Anti-apartheid archbishop Desmond Tutu dead at 90

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, awarded the Nobel prize in 1984 during the struggle to abolish apartheid, South Africa's system of racial segregation and oppression, is dead at 90.

President Cyril Ramaphosa said Tutu was "an iconic spiritual leader, anti-apartheid activist and global human rights campaigner".

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