(ANSA) - CAPE CITY, DEC 31 - South Africans now have the last chance to pay a greeting to the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a symbol of anti-apartheid, whose heart has been in the Cathedral of San Giorgio in Città del Capo since yesterday. The state funeral will be held tomorrow, but as simple as his pine coffin, according to his wishes.
The anti-apartheid icon revered around the world died peacefully at the age of 90 last Sunday.
Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1984, will be cremated and his ashes will be buried inside the cathedral of the South African capital over the weekend.
Tutu retired as archbishop after 10 years in 1996 and went on to lead a harrowing journey into South Africa's dark past as chairman of the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, which exposed the horrors of apartheid in great detail.
South Africa is celebrating a week of mourning for Tutu, with the country's multicolored flag flying around the nation and ceremonies taking place every day right up until the funeral.
Weakened by old age and prostate cancer, Tutusi had been withdrawn from public life in recent years.
He left behind his wife Leah and four children, and several great-grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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