Desmond Tutu, the reconciler of post-apartheid South Africa

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It is in these terms that the former South African president Frederik de Klerk paid homage to Desmond Tutu on July 2, 2015 at the Saint-Georges cathedral in Cape Town, during a ceremony celebrating the sixtieth wedding anniversary of the prelate. The last white president of South Africa, who himself died on November 11, 2021, knows how much the man meant to the country. Without him, South Africa would not be what it is today. He passed away this Sunday, December 26.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, was one of the country's most popular political figures.

Godfather of the release of Nelson Mandela, he fought relentlessly against apartheid.

Then he redoubled his energy in the new South Africa, speaking out to his last breath against all forms of injustice.

If he officially retired from political life ...

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