![]() After the transition to democracy, he made a principled contribution to national healing in the aftermath of apartheid as Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. As Tutu’s theological career blossomed, he became a prominent opponent of the apartheid state, also opposing all political recourse to violence. He earned an MA in Theology at King’s College, London, and on his return to South Africa in 1975, became the first black Anglican Dean of Johannesburg. After three years of teaching, he resigned in protest of the Bantu Education Act and studied for entry into the priesthood. Following his fathers example, Tutu became a schoolteacher in 1954 but left his. ![]() He himself acquired a teaching diploma, simultaneously earning his BA through Unisa. Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former South African President Nelson Mandela hug, at a funeral in Soweto on May 17, 2003. Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born in 1931 in Klerksdorp, South Africa. Tutu was born in Klerksdorp, where his father was a teacher. Desmond Tutu (Theology, 1965 MTh, 1966) (1931-2021) was the former Archbishop of South Africa and a Nobel Peace laureate. He raised national and global awareness of issues including xenophobia, homophobia, and human rights abuses in Zimbabwe and Palestine. Desmond Mpilo Tutu graduated from Unisa with a BA in 1954.ĭesmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and Nobel Peace Prize winner, was South Africa’s foremost voice of conscience.
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