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With a Simple Funeral, South Africa Bids Farewell to Desmond Tutu
CAPE TOWN — In an almost empty cathedral, with an unvarnished, rope-handled coffin placed before the altar, South Africa said…
In Remembering Tutu, South Africa Reckons With Lasting Challenges
JOHANNESBURG — In a requiem Mass that interwove several southern African languages, in the style of Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s own…
South Africa Begins a Week of Mourning for Desmond Tutu
CAPE TOWN — The bells of St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town rang out on Monday as South Africans began…
Even in Retirement, Desmond Tutu Remained South Africa’s Moral Compass
Long after he led the nonviolent struggle against apartheid, Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, who died Sunday at 90, continued to…
The Time Archbishop Tutu Was Searched at the Airport
Alan Cowell was the South Africa bureau chief for The New York Times from 1983 to 1987, when the apartheid…
Desmond Tutu, Whose Voice Helped Slay Apartheid, Dies at 90
His words seemed prophetic when, in 2016, an alliance of religious leaders in South Africa joined other critics in urging…