South Africa bids farewell to anti-apartheid hero Desmond Tutu

JOHANNESBURG Jan 1 (UNA): South Africa’s Desmond Tutu, the Nobel laureate who has been hailed as the nation’s moral conscience, will bid farewell to a funeral in Cape Town on Saturday.

The prayer of the former Anglican Archbishop in Cape Town is scheduled to take place at St George’s Cathedral at 10 am (0800 GMT) and broadcast on South African state television. The German news agency dpa reported that Tutu’s ashes are to be buried in a mausoleum in the cathedral.

South African anti-apartheid hero and global human rights activist died on Sunday at the age of 90, sparking a wave of tributes from around the world for a religious scholar best known for his fights for racial justice.

Many places honored him at the festivities, and the South African flag flew across the country.

Tutu fought to bring justice to the majority black population of South Africa living under the apartheid regime imposed by the white minority government.

In 1984, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Tutu “for his role as a unifying leader in the nonviolent campaign to solve apartheid in South Africa.”

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