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Sun Dec 26, 2021, 02:08 PM Dec 2021

Tutu remembered as 'true humanitarian' dedicated to human rights

Desmond Tutu, who died on Sunday, was remembered as a "true humanitarian" committed to racial equality in his home country of South Africa and abroad.

Tributes from around the world flooded in as news that Tutu, once a leader of the anti-apartheid movement and "chief pastor" to a nation in transition, had died in Cape Town. He was 90.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa shared two photos of Tutu and himself on Twitter and said Tutu's passing was "another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa."

"Tutu was 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," the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation said in a statement.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tutu-remembered-as-true-humanitarian-dedicated-to-human-rights/ar-AAS9GfV

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