South Africa icon Desmond Tutu is dead

South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has died on Sunday at the age of 90.

Naija News reports that his death was announced by the country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, in a statement to newsmen.

“The passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa,” he said in a statement.

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