Desmond Tutu is a well-known South African activist, whose efforts to solve the issue of apartheid, during the 1980s, fetched him worldwide fame.

Born in 1931, in Klerksdorp, Tutu chose teaching as his profession. After serving as a lecturer for a few years, he pursued Theology. He was the first black person to become the Archbishop of Cape Town.

He also became the first black Bishop of Johannesburg. Tutu is the second South African to receive the Noble Peace Prize.

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