Nobel Peace Prize winner and anti- apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu is dead. He was 90.
In a statement confirming his death on Sunday, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa expressed his condolences to Tutu's family and friends, calling him "a patriot without equal."
"A man of extraordinary intellect, integrity and invincibility against the forces of apartheid, he was also tender and vulnerable in his compassion for those who had suffered oppression, injustice and violence under apartheid, and oppressed and downtrodden people around the world," Ramaphosa said.
Tutu has been ill for a while. In 2013, he underwent tests for a persistent infection, and he was admitted to hospital several times in following years.
His death comes weeks after that of South Africa's last apartheid-era president, FW de Klerk, who died at the age of 85.
Tutu was awarded the global coveted Nobel Prize in 1984 for his role in the fight to abolish apartheid system.
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