Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation
South Africa began a week of mourning on Monday for revered anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate passed away on Sunday at the age of 90 after a long battle with illness.
The funeral will be held on New Year's Day at St George's Cathedral in his former Cape Town parish.
Dozens of people braved the rain on Sunday to gather outside the cathedral to leave flowers and messages.
The bells of St George's Cathedral will ring for 10 minutes from noon each day until Friday while a memorial service will be held in Pretoria on Wednesday.
Leaders from around the world paid tribute to Tutu over the past few days with US president Joe Biden saying his courage and moral clarity helped inspire their commitment to change American policy toward the “repressive Apartheid regime” in South Africa.
The British Royal family also paid tribute to the late Archbishop Emeritus, saying he was a man who tirelessly championed human rights in South Africa and around the world.
The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation said Tutu “spent the closing years of his life increasingly devoted to prayer and contemplation in his Milnerton home he shared with his wife.”
