What is Desmond Tutu?
{{Infobox religious leader | honorific-prefix = The Most Rev. Dr. | name = Desmond Tutu | honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[Order for Meritorious Service|OMSG]] [[Order of the Companions of Honour|CH]] [[GCStJ]]|size=100%}} | title = Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town | image = Archbishop-Tutu-medium.jpg | alt = | caption = Archbishop Tutu | religion = Christian | religion_type = Denomination | religion_name = Anglican | office = Archbishop | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1931|10|07}} | birth_place = [[Klerksdorp]], [[South Africa]] | birth_name = Desmond Mpilo Tutu | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2021|12|26|1931|10|07}} | death_place = [[Cape Town]], South Africa | death_cause = [[Prostate cancer]] | nationality = [[South African]] | location_type = Province | location_name = Anglican Church of Southern Africa | began = 1986 | ended = 1996 | predecessor = Dr. P.W.R. Russell | successor = Dr. Njongonkulu Ndungane | other_posts = Bishop of Lesotho<br>Bishop of Johannesburg<br>Archbishop of Cape Town | honors = [[Nobel Peace Prize]] | known_for = Fighting apartheid | written_works = | quote = | website = {{URL|www.tutu.org}} | footnotes = }} {{Nobelprize|Peace}}'''[[Archbishop]] Desmond Mpilo Tutu''' (7 October 1931 – 26 December 2021) was a South African social rights activist. He won the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1983 for his work fighting [[apartheid]] in [[South Africa]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Nobel Peace Prize 1984|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1984/tutu/facts/|access-date=2020-09-13|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US}}</ref> He was the first [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] bishop in [[Cape Town]]. He chaired the [[Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)|Truth and Reconciliation Commission]] during the 1990s which helped victims of [[apartheid]] speak out