He was 90 years old. In 2010, Archbishop had announced its withdrawal of public life.
Le Monde with AFP
The South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the fight against apartheid and Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, was extinguished, Sunday, December 26, at the age of 90, announced the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The President expresses “on behalf of all South Africans, his deep sadness following the death, this Sunday” of this essential figure of South African history, in a statement. “The death of the Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is a new chapter of mourning in the farewell of our nation to a generation of exceptional South Africans who have bequeathed us a released South Africa,” added the President.
“A man of an extraordinary intelligence, integrates and invincible against the forces of apartheid, he was as tender and vulnerable in his compassion for those who had suffered from oppression, injustice and violence Under apartheid, and for oppressed and for oppressors around the world, “said Ramaphosa.
“The Arch”, as it was nicknamed by the South Africans had been weakened for several months. He did not speak in public anymore but always greeted the cameras present at each of his travels, smile or mischievous, during his VVID-19 vaccine in a hospital or at the office in Cape Town to celebrate its 90 years in October .