Desmond Tutu, Nobel laureate and anti-apartheid leader, dies at age 90

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the retired South African clergyman who challenged apartheid, won a Nobel Peace Prize and became a global campaigner for human rights, has died.

He was 90.that he passed away in Cape Town on Sunday, one day after Christmas. The foundation called him"a living embodiment of faith in action, speaking boldly against racism, injustice, corruption, and oppression, not just in apartheid South Africa but wherever in the world he saw wrongdoing, especially when it impacted the most vulnerable and voiceless in society."

Archbishop Desmond Tutu during a wedding vow renewal ceremony at the Holy Cross Anglican Church in Orlando, western Soweto, near Johannesburg, on July 4, 2015."The primary violence — and White people don't want to hear this — the primary terrorism in this country comes from the government. And until that system goes there is no hope at all of any stability in this land," he said of South Africa's racist system of rule.

"Hey, freedom is coming," he rejoiced while dancing."I have never said 'Viva' before but I say now 'Viva!'"

 

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