Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid leader, dead at 90
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican cleric whose inspiring message and work for civil and human rights made him a revered leader during the struggle to end apartheid in his native South Africa, has died. He was 90. https://t.co/DtlsoWWCG8
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner whose good humor, inspiring message and conscientious work for civil and human rights made him a revered leader during the struggle to end apartheid in his native South Africa, has died after years of ill health. He was 90.
In a statement confirming his death on Sunday, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa expressed his condolences to Tutu's family and friends, calling him "a patriot without equal."
"A man of extraordinary intellect, integrity and invincibility against the forces of apartheid, he was also tender and vulnerable in his compassion for those who had suffered oppression, injustice and violence under apartheid, and oppressed and downtrodden people around the world," Ramaphosa said.
In 2009 Archbishop Tutu was a guest on The Craig Ferguson Show, the episode won a Peabody Award.
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