Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu

• Born: 7 October 1931, Klerksdorp, Western Transvaal, South Africa
• Desmond Tutu is a South African social rights activist and 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).
• He rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. 
• He has campaigned to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia.
• He received The Nobel Peace Prize 1984 for his opposition to South Africa's brutal apartheid regime, the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2007.
• He has also compiled several books of his speeches and sayings.