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Video. Flowers at Cape Town cathedral in memory of Tutu

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People gather outside St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town to pay tribute to South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu. His funeral will be held on January 1 at the church, his former Parish

Mourners brought floral tributes to Cape Town's St George's Cathedral on Monday to honour Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who died the day before aged 90.

South Africa began a week of mourning events for anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu, described as the country's moral compass, on Monday as tributes poured in from across the world for the outspoken Nobel peace laureate.

Tutu worked passionately, tirelessly and non-violently to tear down apartheid - South Africa’s brutal, decades-long regime of oppression against its Black majority that only ended in 1994.

His funeral will be held on January 1 at Cape Town's St. George's Cathedral, his former parish, his foundation said in a statement.

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