Desmond Tutu
- Prize
- Nobel Peace Prize — 1984for his role as a unifying leader figure in the non-violent campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa
- Citizenship
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South Africa - Languages
- English, Sesotho, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Tswana
- date of birth
- 10/7/1931
- place of birth
- Munsieville
- date of death
- 12/26/2021
- place of death
- Cape Town
- Lived
- 90 years
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- educated at
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- King's College London
- academic major: theology
- academic degree: master's degree
- start time: 1962
- end time: 2012
- St. Martin's School
- academic major: theology
- University of South Africa
- end time: 1954
- Bates College
- Hamilton College
- King's College London
- position held
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- general secretary
- start time: March 1978
- end time: February 1985
- bishop of Lesotho
- start time: August 1976
- end time: March 1978
- Bishop of Johannesburg
- end time: 9/7/1986
- start time: February 1985
- Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town
- start time: 9/7/1986
- end time: June 1996
- general secretary
- member of
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- The Elders
- start time: 2007
- end time: 2013
- The Elders
- field of work
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- civil rights
- human rights
- activism
- Anglicanism
- Church of England
- Protestant theology
- civil and political rights
- occupation
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- Anglican priest
- Protestant theologian
- political activist
- anti-apartheid activist
- non-fiction writer
- human rights defender
- archbishop
- cleric
- protestant clergyman
- employer
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- National University of Lesotho