Tributes pour in for anti-apartheid leader and LGBT+ ally Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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Tributes are pouring in for Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the activist who was crucial in the fight against apartheid in South Africa, who died aged 90.

Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, died on Sunday (26 December), South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced.

Ramaphosa described Tutu’s passing as “another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa”.

“Desmond Tutu was a patriot without equal; a leader of principle and pragmatism who gave meaning to the biblical insight that faith without works is dead,” Ramaphosa said. “We pray that Archbishop Tutu’s soul will rest in peace but that his spirit will stand sentry over the future of our nation.”

Desmond Tutu was a patriot without equal; a leader of principle and pragmatism who gave meaning to the biblical insight that faith without works is dead. We pray that Archbishop Tutu’s soul will rest in peace but that his spirit will stand sentry over the future of our nation. pic.twitter.com/ULGzhOOn9E

— Cyril Ramaphosa