JOHANNESBURG—South Africans on Sunday mourned the death of Desmond Tutu, the Anglican archbishop who led a global campaign to end the country’s racist policies and later became a moral compass for a nation struggling to navigate the political ravages and social inequalities of the post-apartheid era.
Mr. Tutu died in a Cape Town care home with his wife and three of his four children by his side following a more than two-decade-long fight with cancer, the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation said. He was 90 years old.
“The passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa,” said South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
