SOUTH Africa on Monday began a week of mourning for revered anti-apartheid fighter Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
The Nobel Peace laureate passed away on Sunday at the age of 90, stripping the world of a towering moral figure and the last great protagonist of a heroic South African era.
His funeral will be held on New Year’s Day at Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral, his former parish, his foundation said, although ceremonies are likely to be muted because of COVID-19 restrictions.
Dozens of people braved rain to gather outside the cathedral on Monday, leaving flowers and messages.
The widow of South Africa’s first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela, Graca Machel, on Monday mourned “the loss of a brother”.
Tutu “is the last of an extraordinarily outstanding generation of leaders that Africa birthed and gifted to the world”, she said in a statement.
“He masterfully used his position as a cleric to
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