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Anti-apartheid human rights leader Archbishop Desmond Tutu passes away

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa, December 27, 2021 – Yesterday, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican cleric and pivotal human rights leader to end apartheid in his native South Africa, has died. He was 90. From his pulpit, Tutu spoke out against apartheid – a system of institutionalized racial segregation that existed in South Africa from 1948 until 1994. Following […]

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