South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies at 90

Desmond Tutu, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died aged 90 on Sunday.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said that Tutu's death marked "another chapter of bereavement in our nation's farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans".

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Tutu was one of the faces behind the movement to end the policy of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by the white minority government against the black majority in South Africa from 1948 until 1991.

It was Tutu who coined and popularised the term "Rainbow Nation" to describe South Africa when Nelson Mandela became the country's first black president