South Africa on Saturday held a state funeral for Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the last great hero of the struggle against apartheid, that was stripped of pomp but rich in glowing tributes.
Tutu died last Sunday, aged 90, triggering grief at home and abroad for a life spent fighting injustice.
It was there where Tutu used the pulpit to rail against a brutal white-minority regime and it's there he will be buried. "While our beloved was the father of our democracy, Archbishop Tutu was the spiritual father of our new nation", lauding him as "our moral compass and national conscience"."His was a life lived honestly and completely. He has left the world a better place. We remember him with a smile," said Ramaphosa before handing South Africa's multicoloured flag to the "chief mourner", Tutu's widow, Leah.
Others included the widow of the last apartheid leader FW de Klerk, who died in November, and former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe. With Mandela and other leaders jailed for decades, Tutu in the 1970s became the emblem of the struggle. He would later admonish the ruling African National Congress for corruption and leadership incompetence.
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