‘A moral giant’: South Africans pay their respects to Archbishop Desmond Tutu

South Africans from all corners of retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s “rainbow nation” filed past his plain pine casket by the hundreds on Friday to pay their respects to his life of activism for equality for all races, creeds and sexual orientations.“He was a moral giant. He was a moral and spiritual giant loved and revered for fighting for equality for all people,” said the Reverend Michael Lapsley, on the steps of the historic St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town after Tutu’s coffin was carried…



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