South African equality activist Desmond Tutu’s 90. died at the age of

JOHANNESBURG: South African Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu has died, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday. He was 90 years old.
A staunch enemy of apartheid, South Africa’s brutal regime of repression repressed the black majority, Tutu, to its dismay, though nonviolently acted upon.
The spirited, blunt-spoken clergyman used his pulpit as first Black Bishop of Johannesburg and later Archbishop of Cape Town, as well as frequent public meetings to bolster public opinion against racial inequality at home and globally. Exhibited.
Desmond Mpillo Tutu was born in Klerksdorp, a town west of Johannesburg, on October 7, 1931, and became a teacher before entering St Peter’s Theological College in Rosenville in 1958 to train as a priest. He was ordained in 1961 and became pastor at Fort Hare University six years later. moved to the small southern African state of Lesotho and then to Britain, with Tutu returning home in 1975.
He became Bishop of Lesotho, President of the Council of South African Churches and, in 1986, the first black Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town. Tutu was arrested in 1980 for participating in a protest and later his passport was confiscated for the first time. He took it back for visits to the United States and Europe, where he held talks with the UN Secretary General, the Pope, and other church leaders.