South Africa : Born in 1931, Tutu was ordained in 1961 and made history when he became Johannesburg’s first black Anglican dean in 1975. He became archbishop, one of the highest offices in the Christian church, in 1986. He was a Nobel Prize laureate, along with A NUMBER of the other figureheads of the movement such as former presidents Nelson Mandela and FW De Klerk, all part of a generation of “outstanding South Africans who bequeathed a liberated South Africa”, according to current President Cyril Ramaphosa, speaking after the news of Tutu’s passing.
