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During a state funeral on Saturday, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu “our moral compass and national conscience.”
“Our departed father was a crusader in the struggle for freedom, for justice, for equality and for peace, not just in South Africa, the country of his birth, but around the world,” Ramaphosa said as he eulogized Tutu at St. George’s Cathedral, the church in Cape Town where the archbishop preached, according to Reuters.
“Small in physical stature, he was a giant among us morally and spiritually,” retired Bishop Michael Nuttall, who was Tutu’s deputy for years, added, per the news service.
The funeral came after hundreds of people paid their respects to the late anti-apartheid leader…Read more.
