South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and anti-apartheid veteran, has died aged 90.
In recent years the outspoken critic, who had been diagnosed in the 1990s, was hospitalised on several occasions to treat infections associated with his cancer treatment.
"Ultimately, at the age of 90, he died peacefully at the Oasis Frail Care Centre in Cape Town this morning," Dr Ramphela Mamphele, acting chairperson of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu IP Trust and Co-ordinator of the Office of the Archbishop, said in a statement on behalf of the Tutu family.
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