
I will not worship a god who is obsessed with homosexuality, he said while launching a campaign for LGBTQ rights in Cape Town in 2013. I would refuse to go to homophobic heaven. No, I would say, sorry, I would prefer to go elsewhere.
Tutu became disillusioned with the African National Congress, the anti-apartheid movement that became the ruling party after South Africa’s 1994 election.
Tutu was particularly angered by South African governments’ denial of visas to the Dalai Lama, preventing the Tibetan spiritual leader from attending Tutus’ 80th birthday, as well as a planned gathering of Nobel laureates in Cape Town. . The government rejected Tutus’ allegations that it was succumbing to pressure from China, a major trading partner.
Tutus’ life was devoted entirely to the greater general good of his brothers and sisters. He was a true humanitarian, the Dalai Lama said on Sunday.
Desmond Ampilo Tutu was born on October 7, 1931, in Klerksdorp, west of Johannesburg, and became a teacher before entering St Peter’s Theological College in Rosenville in 1958. He was ordained in 1961 and became pastor at Fort University six years later. Rabbit.
He became Bishop of Lesotho, President of the Council of South African Churches and, in 1985, the first Black Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg. In 1986, Tutu was named the first Black Archbishop of Cape Town.
As head of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Tutu and his panel listened to harsh testimony about torture, murders and other atrocities during apartheid. After hearing something, Tutu wept bitterly.
The commission’s 1998 report placed most of the blame on the forces of apartheid, but also found the African National Congress guilty of human rights violations. The ANC reprimanded Tutu and filed suit to prevent the release of the documents. Tutu said, I did not fight to remove a group of people who thought they were the gods of tin, to replace them with others who are tempted to think they are.
Tutu is survived by his 66-year-old wife Leah and their four children.
Once asked how he wanted to be remembered, he told the Associated Press: He was loved. He laughed. he cried. He was forgiven. He forgave Highly privileged.
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AP journalist Christopher Torchia contributed to this report.
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