Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu who fought against apartheid in South Africa, has died at age of 90.
The churchman's death marked another chapter of bereavement in our nation's farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans, President Cyril Ramaphosa said.
He said Archbishop Tutu had helped bequeath "a liberated South Africa", BBC reported.
Tutu was one of the country's best known figures at home and abroad.
A contemporary of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, he was one of the driving forces behind the movement to end the policy of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by the white minority government against the black majority in South Africa from 1948 until 1991.
He was awarded the Nobel prize in 1984 for his role in the struggle to abolish the apartheid system.
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