The tireless antiapartheid icon, Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died peacefully aged 90 on Boxing Day, December 26, 2021, has been aquamated and his ashes interred inside his stonewalled former parish where he preached for many years and where bells have been ringing in his memory for 10 minutes at midday every day since his demise.
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The late anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu is to be aquamated - a process using water that is described as an environmentally friendly alternative to cremation.
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Mourners flocked to St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town on Thursday to pay their respects to anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu as he lay in state in a simple pine coffin.