Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of the fight against apartheid in the Republic of South Africa (South Africa), died on Sunday at the age of 90, the presidency said.
In 1984, Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent opposition to apartheid. A decade later, he witnessed the end of this regime and chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, set up to uncover the atrocities committed during those dark days.
Tutu was considered the living conscience of the nation by both blacks and whites, a lasting testimony to his faith and spirit of reconciliation in a divided nation.
Tutu was diagnosed with prostate cancer in the late 1990s and has been hospitalized several times in recent years to treat infections associated with his treatment.
"The death of the Venerable Archbishop Desmond Tutu is another chapter of grief in saying goodbye to our nation with the generation of exceptional South Africans who bequeathed us a liberated South Africa," said President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The presidency did not provide details on the cause of death.
Tutu preached against the tyranny of the white minority, and even after it ended, he never wavered in his fight for a fairer South Africa, calling on the black political elite to be held accountable for their actions as strictly as white Africans.
In his later years, he regretted that his dream of a "Rainbow Nation" had not yet come true.
"Eventually, at the age of 90, he died peacefully at a nursing home in Cape Town this morning," said Dr Ramfela Mamfele, acting chairman of the foundation in charge of his work and co-ordinator of the archbishop's office. the name of the Tutu family.
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