For pandemic, but also to respect the last wishes of the Nobel Peace Prize, the funeral took place in the simplicity in Cape Town. The apartheid fighter died on December 26, at 90 years old.
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He left without Chichis. Nobel Peace Prize, Hero of the fight against apartheid and tireless for injustice, the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 90, thus wanted it. No stadium, no farandole of speech, few flowers. Just a handful of eyelets placed on his small clear pine coffin. The cheapest possible, had he demanded. SATURDAY 1 January, South Africa said goodbye to the last of its giants in the Anglican Cathedral Saint-Georges in Cape Town
Simply, and almost in Catimini on pandemic background. While some countries still apply severe trade restrictions with South Africa after the discovery of the Omicron Variant in the country in November 2021, the King of Lesotho, Letsie III, was the only foreign executive executive at the ceremony. Despite the rain of tributes that accompanied the announcement of the death of the Archbishop, on December 26, 2021, the image offers a striking contrast with the funeral of the other South African giant, Nelson Mandela, who had attracted more 500 dignitaries from around the world in 2013.
“a lot of Nobel prizes see them will diminish them over time, Siena shone stronger,” however noted the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, religious leader of the Anglican Church to which Desmond belonged Tutu, in a video message broadcast during the ceremony attended a hundred people, sanitary regulations requires.
At the side of the former South African Heads Thabo Mbeki and Kalema Motlanthe, the current President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, summarized the spirit of the archbishop through two images. That of the determined activist desmond tutu defying “an armed police cord to the teeth” during a demonstration against the apartheid regime in Cape Town in 1989 and that of the pacifier sensitive to the head of the Truth Commission and Reconciliation, melting in tears by listening to a veteran of the liberation struggle to tell, in 1996, the tortures suffered in the hands of the apartheid security services which will leave it in a wheelchair.
As the South African President pointed out, the fighting of the Nobel Peace Prize did not stop there. Even though the disease had made it more discreet in recent years – he suffered from a cancer – Desmond Tutu has at the same time taken the defense of the LGBTQ cause, worked against child marriages, supported the fight against HIV Through a foundation, or asked to combat climate change. “We can not continue to feed our addiction to fossil energies as if there was no tomorrow. Because there will be no tomorrow,” he wrote in a forum in 2014.
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