Desmond Tutu has died at the age of 90 – Kenyan Business Feed

Anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu has passed away at 90, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a statement.

Tutu, the last surviving South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died in Cape Town.

“Desmond Tutu was a patriot without equal; a leader of principle and pragmatism who gave meaning to the biblical insight that faith without work is dead,” President Ramaphosa said on Sunday morning. 

“A man of extraordinary intellect, integrity and invincibility against the forces of apartheid, he was also tender and vulnerable in his compassion for those who had suffered oppression, injustice and violence under apartheid, and oppressed and downtrodden people around the world.” 

Tutu coined the phrase “the Rainbow Nation”, which is often used to post-apartheid South Africa. 

He had been fighting prostate cancer for about 20 years. 

Tutu is survived by his wife Leah, four children and seven grandchildren.

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