Happy Birthday Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of four South African Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, celebrated his 84th birthday today. Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his work against apartheid.
Tutu is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. He was the first black Archbishop of Cape Town and bishop of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa) during the Apartheid era.
Tutu has been active in the defence of human rights, using his fame to campaign for the oppressed. He has campaigned to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, poverty, racism, sexism, the imprisonment of Chelsea Manning, homophobia and transphobia.
At the fifth annual Desmond Tutu Peace Lecture, held at the University of the Western Cape, Tutu seemed frail, using a cane to walk onto the stage with his daughter, Rev. Mpho Tutu. He has been hospitalized several times since July. Happy Birthday Archbishop Tutu. Picture: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu with Alan Demby, Chairman of the South African Gold Coin Exchange, which has the worldwide rights to distribute gold and silver medallions and coins depicting Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, including Archbishop Tutu. TUTU COINS AND MEDALLIONS HERE
