The Queen has described South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu as a 'man who tirelessly championed human rights' following his death aged 90.
Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his campaign of non-violent opposition to South Africa's white minority rule.
He said he was "a patriot without equal; a leader of principle and pragmatism who gave meaning to the biblical insight that faith without works is dead". "What you saw of Desmund Tutu in public was pretty well what you got in private as well. He was the same person. Boris Johnson also paid tribute to Tutu, describing him as a "critical figure in the fight against apartheid and in the struggle to create a new South Africa".I am deeply saddened to hear of the death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
"It was a bold and creative way of helping a nation divided brutally between black and white learn to live in glorious technicolour by facing up to the horrors of its past and by putting the Christian imperative for forgiveness alongside the need for truth as the only way of achieving reconciliation.
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