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CAPE TOWN — In an almost empty cathedral, with an unvarnished, rope-handled coffin placed before the altar, South Africa said…

JOHANNESBURG — In a requiem Mass that interwove several southern African languages, in the style of Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s own…

CAPE TOWN — The bells of St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town rang out on Monday as South Africans began…

Long after he led the nonviolent struggle against apartheid, Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, who died Sunday at 90, continued to…

Alan Cowell was the South Africa bureau chief for The New York Times from 1983 to 1987, when the apartheid…

His words seemed prophetic when, in 2016, an alliance of religious leaders in South Africa joined other critics in urging…