Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu during a media briefing at the Cape Town Civic Centre on August 11, 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa. Cape Town mayor, Patricia de Lille announced a proposal to grant a long-term lease of the Granary – a building built 200 years ago to the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation Centre. The Foundation’s main functions are to develop and manage partnerships and legacy-promoting programmes as well as contributing to the positioning of Cape Town as a world capital for the intellectual and practical pursuit of local and global peace, morality and human dignity.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu during a media briefing at the Cape Town Civic Centre on August 11, 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa. Cape Town mayor, Patricia de Lille announced a proposal to grant a long-term lease of the Granary – a building built 200 years ago to the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation Centre. The Foundation’s main functions are to develop and manage partnerships and legacy-promoting programmes as well as contributing to the positioning of Cape Town as a world capital for the intellectual and practical pursuit of local and global peace, morality and human dignity.
The retired archbishop Desmond Tutu, who celebrated his birthday last Sunday, has had several stays in hospital in recent years and is in long-term treatment for prostate cancer.
His foundation “wishes to thank all who have sent messages and prayers, including on social media, for the Arch’s swift return to his feet,” it said.
The Nobel Peace laureate was taken to hospital in Cape Town on September 27 for tests. No further updates about his health were released.
He was hospitalised four times in 2016 and underwent minor surgery for a persistent infection linked to the prostate cancer treatment he has received for nearly two decades.
The much-loved former archbishop of Cape Town gained worldwide prominence for his strong opposition to apartheid white-minority rule in South Africa.
He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.
Tutu has retired from public life but last month issued a statement confirming his support for the “right to die” after a South African campaigner was charged with murder over the assisted suicide of a quadriplegic man.
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