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PICTURE THIS: Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace winner, dies at 90

Dec 26th, 2021 | Category: PICTURE THIS | 1:28
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#JamaicaGleaner #SouthAfrica #DesmondTutu #NobelPeacePrize #Archbishop #Apartheid DECEMBER 26, 2021: Desmond Tutu, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of the country's past racist policy of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died today, Sunday, December 26 at 90. Tutu worked passionately, tirelessly and non-violently to tear down apartheid — South Africa's brutal, decades-long regime of oppression against its black majority that only ended in 1994. The buoyant, blunt-spoken clergyman used his pulpit as the first Black bishop of Johannesburg and later the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town as well as frequent public demonstrations to galvanise public opinion against racial inequity, both at home and globally. Here are some Gleaner archival photos remembering the South African Archbishop, Desmond

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