By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: The buoyant, blunt-spoken clergyman, Desmond Tutu, used his pulpit as the first Black bishop of Johannesburg and later Archbishop of Cape Town as well as frequent public demonstrations to galvanize public opinion against racial inequity both at home and globally
South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Desmond Tutu, for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Sunday. He was 90.
Tutu died peacefully at the Oasis Frail Care Center in Cape Town.
In recent years he and his wife, Leah, lived in a retirement community outside Cape Town.
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