Desmond Tutu dies at 90
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Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize–winning icon, an uncompromising foe of apartheid, and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBTQ rights, died December 26, 2021, at 90 (see remembrance, p. 10).
Tutu died peacefully at the Oasis Frail Care Center in Cape Town, according to his trust. He had been hospitalized several times since 2015 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997.
Tutu worked passionately, tirelessly, and nonviolently to tear down apartheid—South Africa’s brutal, decades-long regime of oppression against its Black majority that ended in 1994.
