Desmond Tutu

CAPE TOWN: Anti-apartheid hero Desmond Tutu's choice of aquamation over cremation or traditional burial came as a surprise to some South Africans, while others were impressed by this environmentally conscious move. By opting for aquamation…

Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has been remembered at a state funeral Saturday for his Nobel Peace Prize-earning role in ending South Africa’s apartheid regime of racial oppression and for championing the rights of…

The service was held at the St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town on Saturday morning. Archbishop Makgoba at…

South Africa bade farewell on Saturday to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the last great hero of the struggle against apartheid, in a funeral stripped of pomp but freighted with tears and showered with drizzles of rain.…

CAPE TOWN: The state funeral for Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a hero of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, began on Saturday (Jan 1) in St George's Cathedral, Cape Town, where for years he preached against racial injustice.…

Issued on: 01/01/2022 - 08:27 Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a hero of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, will be laid to rest on Saturday in an official state funeral in St…

Issued on: 31/12/2021 - 02:40 South Africans streamed into Cape Town’s cathedral on Thursday to pay their last respects to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the globally venerated…

Issued on: 30/12/2021 - 01:56 An interfaith, musical memorial to South Africa’s revered anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu had a rabbi and a monk dancing in their seats on Wednesday as…

JOHANNESBURG: Mourners held a candlelight prayer ceremony outside the Soweto home of late Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Wednesday (Dec 29), weeping over the memory not only of a world-renowned lion of the anti-apartheid movement but of a kind…

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